The English overseas possessions, also known as the English colonial empire, comprised a variety of overseas territories that were colonised, conquered...

Between 1639 and 1651 English overseas possessions were involved in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, a series of civil wars and wars that were fought in...

until the Restoration of the monarchy. During the English Civil War, the English overseas possessions became highly involved. In the Channel Islands, the...

they would approve any new legislation. During the English Civil War, the English overseas possessions became highly involved. In the Channel Islands, the...

British royal regalia English overseas possessions – Territories ruled by Kingdom of England List of English monarchs – English monarchs until 1707 Privy...

were excluded from sharing in the English overseas possessions. This page presents a timeline of events in English and Scottish history from 1600 until...

the United Kingdom and its predecessor states. It began with the overseas possessions and trading posts established by England in the late 16th and early...

Early Modern English (sometimes abbreviated EModE, or EMnE) or Early New English (ENE) is the stage of the English language from the beginning of the...

colonies were a type of colony in English America which existed during the early modern period. In English overseas possessions established from the 17th century...

as overseas possessions or insular areas) until 1856. Congress enacted the Guano Islands Act that year, authorizing the president to take possession of...

The first English overseas expansion occurred as early as 1169, when the Norman invasion of Ireland began to establish English possessions in Ireland...

benefits of England's international trade and the growth of the English overseas possessions, so its future would have to lie in unity with England. Furthermore...

became the modern English people. Bede completed his book Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (Ecclesiastical History of the English People) in around...

colonies in the Americas. The First British Empire, based upon the English overseas possessions, was enlarged. From France, Great Britain gained Newfoundland...

the Royal Navy's role in the expansion and maintenance of the English overseas possessions in the 17th century, the British Empire in the 18th century,...

increasingly focus on the expansion of trade rather than territorial possessions. Nonetheless, Britain continued to colonize parts of the Americas in...

and Scotland, were governed as a republic after the end of the Second English Civil War and the trial and execution of Charles I. The republic's existence...

separate set of ministers of the Crown for each country. As the English overseas possessions and later British Empire expanded, the colonial governments remained...

officially the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland, was the English form of government lasting from 16 December 1653 to 25 May 1659, under...

slaves. At the same time, voluntary emigration began to the English overseas possessions. Romani groups that survived continued their expression of the...

between 1630 and 1684. The first local legislatures raised in the English overseas possessions were the House of Burgesses of Virginia (1619) and the House...

bid to regain these possessions. John's efforts to raise revenues, combined with his fractious relationships with many of the English barons, led to confrontation...

Great Britain's power in the two World Wars; almost all of the empire's overseas territories became independent countries. The time from Britain's first...

Sir Henry Salisbury who had been Cary's only known investor. English overseas possessions British colonization of the Americas Newfoundland and Labrador...

acted as the assistant-resident. Old Banten East India Company English overseas possessions Company rule in the Dutch East Indies Drs. R. Soekmono (1973)...

external support in removing him. Although there was little sign of armed English domestic resistance, both William and the Dutch States General were concerned...

the next year, this provided the English with a strategically important enclave that would remain in their possession for over two centuries. The term...

English overseas possessions, which later became the British Empire. It also saw the establishment of Danish overseas colonies and Swedish overseas colonies...

Greenland are overseas autonomous territories of the Kingdom of Denmark that are internally self-governing. Overseas France includes the five overseas collectivities...

The British Overseas Territories (BOTs) are the 14 territories with a constitutional and historical link with the United Kingdom that, while not forming...