British Empire/Timelines

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A timeline (or several) relating to British Empire.
  • 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.
  • 1620 Voyage of the Pilgrim Fathers.
  • 1623 British settlements in the West Indies.
  • 1713 Treaty of Utrecht.
  • 1757 Clive wins the Battle of Plassey in India.
  • 1759 Wolfe defeats French at Heights of Abraham in Canada.
  • 1783 Treaty of Paris establishes independence of the United States
  • 1788 New South Wales founded as a penal colony.
  • 1807 The Slave Trade Act ends British slave trade.
  • 1814 Cape of South Africa ceded to Britain.
  • 1819 East India Company buys Singapore.
  • 1842 Treaty of Nanking - China cedes Hong Cong to Britain.
  • 1857 Indian Mutiny.
  • 1879 Zulu War.
  • 1899 Boer War.
  • 1947 Indian Independence
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