Spanish Leyes de Burgos on January 25. 1519: The Portuguese capture Ormus, in the Strait of Hormuz, in the Persian Gulf. 1542: Spanish Leyes Nuevas ("New Laws"). 1542: Creation of the Viceroyalty of Peru. 1550–1552: Valladolid Controversy and publication of A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies by Bishop of Chiapas Bartolomé de las Casas. 1600: Queen Elizabeth I of England grants a Royal charter to the English East India Company . 1602: Establishment of the Dutch East India Company. 1607: The first permanent English settlement in North America at Jamestown, Virginia. 1612-1615: The Portuguese captured Gamru Port and a few other places (like Hormuz Island ) in southern coast of Persia. 1615–1622: Abbas I, king of Persia, battled the Portuguese with the aid of the Royal Navy and the English East India Company and recaptured those lands. 1619: The first African slaves arrive in Jamestown, Virginia. 1624: The English set foot in Surat. 1625: Charles I of England receives Oldman, king of the Miskito Nation, who was taken to England by the Earl of Warwick. 1630: Puritans establish Massachusetts Bay Colony. 1651-1664: Couronian colonization of Africa. 1717: Creation of the Viceroyalty of New Granada. 1775-1783: American War of Independence. 1776: Creation of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata. 1776: The thirteen original colonies of the United States declare independence from Britain. 1784: Britain passes Pitt's India Act. 1787: Britain creates Sierra Leone. 1788: Britain claims and proceeds to settle the eastern half of the continent of Australia. 1791-1804: Haitian Revolution and abolition of slavery by the French First Republic (reestablished by Napoleon in 1804). 1795: Britain invades the Cape region of present-day South Africa. 1798: French Invasion of Egypt. 19th century to World War I 1804–1813: Uprising in Serbia against the presence of the Ottoman Empire. 1810–1820s: Spanish American wars of independence. 1810–1821: Mexican War of Independence. 1815–1817: Serbian uprising leading to Serbian autonomy. 1820: The American Colonization Society (private citizens in the United States) created Liberia. 1821–1823: Greek War of Independence. 1822: Independence of Brazil proclaimed by Dom Pedro I. 1830: Start of the French conquest of Algeria. 1833: British abolish slavery in the West Indies; The owners are reimbursed. 1834: Beginning of the Boers' Great Trek. 1839: Papal Encyclical In Supremo Apostolatus, condemning the slave trade. 1839–1842: First Opium War and First Anglo-Afghan War. 1846–1848: Mexican–American War, which results in the Mexican Cession.