British Empire dates 1857-1967

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In what year was the first Government of India Act created?
1858
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Which year did Queen Victoria become Empress of India?
1876
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In which year was the Indian National Congress formed?
1885
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In what year did Curzon become Viceroy of India?
1898
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In what year was Bengal partitioned?
1905
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In what year were the Morley-Minto reforms?
1909
6 of 69
In which year did the Delhi durbar take place to honour the coronation of King George V?
1911
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In what year did the Amritsar massacre occur?
1919
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When was the second Government of India act?
1919
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In what year did Gandhi begin his campaign of civil disobedience and salt march take place?
1930
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In which years did the Round Table Conference begin and end?
1930-1932
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When was the final Government of India Act created?
1935
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When was the Quit India movement started?
1942
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When was Pakistan created and India gained independence?
1947
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In which year was Gandhi assassinated?
1948
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In which decade did the British missionaries begin their exploration into the African interior?
1860s
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In what year did the Gold Coast become a colony?
1874
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When did Disraeli secure a controlling stake in the Suez Canal?
1875
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When did the first Boer war begin and end?
1880-81
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When did the Mahadist uprising begin and end in Sudan?
1881-1898
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When was the Berlin conference?
1884-85
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In what year was General Gordon killed?
1885
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When was Bechuanaland and Niger Coast made a protectorate?
1885
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In what year was Zululand made a protectorate?
1887
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When was Zambesia changed to Rhodesia?
1889
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When did part of Nyasaland become a protectorate?
1889
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When did Zanzibar become a British protectorate?
1890
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When did Cecil Rhodes become Prime Minister of Cape Colony?
1890
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In what year does Uganada become a protectorate?
1894
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In what year do the following events occur; Battle of Omdurman, Fashoda incident and annexation of Sudan?
1898
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In what year do the following events occur; Egypt becomes a protectorate, imperial troops assemble for war and Northern and Southern Nigeria are united?
1914
31 of 69
In what year does British East Africa become Kenya?
1920
32 of 69
When was Egypt granted independence?
1922
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When did the Mau Mau rebellion occur in Kenya?
1952
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When did Nkrumah become president of the Gold Coast?
1952
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When was the Centeral African Federation (CAF) created?
1953
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In which year did these events occur; British troops removed from Egypt and beginning of withdrawal from Sudan?
1954
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In what year did the Suez Canal crisis occur?
1956
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When did the Gold Coast become Ghana?
1957
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In which decade did the majoirty of decolonisation on African occur?
1960s
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In what year were diamonds discovered in South Africa?
1867
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In what year was the Griqualand West annexed to the Cape Colony?
1871
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When was the Cape Colony granted responsible government status?
1872
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When was the Transvaal annexed?
1877
44 of 69
Whne did Bartle Frere become High Commissioner for South Africa?
1877
45 of 69
When did the first Zulu war occur?
1879-80
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In which year did the following events occur; British defeat at Majuba Hill and Pretoria convention what re-establishes independence of the Transvaal?
1881
47 of 69
When did Rhodes serve as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony?
1890-96
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When did the JAmeson raid occur?
1895
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In what year was Alfred Milner appointed as High Commissioner for South Africa?
1897
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When did the second Boer war begin and end?
1899-1902
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When was the Union of South Africa established?
1902
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When did South Africa become a self-governing Dominion?
1910
53 of 69
When was the ANC formed?
1912
54 of 69
When did the ANC win power?
1948
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When did South Africa leave the Commonwealth?
1961
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When did Canada become a dominion?
1867
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In what decade did the Cook Islands and North Borneo become protectorates?
1880s
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In which year did New Zealand gain Dominion status?
1907
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In which year was the Statute of Westminister, that gave the dominions constitutional autonomy, created?
1931
60 of 69
In which year did the Ottowa Conference establish imperial preference?
1932
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In which was the Formation of Malay states created?
1896
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In which year did Britain and Russia agree an entente over spheres of influence in Persia?
1907
63 of 69
In which year did Britain give support to an Arab homeland in return for their help with fighting the Ottoman Turks?
1915
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In which year dies the BAlfour declaration occur?
1917
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In which year did Britain receive Mandates in the Middle East?
1919
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In what year does Singapore and Malaya fall to the Japanese?
1942
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In which years do the folloqing events occur; withdraw from Palestine and independence for Burma?
1948
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When do Britain evacuate from Aden?
1967
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