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This timeline will be updated as soon as possible to include more twentieth and twenty first century events:
1655 – Manasseh ben Israel, a rabbi from Holland, arrives to persuade Oliver Cromwell to re-admit Jews into England. Three months later Cromwell holds a conference and in 1656 makes a positive signal to the Jews by allowing a Spanish merchant to keep his ships and goods whilst England is still at war with Spain.
1753 Jew Bill - allows Jews to become naturalized by application to Parliament.
1844 – Rabbi Aaron Jacob and daughter Rebecca die in a fire in St Ebbe’s – reported in Jackson’s Oxford Journal 2nd March
1847 – Synagogue in Paradise Square
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