BRITISH INTERFERENCE AND DOMINATION IN WORLD AFFAIRS *

COUNTRY	YEAR	OCCURRENCE	COUNTRY	YEAR	OCCURRENCE	
Afghanistan	1838-1842
1878-1879	First Anglo-Afghan war.
Second British invasion and
Various areas annexed 	Namibia	1915	Through South Africa-UK	
Antigua	1667	Became British colony	Nauru	1919	British rule	
Australia	1901	Inauguration Commonwealth	Nepal	1816-1923	Quasi-British Protectorate	
Bahamas	1783	Became British colony	New Zealand	1907	British colony and Dominion	
Bahrain	19th C.	British protected state	Nigeria	1861	British colony	
Bangladesh	1765

1947	First of Indian subcontinent to
Come under British rule
British withdrawal from India	Oman	1749-1951	Sovereignty recognized	
Barbados	1627	Colonized by the British	Pakistan	1850	British East India Company	
Belize	1798-1981	British colony	Papua New Guinea	1884
1975	British annexed
Independence	
Botswana	1895	British protectorate	Qatar	1916	‘71 not UK Protectorate-UN 	
Brunei	1841
1888	Under British control
Formal British Protectorate	St. Kitts
Nevis	1783
1983	British colony
Independence	
Burma	1886	Became a province of Br. India	St. Lucia	1814
1979	British ownership ceded
Independence	
Cameroon-
H	1919	British rule	St. Vincent
Grenadines	1795
1979	British rule
Independence	
Canada	1765

1867	Treaty of Paris, France cedes 
St. Lawrence & Quebec
Dominion of Canada created 	Seychelles	1815	British rule ceded	
Cyprus	1878	British rule	Sierra Leone-H	1808	British colony	
Dominica	1759	British rule	Singapore	1826	British port	
Egypt	1914
1936	Direct British rule
Fully independent	Solomon Is.	1893	British colony	
Eritrea	1941	British military rule	Somalia-H	1802	British colony	
Figi	1879-1916	British import sugar workers	S.  Africa	1910	British dominion	
Gambia-H	1888	British rule	Sri Lanka	1796	British colony	
Grenada	1762
1783	Captured by British
Formally part of UK	Sudan-H	1877	British rule	
Ghana-H	1874	British rule	Suriname	1667	British colony	
Guyana-H	1814	British rule	Swaziland	1905	British protectorate 	
India	1757	British rule through East-India	Tanzania-H	1890	British protectorate	
Ireland	1167	English colonization	Thailand	1855	Treaty with British	
Israel	1948	British mandate	Tonga	1900	British protectorate	
Jamaica	1655	British seizure	Togo-H	1922	Divided bet. France & UK	
Kenya	1895
1920	British East Africa Protectorate
UK Colony	Trinidad/Tobago	1797	Seized by British	
Kiribati	1892	British colony	Tuvalu	1892	Annexed by the U.K.	
Kuwait		British rule	Uganda-H	1893	British protectorate	
Lesotho	1884	British Crown Colony	UAE	1971	UK protecting power	
Malaysia	1786	East India Company	Vanatu	1906	British/French joint rule	
Malawi-H	1891	British rule	Yemen	1839	British occupation, made
Crown colony in 1957	
Maldives	1887	British Protectorate	Zambia-H		Developed by UK for copper	
Malta	1800	British rule	Zimbabwe
(Rhodesia)	1889	British colony, named after
Cecil Rhodes -founder	
Mauritius	1810	British colony	United States	1607	First British colony, independence in 1776	
Mozambique-H		Portugal				
*Does not reflect the year of independence.  Current Commonwealth members are bolded.  FTAA are shaded. H=Highly Indebted Poor Countries. Source: Financial Times World Desk Reference, Andrew Heritage, Editor-in-Chief, Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Inc., New York, NY, 2004.