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John Cabot is sent by King Henry VII on an expedition to discover a route to Asia via the Atlantic. Cabot managed to reach the coast of Newfoundland and believed he had made it as far as Asia.
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The Tudor conquest of Ireland led to land confiscation to be used for plantations.
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Francis Drake began his circumnavigation of the world which he completed in 1580.
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Captain John Smith and the Virginia Company managed to establish the first permanent settlement in the Americas at Jamestown.
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A smallpox epidemic sweeps through New England, decimating the Native American population.
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Sir Walter Raleigh begins his voyage to find ‘El Dorado’. Meanwhile a smallpox epidemic sweeps through New England, decimating the Native American population.
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The island of Jamaica was taken from the Spanish and annexed.
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The War of the Spanish Succession is concluded with the Treaty of Utrecht. Britain receives generous allocations of land and colonies in the Americas and the Mediterranean, Britain formally receives Newfoundland, St. Kitts and Hudson's Bay in Canada. Britain also recives Minorca and Gibraltar from Spain, Britain also gains the right to import slaves into Spanish colonies in Americas
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Britain declares war on Spain, The Battle of Cape Passaro where Byng defeats Spanish off Sicily.
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The Treaty of Hanover is signed between Great Britain, France and Prussia in opposition to Spain
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Captain James Cook claimed New South Wales for Britain.
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The Opium Wars between China and Britain, resulting from the trade of opium leading to widespread addictions. As a result the trade was forbidden in China and any opium found was destroyed. The British viewed this as an attack on free trade and destruction of British property; thus war ensued.
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