Great Britain

Great Britain

1. The British Empire

   • Worldwide System of depencies that lasted over three centuries under the sovereignty of the crown and the administration of the Britisch gevernment
   • 1931 Commonwealth
     • 1926 colonies with British Empire equal in status
       • Balfour Declaration
     • Intergovernmental organisation
       • 53 independent member states
     • 1844 first mentioned
   • first effort in 16th century
     • 1600 trading post in India
     • 1655 Jamaica
     • 1661 First African colony
       • James Island
     • 1687 First slave trade with Sierra Leone
   • 17th & 18th century
     • Crown exersised controll
       • 1651 closed economy between Britain and colonies
         • all trades first had to be sent to britain
   • loss of American colonies 1766-83
   • 1788 colonies in Australia