The history of British Empire 1573 - 1997 By facebooker_339960839933980 1588 BCE Queen Elizabeth 1 rules England and Ireland https://www.flickr.com/photos/lenton_sands/2279154679/ 1492 BCE Columbus discovers America https://www.flickr.com/photos/thegrangercollection/5495131718/in/photolist-9nzZdj-7QeA6U-8i2yYE-e96Si9-XDBjaL-fc9jCA-QWKvwV-X2dYvZ-YbSFW6-8Gccxd-89QXH3-fc58Yh-dFoFuv-fczjjZ-c17KEU-7WQaiN-btMEQE-dFu6Fm-jVeujT-52mHzW-aZbYXH-fbTVdH-ouXMwb-dFoFqD-cZA4Hs-dFoAiR-owmZqY-dFoh8Z-2crJhjb-aUULE-jVh17y-dnQ7Zy-ehG7tq-ourdDV-7QVrUG-dFu5AW-dFu2kE-orrVtd-5gHgms-dFu7zS-dFozv8-dFu2fQ-JLbb4R-dFu5xd-m46j6X-dFtFT9-dFoAne-cZzXSL-boU4sV-dFtNey 1577 Sir Francis Drake sails to the West Indies https://www.flickr.com/photos/rexstewartoriginals/5997896016/ 1600 Britain starts to trade with India https://www.flickr.com/photos/pj_tierney/6121305764/ 1607 Jamestown, Virginia, is the first English settlement in North America https://www.flickr.com/photos/kenlund/2522044167/ 1776 13 Colonies in the USA become independent 1788 First prisoners sent to Australia https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=imgres&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjI6betyv7fAhUC6CwKHU4YB4sQjRx6BAgBEAU&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FConvicts_in_Australia&psig=AOvVaw1SccnvV0z3GLjU6ZI3FGP9&ust=1548150011449679 1795 Cape Town, South Africa is taken from the Dutch https://www.colonialvoyage.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Castle-of-Good-Hope-Kasteel-de-Goede-Hoop-Cape-Town-South-Africa.-Author-and-Copyright-Marco.-290x195.jpg 1833 Slavery abolished in all British colonny https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/79/Petition-slavery-1826.jpg 1837 Queen Victoria becomes Queen of England https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Dronning_victoria.jpg 1841 Hong Kong is taken from China http://worldhistoryvolume.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/The-Powers-Carve-Up-China-1841-%E2%80%93-1914.jpg 1858 India becomes a British colony https://2ndlook.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/last-effort-and-fall-of-tippoo-sultan.jpg 1947 India becomes independent https://festiveindia.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/photos-of-indian-independence-in-1947.jpg 1997 Hong Kong is given back to China https://cdn4.i-scmp.com/sites/default/files/styles/980x551/public/images/methode/2017/02/17/212b870a-f35f-11e6-8a92-5a4126ffa8eb_1280x720.JPG?itok=8pjTDuwj
