First Jews Return to England
1656
Oliver Cromwell, after a conference at Whitehall with the Amsterdam rabbi Menasseh ben Israel, quietly allowed Jews to return to England for the first time since their expulsion in 1290. A small Sephardic community established a synagogue in London. English public Judaism had resumed after three hundred and sixty-six years.
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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.