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Events relating to the british empire
Naval officer George Vancouver sails from Britain on the voyage which will bring him to the northwest coast of America
Mungo Park sets off on his first expedition to explore the Niger on behalf of the African Association
With the Dutch entering the war on the side of the French, Britain seizes their valuable Cape colony in South Africa
British explorer George Bass sails round Tasmania in an open whaleboat, discovering the strait which now bears his name
The British acquire a foothold in the Persian Gulf by making Oman a protectorate
Tipu Sultan, ruler of Mysore, is killed fighting the British at Seringapatam
The Treaty of Amiens restores the Cape of Good Hope to the Netherlands
The city of Hobart is founded on the southern coast of Tasmania
The British recapture the Cape of Good Hope from the Dutch
The British impose the so-called Hottentot Code, protecting Africans at the Cape but also tying them to employers' farms
Ranjit Singh, maharaja of the Punjab, agrees an eastern boundary between himself and the British in the Treaty of Amritsar
The congress of Vienna leaves the Cape of Good Hope in British hands
The newly independent republic of Argentina takes possession of Las Islas Malvinas (the Falklands)
The first big influx of British settlers, numbering some 5000, arrives at Cape Town in South Africa
The British government imposes a merger on two great squabbling enterprises in Canada, the North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company
The merged Hudson's Bay Company now administers a territory stretching from the Great Lakes to the Pacific
James Stirling explores up the Swan River in western Australia to find a site for the settlement which he names Perth
Richard Lander and his brother John explore the lower reaches of the Niger, proving that the great river is navigable
The last surviving Aborigines of Tasmania are moved by the British to a small island where they soon die out
HMS Beagle sails from Plymouth to survey the coasts of the southern hemisphere, with Charles Darwin as the expedition's naturalist
Britain ejects the Argentinians from the Falklands and begins the process of settlement with British farmers
Melbourne, founded by settlers from Tasmania, develops as the centre of a sheep-rearing community
A site is selected for Adelaide and emigration begins from Britain to south Australia
The British seize the strategic port of Aden and administer it as a province annexed to India
A British army invades Afghanistan and instals a puppet ruler, Shuja Shah, as the Afghan amir
