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Timeline of the Commonwealth Nations

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Making of the Empire (1497-1583) exploration and discovery establishment of trading posts emigration and settlement N į Belize Jamaica Commonwealth Coun 1607: Jamestown (Virginia) first permanent settlement 1497-1583 -The Bahamas Dominican Republic 3.Barbados Trinidad and Tobago -Guyana Sierra Leone Ghana Cameroon Zambla Malta Nam Botswana South Africa A Ugand Tanza enya "First British Empire" (1607-1783) • West Indies . Canada Bengal (India) North America 1607-1783 The Commonwealth Today Swaziland Lesotho 1783: loss of the 13 American colonies Sri Lanka Singapore Seychelles Mozambique Bangladesh 138. Brunei Papua New Guinea Solomon Tuvalu Sam Vanuatu New Zealand "Second British Empire" (1783-1918/45) Cape Colony (1795) / Union of South Africa (1902) Australia (1813) British Indian Empire (1858-1945) From Empire to Commonwealth Development in the "white" colonies . 1876: Queen Victoria was crowned Em- press of India. "Dominion status" for Canada (1867) Australia (1900) . 1783-1918/45 . . New Zealand (1900) South Africa (1910) Ireland (1922) 1931: Statute of Westminster replaces "Empire" by "British Common- wealth of Nations" Decolonization and decline of the British Empire (1945-1997) development in African and Asian countries: process of decolonization after WW II First colonies to become independent: in Asia: India (1947) . in Africa: Ghana (1957) . end of empire: handover of Hong Kong to China (1997) 1945-1997 (1950s) "New Commonwealth" members: recently decolonized, non- white countries Legacy 15 British Overseas Territories (e.g. Gibraltar, Falklands) 1951: official name "Commonwealth of Nations" today The Commonwealth of Nations today a voluntary association of 52 independent sovereign states, most of which are former British colonies