British Empire/Timelines

• 1600 English East India Company gets a royal charter..,
• 1606 The Virginia Company[1] gets a royal charter.
• 1607 Jamestown Virginia is founded by the Virginia Company[2].
• 1620 Voyage of the Pilgrim Fathers[3].
• 1623 British settlements in the West Indies[4].
• 1713 Treaty of Utrecht - cedes Gibraltar to Britain.
• 1757 Clive wins the Battle of Plassey in India[5].
• 1759 Wolfe defeats French at Heights of Abraham in Canada[6].
• 1773 Boston Tea Party
• 1776 American Declaration of Independence
• 1783 The Treaty of Paris of 1783[7] establishes independence of the United States
• 1787 The Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade is founded by Granville Sharp and Thomas Clarkson.
• 1788 New South Wales founded as a penal colony[8].
• 1805 The Battle of Trafalgar establishes British naval supremacy.
• 1807 The Slave Trade Act ends British slave trade[9].
• 1814 Cape of South Africa ceded to Britain[10].
• 1819 East India Company buys Singapore[11].
• 1824 The Anglo-Dutch Treaty[12] withdraws Dutch objections to British occupation of Singapore, and assigns Malacca and its dependencies to Britain.
• 1840 Treaty of Waitangi formally establishes New Zealand as a British colony.
• 1842 Treaty of Nanking - China cedes Hong Kong to Britain.
• 1857 Indian Mutiny[13][14].
• 1878 The Congress of Berlin[15] resolves the disputes over navigation and commercial rights in the Congo River basin and sets the rules for further African acquisitions by European powers.
• 1896 The Federated Malay States[16] the states of Perak, Selangor and Sungei Ujong are taken under British Protection under the terms of treaties with their rulers.
• 1899 Boer War[17][18][19].
• 1887: The first Colonial Conference beginning a series of consultations between Britain and its colonies.
• 1910: The Treaty of Vereeniging establishes South Africa as a British Colony.
• 1919 The Paris Peace Conference transfers the former German East Africa of Tanganyika (now Tanzania) to Britain
• 1926 The 6th Imperial Conference established the Dominions as equal communities within the British Empire, with a common allegiance to the Crown.
• 1930: First Commonwealth Games held in Hamilton, Canada.
• 1931 Statute of Westminster confirmed the equality of Britain and the Dominions of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland, and Newfoundland.
• 1934 South Africa becomes independent.
• 1942 Australia becomes independent.
• 1947 New Zealand becomes independent.
• 1948 Burma, Ceylon become independent.
• 1949 The London Declaration - agreement that India could remain a member of the Commonwealth after it became a republic.
• 1950 India becomes independent.
• 1954 Egypt becomes independent.
• 1957 Malaya becomes independent.
• 1961 Sierra Leone, Tanganyika become independent.
• 1962 Jamaica, Uganda become independent.
• 1982 Canada becomes independent.
• 1965 Singapore independent.
• 1997 Hong Kong is returned to China.