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What happened to the Jews in United Kingdom

162 events, 1130 AD to 2026 AD

Regions in United Kingdom

Cities, towns and sites in United Kingdom

Timeline

12th century

  1. 1130 AD Fine on London Jews over death of a sick man · London, United Kingdom
  2. 1141 AD Oxford Jews despoiled during civil war · Oxford, United Kingdom
  3. 1141 AD Oxford Jews extorted by both sides in Matilda–Stephen conflict · Oxford, United Kingdom
  4. 1144 AD Blood libel of William of Norwich · Norwich, United Kingdom
  5. 1168 AD Henry II seizes Jewish leaders and tallages the Jews · England, United Kingdom
  6. 1168 AD Ritual murder accusation over boy Harold in Gloucester · Gloucester, United Kingdom
  7. 1171 AD Blood libel at Gloucester · Gloucester, United Kingdom
  8. 1171 AD Josce fined for financing Strongbow's Irish expedition · Gloucester, United Kingdom
  9. 1177 AD Restriction on Jewish burial outside London lifted · England, United Kingdom
  10. 1181 AD Assize of Arms bars Jews from bearing arms · England, United Kingdom
  11. 1181 AD Ritual murder charge against Jews at Bury St. Edmunds · Bury St Edmunds, United Kingdom
  12. c. 1183 AD Blood libel at Bristol · Bristol, United Kingdom
  13. 1186 AD Jurnet of Norwich fined 6,000 marks · Norwich, United Kingdom
  14. 1186 AD Saladin tithe: Jews taxed a quarter of their chattels · England, United Kingdom
  15. 1188 AD One-fourth movable property tax on London Jewry · London, United Kingdom
  16. c. 1189 AD Anti-Jewish outbreaks at start of Richard I's reign; Lincoln Jews shelter · Lincoln, United Kingdom
  17. 1189 AD Pogrom in London · London, United Kingdom
  18. 1189 AD Riot against the Jews at Richard I's coronation · England, United Kingdom
  19. 1189–1190 AD Burning of Jewish debt deeds · England, United Kingdom
  20. 1190 AD Attacks on Jews in English towns · England, United Kingdom
  21. 1190 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Bury St. Edmunds · Bury St Edmunds, United Kingdom
  22. c. 1190 AD Massacre of Jews at Lynn · King's Lynn, United Kingdom
  23. 1190 AD Massacre of Jews at Stamford fair · Stamford, United Kingdom
  24. 1190 AD Massacre of fifty-seven Jews at Bury St. Edmunds · Bury St Edmunds, United Kingdom
  25. 1190 AD Third Crusade · York, United Kingdom
  26. 1190 AD Violence against Jews in Norwich, England · Norwich, United Kingdom
  27. 1190 AD York Massacre · York, United Kingdom
  28. c. 1192 AD Blood accusation against a Winchester Jew · Winchester, United Kingdom
  29. 1194 AD Richard I's Ordinance of the Jewry · England, United Kingdom

13th century

  1. 1202 AD Bedford Jew Bonefand charged over death of Richard · Bedford, United Kingdom
  2. 1208 AD Murder of a Jewess of York · York, United Kingdom
  3. 1210 AD Confiscatory tallage on Oxford Jews · Oxford, United Kingdom
  4. 1210 AD King John's 66,000-mark extortion from the Jews · England, United Kingdom
  5. 1215 AD Baronial attack on London Jewry · London, United Kingdom
  6. 1215 AD Barons sack the London Jewish quarter · London, United Kingdom
  7. 1218 AD Isaac of Norwich fined 10,000 marks · Norwich, United Kingdom
  8. 1218 AD Jewish badge introduced in England · England, United Kingdom
  9. c. 1218 AD Jews barred from leaving England without permission · England, United Kingdom
  10. c. 1220 AD Raid on Jews' houses in Lincoln · Lincoln, United Kingdom
  11. 1222 AD Anti-Jewish measures in Council of Oxford · Oxford, United Kingdom
  12. 1222 AD Badge imposed on Jews of England · England, United Kingdom
  13. 1222 AD Deacon converted to Judaism burned at Oxford · Oxford, United Kingdom
  14. 1222 AD Synod of Oxford renews anti-Jewish regulations · Oxford, United Kingdom
  15. 1225–1235 AD Series of child-murder accusations against Winchester Jews · Winchester, United Kingdom
  16. 1231 AD Expulsion of Jews from Leicester · Leicester, United Kingdom
  17. 1232 AD Blood accusation against the Jews of Winchester · Winchester, United Kingdom
  18. 1232 AD Confiscation of new London synagogue · London, United Kingdom
  19. 1234 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Newcastle · Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
  20. 1234–1238 AD Forced circumcision accusation against Norwich Jews · Norwich, United Kingdom
  21. 1235 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Wycombe · High Wycombe, United Kingdom
  22. 1235 AD Hanging of Abraham Pinch in Winchester · Winchester, United Kingdom
  23. 1235 AD Oxford Jews imprisoned over rescue of a convert · Oxford, United Kingdom
  24. 1236 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Southampton · Southampton, United Kingdom
  25. 1237 AD Expulsion of Jews from Northamptonshire · England, United Kingdom
  26. 1237 AD Jewish houses in Norwich broken into and burned · Norwich, United Kingdom
  27. 1240 AD Expulsion of Jews from England · England, United Kingdom
  28. 1241 AD Parliament of Jews at Worcester to apportion tallage · Worcester, United Kingdom
  29. 1242 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Berkhamsted · Berkhamsted, United Kingdom
  30. 1244 AD Attack on the Oxford Jewry · Oxford, United Kingdom
  31. 1244 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Newbury · Newbury, United Kingdom
  32. 1244 AD Ritual murder accusation and fine in London · London, United Kingdom
  33. 1253 AD Decree restricting Jewish residence · England, United Kingdom
  34. 1253 AD Jews restricted to towns with an Archa · England, United Kingdom
  35. 1254–1255 AD Henry III refuses Jews permission to leave England · England, United Kingdom
  36. 1255 AD Hugh of Lincoln case · Lincoln, United Kingdom
  37. 1261 AD Attack on the Jews of Canterbury (1261) · Canterbury, United Kingdom
  38. 1262 AD Popular riot against London Jews · London, United Kingdom
  39. 1262 AD Simon de Montfort sacks Winchester Jewish quarter · Winchester, United Kingdom
  40. 1263 AD Attack on Northampton Jews by baronial rebels · Northampton, United Kingdom
  41. 1263–1265 AD Looting of Jewries during the Barons' War · England, United Kingdom
  42. 1264 AD Attack on Canterbury Jews, archa seized and Jews killed · Canterbury, United Kingdom
  43. 1264 AD Massacre in London · London, United Kingdom
  44. 1266 AD Attack by the disinherited knights on London Jews · London, United Kingdom
  45. 1266 AD Cambridge Jews attacked during the barons' revolt · Cambridge, United Kingdom
  46. 1266 AD Disinherited Knights attack the Lincoln Jewry · Lincoln, United Kingdom
  47. 1266 AD Disinherited barons attack the Lincoln Jewry · Lincoln, United Kingdom
  48. 1268 AD Oxford Jewry fined over alleged outrage on a crucifix · Oxford, United Kingdom
  49. 1268 AD Oxford Jews compelled to make and erect crosses · Oxford, United Kingdom
  50. 1269 AD Measure barring Jewish landholding via moneylending · England, United Kingdom
  51. 1271 AD Jewish claims to hold land rejected; freehold tenure barred · England, United Kingdom
  52. 1272 AD Jews restricted to towns with archae, including York · England, United Kingdom
  53. 1273 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Winchelsea · Winchelsea, United Kingdom
  54. 1274 AD Edward I changes English badge to Tables of the Law · England, United Kingdom
  55. 1274 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Bridgnorth · Bridgnorth, United Kingdom
  56. 1274 AD Jew burned for blasphemy at Norwich · Norwich, United Kingdom
  57. 1275 AD Deportation of Gloucester Jews to Bristol · Gloucester, United Kingdom
  58. 1275 AD Exeter Jewish and Christian chirographers accused of forgery · Exeter, United Kingdom
  59. 1275 AD Expulsion of Jews from Cambridge · Cambridge, United Kingdom
  60. 1275 AD Statutum de Judaismo bans Jewish usury · England, United Kingdom
  61. 1277 AD Murder of Licoricia of Winchester · Winchester, United Kingdom
  62. c. 1277 AD Ritual murder accusation at Northampton · Northampton, United Kingdom
  63. 1278 AD Arrests and hangings over coin clipping · England, United Kingdom
  64. 1278 AD Hanging of Winchester Jews for coin clipping · Winchester, United Kingdom
  65. 1278 AD Imprisonment of English Jewry and execution of 293 in London · London, United Kingdom
  66. 1278–1279 AD Oxford Jews arrested and executed for coin clipping · Oxford, United Kingdom
  67. 1279 AD Canterbury Jews accused of coin clipping; community imprisoned, six hanged · Canterbury, United Kingdom
  68. 1279 AD Coin-clipping charges against Norwich Jews · Norwich, United Kingdom
  69. 1279 AD Northampton Jews hanged in London over alleged murder · London, United Kingdom
  70. 1281 AD Jews restricted to houses in the Jewry · London, United Kingdom
  71. 1282 AD Archbishop Peckham closes synagogues in Canterbury diocese · Canterbury, United Kingdom
  72. 1283 AD Bishop Peckham closes synagogues in London diocese · London, United Kingdom
  73. 1283 AD Bishop of London orders synagogues closed · London, United Kingdom
  74. 1283 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Windsor · Windsor, United Kingdom
  75. 1287 AD Arrest of the Jews of England and imprisonment in Winchester · Winchester, United Kingdom
  76. c. 1287 AD Confiscation of the principal Winchester synagogue · Winchester, United Kingdom
  77. 1287 AD Execution of Belaset of Wallingford for coin clipping · Lincoln, United Kingdom
  78. 1287 AD Exeter synod reenacts church restrictions on Jews · Exeter, United Kingdom
  79. 1287 AD Synod of Exeter enacts anti-Jewish restrictions · England, United Kingdom
  80. 1290 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Bedford · Bedford, United Kingdom
  81. 1290 AD Expulsion of the Jews from England · England, United Kingdom

14th century

  1. 1359 AD Jews readmitted to England · England, United Kingdom

16th century

  1. 1542 AD Arrests of suspected Jews in England · England, United Kingdom
  2. 1594 AD Execution of Roderigo Lopez on charge of plotting against the queen · England, United Kingdom

17th century

  1. 1609 AD Expulsion of suspected Judaizing Portuguese merchants · London, United Kingdom
  2. 1613 AD Banishment of Jacob Barnet from England · England, United Kingdom
  3. 1656 AD Jews readmitted to England · England, United Kingdom
  4. 1673 AD Jews indicted for rioting after a service in Duke's Place · London, United Kingdom
  5. 1685 AD Arrest of thirty-seven Jews at the Royal Exchange · London, United Kingdom
  6. 1689 AD Jewish merchants forced to pay alien duties · London, United Kingdom
  7. 1697 AD Cap of twelve Jewish brokers on the Royal Exchange · London, United Kingdom

18th century

  1. 1713 AD Treaty of Utrecht excludes Jews from Gibraltar · Gibraltar, United Kingdom
  2. 1717 AD Expulsion of Jews from Gibraltar · Gibraltar, United Kingdom
  3. 1723 AD Act allowing Jews to hold land · England, United Kingdom
  4. 1729–1749 AD Jewish settlement permitted and legally recognized in Gibraltar · Gibraltar, United Kingdom
  5. 1753 AD Riots over the Jewish Naturalization Act · London, United Kingdom
  6. 1753–1754 AD Expulsion of Jews from England lifted formally · England, United Kingdom
  7. 1754 AD Repeal of the Jew Bill · England, United Kingdom

19th century

  1. 1829 AD Expulsion of Jews from England lifted formally · England, United Kingdom
  2. 1831 AD Jews admitted to the freedom of the City of London · London, United Kingdom
  3. 1835 AD Jews permitted to hold the office of sheriff · England, United Kingdom
  4. 1845 AD Jews admitted to municipal office · England, United Kingdom
  5. 1846 AD Religious Opinions Relief Act removes minor Jewish disabilities · England, United Kingdom
  6. 1854 AD Jews first admitted to Oxford University · Oxford, United Kingdom
  7. 1856 AD Religious tests barring Jews from degrees at Cambridge end · Cambridge, United Kingdom
  8. 1858 AD Emancipated in England · England, United Kingdom
  9. 1858 AD Jews admitted to Parliament · London, United Kingdom
  10. 1860 AD General parliamentary oath ends Jewish exclusion · England, United Kingdom
  11. 1869 AD University Tests Act allows Jews to take degrees · Cambridge, United Kingdom
  12. 1870 AD University Test Act opens English universities to Jews · England, United Kingdom
  13. 1885 AD First peerage conferred on a Jew · England, United Kingdom
  14. 1890 AD Remaining religious restrictions on Jews removed · England, United Kingdom

20th century

  1. 1905 AD Aliens Act restricting immigration to Britain · England, United Kingdom
  2. 1911 AD 1911 South Wales anti-Jewish riots · Wales, United Kingdom
  3. 1920 AD Accusation against Jews in England · England, United Kingdom
  4. c. 1930–1936 AD Blackshirt attacks on Jews and Jewish property in England · England, United Kingdom
  5. 1942 AD Bund urges Polish government-in-exile to warn Germany · London, United Kingdom
  6. 1943 AD Anti-Jewish measures in Hamilton, Bermuda · Hamilton, United Kingdom
  7. 1947 AD Disorders and attacks on Jewish property after hanging of British sergeants · England, United Kingdom
  8. 1947 AD Dollis Hill Synagogue in London set on fire · London, United Kingdom
  9. 1959 AD Desecration and arson against British synagogues (1959) · United Kingdom
  10. 1965 AD Desecration and arson against British synagogues (1965) · United Kingdom
  11. 1968 AD Murder of Michael Kahan · Manchester, United Kingdom
  12. 1977 AD Student unions withdraw recognition from Jewish societies · United Kingdom
  13. 1990 AD Vandalism and assaults against Jews in London area · London, United Kingdom
  14. 1993 AD Arson attack destroys Jewish nursery school in Stamford Hill · London, United Kingdom
  15. 1993 AD Manchester synagogue daubed with swastikas · Manchester, United Kingdom
  16. 1993–1995 AD Desecration of Jewish cemeteries in several English towns · England, United Kingdom
  17. 1994 AD Attacks on Jewish targets after the Hebron massacre · London, United Kingdom
  18. 1994 AD Bombing of Israeli Embassy and Jewish offices in London · London, United Kingdom

21st century

  1. 2017 AD 2017 Jewish Community Center bomb threats · United States and elsewhere
  2. 2025 AD 2025 Manchester synagogue attack · Manchester, United Kingdom
  3. 2026 AD 2026 London antisemitic attacks · London, United Kingdom

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