Year: 2005
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: During a voyage underwritten by Bristol merchants, John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto) claims Cape Breton Island or Newfoundland or Labrador for Henry VII of England (24 June).Earliest regular English voyages to Guinea in West Africa begin. John Hawkins begins slaving voyages.Frobisher's first expedition to Newfoundland.1577-80 Francis Drake circumnavigates the globe.Walter Raleigh's expedition to Guiana.Francis Drake's expedition to the West Indies.Chartered English trade voyage to Senegambia region of West Africa.English East India Company Charter.Dirk Hartog makes first recorded European landing on Australian continent, in Western Australia. Barbados colony established.Pequot War ('Puritan' massacre of the Pequots in New England).English slave trade to Barbados begins.First slaves imported to Cape.James Fort (Gambia) founded.Barbados' slave and servant codes passed.The result of Canada's first census lists 3,215 non-native inhabitants.Royal Africa Company chartered.English settlement at Calcutta established.Slave revolt in Barbados.End of Royal African Company's monopoly, and slave trade officially opened to private traders.Treaty of Utrecht: in the Caribbean, Britain gains all of St Kitts and Asiento grant to import slaves into Spanish America; in Canada, Britain gains Hudson Bay, Newfoundland and Acadia (
Authors: Prem Poddar, David Johnson
Language: English
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4243328307