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In 2002, the British Parliament passed the British Overseas Territories Act 2002 which introduced the current name of British Overseas Territories. This reclassified the UK's dependent territories as overseas territories and, with the exception of those people solely connected with the Sovereign Base Areas on Cyprus, restored full British ...
Punjab Province (British India) United Provinces (1937–1950) British rule in Ireland; The Delhi Durbar of 1877: the proclamation of Queen Victoria as Empress of India British Somaliland; British Weihaiwei; British Western Pacific Territories. British Solomon Islands; Colony of Fiji; Gilbert and Ellice Islands; Kingdom of Tonga; New Hebrides ...
In 1984 the British government signed the Sino-British Joint Declaration with China and agreed to turn over Hong Kong and its dependencies in 1997. British rule ended on 30 June 1997, with China taking over at midnight, 1 July 1997 (at end of the 99-year lease over the New Territories, along with the ceded Hong Kong Island and Kowloon).
Known as the "British Commonwealth", the original and therefore earliest members were Australia, Canada, the Irish Free State, Newfoundland, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United Kingdom. It was re-stated by the 1930 conference and incorporated in the Statute of Westminster the following year (although Australia and New Zealand did not ...
The Thirteen Colonies declared independence from Great Britain on 4 July 1776. Egypt (1922) – see Unilateral Declaration of Egyptian Independence. Australia, Canada, the Irish Free State, New Zealand, Dominion of Newfoundland, and Union of South Africa (1926) – Dominions at the time of the Balfour Declaration of 1926.
The list shows large groupings associated with the dates of independence from decolonization (e.g., 41 current states gained control of sovereignty from the United Kingdom and France between 1956 and 1966) or dissolution of a political union (e.g., 18 current states gained control of sovereignty from the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia between 1990 ...
In 1983, the British Nationality Act 1981 renamed the existing Crown Colonies as "British Dependent Territories", [a] and in 2002 they were renamed the British Overseas Territories. [260] Most former British colonies and protectorates are members of the Commonwealth of Nations , a voluntary association of equal members, comprising a population ...
The following is a list of European colonies in Africa, organized alphabetically by the colonizing country. France had the most colonies in Africa with 35 colonies followed by Britain with 32. [ 1 ]