Timeline of the 2015 European migrant crisis

This is a timeline of the European migrant crisis of 2015 and 2016. Against the backdrop of four years of Syrian civil war and political instability in other Middle Eastern countries, there was a record number of 1.3 million people who lodged asylum applications to the European Union's 28 member nations, Norway and Switzerland in 2015, compared to 600,000 applications filed in 2014.