Map from 1896 of the British Gold Coast Colony. Gold Coast was the name of a British colony on the Gulf of Guinea in west Africa that became the independent nation of Ghana in 1957. Image File history File links Flag_of_the_Gold_Coast. ...
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Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1076x1632, 314 KB) Map from 1896 of the British Gold Coast Colony (today Ghana). ...
Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1076x1632, 314 KB) Map from 1896 of the British Gold Coast Colony (today Ghana). ...
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The Gulf of Guinea is the part of the Atlantic southwest of Africa. ...
The first Europeans to arrive at the coast were the Portuguese, in 1471. On their arrival, they found a group of kingdoms of different tribes, and lots of gold in the soil. In 1482, the Portuguese built the first castle in the Gold Coast. They used it to trade gold, in exchange for cloth, knives, beads, mirrors, rum and guns. News spread quickly, and eventually, English, Dane, German and Swedish traders arrived too. These European traders built several forts along the coastlines. The Gold Coast was formed in 1821 when the British government took over privately held lands along the coast. Gold Coast had long been a name for the region used by Europeans, due to the large gold resources to be found in the area, although slave trade was the main trade for a number of years. In 1872, the Dutch lost interest in the coast and gave up their forts to the British. General Name, Symbol, Number gold, Au, 79 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 11, 6, d Appearance metallic yellow Atomic mass 196. ...
Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London (de facto) Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification - by Athelstan AD 927 Area - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK) 50,346 sq mi Population - 2006 est. ...
The coronation banquet for George IV 1821 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...
Britain steadily expanded the colony through wars with local kingdoms, the Ashanti Confederacy and other European countries which had colonies in the region. The British's main problem was the Asanti people who controlled much of Ghana before the Europeans arrived and are still today the most powerful tribe in Ghana. During the First Anglo-Ashanti war (1863-1864) the two groups fought because of a disagreement over an Asanti chief and slavery. Tensions increased in 1874 during the Second Asanti War (1873-1874) when the British sacked the Asanti capital of Kumasi. The third Asanti War(1893-1894) occurred because the new Asanti asantehene, ruler of the Asanti, wanted to exercise his new title. From 1895-1896 the British and Asanti fought in the fourth and final Asanti War, where the Asanti fought for and lost their independence. In 1900 the Asanti Uprising occurred and resulted in the Asanti capture and, shortly after, loss of Kumasi. This was due to an attempt to steal the Golden Stool, the asentehene's throne. At the end of this last of the Asanti Wars the Asanti people became a protectorate on 1 January 1902. A shrunken Ashanti Confederacy near the end of its existence in 1896 The Ashanti Kingdom or Confederacy was a powerful state in West Africa in the years prior to European colonization. ...
The Anglo-Ashanti Wars were a series of four notable wars between the British and the Ashanti kings between 1826 and 1896. ...
Combatants Great Britain Ashanti Kingdom Commanders Frederick Mitchell Hodgson Major James Willcocks Yaa Asantewaa Casualties 1,007 casualties Unknown, several thousands The War of the Golden Stool, also known as the Third Ashanti Expedition, the Ashanti Uprising or variations thereof, was the final war in a series of conflicts between...
January 1 is the first day of the calendar year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. ...
1902 (MCMII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...
By 1901, all of the Gold Coast was a British colony. Its kingdoms and tribes were forced to make a single unit. The British shipped various natural resources — such as gold, metal ores, diamonds, ivory, pepper, timber, corn and cocoa — from the Gold Coast. They paid the local people very little for these valuable materials. They built railways to transport them to the coast. They built some roads, schools and hospitals too, but the people had pay for these through taxes. By 1945, the people had had enough. In 1946, British Togoland, the Ashanti protectorate, and the Fante protectorate were merged with the Gold Coast to create one colony, usually referred to as the Gold Coast. In 1957 the colony gained independence under the name of Ghana. though people stay it stands fro God Has Appointed Nkrumah Already. Iron ore (Banded iron formation) Manganese ore Lead ore Gold ore An ore is a volume of rock containing components or minerals in a mode of occurrence which renders it valuable for mining. ...
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Cocoa beans in a cacao pod Cocoa is the dried and partially fermented fatty seed of the cacao tree from which chocolate is made. ...
British Togoland was a League of Nations Mandate in Africa, formed by the splitting of German Togoland into French Togoland and British Togoland. ...
The Fante are an ethnic group from southern Ghana with some also in the Côte dIvoire. ...
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Flag Map of Upper Canada (orange) Capital Newark 1792 - 1797 York 1797 - 1841 Language(s) English Religion Church of England Government Constitutional monarchy Sovereign - 1791-1820 George III - 1837-1841 Victoria Lieutenant-Governor See list of Lieutenant-Governors Legislature Parliament of Upper Canada - Upper house Legislative Council - Lower house Legislative...
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See main article Vancouver Island Colonial flag of Vancouver Island, consisting of the British Blue Ensign and the great seal of the colony. ...
The Colony of British Columbia was a crown colony of British North America from 1858 until 1871. ...
The North-Western Territory at its greatest extent, 1859 The North-Western Territory was a region of British North America until 1870. ...
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Canada is the second largest and the northern-most country in the world, occupying most of the North American land mass. ...
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National motto: Quaerite Prime Regnum Dei (Latin: Seek ye first the kingdom of God) Capital St. ...
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Islas de la BahÃa (Bay Islands) is one of the 18 departments (departamentos) into which the Central American nation of Honduras is divided. ...
Mosquito Coast, Honduras/Nicaragua The article is about the Central American area. ...
The Leeward Islands are the northern islands of the Lesser Antilles. ...
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| 19th century 1831-1966 British Guiana 1833-1960 Windward Islands 1833-1960 Leeward Islands 1860-1981 Antigua and Barbuda 1871-1964 British Honduras (Belize) 1882-1983 St. Kitts and Nevis 1889-1962 Trinidad and Tobago Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ...
British Guiana and its boundary lines, 1896 Flag of British Guiana British Guiana was the name of the British colony on the northern coast of South America, now the independent nation of Guyana. ...
The Windward Islands are the southern islands of the Lesser Antilles. ...
The Leeward Islands are the northern islands of the Lesser Antilles. ...
Flag of British Honduras British Honduras was the former name of a British colony on the east coast of Central America just to the south-east of Mexico, now the independent nation of Belize. ...
| 20th century 1958-1962 West Indies Federation (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999...
National motto: Official language English Political status Overseas territory of the UK Capital Chaguaramas Largest cities Kingston and Port of Spain Monarch Queen Elizabeth II Governor-General Patrick George Thomas Buchan-Hepburn Prime Minister Grantley Herbert Adams (West Indies Federal Labour Party) Creation January 3, 1958 (union of most of...
| | 18th century 1795-1803 Cape Colony A world map showing the continent of Africa. ...
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Anthem: God Save the Queen Cape Colony Capital Cape Town Language(s) English and Dutch1 Religion Dutch Reformed Church, Anglican Government Constitutional monarchy Last Monarch King George VI Last Prime Minister - 1908 â 1910 John X. Merriman Last Governor - 1901 - 1910 Walter Hely-Hutchinson Historical era 19th century - Dutch East India...
| 19th century 1806-1910 Cape Colony 1816-1965 Gambia 1856-1910 Natal 1868-1966 Basutoland 1874-1957 Gold Coast 1882-1922 Egypt 1884-1966 Bechuanaland 1884-1960 British Somaliland 1887-1897 Zululand 1888-1894 Matabeleland 1890-1980 Southern Rhodesia 1890-1963 Zanzibar 1891-1964 Nyasaland 1891-1907 British Central Africa 1893-1968 Swaziland 1895-1920 British East Africa 1899-1956 Anglo-Egyptian Sudan Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Anthem: God Save the Queen Cape Colony Capital Cape Town Language(s) English and Dutch1 Religion Dutch Reformed Church, Anglican Government Constitutional monarchy Last Monarch King George VI Last Prime Minister - 1908 â 1910 John X. Merriman Last Governor - 1901 - 1910 Walter Hely-Hutchinson Historical era 19th century - Dutch East India...
The Colony of Natal was a British colony in south-eastern Africa. ...
The mountainous and largely arid land that came to be Basutoland was populated by San (bushmen, Qhuaique) until the end of the 16th century. ...
The Bechuanaland Protectorate (BP) was a protectorate established on March 31, 1885 by Britain in the area of what is now Botswana. ...
The British Somaliland was a British protectorate in the north part of the Horn of Africa, and later part of Somalia and presently the unrecognized Republic of Somaliland. ...
Zululand was the Zulu-dominated area of what is now northern KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa. ...
Matabeleland is a region in the west and south-west of Zimbabwe, between the Limpopo and Zambezi rivers. ...
Southern Rhodesia was the name of the British colony situated immediately to the north of South Africa, known today as Zimbabwe. ...
Motto: Uhuru na Umoja (Swahili: Freedom and Unity) Anthem: Mungu ibariki Afrika (God Bless Africa) Capital (and largest city) Stone Town English Government Republic - President Amani Abeid Karume - Prime Minister Shamsi Vuai Nahodha Independence From the United Kingdom - Tanganyika December 9, 1961 - Zanzibar December 19, 1963 - Merge April 26, 1964...
Hominid remains and stone implements have been identified in Malawi dating back more than one million years, and early humans inhabited the vicinity of Lake Malawi 50,000 to 60,000 years ago. ...
Flag of British Central Africa The British Central Africa Protectorate existed in the area of present-day Malawi between 1891 and 1907. ...
British East Africa was a British protectorate in East Africa, covering generally the area of present-day Kenya and lasting from 1890 to 1920, when it became the colony of Kenya. ...
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan was the name of Sudan between 1899 and 1956, when it was a condominium of the United Kingdom and Egypt. ...
| 20th century 1900-1914 Northern Nigeria 1900-1914 Southern Nigeria 1900-1910 Orange River Colony 1910-1961 South Africa 1911-1964 Northern Rhodesia 1919-1960 Cameroons1 1920-1963 Kenya 1922-1961 Tanganyika 1965 British Indian Ocean Territory (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999...
Northern Nigeria was a British colony formed in 1900 from the interior territories of the Royal Niger Company, north from about where the Niger River and Benin River joined at Lokoja. ...
Southern Nigeria was a British protectorate in the coastal areas of modern-day Nigeria, formed in 1900 from union of the Niger Coast Protectorate with territories chartered by the Royal Niger Company below Lokoja on the Niger River. ...
Flag of Orange River Colony The Orange River Colony was a British colony created by the annexation of the Orange Free State in 1900, after the Boer War. ...
Flag of Northern Rhodesia. ...
Flag of Tanganyika Tanganyika was an East African republic within the Commonwealth of Nations, named after Lake Tanganyika, which formed its western border. ...
| | 1 League of Nations mandate Mandates in the Middle east and Africa. ...
| | 17th century 1634-1947 Bengal World map showing the location of Asia. ...
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Bengal, known as Bango ( Bengali:বঙ্গ), Bangla (বাংলা), Bangodesh (বঙ্গদেশ), or Bangladesh (বাংলাদেশ) in Bengali, is a region in the northeast of South Asia. ...
| 19th century 1839-1967 Aden 1841-1997 Hong Kong 1858-1947 India 1891-1971 Muscat and Oman protectorate 1892-1971 Trucial States protectorate Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Port of Aden (around 1910). ...
Muscat and Oman was a country that encompassed the present day Sultanate of Oman and parts of the United Arab Emirates(UAE). ...
History of the United Arab Emirates. ...
| 20th century 1918-1961 Kuwait protectorate 1920-1932 Iraq1 1921-1946 Transjordan1 1923-1948 Palestine1 (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999...
For Kuwaits capital city, see Kuwait City. ...
Map of the territory of the British Mandate of Palestine The Emirate of Transjordan was an autonomous political division of the British Mandate of Palestine, created as an administrative entity in April 1921 before the Mandate came into effect. ...
Flag Palestine and Transjordan were incorporated (under different legal and administrative arrangements) into the British Mandate of Palestine, issued by the League of Nations to Great Britain on 29 September, 1923 Capital Not specified Organizational structure League of Nations Mandate High Commissioner - 1920 â 1925 Sir Herbert Louis Samuel - 1945 â 1948...
| | 1 League of Nations mandate Mandates in the Middle east and Africa. ...
| | 18th century 1788-1942 Australia 1794-1843 Sandwich Islands For the fictional superstate in George Orwells novel, see Oceania (Nineteen Eighty-Four). ...
Pacific redirects here. ...
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The Sandwich Islands was the name given to Hawaii by Captain James Cook on his discovery of the islands on January 18, 1778. ...
| 19th century 1803-1901 Van Diemen's Land 1824-1980 New Hebrides 1826-1946 Straits Settlements 1838 Pitcairn Islands 1840-1907 New Zealand 1841-1941 Kingdom of Sarawak 1877-1976 British Western Pacific Territories 1882-1963 British North Borneo 1884-1949 Territory of Papua 1885-1946 Unfederated Malay States 1888-1965 Cook Islands 1888-1984 Sultanate of Brunei 1889-1948 Union Islands 1892-1979 Gilbert and Ellice Islands 1893-1978 British Solomon Islands 1895-1946 Federated Malay States Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Van Diemens Land was the original name used by Europeans for the island of Tasmania, now part of Australia. ...
The New Hebrides are an island group in the South Pacific that now form the nation of Vanuatu. ...
The Straits Settlements were a collection of territories of the British East India Company in Southeast Asia, which were given collective administration in 1826. ...
The White Rajahs refer to a dynasty that founded and ruled the Kingdom of Sarawak from 1841 to 1946. ...
The British Western Pacific Territories was the name of a colonial entity, created in 1877, for the administration, under a single representative of the British Crown, styled High Commissioner (compare other uses of this title), of a series of relatively minor Pacific islands in and around Oceania // The island entities...
Motto: Pergo et Perago (Latin: I undertake and I achieveâ) British North Borneo Capital Jesselton Language(s) Malay, English Government Monarchy Monarch - 1882 - 1901 Victoria - 1952 - 1963 Elizabeth II Governor - 1896 - 1901 Robert Scott Historical era New Imperialism - North Borneo Company May, 1882 - British protectorate 1888 - Japanese invasion January 1...
The Territory of Papua was an Australian possession comprising the southeastern quarter of the island of New Guinea, existing from roughly 1902 to 1949. ...
The Unfederated Malay States were five Malay states, namely Johore Terengganu Kelantan Kedah Perlis Together the states were not a single entity but merely a category to describe those states which were not Federated Malay States or Straits Settlements. ...
Motto: Always in service with Gods guidance(translation) Anthem: Allah Peliharakan Sultan God Bless the Sultan Capital (and largest city) Bandar Seri Begawan Official languages Malay (national), English Government Absolute monarchy - Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah Independence - British protectorate ended January 1, 1984 Area - Total 5,765 km² (170th) 2,226...
Geographic location of atolls: Atafu Nukunonu Fakaofo Languages Tokelauan, English Capital None; each atoll has its own administrative centre Political status Territory of New Zealand Head of State Queen Elizabeth II (as Queen of New Zealand) Administrator David Payton Head of Government Kolouei OBrien Area â Total â % water 12 km...
The Gilbert and Ellice Islands were a British protectorate from 1892 and colony from 1916 — until 1 January 1976 when the islands were divided into two different colonies which became independent nations shortly after. ...
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The Federated Malay States (FMS) was a federation of four states on the Malay Peninsula - Pahang, Perak, Selangor, and Negeri Sembilan - established by the British government in 1895, and lasted until 1946, when they together with the Straits Settlements and the Unfederated Malay States formed the Malayan Union. ...
| 20th century 1900-1974 Niue 1907-1953 Dominion of New Zealand 1907-1949 Swan River Colony 1949-1975 Territory of Papua and New Guinea (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999...
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See also: History of Western Australia // Background to the Settlement The founding father of modern Western Australia was James Stirling who, in 1827, explored the Swan River area in HMS Success which first anchored off Rottnest, and later in Cockburn Sound. ...
Flag Capital Canberra Language(s) English (official), Austronesian languages, Papuan languages, English creoles Organizational structure Colony King List of British monarchs Prime Minister List of Prime Ministers of Australia Legislature House of Assembly Historical era Cold War - Union established November 6, 1949 - Self-governing December 1, 1973 - Independence September 16...
| | 17th century 1659 St. Helena Look up Atlantic Ocean in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
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| 19th century 1815 Ascension Island2 1816 Tristan da Cunha2 1833 Falkland Islands Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Anthem: God Save the Queen Capital Georgetown Largest city Georgetown Official languages English Government Dependency of St. ...
Motto: Our faith is our strength Anthem: God Save the Queen Capital Edinburgh of the Seven Seas Status Dependency of Saint Helena Official language(s) English Governor Michael Clancy Administrator Mike Hentley Area 201 km² Population ~280 Currency Saint Helenian pound (SHP) at parity with the UK Pound Sterling (GBP...
| 20th century 1908 British Antarctic Territory3 1908 South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands3 (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999...
Flag of the British Antarctic Territory The British Antarctic Territory is the British claim to land and islands in Antarctica, and is the oldest territorial claim on the continent. ...
Motto: Leo Terram Propriam Protegat (Latin: Let the Lion protect his own land or May the Lion protect his own land) Official language English Capital Grytviken Commissioner Alan Huckle Area - Total - % water not ranked 3,903 km² - Population - Total (2006 E) - Density not ranked ~20 n/a; Currency GBP Time...
| | 2 Dependencies of St. Helena since 1922 (Ascension Island) and 1938 (Tristan da Cunha). 3 Both claimed in 1908; territories formed in 1962 (British Antarctic Territory) and 1985 (South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands). | |