Empire Windrush arrives
1948 · Event
Ship from Jamaica brings hundreds of West Indian migrants to Tilbury; symbolic beginning of post-war multi-racial Britain.
On these timelines: England, Master, United Kingdom (combined), British Empire
More from England
- English Bill of Rights (1689)
- Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain (450)
- Roman conquest of Britain (43)
- Victorian era (1837)
- Domesday Book (1086)
- Reign of William the Conqueror (1066)
- Acts of Union 1707 (1707)
- Battle of Hastings (1066)
Around 1948
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- The Holocaust (1941)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)