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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 - 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 Treaty of Paris 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[7].
- 1805 The Battle of Trafalgar establishes British naval supremacy.
- 1807 The Slave Trade Act ends British slave trade[8].
- 1814 Cape of South Africa ceded to Britain[9].
- 1819 East India Company buys Singapore[10].
- 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[11][12].
- 1899 Boer War[13][14][15].
- 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.
- 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 independent.
- 1942 Australia independent.
- 1947 New Zealandindependent.
- 1948 Burma, Ceylon independent.
- 1949 The London Declaration - agreement that India could remain a member of the Commonwealth after it became a republic.
- 1950 India independent.
- 1954 Egypt independent.
- 1957 Malaya independent.
- 1961 Sierra Leone, Tanganyika independent.
- 1962 Jamaica, Uganda independent.
- 1982 Canada independent.
- 1965 Singapore independent.
- 1997 Hong Kong is returned to China.