British Empire/Timelines


 * 1600 English East India Company gets a royal charter..,
 * 1606 The Virginia Company 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 - cedes Gibraltar to Britain.
 * 1757 Clive wins the Battle of Plassey in India.
 * 1759 Wolfe defeats French at Heights of Abraham in Canada.
 * 1773 Boston Tea Party
 * 1776 American Declaration of Independence
 * 1783 The Treaty of Paris of 1783  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.
 * 1805 The Battle of Trafalgar establishes British naval supremacy.
 * 1807 The Slave Trade Act ends British slave trade.
 * 1814 Cape of South Africa ceded to Britain.
 * 1819 East India Company buys Singapore.
 * 1824 The Anglo-Dutch Treaty 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.
 * 1878 The Congress of Berlin 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 the states of Perak, Selangor and Sungei Ujong are taken under British Protection under the terms of treaties with their rulers.
 * 1899 Boer War.
 * 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.