Migration Unit One Key Dates Flashcards
When was the Viking raid of monastery at Lindisfarne, beginning the Viking invasions
793
When was the Arrival of the Great Heathen Army
865
When was the Battle of Edington
878
When was the Danelaw created
878
When was the last Viking king defeated in Jorvik, bringing the Danelaw under control
954
When was St Brice’s day massacre
1002
When was England conquered by the Viking Kind Cnut
1016
When was the Battle of Hastings
1066
When was the Domesday book completed
1086
When was the first evidence of “Blood Libel” stories against Jews in Norwich
1144
When was the Royal Charter granted to Jews
1135
When did 150 Jews commit suicide at Cliffords tower to escape an antisemetic mob
1190
When were Jews ordered to wear the Star of David
1218
When did the Riccardi and Bardi families arrive in England
1220’s
When did the Pope allow Italian bankers to charge interests on Loans
1265
When was the Statute of Jewry
1275
When were Jews expulsed from England
1290
When did Edward I grant the Hansa merchants the right to trade in England
1303
When did the black death arrive in England
1348
When did Edward III invite the Flemish weavers to settle and work in England
1351
When did English replace the Norman French as the official language of law and government
1362
When were letters of Denization introduced, allowing wealthy “aliens” could appeal to the monarch to become a full subject
1378
When was the peasants revolt, murdering 150 foreign weavers and merchants are murdered, the Steelyard also being attacked
1381
When did Parliament pass the first Alien subsidy - a tax on all foreign born people in England
1440
