Founding of Port Egmont

Date: January 25, 1765 • Location: Puerto Deseado, Argentina

Port Egmont, the first British colony in the Falkland Islands, was founded.

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.