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The League brought the issue of imperial federation to the attention of the public throughout the empire. It had a concrete accomplishment in the calling of the First Colonial Conference in 1887 at the time of Queen Victoria's golden jubilee. The League sent deputations to two successive Prime Minister, Salisbury and Gladstone. While Salisbury ...
Map showing the British Empire in 1886 (before expansion in Africa) The Imperial Federation was a series of proposals in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to create a federal union to replace the existing British Empire, presenting it as an alternative to colonial imperialism.
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Map of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1998; 1992 — Bosnia and Herzegovina declares independence from Yugoslavia on March 1 and is formally recognised on April 6. A civil war breaks out, and as the result of the war, two largely autonomous entities are formed: Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Republika ...
The discourse was initiated by Charles Wentworth Dilke with the publication of Greater Britain: A Record of Travel in English-Speaking Countries During 1866-7. [5] The racist nature of Dilke's endeavour was vouchsafed with an opening comment in the Preface: "The idea which in all the length of my travels has been at once my fellow and my guide—a key wherewith to unlock the hidden things of ...
Topographic map of the Russian Empire in 1912 Map of the Russian Empire in 1745. By the end of the 19th century the area of the empire was about 22,400,000 square kilometers (8,600,000 sq mi), or almost one-sixth of the Earth's landmass; its only rival in size at the time was the British Empire. The majority of the population lived in European ...
Map of the Venezuelan federation The Federal War ended in 1864 with the signing of the Treaty of Coche by both the centralist government of the time and the Federal Forces. The United States of Venezuela were subsequently incorporated under a "Federation of Sovereign States" upon principles borrowed from the Articles of Confederation of the ...
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