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| 1543 |
| | | The first Europeans reach Japan by accident, blown ashore in a storm | |
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| 1648 |
| | | Iroquois raids drive the Huron west to the Great Lakes | |
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| c. 1770 |
| | | The triangular trade, controlled from Liverpool, ships millions of Africans across the Atlantic as slaves | |
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| 1779 |
| | | Joseph Banks tells a committee of the House of Commons that the east coast of Australia is suitable for the transportation of convicted felons | |
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| 1783 |
| | | 20-year-old John Jacob Astor emigrates from Germany to America and sets up in the fur trade | |
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| 1787 |
| | | A British ship lands a party of freed slaves as the first modern settlers in Sierra Leone, on the west coast of Africa | |
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| 1788 |
| | | After a journey of eight months from England the First Fleet reaches Australia, anchoring in Botany Bay | |
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| 1789 |
| | | The autobiography of Olaudah Equiano, a slave captured as a child in Africa, becomes a best-seller on both sides of the Atlantic | |
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| 1790 |
| | | A second fleet arrives in Sydney, bringing more convicts and a regiment, the New South Wales Corps, to keep order | |
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| 1816 |
| | | Robert Finley, a US anti-slavery campaigner, founds the American Colonization Society to settle freed slaves in Africa | |
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