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1583
 
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Humphrey Gilbert claims Newfoundland on behalf of England's queen Elizabeth       
1587
 
    
A new group of English settlers arrives at Roanoke Island and makes a second attempt at a settlement       
1587
 
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Virginia Dare becomes the first English child to be born in America, on Roanoke Island      
1600
 
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Britain's East India Company is established when Elizabeth I grants a charter to a 'Company of Merchants trading into the East Indies'       
1607
 
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Colonists establish the first lasting British settlement in the new world, at Jamestown      
List compiled in 1619 of the burgesses of Jamestown
National Archives, Kew

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1608
 
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John Smith claims (many years later) that when captured by Indians he was saved from execution by Pocahontas, daughter of the chief       
Map of Virginia featuring an image of Pocahontas, 1608
National Archives, Kew