In 1831 the three separate colonies became a single British colony known as British Guiana.

In 1937, the Settlement was detached from India and became the Colony of Aden, a British Crown colony.

The Bahamas became a British Crown colony in 1718, when the British clamped down on piracy.

William Kelso says Virginia is where the British Empire began... this was the first colony in the British Empire.

A Crown colony, also known in the 17th century as royal colony, was a type of colonial administration of the English and later British Empire.

As a British colony, Kiribati was centred in the Gilbert Islands, just west of the old IDL.

He was instrumental in helping Nova Scotia become the first British colony to win responsible government in 1848.

British Guiana (also spelled Guyana) was the name of the British colony on the northern coast of South America, since 1966 known as the independent nation of Guyana.

Australian English began to diverge from British English after the founding of the colony of New South Wales in 1788 and was recognised as being different from British English by 1820.

The British Overseas Territories Act, which came into force in 2002, grants the right to full British citizenship to all inhabitants of the Territories and formally abolishes the terms colony and dependent territory .

A British settlement was established in Van Diemen's Land, now known as Tasmania, in 1803 and it became a separate colony in 1825.

Colonisation British colonisation In 1789 the Mutiny on the Bounty against William Bligh led to several of the mutineers escaping the Royal Navy and settling on Pitcairn Islands, which later became a British colony.

Although some of the Torres Strait islands lie just off the coast of New Guinea, they were annexed in 1879 by Queensland, then a British colony.

Victoria (sometimes Victoria City statutorily, City of Victoria) is one of the first urban settlements in Hong Kong after it became a British colony in 1842.

German rule Namibia became a German colony in 1884 under Otto von Bismarck to forestall British encroachment and was known as German South West Africa ( Deutsch Südwestafrika ).

The former was a colony and part of German East Africa from the 1880s to 1919, when, under the League of Nations, it became a British mandate.

When Connecticut Colony bought Saybrook in 1644, the seal transferred to Connecticut Colony.

If an ant is separated from its original colony, it will eventually lose the colony scent.

In deciding to visit Ghana, a former British colony and a leading node in the global slave trade of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Obama bypassed the Kenya of his father.

However, during the Seven Years' War, the British army invaded the French colony as part of its North American strategy, winning a conclusive victory at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham.

The Colony of Curaçao and Dependencies ( ) was a Dutch colony from 1815 until 1828 and from 1845 until 1936.

This sugar revolution led to an increase in volume production, making Mauritius the most important sugar producing British colony, its sugar export accounting for 7.4 percent of the world's total production by the 1850s.

The rebellion spread through the entire colony.

When it became a Roman colony is uncertain.

One can almost understand why China s leaders should be baffled by this show of defiance in Hong Kong. After all, the British simply appointed governors when Hong Kong was still a crown colony, and nobody protested then.

In 1951, Libya, a former Italian colony, gained independence.

The port of Walvis Bay and the offshore Penguin Islands had been annexed by the Cape Colony under the British crown by 1878 and had become an integral part of the new Union of South Africa at its creation in 1910.

As a plantation colony, Suriname was still heavily dependent on manual labour, and to make up for the shortfall, the Dutch brought in contract labourers from the Dutch East Indies (modern Indonesia) and India (through an arrangement with the British).

The metropolitan state is the state that owns the colony.

Admiral Ove Gjedde led the expedition that established the colony.

In September and October, emancipation was extended throughout the colony.

Colony is a city in Anderson County, Kansas, United States.

When these counties were created, they were a part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, which would remain separate from the Plymouth Colony and that colony's counties until 1691.

Mated females then seek a suitable place to begin a colony.

In 194 BC, it became the site of a Roman colony.

Canadien liberal nationalism 1534 1774 Canada was first a French colony.

The colony was transferred from French to Spanish control in 1762.

Puerto Rico was no more a colony than Alaska and Hawaii.

A century later, Puerto Rico was still a United States colony.

In 180 BC, it became a Roman colony under Roman law, as .

The company is based in the Dallas suburb of The Colony, Texas.

After the war, which disrupted maritime commerce, the colony underwent rapid expansion.

Vampire bat colony numbers can range in the thousands in roosting sites.

In deciding to visit Ghana, a former British colony and a leading node in the global slave trade of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Obama bypassed the Kenya of his father. Kenya is embroiled in bitter tribal disputes, and saddled with a brazenly corrupt government.

Reconstruction efforts after the war in 1936 were partially focused on benefiting the Muslim peoples in the colony at the expense of the Amhara to strengthen support by Muslims for the Italian colony.