British Empire
Growth of the English EmpireIrelandThe first substantial achievements of the colonial empire stem from the Act for Kingly Title, passed by the Irish parliament in 1541. This statute converted Ireland from a lordship under the authority of the English crown to a kingdom in its own right. It was the starting point for the Tudor re-conquest of Ireland.By 1550 a committed policy of colonisation of the country had been adopted[citation needed], which culminated in the Plantation of Ulster in 1610, following the Nine Years war (1594-1603). In the meantime, the plantations of Ireland formed the templates[citation needed] for the empire, and several people involved in these projects also had a hand in the early colonisation of North America e.g. Humphrey Gilbert, Walter Raleigh, Francis Drake and Ralph Lane.
