Overseas Territories North America and the West Indies Bermuda Turks and Caicos Cayman Islands Montserrat Anguilla Africa The island of Saint Helena in Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha Europe Gibraltar Timeline 1607 Jamestown, Virginia 1609 Bermuda 1612 Surat, India 1620 East coast of Newfoundland (island) and Plymouth, Massachusetts 1625 Barbados and Saint Kitts, Caribbean 1628 Nevis 1630 Boston, North America and Mosquito Coast, Central America 1632 Antigua and Montserrat, Caribbean 1638 Belize (British Honduras) 1639 Chennai (Madras), India 1648 The Bahamas 1650 Anguilla 1660 Jamaica and Cayman Islands, Caribbean 1661 Mumbai, India and Dog Island, Gambia 1663 Saint Lucia 1664 New Netherland, North America 1666 Barbuda 1670 Turks and Caicos Islands and Rupert's Land 1672 British Virgin Islands 1673 Fort James, Ghana 1682 Philadelphia 1690 Kolkata (Calcutta), India 1704 Gibraltar See also Angevin Empire Concessions and leases in international relations First wave of European colonization Historiography of the British Empire North Sea Empire Plantations of Ireland Scottish colonization of the Americas Thirteen Colonies Notes References Citations Sources Primary sources Crouch, Nathaniel. The English Empire in America: or a Prospect of His Majesties Dominions in the West-Indies (London, 1685). Further reading Adams, James Truslow, The Founding of New England (1921), to 1690 Andrews, Charles M., The Colonial Period of American History (4 vols. 1934–38), the standard political overview to 1700 Andrews, Charles M., Colonial Self-Government, 1652–1689 (1904) full text online Bayly, C. A., ed., Atlas of the British Empire (1989), survey by scholars, heavily illustrated Black, Jeremy, The British Seaborne Empire (2004) Coelho, Philip R. P., "The Profitability of Imperialism: The British Experience in the West Indies 1768–1772," Explorations in Economic History, July 1973, Vol. 10 Issue 3, pp. 253–280. Dalziel, Nigel, The Penguin Historical Atlas of the British Empire (2006), 144 pp Doyle, John Andrew, English Colonies in America: Virginia, Maryland and the Carolinas (1882) online edition Doyle, John Andrew, English Colonies in America: The Puritan colonies (1889) online edition Doyle, John Andrew, The English in America: The colonies under the House of Hanover (1907) online edition Ferguson, Niall, Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power (2002) Fishkin, Rebecca Love, English Colonies in America (2008) Foley, Arthur, The Early English Colonies (Sadler Phillips, 2010) Gipson, Lawrence. The British Empire Before the American Revolution (15 vol 1936–70), comprehensive scholarly overview Morris, Richard B., "The Spacious Empire of Lawrence Henry Gipson,"