BLACK BRITANNIA
CLOCKWISE - ROMAN EMPEROR SEPTIMUS SEVERUS, MARY SEACOLE, QUEEN CHARLOTTE, MEGAN MARKLE

BLACK BRITANNIA

Dr. Arthur Lewin Dr. Arthur Lewin

Dr. Arthur Lewin

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发布日期: 2022年12月18日
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The Queen of England during the Revolutionary War was a Black woman, Queen Charlotte. And did you know there were Black Roman Emperors?

208 - 211 BC Black Roman Emperor Severus lives in Britain

1761 - 1818 Queen Sophia Charlotte, wife of King George

1834 - Slavery ends in the British Empire

1914 - 1918 - 16,500 Caribbean soldiers serve World War I

1939 - 1945 - 16,000 Caribbean soldier serve in World War II

1948 - British citizenship for all in the British colonies

1948 - Windrush sails to London with 492 Caribbean migrants

1958 - White youths attack Caribbean residents in London

1959 - Claudia Jones holds Carnival in St. Pancras Town Hall

1962 - Great restrictions placed on immigration

1964 - Notting Hill Carnival attracts 1.5 million participants

1981 - Brixton Riot, one of several in Britain from 1980 – 85

1987 - Diane Abbott first Black female member of Parliament

1998 - Windrush Square dedicated on 50th Anniversary

1993 - Government admits institutional police racism

2011 - Uprisings in Caribbean communities in Britain

2016 - London erects Statue of Nurse Mary Seacole

2018 - Meghan Markle marries Prince Harry

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