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A Crown colony or royal colony was a colony governed by England, and then Great Britain or the United Kingdom within the English and later British Empire. There was usually a governor to represent the Crown, appointed by the British monarch on the advice of the UK Government , with or without the assistance of a local council.
British Honduras was a Crown colony on the east coast of Central America, south of Mexico, from 1783 to 1964, then a self-governing colony, renamed Belize in June 1973, [3] until September 1981, when it gained full independence as Belize.
The class was also known as the Colony class, [1] or Crown Colony class. [2] Developed as more compact versions of the preceding Town-class cruisers , the last three were built to a slightly modified design and were sometimes also called the Ceylon class .
It was established as a Crown colony in 1843. [5] In 1860, the British expanded the colony with the addition of the Kowloon Peninsula and was further extended in 1898 when the British obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories. Although the Qing had to cede Hong Kong Island and Kowloon in perpetuity as per the treaty, the leased New ...
The Crown Colony of the Island of Malta and its Dependencies (commonly known as the Crown Colony of Malta or simply Malta) was the British colony in the Maltese ...
In 1750 it was made a Danish crown colony. From 1782 to 1785 it was under British occupation. Following the 1792 decree abolishing Denmark's participation in the Atlantic slave trade (implemented in 1803), [4] the purpose of their forts on the Guinea coast became uncertain. Previously, these outposts had served solely for the slave trade, with ...
BrainPop (stylized as BrainPOP) is a group of educational websites founded in 1999 by Avraham Kadar, M.D. and Chanan Kadmon, based in New York City. [1] As of 2024, the websites host over 1,000 short animated movies for students in grades K–8 (ages 5 to 14), together with quizzes and related materials, covering the subjects of science, social studies, English, math, engineering and ...
The Straits Settlements (Malay: Negeri-Negeri Selat) were a group of British territories located in Southeast Asia.Originally established in 1826 as part of the territories controlled by the British East India Company, the Straits Settlements came under control of the British Raj in 1858 and then under direct British control as a Crown colony in 1867.