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The British Empire refers to the possessions, dominions, and dependencies under the control of the Crown.In addition to the areas formally under the sovereignty of the British monarch, various "foreign" territories were controlled as protectorates; territories transferred to British administration under the authority of the League of Nations or the United Nations; and miscellaneous other ...
United States: Thirteen American Colonies: 4 July: 1776: Fourth of July. Declaration of Independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1776. British government recognized independence in 1783 with the Treaty of Paris. Vanuatu: New Hebrides: 30 July: 1980: Independence from United Kingdom and France in 1980. Vanuatu is a Commonwealth republic ...
The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states. It began with the overseas possessions and trading posts established by England in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.
This is a list of the largest cities and towns of England ordered by population at various points during history. Until the first modern census was conducted in 1801 there was no centrally conducted method of determining the populations of England's settlements at any one time, and so data has to be used from a number of other historical surveys.
The British Overseas Territories (BOTs) or alternately referred to as the United Kingdom Overseas Territories (UKOTs) [1] [2] are the fourteen territories with a constitutional and historical link with the United Kingdom that, while not forming part of the United Kingdom itself, are part of its sovereign territory.
List of places in England; Lists of places in Wales; List of places in Scotland; List of places in Northern Ireland; Toponymy in the United Kingdom and Ireland, the study of place names; List of generic forms in place names in the British Isles; United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names
Straits Settlements; Unfederated Malay States; British Mauritius; British North America. Colony of British Columbia (1858–1866) Colony of British Columbia (1866–1871)
This is a list of cities in Great Britain during the period of Roman occupation from 43 AD to the 5th century. Roman cities were known as civitas in Latin. They were mostly fortified settlements where native tribal peoples lived, governed by the Roman officials.