ColonisationThe 1800s

Colonisation in the 1800s

Every event in the Terralore archive tagged colonisation — the establishment, administration and ending of colonial rule, narrowed to the 1800s — 4 of them, drawn from 4 nations, running from 1801 to 1808. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.

Events
4
Nations
4
Earliest
1801
Latest
1808
Africa
2
Asia
1
North America
1

Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.

  1. Asia

    Georgia

    Russia annexes Kartli-Kakheti

    The Russian Empire unilaterally annexed eastern Georgia and abolished the Bagrationi monarchy, beginning the absorption of the Georgian lands that was completed over the following decades.

    Era: Fragmentation, Foreign Pressure and Russian Annexation

    Sources: History of Georgia · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Treaty of Georgievsk (1783) · Encyclopaedia Britannica

  2. North America

    Trinidad and Tobago

    Trinidad ceded to Britain by treaty

    The Treaty of Amiens confirmed Trinidad as a British colony, beginning more than a century and a half of British rule over the island.

    Era: British conquest and the much-contested Tobago

    Sources: Trinidad and Tobago: History · Encyclopaedia Britannica, T&T History Timeline · National Trust of Trinidad and Tobago

  3. Africa

    South Africa

    Britain seizes the Cape

    British forces occupied the Cape Colony during the Napoleonic Wars, beginning lasting British rule confirmed by the Congress of Vienna in 1815.

    Era: British rule, the Mfecane, the Zulu kingdom and the Boer republics

    Sources: South Africa (country, history and government) · Encyclopaedia Britannica, History of slavery and early colonisation in South Africa · South African History Online

  4. Africa

    Sierra Leone

    Sierra Leone becomes a Crown Colony

    The British Crown took over from the Sierra Leone Company, making Freetown a Crown Colony and the principal base for the Royal Navy's suppression of the Atlantic slave trade.

    Era: Crown Colony, Liberated Africans, and the Krio

    Sources: Sierra Leone (country overview and history) · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Liberated Africans in Sierra Leone · Wikipedia