| 1573<\/td>\n | Humphrey Gilbert claims Newfoundland in the name of Queen Elizabeth I <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1588<\/td>\n | British defeat Spanish Armada <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1600<\/td>\n | British East India Company established <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1607 <\/td>\n | Settlement of Jamestown in North America <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1609<\/td>\n | Settlement of Bermuda<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1613<\/td>\n | British East India Company establish a factory on the Indian west coast<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1627<\/td>\n | Settlement of Barbados<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1655<\/td>\n | Settlement of Jamaica<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1664<\/td>\n | Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam handed over to the British, later renamed New York<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1707<\/td>\n | Death of Mughul leader, British East India Company begins warfare with local peoples<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1710<\/td>\n | British seize French possession French Arcadia, renamed Nova Scotia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1713 <\/td>\n | Treaty of Utrecht makes Britain prominent force in America by giving possession of Hudson Bay, Newfoundland, and St. Kitts to the British.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1753<\/td>\n | Anglo-French War (Seven Years War) commences in North America<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1757<\/td>\n | Robert Clive defeats the nawab of Bengal and establishes a puppet ruler in India <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1760<\/td>\n | Montreal surrendered to British from French<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1962<\/td>\n | British seize Havana and capture Cuba from the Spanish<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1763<\/td>\n | Treaty of Paris ends Anglo-French War, resulting in Canada, Mississippi, and India becoming British possessions.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1773<\/td>\n | Boston Tea Party<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1775 <\/td>\n | American War of Independence\/Revolutionary War commences<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1776<\/td>\n | American Declaration of Independence signed <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1783 <\/td>\n | American War of Independence\/Revolutionary War ends <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1788<\/td>\n | Settlement of the penal colony of Botany Bay, later known as Sydney, New South Wales Expedition into the African Interior by the African Association <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1793<\/td>\n | British capture Trinenad from the Spanish in the Caribbean First free settlers arrive at New South Wales<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1795<\/td>\n | British seize Cape Colony from the Dutch<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1807<\/td>\n | Shipment of slaves to and from any British colonies prohibited <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1815<\/td>\n | British East India Company seize Ceylon from the Dutch <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1821 <\/td>\n | Gambia, Gold Coast, and Sierra Leone unite to form British West Africa <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1829<\/td>\n | Colony of Western Australia founded<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1833 <\/td>\n | Slavery throughout the British Empire ended<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1837<\/td>\n | Queen Victoria crowned <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1839<\/td>\n | Opium Wars begin with China<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1841<\/td>\n | British seize Hong Kong from China <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1857<\/td>\n | Indian Mutiny begins <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1858 <\/td>\n | Indian Mutiny ends, British East India Company dissolved by British Crown. India becomes a British Crown Colony<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1867 <\/td>\n | Canada given Dominion status in the British Empire<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1878 <\/td>\n | Cyprus becomes a British colony <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1882<\/td>\n | British military occupation of Egypt<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1894<\/td>\n | Uganda becomes British protectorate<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1899 <\/td>\n | Boer War begins <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1901<\/td>\n | Colonies of New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Van Diemen’s Land (later Tasmania), South Australia, and Western Australia unite to form the Commonwealth of Australia and gain Dominion status<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1907 <\/td>\n | New Zealand gains Dominion status <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1914<\/td>\n | World War I begins Egypt becomes a British protectorate<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1919<\/td>\n | Treaty of Versailles signed World War I ends German African colonies gained <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1920<\/td>\n | British East Africa becomes Kenya <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1922<\/td>\n | Egypt gains independence from British Empire<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1925<\/td>\n | Cyprus becomes a British colony<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1930<\/td>\n | Declaration of Indian Independence made<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1939<\/td>\n | World War II begins<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1941<\/td>\n | Fall of Hong Kong to the Japanese<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1942<\/td>\n | Fall of Malaya, Singapore and Burma to the Japanese<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1944<\/td>\n | Burma recaptured from the Japanese<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1945<\/td>\n | World War II ends<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1947<\/td>\n | Indian independence from British Empire granted<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1948<\/td>\n | Burma and Ceylon granted independence from British Empire<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1949<\/td>\n | Ireland leaves the British Commonwealth<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1952<\/td>\n | Elizabeth II ascends to British Throne<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1957<\/td>\n | Ghana, Gold Coast, and Malayan states become independent <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1959<\/td>\n | Cyprus joins the British Commonwealth <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1961<\/td>\n | Sierra Leone becomes independent South Africa leaves the British Commonwealth <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1962<\/td>\n | Jamaica, Trinenad and Tobago, Uganda, and Western Samoa become independent<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1963<\/td>\n | Kenya and Zanzibar granted independence<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1964<\/td>\n | Malawi and Malta become independent<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1966<\/td>\n | Botswana, Gambia and Lesotho granted indpenedence<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1970<\/td>\n | Fiji and Tonga granted independence<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1971<\/td>\n | Bahrain and Qatar become independent<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1973<\/td>\n | Bahamas become independent<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1975 <\/td>\n | Papua New Guinea becomes independent<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1976<\/td>\n | Seychelles granted independence<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1978 <\/td>\n | Dominica granted independence <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1980<\/td>\n | Zimbabwe granted independence <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1981<\/td>\n | Belize becomes independent <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1984<\/td>\n | Sino-Anglo agreement of Hong Kong <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1987 <\/td>\n | Fiji leaves British Commonwealth<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1996 <\/td>\n | South Africa rejoins British Commonwealth<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| 1997 <\/td>\n | Hong Kong becomes Chinese territory, as agreed in 1984. <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n <\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 1573 Humphrey Gilbert claims Newfoundland in the name of Queen Elizabeth I 1588 British defeat Spanish Armada 1600 British East India Company established 1607 Settlement of Jamestown in North America 1609 Settlement of Bermuda 1613 British East India Company establish a factory on the Indian west coast 1627 Settlement of\u2026 Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-empire","category-woh2022"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaeldeliz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaeldeliz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaeldeliz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaeldeliz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaeldeliz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/michaeldeliz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaeldeliz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaeldeliz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaeldeliz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} |