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Non existent.

The nation of Great Britain did not officially exist until the Act of union of 1707, uniting Scotland and England, (though King James VI of Scotland did ascend to the throne of England as well well as the Irish and Scottish throne.

England and Scotland had however made many colonial advances separately in these dates:

New Albion (State Secret to maintain relationship with Spain, not colonised, 1579),

Newfoundland(claimed for England, 5th August 1583),

Virginia Company(1606),

Jamestown(1607),

Bermuda (1609),

Newfoundland(colonised again ,1610),

Surat (East India Company, 1612),

Plymouth (1620),

Newfoundland ( again 1621),

St. Kitts (1623),

Province of New Hampshire (1623),

Barbados (1627),

Nevis (1628),

Mosquito Coast(1630),

Massachusetts Bay Colony (1623),

Nova Scotia(1629-'32),

Suriname(1630-'64),

Providence Island(1630-1641),

Antigua (1632),

Barbuda (1632),

Montserrat(1632),

Connecticut Colony(1633),

Maryland (1634),

Rhode Island(1634),

British Honduras(1638),

Connecticut(1639),

Fort St. George(East India Company, 1639),

Georgetown (East India Company, 1640),

The Bahamas(1648),

Anguilla (1650),

Jamaica, (annexed from Spain, 1655),

Cayman Islands, (annexed from Spain, 1655),

Saint Helena (East India Company, 1658)

Bombay (East India Company, 1661),

Province of Carolina(1663),

New York, (formally New Amsterdam1664),

Virgin Islands(1666),

Rupert's Land(Hudson's Bay Company, 1670),

South Carolina(1670),

Cayman Islands(1670),

Georgia (1670),

Leeward Islands,(coalition of already English colonies, 1671),

Province of Pennsylvania (1681),

Bengkulu (East India Company, 1685),

Sutanuti (East India Company, 1690)

Isthmus of Panama(1695-'97)

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