British Empire

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  • 1497

    British expansion

    -England was the largest and most powerful country
    -Ireland and Scotland were independent
    -King Henry the Seventh wanted to improve trade
  • Period: 1509 to 1558

    Succession to the throne of the British empire

    1509:Henry the Eighth succeeded to his father
    1534: he split with Rome creating the Church of England
    1542: he declared himself King of Ireland
    1547: Edward VI succeeded to his father
    1553: Mary I is the first queen of England
    1554: She married King Philippe II of Spain
    1558: Elizabeth, Mary’s sister, became the Queen
  • 1540

    Francis Dake

    Francis Drake circumnavigated the globe
  • Period: 1568 to 1548

    Eighty Years’ War

    Spain held the Netherlands and the Northern part (protestant) rebelled against Spanish rules
    -English helped the rebels
    -Spain had a growing colonial Empire

  • Queen of scots

    Elizabeth had Mary the Queen of Scots beheaded

  • Philippe created an Armada

    Philippe created an Armada that invaded England.
    It was a Habsburg Spanish fleet of 130 ships that sailed from Lisbon in late May 1588 under the command of the Duke of Medina Sidonia, with the purpose of escorting an army from Flanders to invade England. Medina Sidonia was an aristocrat without naval command experience but was made commander by King Philip II.

  • East india Company

    Elizabeth founded the East India Company, It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies

  • James the first

    James the First of England succeeded to Elizabeth
    -Many attempts to kill him
    -He sponsored colonial ventures
    -He oversaw the first permanent settlement in America

  • English Civil War

    Cromwell VS Spain
    is one in a series of connected conflicts in the kingdoms of England, incorporating Wales, Scotland, and Ireland.

  • Charles II

    Cromwell died and monarchy was restored under Charles II

  • New Amsterdam

    He got New Amsterdam from the Dutch
    -James the Second (Charles’ son) converted to Catholicism

  • William d’Orange

    William d’Orange became King of England

  • Scotland

    Scotland tried to expand too

  • in the war of Spanish Succession

    in the war of Spanish Succession was an early-18th-century European war, triggered by the death in November 1700 of the childless Charles II of Spain. It established the principle that dynastic rights were secondary to maintaining the balance of power between different countries.

  • Act of Union

    Act of Union. It gave birth to Great Britain.
    -Great Britain was soon involved in European wars
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    Seven Years War

    was a global conflict, "a struggle for global primacy between Britain and France", which also had a major impact on the Spanish Empire
    -The war spread to India because the trade was very lucrative
    -The East India company established fortresses along Indian coast -Robert Clive was the leader of the company

  • Battle of Plassey

    -Bengal: state of India with a taxable population twice the size of Britain
    -Robert Clive was for a short period the governor of Bengal

  • James Cook arrived in New Zealand

    James Cook arrived in New Zealand but
    from 1845 to 1872 the New Zealand Wars took place between the New Zealand Colonial government and Māori settlers. Britain won.
    Mangal Pandey, Indian soldier whose attack on British officers on March 29, 1857, was the first major incident of what came to be known as the initial gesture which led to the decolonization war.

  • 13 colonies declared the Independence

    -The 13 colonies were led by George Washington
    1783: Great Britain accepted American Independence and lost all of its territories
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    Great Britain Started the colonization

    Great Britain started the colonization of South Africa. South Africa will get back its indipendence in 1961.
    1813: Great Britain started the colonization of Malta. Malta will get back its indipendence in 1964.
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    Crimean war

    Great Britain, France and the Ottomans declared war to Russia to slow down Russian power
  • Period: to

    1858-1997

    1858: East India Company was dissolved
    1877: Queen Victoria Empress of India
    1947: India gained its independence thanks to the nonviolent movement by Mahatma Gandhi
    1963: Kenya gained indipendence thanks to Jomo Kenyatta → Kenya’s first president
    1997: Hong Kong returned to China. End of the British Empire
  • Period: to

    Canada

    Canada was a self-governing domain