British Empire

Ereignisse (30)

• 1752

  9/14 — The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar, skipping eleven days (the previous day was September 2).

• 1755

  7/25 — British governor Charles Lawrence and the Nova Scotia Council order the deportation of the Acadians.

• 1756

  6/20 — A British garrison is imprisoned in the Black Hole of Calcutta.

• 1760

  6/27 — Cherokee warriors defeat British forces at the Battle of Echoee near present-day Otto, North Carolina during the Anglo-Cherokee War.

• 1806

  10/8 — Napoleonic Wars: Forces of the British Empire lay siege to the port of Boulogne in France by using Congreve rockets, invented by Sir William Congreve.

• 1807

  3/25 — The Slave Trade Act becomes law, abolishing the slave trade in the British Empire.

• 1815

  1/13 — War of 1812: British troops capture Fort Peter in St. Marys, Georgia, the only battle of the war to take place in the state.

• 1819

  2/19 — British explorer William Smith discovers the South Shetland Islands and claims them in the name of King George III.

• 1834

  8/1 — Slavery is abolished in the British Empire as the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into force.

• 1856

  1/29 — Königin Victoria erlässt einen Erlass unter dem königlichen Siegel, der den Victoria Cross zur Anerkennung heldenhafter Taten von britischen Militärpersonal während des Krimkriegs einrichtet.

• 1863

  10/31 — Die Maori-Kriege nehmen wieder auf, als britische Streitkräfte in Neuseeland unter Führung von General Duncan Cameron mit der Invasion des Waikato beginnen.

• 1879

  9/3 — Siege of the British Residency in Kabul: British envoy Sir Louis Cavagnari and 72 men of the Guides are massacred by Afghan troops while defending the British Residency in Kabul. Their heroism and loyalty became famous and revered throughout the British Empire.

• 1880

  12/16 — Outbreak of the First Boer War between the Boer South African Republic and the British Empire.

• 1885

  3/30 — Der Kampf um Kuscha löst den Panjdeh-Vorfall aus, der fast zu einem Krieg zwischen dem Britischen Reich und dem Russischen Reich führt.

• 1887

  10/1 — Balochistan is conquered by the British Empire.

• 1899

  12/11 — Second Boer War: In the Battle of Magersfontein the Boers commanded by general Piet Cronjé inflict a defeat on the forces of the British Empire commanded by Lord Methuen trying to relieve the Siege of Kimberley.

• 1902

  3/7 — Second Boer War: Boers, led by Koos de la Rey, inflict the biggest defeat upon the British since the beginning of the war, at Tweebosch.

• 1907

  9/26 — New Zealand and Newfoundland each become dominions within the British Empire.

• 1909

  2/23 — The AEA Silver Dart makes the first powered flight in Canada and the British Empire.

• 1912

  1/4 — The Scout Association is incorporated throughout the British Empire by royal charter.

• 1914

  8/4 — In response to the German invasion of Belgium, Belgium and the British Empire declare war on Germany. The United States declares its neutrality.

• 1914

  8/12 — World War I: The United Kingdom declares war on Austria-Hungary; the countries of the British Empire follow suit.

• 1914

  11/5 — Erster Weltkrieg: Frankreich und das britische Reich erklären dem Osmanischen Reich den Krieg.

• 1922

  2/6 — The Washington Naval Treaty is signed in Washington, D.C., limiting the naval armaments of United States, Britain, Japan, France, and Italy.

• 1927

  12/19 — Three Indian revolutionaries, Ram Prasad Bismil, Roshan Singh and Ashfaqulla Khan, are executed by the British Empire.

• 1930

  3/12 — Mahatma Gandhi begins the Salt March, a 200-mile march to the sea to protest the British monopoly on salt in India

• 1930

  4/6 — Gandhi raises a lump of mud and salt and declares, "With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire," beginning the Salt Satyagraha.

• 1941

  1/22 — Zweiter Weltkrieg: Britische und Commonwealth-Truppen nehmen Tobruk von den italienischen Truppen während der Operation Compass ein.

• 1947

  8/14 — Pakistan gains Independence from the British Empire and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.

• 1959

  12/3 — The current flag of Singapore is adopted, six months after Singapore became self-governing within the British Empire.