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Settlement, Act of

In Britain following the Glorious Revolution of 1688, a law passed in 1701 during the reign of King William III, designed to ensure a Protestant succession to the throne by excluding the Roman Catholic descendants of James II in favour of the Protestant House of Hanover. Elizabeth II still reigns under this act.


From the Hutchinson Encyclopedia of World History. © Research Machines plc [2006] All Rights Reserved, Helicon Publishing is a division of Research Machines.
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18 January 1788

Britain establishes a penal settlement at Botany Bay in Australia.

19 February 1968

In Britain, a high court settlement provides for significant compensation from the drug company The Distillers Company Ltd to mothers who took the drug thalidomide during pregnancy, and whose children were subsequently born with deformities.

24 February 1988

In America, the Supreme Court votes 8-0 to overturn the $200,000 settlement awarded to the Reverend Jerry Falwell for his emotional distress at being parodied in Hustler, a pornographic magazine.

26 March 1999
In Britain, the government reaches an out of court settlement with Ex-miners who have developed illness as a result of their jobs. The miners negotiate a deal worth £2 billion.
10 April 2000
In County Durham, England a shop manager who was sacked for being HIV positive reaches an out-of-court settlement believed to be worth hundreds of thousands of pounds.
16 April 1582
Spanish conquistador, Hernando de Lerma founds the settlement of Salta in Argentina.
26 April 1607
Captain John Smith lands at Cape Henry, in Virginia with the first group of colonists who establish a permanent English settlement in America.
13 May 1607
Captain John Smith lands on the coast of Virginia and begins the first permanent English settlement in the New World calling it Jamestown.
19 May 1749
In America, King George II of England grants the Ohio Company a charter of several hundred thousand acres of land around the forks of the Ohio River, thereby promoting westward settlement by American colonists from Virginia.
24 June 1675
In colonial New England, King Philip’s War begins when a band of Wampanoag warriors raid the border settlement of Swansee, Massachusetts and massacre the English colonists there.
14 August 1784
On Kodiak Island, Grigory Shelikhov, a Russian fur trader, founds Three Saints Bay, the first permanent Russian settlement in Alaska.
17 August 1862
Dakota (Sioux) Indians attack white settlements along the Minnesota River. The Dakota were eventually overwhelmed by the U.S. military six weeks later.
8 September 1664
The Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam is seized by the English and renamed New York in honour of the Duke of York, who organised the mission.
10 September 1608
English adventurer John Smith is elected council president of Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in North America.
20 September 1565
In the first colonial warfare between European powers in America, Spanish forces capture the French Huguenot settlement of Fort Caroline, near present-day Jacksonville, Florida.
15 October 1991
In England, the Metropolitan Police agree an out-of-court settlement of £50,000 with Winston Silcott, who was wrongfully convicted of the murder of PC Keith Blakelock, during the 1985 Broadwater Farm riot.
13 November 1945
American President Harry Truman announces the establishment of a panel of inquiry to look into the settlement of Jews in Palestine.
1 December 1925
In England, the Locarno Treaties, post-war territorial settlements, are formally signed in London.
18 December 1620
Passengers on the British ship Mayflower come ashore at modern-day Plymouth, Massachusetts, U.S.A. to begin their new settlement, Plymouth Colony.
23 December 1620
One week after the Mayflower arrived at Plymouth harbour in present-day Massachusetts, U.S.A. construction of the first permanent European settlement in New England begins.
 

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