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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).
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 centuri
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 ...
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 ...
Belgian colonial empire; British colonial empire; Danish colonial empire; Dutch colonial empire; French colonial empire; German colonial empire; List of former German colonies; Italian colonial empire; Portuguese colonial empire; Evolution of the Portuguese Empire; Russian colonial empire; Spanish colonial empire; Swedish colonial empire
1848: Decree-law Victor Schœlcher which abolish slavery (permanently) in the French colonial empire. 1856–1860: Second Opium War. 1857: Uprising in India against British occupation, which leads to the creation of the British Raj. 1861–1867: French intervention in Mexico ordered by Napoleon III. 1870: Franco-Prussian War.
Britain intervened in Portugal in 1826 to defend a constitutional government there and recognising the independence of Spain's American colonies in 1824. [48] British merchants and financiers, and later railway builders, played major roles in the economies of most Latin American nations. [49]
Three Victories and a Defeat: The Rise and Fall of the First British Empire (2008), 800pp excerpt and text search; Smith, Simon C. British Imperialism 1750-1970 (1998). brief; Stockwell, Sarah, ed. The British Empire: Themes and Perspectives (2008) 355pp. Weigall, David. Britain and the World, 1815–1986: A Dictionary of International ...