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Port Egmont, the first British colony in the Falkland Islands, was founded.
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Port Egmont
First British settlement on the Falkland Islands, established 1765
Port Egmont was the first British settlement in the Falkland Islands, on Saunders Island off West Falkland, and is named after John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont, who was First Lord of the Admiralty at the time of its founding.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Falkland Islands
Group of islands in the South Atlantic
The Falkland Islands, commonly referred to as The Falklands, is an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean on the Patagonian Shelf. The principal islands are about 300 mi (500 km) east of South America's southern Patagonian coast and 752 mi (1,210 km) from Cape Dubouzet at the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)