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UK History 1042 - 1859
UK History 1042 – 1859
1042-1066 – Coronation of King Edward the Confessor in 1042.
Before assuming the throne Edward spent 24 years in exile in Normandy. Edwards
death was on 5 January 1066. Harold was then crowned King at Westminster Abbey.
(History’s greatest hits. Joseph Cummins ©2007)
14 October 1066 – The Anglo Saxons had controlled England
since the 5th century. After migrating there from Scandinavia or
Germany. They were faced with a mass invasion of their lands by the Normans
from northern France who intended to stay. The Normans had emerged as a
regional power. (History’s greatest hits. Joseph Cummins ©2007)
1133-1215 – The Plantagenets were a noble family and rulers
of England since 1133. John was born on Christmas eve 1166. The youngest of eight
children of Eleanor of Aquitaine and King Henry II of England. Richard died
1199 and John was crowned king. (History’s greatest hits. Joseph Cummins ©2007)
1205 – Roger Priur. Curia Regis rolls of Suffolk during the
reign of King John.
January 1215 – Nobles, Barons gathered at a secret meeting
at Dunmow castle in Essex, the home of Lord Robert Fitzwalter Earls and
Bishops. Ruler of the realm was King John. Heavy taxes and the magna carta.
(History’s greatest hits. Joseph Cummins ©2007).
1337 – In Cornwall where our Pryor ancestors lived the Pryor
name is mentioned in Cornwall as far back as 1337 when a Nicholas Prior is
mentioned. Dutchy of Cornwall.
13th century – Before the Middle Ages people had only one
name. It was only in the 13th century that surnames began to be used
in England. We call unmarried women spinsters because they earned their living
by spinning wool. A major source of British wealth in the Middle Ages. (How to
trace your family tree. Anness pub ltd ©2005).
1500-1700 – How to read local archives. FG Emmison. London
Historical association 1967.
1538 – Henry VIII decreed that each of 11,000 UK parishes
should keep registers of baptisms, marriages and burials of its inhabitants
from 1538 onwards. Few survive before 1558 when they started being kept on
sheepskin instead of paper and even fewer survive before the 1600’s. From 1598
annual copies were made and sent to local bishops. (Tracing your family
history. Anthony Adolph ©2007).
1600-1900 – Three hundred years of embroidery. Pauline
Johnson. Wakefield press 1986. ISBN 0-9492-6881-x
1700 – Smuggling a history 1700-1970 David Phillipson
Rosemary Pugh 1973.
1700-1840 – Smuggling in Kent and Sussex. Mary Waugh ©1985.
1700-1850 – Smuggling in Hampshire and Dorset. Geoffrey
Morley ©1983.
1718-1761 – Our first known ancestor is Anthony Pryor, born
about 1718 in the reign of George i. He married Avis Thomas in Wendron Cornwall
on 19 October 1743. The village has one of the longest histories of tin mining
of any district in Cornwall back to the 16th century. He and Avis
had at least nine children all born in Wendron. Finally Anthony was born in
1761, 17 years after his parents married.
1750’s – Smuggling in Devon and Cornwall. The Sicilly isles
became dependent on smuggling for its economy. Smuggling was a Cornish activity
and in Cornwall tin ore was mined. A famous family that operated out of Prussia
cove near praa Sands in Cornwall was the Carter family. John Carter was head of
the family. Another family mentioned was a devout Methodist preacher despite
his interests in contraband material. The Carters of Prussia cove. (p32-33
Family history monthly June 2008 UK.)
7 February 1758 – Margery Waters married Richard Pryor in
Crowan Con England.
19 October 1743 – Avis Thomas married Anthony Pryor in
Wendron Con England.
1749 – Smuggling and smugglers in Sussex. The genuine
history of the Gentlemen and Chichester.
1761-1787 – Anthony Pryor was baptised in Wendron 13
December 1761 in the second year of the reign of George III. When Anthony was
19 he married Margery (who also had the maiden name of Pryor), Wendron 29
January 1787.
1764 – Lloyds register of shipping London.
1787-1808 – On 11 November 1787 a son was born also called
Anthony other children followed. On boxing day 1808 he married Margaret Cowls
at Helston about 3 miles south of Wendron.
1 March 1801 – Mary Norris born in Richmond Sry Eng.
9 April 1804 – Frederick Sturmer born in Poplar NDX Eng.
26 December 1808 – Margaret Cowls married Anthony Pryor in
Helston Con Eng.
1812 – Anthony Mangan boirn in CLA IRL.
1812 –1839 – One other child was born to Anthony and
Margaret Cowls, William baptised at Helston 5 September 1812. In April 1838 at
Kenwyn William married 24 year old Elizabeth Davey in Helston a gardener.
William and Elizabeth had a son James John on 20 January 1839 in Helston.
5 September 1812 – William Pryor born Helston Cornwall Eng.,
1815 – English British naval history to 1815 a guide to
literature. Eugene L Raser. Smuggling 1892 Neville Williams. Contraband cargoes
1959. History profession 1713-1775.
1815 – Emigration from Europe 1815-1930 D Baines London
Macmillan 1991.
1815 – Emigration from Europe 1815-1914 C Erickson London
Adam and Charles Black 1976.
1820 – From the mid 18th Century Cornwall was an
industrial powerhouse, the richest tin and copper mining region in the world.
The rise and fall of the industries has shaped almost every corner of Cornish
life. By the bronze age 2100BC to 750BC Western Europe depended on Cornwall for
supplies of tin to make bronze. The metals then produced by tin streaming and
from open cast mines. p40 By the 1820s there were more than 2,000 mines in
operation making Cornwall the worlds leading mineral producer. The world copper
crash in 1866 left the industry reeling and a decline of mining followed. Many
Cornish left for mines in the US, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.
Reviving production of tin in 2010 with a rise in world metal process. Cornish
ethnicity. (Cornwall Lesley Gillilan p37).
1823 – David Nicol born FIF Scotland.
11 March 1828 – Charles Watson born Lin Eng.
3 July 1828 – Frederick Sturmer married Mary Norris UK.
8 April 1829 – Frederick John Sturmer born Oxford OXF Eng.
1830-39 – First opium war between the UK and China began.
1831 – A cholera epidemic broke out in London UL (Timeline
internet).
1833 – Deeds. Record land holding and transfer. A common
form of deed dating from the 1100’s to 1833 are feet of fines. Final agreements
land was transferred from one party to another. Written in triplicate on a
sheet of sheep or goatskin divided three ways. Surviving copies are kept in the
National Archives indexed in series 1/7233-44 and 1/7217-68. Many have been
published by county record societies, local archives and libraries.
16 October 1834 – In London the houses of parliament caught
fire and many historic documents were burned. (Timeline internet).
1836 – Nathan Rothschild son of Mayer Amschel Rothschild
dies in London. His younger brother James took over the business. (Timeline
internet).
28 April 1838 – William Pryor married Elizabeth Davey in
Kenwyn Con Eng.
28 June 1838 – Queen Victoria was crowned in Westminster
abbey. (AP 6/28/98 timeline internet).
20 January 1839 – James John Pryor was born at Helston
Cornwall Eng.
5 Februaryu1839 – Elizabeth Davey died Helston Cornwall Eng.
1841 – Anthony at Wendrow place Helston a fruiterer. In the
1841 census of Cornwall his wife Margaret had four children still living at
home.
1 September 1845 – Catherine Jane Wasley born Gloucester GL
Eng.
1847 – Britain passed the vagrancy act to combat begging, as
the potato famine swept Ireland. (AP 11/25/08 timeline internet).
1848 – Elizabeth Strain was born Ireland.
1849 – Water borne cholera killed about 14,000 people in
London. (timeline internet).
21 November 1849 – Isabella Smith Nicol was born Edinburgh
MLN Scotland.
4 November 1851 – Edward William born Maldon Ess Eng.
1856 – The rise and progress of British opium smuggling the
illegality. R Alexander.
1859 – The genealogy of the existing British peerage and
baronage. Edmond Lodge.
1859 – Sarah Ann Chambers born New Basford Eng.
UK 1 November 2006
UK 1 November 2006
1 November 2006 – Alex Goldfarb, a friend of Litvinenko’s
who ran the International Foundation for Civil Liberties, a human rights group,
funded by Boris Berezovsky, the Russian émigré who lives in London, and a
critic of Putin. Berezovsky is the man, Litvinenko claims, he was ordered to
assassinate by the FSB, the KGB successor. Goldfarb accused the Kremlin of
ordering his friends death and implicated Andrei Logovoi. (26 November 2006
Sunday Observer Guardian UK).
1 November 2006 – Andrei Lugovoi and Dmitri Kovtun. Lugovoi
another ex-KGB officer, and Kovtun another Russian, met Litvinenko at the
Millennium hotel in Grosner square, just after his encounter with Scaramella.
Lugovoi, now a security operator in Moscow, claims Litvinenko drank nothing at
their meeting. (26 November 2006 Sunday Observer Guardian UK).
1 November 2006 – Mario Scaramella, an Italian academic and
security expert, who is part of an Italian parliamentary inquiry into KGB
activity says, he met Litvinenko for lunch lasting 35 minutes, in the Itsun
sushi bar on London’s Piccadilly on 1 November 2006. The same day Litvinenko
became ill. Claims they met “because” both their names were on a hit list which
he received an email about. Scotland Yard are investigating him. (26 November
2006 Sunday Observer Guardian UK).
1 November 2006 – A meeting on 1 November between Litvinenko
and two Russians at the Millennium hotel Mayfair. One of the men Andrei
Lugovoy, a former KGB bodyguard, had travelled to … business associate Dimitri
Kovtun, said they offered Litvinenko alcohol. Detectives of Scotland Yard
anti-terrorist branch are trying to piece together the movements of Litvinenko
on 1 November, when he met Mario Scaramella at a branch of the Itsu restaurant
chain, the first of several meetings held by the former Russian agent that day.
(Independent UK Cahal Milmo 30 November 2006).
1 November 2006 – Around mid afternoon on the day Litvinenko
was fatally poisoned ,he met Russian businessmen Dmitry Kovtun and Andrei
Logovei who says Litvinenko did not drink anything while they were with him.
Later Kovtun li the drizzle to Muswell hill. His trip caught the grainy CCTV
which was being studied by Scotland Yard. Litvinenko called Kovtun the
following day to cancel their meeting. The victim of one of the most elaborate
assassinations in political history. His death has bewildered Scotland Yard’s
most experienced Detectives. (Sunday Observer Guardian 26 November 2006 UK).
1 November 2006 – A perpetrator may have entered Britain
shortly before 1 November 2006, the date Litvinenko is thought to have been
poisoned, and they may have fled London after administering the deadly dose.
Litvinenko was as good as dead as seen as the first alpha rays entered his
body. Litvinenko’s dissident friends blame the Kremlin. The Kremlin blames
Litvinenkos dissident friends. Russian agents have been named central suspect
has emerged. Vladimir Kuznetsov, former chief of Russias state atomic central
agency. He described Litvinenkos death by plutonium 210 as “journalistic
invention”. (Sunday Observer Guardian UK 26 November 2006).
1 November 2006 – Poisoning of the former KGB agent who is
seriously ill in a London hospital. SVR. Mr Litvinenko claims he met a former
KGB agent Andrei Lugovoi at the hotel along with another Russian. Mr Lugovoi
said yesterday he would not comment. Mr Litvinenko claimed to have obtained
documents about Anna Politkovsky’s death, on the day Litvinenko was poisoned.
Mr Litvinenko said Dr Scaramella, passed him material that suggested secret
service operatives were connected with the death of Politkovsky. Dr Scaramella
also showed him a hit list which named him Litvinenko. (Jeevan Vasagar. Tom
Parfitt in Moscow. The Guardian UK 23 Novembver 2006 ).
1 November 2006 – Goldfarb said all options should be
explored including whether the poison might have been sprinkled into
Litvinenko’s drink during a meeting at a central London hotel on 1 November
before he went to the sushi restaurant. Litvinenko briefly met two men from
Moscow, one of them was a former KGB officer he knew for tea at the hotel
Goldfarb said. Litvinenko said he had not previously met the second man.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov denied involvement. (Pravda Ru article 27
November 2006 front page 20 November 2006).
1 November 2006 – Scaramella told Italian reporters that
when he met with Litvinenko on 1 November he showed him emails from a mutual
intelligence acquaintance containing a list of individuals whose lives were
said to be in danger from criminals based in St Petersburg. The emails
reportedly claim that the same criminals killed Anna Politkovskaya. Litvinenko
was investigating her fatal shooting in Moscow in October when he was poisoned.
(New York Times Alan Cowell 28 November 2006 Peter Kiefer in Rome).
1 November 2006 – Mr Litvinenko a former Russian secret
service agent accused the Russian authorities of poisoning him, with what
police said was an ingestion of radioactive isotope polonium 210. Litvinenko
claimed to have refused an order to assassinate Berezovsky in the late 1990’s.
I credit him with saving my life. Police tracked Litvinenko on 1 November to a
sushi bar, a five star hotel in central London and his home in north London.
They also found traces of radiation in the offices of a security company in
Mayfair called Erinys, Litvinenko visited its offices. (New York Times 28
November 2006 Alan Lowell and Peter Kiefer in Rome).
1 November 2006 – Yuri Shvets, a former Russian security
official old BBC that Litvnenko believed he was poisoned when he met three Russian
businessmen, Andrei Lugovoy, Dmitri Kovtun and Vyacheslav Sokolenko, at a
central London hotel on 1 November 2006. He said he drank a tea which was not
made in front of him. (Indias national newspaper online 18 December 2006 Hasan
Suroor).
1 November 2006 – Radiation was found in offices of Russian
billionaire Boris Berezovsky. An exiled Russian billionaire and opponent of the
Kremlin. Confirmed today that police found traces in his offices following the
death last week of Litvinenko. The discovery of radioactive traces at Mr
Berezovsky Mayfair offices highlighted one more clue about Litvinenko’s
movements on the day he first reported feeling unwell November 1 2006. Mr
Beresovsky visited Litvinenko in his hospital bed before he died, apart from
the traces at his offices, where Litvinenko was a frequent visitor. He has not
been implicated in the police inquiry. (New York Times 28 November 206 Alan
Lowell and Peter Kiefer in Rome).
1 November 2006 – Litvinenko told Scaramella, on the day he
fell ill, that he had organised the smuggling of nuclear material out of Russia
for his security service employers. Scaramella met Litvinenko on 1 November to
discuss a death threat aimed at both of them. In an interview with the
Independent soon after the poisoning became public, Scaramella said that
Litvinenko was a friend since 2001, told him he had masterminded the smuggling
of radioactive material to Zurich in 2000. The operation would have been one of
the last carried out by Litvinenko while still an FSB officer, in a unit
tackling organised crime and smuggling. (Independent UK Cahal Milmo Peter
Popham and Jason Bennetto 29 November 2006 ).
1 November 2006 – Scaramella, an academic and examining
magistrate based in Rome and Naples, had been due to meet Litvinenko on 10
November in London, but brought the meeting forward at short notice on 1
November. The Itsu restaurant in Piccadilly, where traces of polonum-210 were
found, is thought to be the first location visited by Litvinenko on 1 November.
Later he met the two Russian businessmen at a Mayfair hotel and visited the
nearby offices of Berezovsky and a security firm where polonium traces were
also found. Police said they were searching the five star Sheraton park lane
hotel in Mayfair and an office building in west end. (Independent UK Cahal
Milmo. Peter Popham. Jason Bennetto. 29 November 2006).
1 November 2006 - Scaramella says he has long been involved
in investigating the smuggling of radioactive material by the KGB ad its
successors. He said in 2005 that Soviet destroyers had laid 20 nuclear torpedos
in the Bay of Naples in 1970, where they remain. Berezovsky was visited almost
daily by Litvinenko. (Independent UK Cahal Milmo. Peter Popham. Jason Bennetto.
29 November 2006)
1 November 2006 – Litvinenko meets at a London hotel with
another former KGB spy Andei Lugovoy and two other men he had never met before.
Later goes to a sushi bar to meet Italian academic Mario Scaramella who showed
him an email, identifying émigrés to Britain being targeted by Russian agents
and the identities of those who gunned down Anna Politkovskaya in Moscow in
October. Later feels unwell and is taken to a London hospital. 20 November
police said their counter terrorism unit is investigating. Traces of radiation
were found at a number of sites including Litvineko’s north London home, the
sushi bar and the hotel he visited earlier that day. (AP London Int Herald
Tribune 29 November 2006).
1 November 2006 – Death of an ex-agent … Neil Buckley.
Arkady Ostrovsky. Stephen Fedler. Forces connected to Ramzan Kadyrov the
Chechen PM were seen as possible suspects in Anna Politkovskaya’s murder. Igor
Shuvalov a senior aide to Putin told the FT this week, the two recent deaths
were links in the same chain. Evgenia Albats a Russian journalist and author of
a book about the KGB said the FSB could have carried out Litvinenkos murder
which bore its handwriting is run totally by the KGB they call themselves.
1 November 2006 – British spy poison case detector to fly to
Moscow and Rome this week. The Sunday Telegraph reported. Security service in
Britain suspect that Russian agents or a rogue unit were behind the
sophisticated nuclear weapons elements used for the murder. Scotland Yard’s
counter terrorism unit to question two Russians and an Italian professor who
lunched with Litvinenko at the same Japanese restaurant in central London.
Scotland Yard’s officers flying to Moscow to interview Lugovoy and Kovrun.
Detectives also travel to Rome to see Scaramella. (27 November 2006 Russia).
1 November 2006 – The last person to meet Alexander
Litvinenko before he succumbed to the effects of radioactive poisoning was an
expert in nuclear materials. Online site this is London says Mario Scaramella
headed an organisation which traded dumped nuclear waste including old Soviet
nuclear missiles. Litvinenko allegedly fell ill after the Sushi lunch and died
22 days later from poisoning by polonium. (27 November 2006 ).
1 November 2006 – Litvinenko meets at a London hotel with
another former KGB spy Andrei Lugovoy and two other men he had never met
before. Later goes to a sushi bar to meet Italian academic Mario Scaramella who
shows him an email allegedly identifying émigrés to Britain being targeted by
Russian agents and the identities of those who gunned down Russian journalist
Anna Politkovskaya in Moscow in October. Later feels unwell taken to a London
hospital.
1 November 2006 – Litvinenko told Scaramella on the day he
fell ill that he had organised the smuggling of nuclear material out of Russia
for his security service employers. Scaramella met Litvinenko on 1 November to
discuss a death threat aimed at both of them. In an interview with the
Independent soon after the poisoning became public Scaramella said that
Litvinenko was a friend since 2001, told him he had masterminded the smuggling
of radioactive material to Zurich in 2000. The operation could have been one of
the last carried out by Litvinenko while still an FSB officer in a unit
tackling organised crime and smuggling. (Independent Cahao Milmo. Peter Popham.
Jason Bennetto).
Saturday, December 15, 2012
Hong Kong 2013
HONG KONG 2013
August 1996 - In “President Hinkley visits Asian saints
dedicates Hong Kong temple.” LDS Ensign magazine p74.
2013 - Google inc invests $300m in new Hong Kong data
centre, to be running by 2013. Asian internet use (AP 8 December 2011).
Friday, December 14, 2012
USA History
USA history
589 BC Sailed for many days, we arrived at the promised
land, pitch tents called it the promised land sailed from Jerusalem. (Book of
Mormon p43).
AD 0 – Jesus Christ was born.
1619 – The first African slaves arrived in Virginia (History
of slavery in America internet timeline).
1712 – 1798 – Negro burial ground is in New York city
Manhattan cemetery. 10,000 to 20,000 people were buried in the 5 to 6 acre
sites.
1714 and 1803 – Digitize preserve index Historians at work
on the US slave documents. SF Gate San Francisco chronicle. Colonial LA records
shed new light on US history by Cain Burdeam New Orleans. Digitize thousands of
18th century French and Spanish legal papers on slavery in the USA.
(7 November 2012).
1776 – Two out of five original drafters of the 1776
Declaration of independence. Benjamin Franklin and Robert Livingstone were
freemasons. Nine of the signatories including George Washington and John
Hancock were freemasons and a further ten are believed to have been. (Who
raslly runs the world ©2005 T Burnett and A Games).
1776 – The Illuminati was created in 1776, the same year as
the Declaration of Independence. Illumunati leader was Dr Adam Weishaupta
professor of canon law at the university of Ingolstadt in Bavaria. The order of
the Illuminati was launched on 1 May 1776 with five members. In the first four
years it rose to 60 members. The leaders of the Illuminati were also called
Areopagites. By 1787 the Illuminati were gone? (Who really runs the world ©2005
T Burnett and A Games).
4 February 1789-1823 – George Washington was elected as the
first President of the US. Thomas Jefferson was elected in 1800. Samuel Russell
established Russell and company in 1823 making a fortune with opium in Turkey
smuggling it to China. (Who really runs the world ©2005 UK T Burnett and A
Games).
1791-1816 – The first bank of the US was chartered by
Congress in 1791 for 20 years with a capital stock of $10 million, of which $2
million was held in gold. 1812 outbreak of war with the UK. The second bank of
the USD was chartered in April 1816 for a period of 20 years. (Who really runs
the world ©205 Thom Burnett ©2005 Alex Games).23 December 1805 Joseph Smith jun
was born in Sharon Windsor county Vermont. During h9is early life he moved with
his family to Manchester in western New York. (Doctrine and covenants intro).
1808 – Congress bans the importation of slaves from Africa.
(History of slavery in America internet timeline).1820 – It was while Joseph
Smith was living near Manchester western New York in spring 1820 when he was 14
years old. He experienced his first vision, in which he was visited in person
by God, the eternal father, and his son Jesus Christ. He was told in his vision
that the true church of Jesus Christ that had been established in New Testament
times, which had administered the fullness of the gospel, was no longer on the
earth. Through him the church of Jesus Christ would be restored to the earth.
(Doctrine and covenants intro).
1821-1924 – 33 million people arrive in the US in this
period. (Timeline internet).
18 June 1822 – South Carolina Slave rebellion revolt Denmark
Vessey and Peter Poyar were arrested (timeline internet).
21 September 1823 – The angel Moroni to Joseph Smith the
Prophet at Manchester New York evening. (Doctrine and covenants section 2).
9 October 1825 – The first Norwegian immigrants to America
arrived on the sloop Restaurationen. (timeline internet).
1825 –29 – John Quincy Adams served as the 6th
President of thew US. (timeline internet).
July 1828 – Revelation given to Joseph Smith the Prophet at
Harmony Pennsylvania relating to the loss of 116 pages of manuscript translated
from the first part of the Book of Morom called the Book of Lehi. (Doctrine and
covenants section 3).
February 1829 – Revelation given through Joseph Smith the
Prophet at Harmony Pennsylvania (Doctrine and covenants section 4).
1830-39 The Book of Mormon was published and the Church
organised.
26 March 1830 – The first copies of the Book of Mormon were
made available to the public at the EB Grandin bookstore. (Our heritage ©1996
the Church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints).
19 March 1831 – The first recorded US bank robbery at City
bank in New York $245,000 was stolen. (timeline internet).
1832 – Mormon founder Joseph Smith was beaten tarred and
feathered in Ohio. (timeline internet).
1833 – John Anderson a Kentucky based slave trader was one
of ten dealers who during a cholera epidemic petitioned to move the Natchez
miss slave market outside the city. (Timeline internet).
1836-1922 – In 2004 the US government said it would digitise
newspapers published over this period and make them available to the public in
2006. (timeline internet).
27 March 1836 – The first Mormon temple was dedicated in
Kirtland Ohio. (Timeline internet).
April 1836 – The Prophet Elijah came to Joseph Smith,
ancestors, sealings and family history and temples. (Gospel principles book
p254).
3 April 1836 – In the Kirtland temple the prophet Elijah
appeared to Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdrey. He delivered to them the powers of
the priesthood that authorises the living to do the work for the dead. These
keys. Proper records are kept. (Presidents of the church book David McKay).
1837-1863 – More than 700 US banks could issue their own
noters during this period and as many as one third of all bills were fake.
(timeline internet).
7 November 1837 – Crime history proslavery mob kills
abolitionist newspaperman Elijah Lovejoy. A pastor who ran a religious
newspaper. (Washington examiner Scott McCabe 6 Nov 2012).
31 October 1838 – 200 attacked a Mormon camp in Missouri
killing 20 men women and children. Haun’s mill in western Missouri. 17 Mormon
settlers were killed and Joseph Smith was arrested and the Mormon driven from
the State. (timeline internet).
1839 – Photography first appeared as a miracle. (timeline
internet).
To be continued …
BRAZIL
BRAZIL
1532 – Brazil’s slavery and bondage plantation economies.
Sugar was the main crop in colonial Brazil in 1532. Sugar plantations or
“fazendas” in Rio de Janero (timeline internet).
1550 – African slaves were transported to Brazil to work
sugar plantations.
16th to 18th centuries – High demand
for sugar production resulted in the import of vast numbers of slaves from
west. (21 Sept 2012).
1811-43 – About 50,000 slaves arrived at Valongo. This was
Brazils main landing stage for African slaves.
1822-89 – Period of the Brazilian monarchy (timeline
internet).
7 Sept 1822 – Brazil declared independence from Portugal (AP
9/7/97 timeline internet).
1839 – Italian revolutionary Garibaldi arrived in Brazil to
help rebels there (timeline internet).
1865 – After the American civil war some southerners moved
to Brazil where slavery was still permitted.
13 May 1888 – Slavery was abolished in Brazil. About 4
million slaves were imported the most of any country in the west.
1950’s – A Norwegian who had fought in the forests during
the resistance of WW2 and went to Harvard business school, landed in Brazil.
Erling Lorentzen was seeking pulp from Eucalyptus trees in Brazil. (The
emerging market century ©2007 Antoine van Agtmael).
1954-87 – Alfreedo Stroessner an army general ruled Paraguay
since 1954 when he seized power in a coup. Smuggling was a pillar of the
economy, cigarettes, liquor and cars imported into Paraguay found their way to
Brazil. Another racket was the laundering of stolen cars. Thousands of stolen
cars from Brazil were taken to Paraguay and legalised on payment of a fee. The
Stroessner regime was also linked to the drug trade. During the 1980’s Paraguay
was importing chemicals used for coca paste into cocaine. Paraguay was one of
the first Latin American countries where BCCI set up a branch. Ghaith Pharaon
flew to Paraguay in late 1987.
3 September 1969 – US ambassador to Brazil was kidnapped.
Charles Burke Elbrick was kidnapped by the Marxist revolutionary group MR-8.
1970’s – Germany and a $5 billion contract with Brazil to
build some power reactors and a reprocessing plant for spent nuclear fuel.
President Carter vetoed the program because Brazil would have been able to
produce enough plutonium to build an atomic bomb a month. The Germans eventually
backed down. 1970’s German nuclear technology Helmut Schmidt and Jimmy Carter.
German exports of advanced nuclear technology. (Last days of America ©1981 PE
Erdman).
June 1973 – Order for 42 Northrop Tiger fighters worth $120
million Brazil (Arms bazaar ©1977 Sampson).
30 October 1978 – LDS President Kimball dedicates the Sao
Paulo Brazil temple. (president lds ©2006).
24 July 2002 – Ukraine Brazil launch construction of a new
booster rocket. Development of Tsiklom4 SLV for use from Brazils Alcantara
facility. $180 million project equally shared by Ukraine involves more than 50
Ukraine firms. (Interfax FBIS doc CEP)
25 August 2004 – Brazil police seize black market uranium
ore taken from a secret mine. 1,320 pods of ore containing radioactive metals
in a pick up truck was seized.
9 August 2006 – Violence in Sao Paulo suspected gang members
exchanged gunfire with police and hurled Molotov cocktails at banks and burned
buses in and around Sao Paulo for a second day. A Brazilian died when he opened
a grenade with a sledgehammer. Rios armed drug gangs who raid military bases.
27 November 2006 – Fake suicide bomber threaten to blow up
Sao Paulo stock exchange. A masked man threatened to blow up the building of
the Sao Paulo Stock exchange. Later it was discovered he was carrying a fake
bomb.
2007 – A Brazilian CEO became head of Inbev Ambev, the world
largest beer company, in a merger. (The emerging markets century ©2007 Antoine
van Agtmael).
2007 – Brazil’s CVRD made a $17.6 billion takeover bid for
Canadian nickel giant Inco ltd. (The emerging market century ©20076 Antoine van
Agtmael).
2007 – The regional jets you fly are made by Embraer in
Brazil. (The emerging markets century ©2007 Antoine van Agtmael).
16 Feb 2007 – Brazil’s air force chief major general Pedro
Rafael Pena Antonio said on 15 Feb 2007. The Brazil government has offered to
sell 8 combat airplanes to the Dominican republic Estadao reported. The
transaction would include a funding plan for 100% of the aircrafts value.
(Stratfor intel summary 16 Feb 2007).
February 2011 – LDS Church history in Brazil facts Ensign
p70.
June 2012 – LDS President Dieter F Uchtdorf dedicated the
temple in Manaus Brazil. Ensign Nov 2012 ).
19 November 2012 – Brazillian sex traffickers target
Switzerland. Human trafficking a code of silence in Switzerland.
BELGIUM
BELGIUM
20 Jan 1831 – Protocols were signed in London UK recognising
Belgium’s independence. The Rothschilds banking empire financed the founding of
Belgium. (timeline internet).
1843 – Belgium police were the first to take photos of
people as criminal mug shots. (timeline internet).
8 Sept 1969 – Grenade attack on El Al office Brussels. Two
boys recruited by al-Fatah. The Iraqi embassy helped one escape.
8 may 1972 – Sabena airliner was hijacked from Brussels and
forced to land in Tel Aviv. Israelis forced release of the plane and
passengers. Two hijackers were killed and two are serving life in prison.
16 April 1979 – Brussels machine gun grenade attack wounded
17 people.
April 1985 – Brussels NATO office bomb.
2004 – IARA could be linked to the Belgiun office of the
al-Aqsa foundation. A charity which is a vital source of funds for Palestinian
terrorist group Hamas. IARA was a conduit for funds raised for Hamas. The Holy
Land foundation raised money for Hamas in the US providing funds for 12 organisations
including the Islamic relief agency.
29 Oct 2012 – Exxon Mobil executive shot dead assassination
style in Brussels. British oil and gas corp Nicholas Mockford aged 60. (The
Telegraph UK Intelnews.org Ian Allan).
3 December 2012 – Belgium will become an Islamic state. Two
Muslims won elections on 14 October 2012 An Islamic party, sworn into office on
3 December 2012. (Prophecy news watch Brussels 3 Dec 2012).
21 December 2012 – President Putin’s visit to Belgium.
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
SWITZERLAND
SWITZERLAND
1955 – LDS President David McKay dedicated the Bern
Switzerland temple.
18 February 1969 – Gunfire attack on El Al Airliner in
Zurich. One person was killed and four jailed. Three were freed after the 6
September 1970 attacks.
21 February 1970 – The Popular Front for the Liberation of
Palestine blew up a SwissAir Convair airliner, leaving Zurich for Tel Aviv,
killing 47 people.
1976 – Banque de commerce et de placements BCP a BCCI
affiliate opened in Geneva.
1976 – One of the main BCCI operations in Europe was Banque
de Commerce et de placements, SA a joint venture in Switzerland. It was formed
in 1976 in partnership with other financial institutions including the Union
bank of Switzerland.
1984 – Safety in numbers. The mysterious world of Swiss
banking. Nicholas Faith. London UK Hamish Hamilton.
1988 – Zuricher union bank in Zurich opened an account and
obtained a safe deposit box. Swiss banks safe deposit boxes. Banking secrecy
laws in Switzerland and the Canasta player investigation. (Traitors among us
©1999 SA Herrington).
7 November 2001 – Raid of a villa in Campione. Youssef Nada, director of the Al-Taqwa bank of
Lugano, who had an active association with the Muslim Brotherhood for more than
50 years. He admitted to being one of the Muslim Brotherhood’s international
leaders. The raid was conducted by Swiss law enforcement at the request of the
US White House. A crackdown on terrorist finances in the aftermath of 9/11. US
Swiss investigators were looking into Al-Taqwa involvement in money laundering
and funding Islamic terrorist groups, like al-Qaeda, Hamas, Algerian GIA and
Tunisian Ennehdah. (Frontpage mag The Muslim Brotherhood project. Patrick Poole
11 May 2006).
3 June 2006 – Swiss sex industry is thriving. Prostitution
is legal in Switzerland and generates $2.65 billion annually. Sex slavery.
9 October 2006 – In Geneva the UN declares an end to a
security alert. There was a possible threat to the European HQ of the UN and
its agencies.
26 January 2007 – Dual strategy for countering forced
prostitution. It was held at the UEFA
Euro in 2008. Federal office of police. Berne Fedpol.
19 November 2012 – Brazillian sex traffickers target
Switzerland. Human trafficking a code of silence in Switzerland.
26 November 2012 – Former SNC LAVALIN executive was charged
in Switzerland. Report. Toronto Reuters Yahoo news. Money laundering in
Switzerland CBC news Canada. Riadh Ben Aissa was charged with fraud, corruption
and money laundering in Switzerland.
December 2012 – The Swiss coordination unit against the
trafficking of persons and smuggling of migrants KSMM Police department
Switzerland.
Monday, December 10, 2012
EGYPT
EGYPT
And the Lord said unto Moses, Depart, and go up hence, thou
and the people which thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt, unto the
land which I sware unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying unto thy seed,
I give it. (Exodus 33 verse 1).
2800 BC – 1160 BC –
By around 2800 BC ancient Egypt began to write using papyrus, an aquatic plant
found in Egypt, from which a paper like substance could be made . Because of
the dryness of the climate, these materials have survived to the present day, in
unusually high numbers for manuscripts that are so old. One example is the
Harris papyrus, over 30cm long and dates to around 1160 BC. (The Middle East
©2006 C Catherwood).
1900 BC – Abraham had a son, Isaac, who had two sons Esam
and Jacob. These scriptures or Tanakh (Hebrew), shows that God loves repentant
sinners. Jacob had 12 sons, the 12 tribes of Israel. The youngest one, Joseph,
was born around1900 BC. He was rejected and enslaved by his brothers. He ended
up in a powerful position in Egypt as a principle advisor to the Pharoah.
Joseph saved Egypt from famine. His family came to live in Egypt in which they
remained for centuries. (The Middle East ©2006 C Catherwood).
1520 BC – 1350 BC – Moses born around 1520 BC. Akhenaten the
pharaoh lived around 1350 BC. Hebrew scripture or old testament records.
Archeologists say around 1420 BC for the exodus of the Jewish people out of
Egypt. Exodus chapter 20. I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the
land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. You shall have no other God before
me. The spirit of the Ten Commandments is still with us today in the 21st
century. The prophet Amos, Hebrew scripture and the old testament. ( The Middle
East ©2006 C Catherwood).
969-972 – The emergence of the Mamluks in Egypt and Arab
power in North Afrcia. The Fatimid dynasty, a Shiite family descended from
Muhammads’s daughter Fatima. They took Egypt in 969. They moved the capital to
the new city of al-Qahirah or Cairo. The Fatimids built the al-Azhar mosque in
972. (The Middle East ©2006 C Catherwood).
1798 – 1829 – The language was not known or decipherable
until the decoding of the Rosetta stone, in the 1820’s by a French scholar,
named Champollion. This object can be seen today in the British museum.
Originally discovered by French troops in Egypt in 1798. It had a decree in the
original Egyptian hieroglyphs (The Middle East ©2006 C Catherwood).
1805 – 1882 – Mehmet Ali, governor of Egypt twice between
1805 and 1849. He was powerful in the Arab world. British military occupation
since 1882 and joint French occupation of the Suez canal. (The Middle East
©2006 C Catherwood).
9 June 1840 – British sailors were massing in the eastern
Mediterranean, to fight the French and the ruler of Egypt Mohammed Ali. (The
opium wars ©2002 WT Hanes & F Sanello).
1906 – 1949 – Hassan al-Banna was born in the Egyptian town
of Isma iliyya on the Suez canal. Muslim Brotherhood founder in 1928, al-Banna
was assassinated by Egyptian secret police in 1949. In retaliation for the
murder of the Egyptian prime minister, by a member of the brotherhood’s secret
organisation in 1948. (al-Qaeda ©2004 J Burke).
1928 – The Muslim Brotherhood was formed in Egypt. Founded
by Hassan al-Banna. (al-Qaeda ©2003 J Burke).
1928 – 1845 – The Muslim Brotherhood was created as an
Islamic revivalist movement following the collapse of the Ottoman empire. The
brotherhood became a political group in 1936 as it took up the cause of the
Palestinians against the Jews and
British. Al-Banna visited Palestine between 1942 and 1945, establishing several
branches of the Muslim Brotherhood in some cities. The Gaza strip was under
Egyptian authority. (Inside Hamas ©2007 Zaki Chehab).
28 December 1948 – A Muslim brother assassinated PM Mahmud
Fahmi Nokrashi of Egypt.
9 June 1951 – Al-Zawahiri was born. He came from a family in
al-Sharqiyyah Egypt. Al-Zawahiri qualified as a physician in 1974 and later
married a student from the school of arts in 1979. He joined an Islamist
organisation at the age of 15. Over 30 years al-Zawahiri accumnulated expertise
in clandestine operations. He built up Egyp[tian Islamic Jihad. Abu Ubadiah
al-Banshiri was al-Zawahiti’s closest aide. He was formerly a Cairo police
officer. He was dismissed for Islamist activities. He drowned in Lake Victoria Kenya
on 21 May 1996 while preparing the east African embassy attack. (Inside
al-Qaeda ©2002 R Gunaratna).
1952 – Not until Colonel Nasser and his revolutionaries took
power in a coup in 1952 were Egyptians again ruled by their own people. (The
Middle East ©2006 C Catherwood).
1952 – Mehmet Ali was an Albanian Muslim who was part of a
failed attempt to regain Egypt in 1799. The British left in 1803 and he took
power and founded a dynasty, which lasted until its deposition in 1952. (The
Middle East ©2006 C Catherwood).
1952 – King Farouk’s regime lost power in a military coup,
which brought Nasser to power. He was intent on nationalising the Suez Canal.
(Cold war ©1003 M Waller)
January 1952 – Twenty British were killed in anti-British
riots in Cairo and Nasser seized power in a coup.
1954 – Bank Al Taqwe (fear of God) was a shell bank whose
financial transactions were used mainly to support Islamist groups. Established
in Nassau, Bahamas in 1988 with funding from the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood.
The bank included among its investors several members of the bin Laden family.
One of its two directors was businessman Youssef Mustafa Nada. Youssef Nada was
a Tunisian citizen born in Egypt. A member of the Muslim Brotherhood, chairmn
of the Nada Management organisation. (aka al-Taqua management organisation), of
Luganoi Switzerland. In 1954 he fled from arrest in Egypt to Libya. (Alms for
Jihad ©2006 Burr & Collins).
1954 – 1966 – Two years after the coup in Egypt that brought
Nasser to power, the Muslim Brotherhood was banned again and al-Qutb imprisoned. He was released in 1964,
arrested again in 1965, and hanged in 1966. (al-Qaeda ©2004 J Burke).
1955 – The Soviet decision to expand military aid, for the
first time, to a Third World country, Egypt. Egypt turned to the Soviet Union
in anger, at Western support for the new state of Israel, and lack of similar
support for Egypt’s economic and military development. Syria and Iraq had
Soviet ties and the PLO also had Soviet ties which included military aid.
7 September 1955 – Egypt announced an arms deal, in which
Czech would supply Egypt with Soviet arms. Fighters, bombers, tanks,
anti-aircraft guns and bazooka in return for cotton and dried dates. The arms
clearly marked the Soviet entry into Egypt. It was the first time that Russia
had sent major arms outside its own area of influence, the first of many such
incursions. (Arms Bazaar ©1977
Sampson).
1956 – In spring tension between the UK and Egypt was
increasing. Nasser began moves which
led to the Suez crisis later that year.
1956 – Nasser nationalised the Suez Canal Company, a new
flashpoint, the British joined France and Israel to knock out Nasser. So began
the second Arab Israel war. After the war the Russians supplied MIG-17
fighters, bombers and submarines. Then after 1959, MIG-18’s and MIG-21’s were
supplied. (Arms bazaar ©1977 Sampson).
1956-67 – The ill
fated seizure of the Suez canal by the UK and France in 1956 which
chilled bilateral relations between them and Arab countries. Egypt’s support for
the Algerian revolution and Nasser’s overthrow of King Farouk made the UK and
France reject supplying the Nasser regime. So Israel cooperated in the canal
seizure and invasion of Egypt and
became the leading recipient of Europe’s weapons until the June1967 war.
26 July 1956 – The Suez canal was nationalised. Egypt
blockades the straits of Tiran. France UK and Israel take the canal. The US
pressures them to withdraw in November.
26 July 1956 – Dulles decided to stop the planned American
loan to help Egypt build the Aswan dam on the river Nile. Nasser was getting
too close to the Soviet bloc, buying Czech weapons and seeking to undermine the
Baghdad pact. US and British intelligence were preparing contingency plans to
bring down Nasser. (Cold war ©1993 M
Walker).
Late 1950’s – Saudi Arabia’s At Abdullah Tariki’s insistence
the Arab league economic council convene its first Arab oil Congress in Cairo.
Two non-Arab delegations were invited to attend Iran and Venezuela.
(Yamani ©1988 J Robinson).
1959-67 – Raul Castro and Che Guevara visited Cairo. They
made contact with African liberation movements, stationed in and supported by
Cairo. Both Cuban leaders visited Gaza and showed support for the Palestinians.
1960 – The conflict between Saud al Faisal in Saudi Arabia,
created by the Free Princes led by prince Talal, cane to a head, when prince
Talal and the others quit and went to live in Egypt. (Yamani ©1988 J Robinson).
1960’s – Early and mid 1960’s Saudi intelligence Kamal Adham
was friendly with Anwar Sadat of Egypt. One way he cultivated Sadat was by
giving hundreds of millions in Saudi funds to him and Egypt.
1960-62 – Lev Alexeyevich Bausin was a KGB agent in Cairo.
Nikolai Fyodorovich was the KGB resident in the Soviet embassy in Cairo.
Foreign posting in 1960 as attache cover. The cold war was underway in 1962. He
was also in Iraq 1967-68 in south Yemen 1969-71 and Lebanon 1976-78. (Under
cover lives ©1998 H Womack).
1963 – Islamic banking attributed to the Egyptian economist
Ahmad al-Najjar, who in 1963 created the Mit cham savings bank in Cairo. (Alms
for Jihad ©2006 Burr & Collins).
January 1964 – The PLO had its origins at the Cairo summit
of Arab states. Egyptian President Nasser had the main influence.
(Compassionate peace ©1982 AFSC).
May 1964 – Nikita Khrushchev arrived in Cairo for a two week
visit. After docking at Alexandria he travelled with Nasser by train to Cairo.
Kremlin leader Khrushchev said he was waiving half of Egypt’s debt, for tanks,
planes and anti-aircraft defences from Moscow. The Soviet leader officially
opened the Aswan dam and toured an irrigation project on the Nile with Nasser.
(Under cover lives (©1998 H Womack).
5 June 1967 – A wave of Israeli Mirages swept low across the
Nile valley. below the radar curtain and dropped their bombs on the MIGs,
parked on the Egyptian airfields. By the end of the day the Israeli planes had
destroyed 300 Egyptian planes and 19 air bases and could occupy the Sinai
desert the West bank and Golan heights. The third Arab Israeli war. (Arms bazaar ©1977 Sampson).
1970 – Within weeks of Nasser’s death, King Faisal sent
Adham to Cairo to see Sadat, asking him to cut ties to the Soviets in exchange
for aid.
February 1970 – France’s Pompidou under criticism from
Israel sold Mirages to Libya, where Colonels had seized power. Libya loaned
some of the Mirages to Egypt. (Arms bazaar ©1977 Sampson).
August – September 1970 – Nasser dies in September and he
was followed by Sadat. After the August ceasefire, in the war of attrition.
(Arms bazaar ©1977 Sampson).
28 September 1970 – Death of Nasser.
28 November 1971 – PM Wasfi Tal of Jordan was assassinated
in Cairo. Four Black September members was arrested then freed in 1973.
1972 – In Egypt Khashoggi planned a $400 million trade
centre near the Giza pyramids to include two big hotels, a tourist centre and a
new pyramid faced with gold mirrors with an Egyptian exhibition inside. (Arms
bazaar ©1977 Sampson).
19 February 1972 – The hijacking of a Jordanian plane was
foiled in Cairo with one arrest.
July 1972 – Sadat expelled the Russians from Egypt. The
Soviets left behind their arsenal including 1,700 tanks, 620 planes and 130 SAM
missile sites. Moscow was still able to strengthen its ties with Syria and
Iraq. Ten years of arming Egypt. (Arms bazaar ©1977 Sampson).
13 July 1972 – Sadat gave 15,000 Soviet military advisors
one week to leave Egypt. He made all Soviet military bases, built since 1967,
Egyptian property.
To Be Continued….
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