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- 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.
- 1757 Clive wins the Battle of Plassey in India[5].
- 1759 Wolfe defeats French at Heights of Abraham in Canada.
- 1773 Boston Tea Party
- 1776 American Declaration of Independence
- 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 Kong to Britain.
- 1857 Indian Mutiny.
- 1879 Zulu War.
- 1899 Boer War.
- 1931 Statute of Westminster legally recognizes independence of dominions
- 1947 Indian Independence