# data[].attributes.headline
1833 : Abolition of Slavery in the British Empire 

# data[].attributes.subject
1833 : Abolition of Slavery in the British Empire 

# data[].attributes.headline
1948 : The Empire Windrush arrives in Britain 

# data[].attributes.subject
1948 : The Empire Windrush arrives in Britain 

# data[].attributes.headline
 1945– 1997 : Fall of The British Empire 

# data[].attributes.subject
 1945– 1997 : Fall of The British Empire 

# data[].attributes.headline
1855 : Mary Seacole goes to Crimea to help British soldiers 

# data[].attributes.subject
1855 : Mary Seacole goes to Crimea to help British soldiers 

# data[].attributes.headline
1494 : Christopher Columbus discovers Jamaica 

# data[].attributes.subject
1494 : Christopher Columbus discovers Jamaica 

# data[].attributes.body
Before the English captured Jamaica, the Spanish were there. In May of 1655, the English captured Jamaica. And the mission to Hispania had failed and the Spanish did not want to leave the Caribbean because they captured it first. There was a war between Spain and Britain for Jamaica and the British won.

# data[].attributes.body
The first Caribbean Carnival was celebrated in January 1959 in London. The moment was recorded by the BBC. Mardi Gras was celebrated in St Pancras Town Hall. The Caribbean Carnival was created to represent the spirit of Mardi Gras.

# data[].attributes.headline
1948 : The Empire Windrush arrives in Britain 

# data[].attributes.subject
1948 : The Empire Windrush arrives in Britain 

# data[].attributes.body
The Empire Windrush arrived in England in 1948.

It was the first mass migration from the Caribbean because London needed repairing after WW2. It was made in Germany by Blohm and Voss in Hamburg. It was a German boat, its first name was MV Monte Rosa.

# data[].attributes.headline
1494 : Christopher Columbus discovers Jamaica 

# data[].attributes.subject
1494 : Christopher Columbus discovers Jamaica 

# data[].attributes.body
Christopher Columbus discovered Jamaican in 1494. He travelled in a caravel with his companions. Columbus thought the Indians were hostile as they attacked his men. He thought he discovered India. Columbus was determined to annex the Island in the name of the King and Queen of Spain.

# data[].attributes.headline
1833 : Abolition of Slavery in the British Empire 

# data[].attributes.subject
1833 : Abolition of Slavery in the British Empire 

# data[].attributes.body
In 1807 no more slaves could be brought from Africa to the colonies inb the British West Indies, but slaves could transported from one colony to the other. In 1833, Britain made an Act (a law) that abolished slavery in the British Empire.

This started the end of slavery in the Caribbean.

# data[].attributes.body
After the end of the second World War, there were more migrants coming to Britain. A group of white working class men began hostilities toward black people. For example, on 24th August 1958 there were serious assaults on 6 West Indians in Notting Hill. Now the racial riots have ended.

The Notting Hill Carnival was a response to the riots.

# data[].attributes.headline
 1945 – 1997 : Fall of The British Empire 

# data[].attributes.subject
 1945 – 1997 : Fall of The British Empire 

# data[].attributes.body
After WW2 most of europe was in ruin economically, so the British Empire declined. Anticolonial movement started in the British colonies. Britain was finding it expensive to protect its remaining colonies. The British Empire adopted a policy of peaceful disengagment from its colonies. It signed the end of the British Empire.

# data[].attributes.headline
1855 : Mary Seacole goes to Crimea to help British soldiers 

# data[].attributes.subject
1855 : Mary Seacole goes to Crimea to help British soldiers 

# data[].attributes.body
Mary Seacole was born in 1805 in Jamaica. She travelled to London to offer her services to the British Army as a nurse.

She spent her life helping the soldiers victim of the Crimean War.

She gave food and drink to British officiers and soldiers in Crimea (Ukraine/Russia)