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| | | British Empire timeline |
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| 1583 |
| | Humphrey Gilbert claims Newfoundland on behalf of England's queen Elizabeth | |
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| 1587 |
| | A new group of English settlers arrives at Roanoke Island and makes a second attempt at a settlement | |
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| 1587 |
| | Virginia Dare becomes the first English child to be born in America, on Roanoke Island | |
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| 1600 |
| | Britain's East India Company is established when Elizabeth I grants a charter to a 'Company of Merchants trading into the East Indies' | |
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| 1607 |
| | Colonists establish the first lasting British settlement in the new world, at Jamestown | |
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| 1608 |
| | 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
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