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Events relating to migration
The Marinids, a Berber tribe, take Marrakech and bring to an end Almohad rule in Morocco
The Mongol invasion of Japan in 1274 seems to confirm the doom and disaster foretold by the Buddhist prophet Nichiren
The Aztecs settle on an uninhabited island in a lake, which they name Tenochtitlan — the site of the modern Mexico City
Gallipoli is taken by the Ottoman Turks, giving them their first foothold in Europe
The conquistadors, settling on land granted to them after the conquest, begin the long process of European emigration to America
The first Europeans reach Japan by accident, blown ashore in a storm
Iroquois raids drive the Huron west to the Great Lakes
The triangular trade, controlled from Liverpool, ships millions of Africans across the Atlantic as slaves
Joseph Banks tells a committee of the House of Commons that the east coast of Australia is suitable for the transportation of convicted felons
20-year-old John Jacob Astor emigrates from Germany to America and sets up in the fur trade
A British ship lands a party of freed slaves as the first modern settlers in Sierra Leone, on the west coast of Africa
After a journey of eight months from England the First Fleet reaches Australia, anchoring in Botany Bay
The autobiography of Olaudah Equiano, a slave captured as a child in Africa, becomes a best-seller on both sides of the Atlantic
A second fleet arrives in Sydney, bringing more convicts and a regiment, the New South Wales Corps, to keep order
Robert Finley, a US anti-slavery campaigner, founds the American Colonization Society to settle freed slaves in Africa
The American Colonization Society buys the area later known as Liberia to settle freed slaves
Mzilikazi, after a quarrel with Shaka, leads the Ndebele people to new territories west of Natal
The first shipload of freed slaves reaches Cape Mesurado (in the region soon called Liberia) from the USA
A network of undercover abolitionists in the southern states of America help slaves escape to freedom in the north
A site is selected for Adelaide and emigration begins from Britain to south Australia
The Great Migration across the north American continent to the Pacific establishes the Oregon Trail
The Irish, fleeing from the potato famine at home, become the main group of immigrants to the USA
Brigham Young leads the migration of Mormons west up the Missouri from Illinois
As many as 50,000 US pioneers travel west this year on the Oregon Trail
A journalist in the Terre Haute Express gives a piece of advice, 'Go west, young man', that chimes perfectly with the US pioneer spirit
