Company of Royal Adventurers Trading into Africa obtains a charter from the king to trade in enslaved people.
Date: 1663
The charter prohibits anyone other than the Company of Royal Adventurers Trading into Africa to trade in "redwood, elephants' teeth, negroes, slaves, hides, wax, guinea grains, or other commodities of those countries." The company's initial charge is to carry enslaved Africans to the British colonies in the Caribbean.