- — Asia:
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
- — North America:
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
- — 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
- — Africa:
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
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.