- — South America:
All garrisons withdrawn
The British, French and Spanish had periodically kept garrisons on the islands until 1811, when all were withdrawn.
Era: Empty Shores and Competing Claims
Sources: Our History · Falkland Islands Government
- — Europe:
Annexation of Bessarabia
By the Treaty of Bucharest, Russia annexed the land between the Prut and the Dniester from the Ottoman Empire, organizing it as the province of Bessarabia and severing it from the rest of Moldavia.
Era: Russian Bessarabia
Sources: Treaty of Bucharest (1812) · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Bessarabia · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- — Europe:
British rule confirmed by the Treaty of Paris
Having acknowledged British sovereignty, the Maltese saw the islands' attachment to Britain confirmed by the Treaty of Paris in 1814, making Malta a Crown colony.
Era: Napoleon, British Rule and the Naval Fortress
Sources: Treaty of Paris (1814) · Encyclopaedia Britannica, History of Malta · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- — Africa:
- — Africa:
Cession to Britain by the Treaty of Paris
Seychelles was formally ceded to Britain with Mauritius and governed thereafter as a dependency of Mauritius.
Era: British Rule and Emancipation
Sources: History of Seychelles · Wikipedia, Seychelles History — Timeline · SeyVillas Seychelles Travel Guide
- — North America:
Tobago ceded to Britain
After centuries of being fought over by the Dutch, Courlanders, French, and British, Tobago was finally awarded to Britain by the Treaty of Paris of 1814.
Era: British conquest and the much-contested Tobago
Sources: Historical Timeline · Tobago House of Assembly (visittobago.gov.tt), Trinidad and Tobago: History · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- — Asia:
Kandyan Convention unifies the island under Britain
The Kandyan chiefs cede the highland kingdom to the British crown, ending the last independent Sinhalese kingdom and placing the whole island under a single colonial administration.
Era: European Coasts and the Kandyan Kingdom
Sources: Kandyan Convention · Encyclopædia Britannica, Path to Freedom: 1815 Convention and Dominion Status · Department of National Archives, Sri Lanka
- — Africa:
Bathurst founded on St Mary's Island
Captain Alexander Grant established the settlement of Bathurst (now Banjul) near the mouth of the Gambia, creating Britain's base for suppressing the slave trade and trading in groundnuts.
Era: The British colony and the river enclave
Sources: History of the Gambia · Wikipedia, The Gambia (country overview and history) · Encyclopaedia Britannica
Colonisation in the 1810s
Every event in the Terralore archive tagged colonisation — the establishment, administration and ending of colonial rule, narrowed to the 1810s — 8 of them, drawn from 8 nations, running from 1811 to 1816. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.
- Events
- 8
- Nations
- 8
- Earliest
- 1811
- Latest
- 1816
- Africa
- 3
- Europe
- 2
- Asia
- 1
- North America
- 1
- South America
- 1
Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.