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• 1497 - John Cabot, Newfoundland
• 1555 - Muscovy Company

  • The Northeastern passage to England: Muscovy Company (1555) Reached Novaya Zemlya, via White Sea to Russia
• 1577-1580 - Francis Drake, World Travel

  • He sailed around the world after Magellan.
  • His initial goal was to raid Spanish ships.
  • Drakes Bay in California was named after Francis Drake, as he searched for a safe harbour in California.
  • Francis Drake also participated in piracy and raids, and this in peacetime.
  • Piracy → state terrorism → crimes
• 1600 - English East India Company

  • → only 1/10 of means of VOC (Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie) → the English East India company was smaller than the VOC
• 1607-1642 - Jamestown

  • This colony was established by the Virginia Company → the reason for this colony was economy

  → Tobacco, but exhausted soil and prices collapsed

  → Terra nullius and Native Americans
• 1610 - Henry Hudson for England

  1610 → for England → Hudson Bay
• 1620 - Plymouth

  • Plymouth was a colony established by the Pilgrim Fathers for England.
  • The reason for this colony were religion

  → families & procreation (vs. mixed races in Spain)
• 1639 - Fort St. George

  • Fort St. George was build by the English in 1639 in Madras/Chennai
  • Madras became a presidential city in the British colony, just like Bombay and Calcutta

  
• 1655 - Henry Morgan becomes governor in Jamaica

  • Henry Morgan was your typical pirate. He became the first governor of Jamaica.
  • Same period when the Dutch conquered the Antilles, Suriname, …
• 1664 - New York

  • Reason for this colony → conquest
• 1666 - Colonisation of the Bahamas

  • Same period when the Dutch conquered the Antilles, Suriname, …
• 1681 - Pennsylvania

  • Pennsylvania was colonised by William Penn & Quakers
  • William Penn → had a very specific idea for colonies
  • The reason was philosophy

  → tolerance: Philadelphia (brotherly love)

  → mass migration (British Isles, Germany, …)