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xxii • CHRONOLOGY OF GYPSY HISTORY 1547 England: Boorde publishes specimens of Romani. 1549 Bohema: Gypsies declared outlaws and to be expelled. 1553 Estonia: First Gypsies appear in the country. 1554 England: The death penalty is imposed for any Gypsies not leaving the country within a month. 1557 Poland and Lithuania: Expulsion of Gypsies ordered. 1559 Finland: Gypsies appear on the island of Åland. 1562 England: Provisions of previous acts widened to include people who live and travel like Gypsies. 1563 Italy: Council of Trent affirms that Gypsies cannot be priests. 1573 Scotland: Gypsies to either settle down or leave the country. 1574 Ottoman Empire: Gypsy miners working in Bosnia. 1579 Portugal: Wearing of Gypsy dress banned. Wales: Gypsies first reported. 1580 Finland: First Gypsies reported on the mainland. 1584 Denmark and Norway: Expulsion of Gypsies ordered. 1586 Belarus: Nomadic Gypsies expelled. 1589 Denmark: Death penalty imposed for Gypsies not leaving the country. 1595 Romania: Stefan Razvan, the son of a slave, becomes ruler of Moldavia. 1611 Scotland: Three Gypsies hanged (under 1554 law). 1633 Spain: Pragmatica of Felipe IV takes effect. Gypsies expelled. 1637 Sweden: Death penalty introduced for Gypsies not leaving the country. 1692 Austria: Gypsies reported in Villach. 1714 Scotland: Two female Gypsies executed.
1715 Scotland: Ten Gypsies deported to Virginia. 1728 Holland: Last hunt clears out Gypsies. 1746 Spain: Gypsies to live in named towns. 1748 Sweden: Foreign Gypsies expelled. 1749 Spain: Round-up and imprisonment of all Gypsies ordered. 1758 Austro-Hungarian Empire: Maria Theresa begins assimilation program. 1759 Russia: Gypsies banned from St. Petersburg. 1765 Austro-Hungarian Empire: Joseph II continues assimilation program. 1776 Austria: First article published on the Indian origin of the Romani language. 1782 Hungary: Two hundred Gypsies charged with cannibalism. 1783 Russia: Settlement of nomads encouraged. Spain: Gypsy language and dress banned. United Kingdom: Most racial legislation against Gypsies repealed. 1791 Poland: Settlement Law introduced. CHRONOLOGY OF GYPSY HISTORY • xxiii 1802 France: Gypsies in Basque provinces rounded up and imprisoned. 1812 Finland: Order confines nomadic Gypsies in workhouses. 1822 United Kingdom: Turnpike Act introduced: Gypsies camping on the roadside to be fined. 1830 Germany: Authorities in Nordhausen remove children from their families for fostering with non-Gypsies. 1835 Denmark: Hunt for Travelers in Jutland. United Kingdom: Highways Act strengthens the provisions of the 1822 Turnpike Act. 1837 Spain: George Borrow translates St. Luke’s Gospel into Romani. 1848 Transylvania: Serfs (including Gypsies) emancipated. 1849 Denmark: Gypsies allowed into the country again.
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