"jamestown4" - 1 õppematerjal

ASPECTS OF BRITISH HISTORY

Parliament in 15411. Wales, whose inhabitants successfully maintained their independence throughout the Anglo-Saxon period, was conquered by Edward I in the late thirteenth century2. It was incorporated into England by Henry VIII in 1536. By the seventeenth century the Tudors had prepared England for greater achievements overseas. Colonizing Faraway Lands3 The first permanent English settlement Jamestown4, in Virginia (North America), was founded in 1607. Another successful colony was established in about 1612 on the Bermuda Islands in the West Indies. In the following decades of the seventeenth century new colonies sprang up one after another along the Atlantic coast of North America and in the West Indies. In 1655, Jamaica was won from Spain and thereby became the first British colony to be taken in war. In 1664 the British captured Holland’s North American colonies5