- Africa
Chad joins French Equatorial Africa
France organised the conquered territory and incorporated Chad into the federation of French Equatorial Africa, governing the south far more closely than the Muslim north.
Era: Rabih's empire and French conquest
Sources: Chad — Independence, Civil War, Lake Chad · Encyclopaedia Britannica, French Chad · Wikipedia
- Africa
Middle Congo joins French Equatorial Africa
France reorganised its Central African colonies in 1910 into French Equatorial Africa — Gabon, Middle Congo, Ubangi-Shari and Chad — governed from Brazzaville, which became the federation's federal capital.
Era: Brazza, Brazzaville, and the colony of Middle Congo
Sources: French Equatorial Africa · Wikipedia, Republic of the Congo · Encyclopædia Britannica, Moyen-Congo (Middle Congo) — Formation · GlobalSecurity.org
- Africa
Kept out of the Union of South Africa
When the Union of South Africa is formed, Swaziland remains under direct British control; despite later South African requests, the territory is never transferred.
Era: British Territory and the Road to Independence
Sources: Eswatini — Colonial administration · Encyclopaedia Britannica, History of Eswatini · Wikipedia, Eswatini History · FamilySearch
- Africa
Gabon joins French Equatorial Africa
France reorganised its Central African colonies into French Equatorial Africa in 1910 — Gabon, the Middle Congo, Ubangi-Shari and Chad, governed from Brazzaville — with Gabon a separate colony.
Era: Libreville, Brazza, and French conquest
Sources: French Equatorial Africa · Wikipedia, History of Gabon · Encyclopædia Britannica
- Africa
Kept out of the Union of South Africa
On the formation of the Union, Basutoland is excluded as a British High Commission Territory rather than incorporated into South Africa.
Era: High Commission Territory to Independence
Sources: Southern Africa, 1899–1945 · Encyclopaedia Britannica, History of Lesotho · Wikipedia
- Asia
Japanese annexation of Korea
Japan formally annexes Korea, ending the Joseon dynasty and beginning thirty-five years of colonial rule over the entire peninsula.
Era: Colonial Rule and Division
Sources: Korea Under Japanese Rule · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Korea (history) · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Asia
Japanese annexation of Korea
Japan formally annexes Korea, ending the Joseon dynasty and more than five centuries of Korean monarchy and beginning 35 years of colonial rule.
Era: The Joseon Dynasty
Sources: Korea Under Japanese Rule · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Korea (history) · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Asia
Annexation and colonial government
Japan installs a Government-General in Seoul, ruling Korea through military and police power and beginning systematic economic exploitation.
Era: Japanese Colonial Rule
Sources: Korea Under Japanese Rule · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Africa
France cedes Neukamerun
Under the Treaty of Fez ending the Agadir crisis, France ceded the large territory of Neukamerun to Germany, expanding the colony eastward.
Era: German Kamerun
Sources: Kamerun (German colony) · Wikipedia, History of Cameroon · Wikipedia
- Africa
Italo-Turkish War and the invasion of Libya
Italy attacks Tripoli on 3 October 1911 and seizes the Ottoman provinces; the 1912 Treaty of Lausanne cedes the territory to Italy.
Era: Italian Colonisation and the Resistance
Sources: Italian colonization of Libya · Wikipedia, Libya · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Africa
Creation of Northern Rhodesia
The British South Africa Company amalgamated North-Western and North-Eastern Rhodesia into a single territory named Northern Rhodesia, administered under royal charter.
Era: Company rule, Northern Rhodesia and the Copperbelt
Sources: Northern Rhodesia · Wikipedia
- Africa
Treaty of Fez establishes the protectorates
Sultan Abd al-Hafid signs the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate; a Spanish zone in the north and south and an international zone at Tangier are settled the same year.
Era: The Alaouite Dynasty and the Protectorates
Sources: Treaty of Fès (1912) · Encyclopaedia Britannica, A Guide to the United States' History of Recognition: Morocco · U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian
- Asia
British annexation
When the Ottoman Empire joined the First World War against Britain, Britain annexed Cyprus; Turkey renounced its claim to the island in the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne.
Era: British Rule, the Demand for Énosis and the EOKA Campaign
Sources: Cyprus: Ottoman rule · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Cyprus profile – Timeline · BBC News
- Africa
Amalgamation of Nigeria
Lord Lugard joined the Northern and Southern Protectorates into a single Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria, creating the territorial shape of the modern country under indirect rule.
Era: British conquest, amalgamation and colonial Nigeria
Sources: Nigeria (country overview and history) · Encyclopaedia Britannica, A Guide to the History of Recognition: Nigeria · U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian
- Africa
Belgian conquest of Urundi
Belgian forces invade Urundi during the First World War, ending German control and beginning Belgian administration of the territory.
Era: Ruanda-Urundi: German and Belgian Rule
Sources: Ruanda-Urundi · Wikipedia, History of Burundi · Wikipedia
- Asia
Anglo-Qatari Treaty: British protectorate
Sheikh Abdullah bin Jassim signed a treaty (ratified 1918) placing Qatar under British protection in exchange for foregoing relations and concessions with other powers without British consent.
Era: Between the Ottomans and Britain: The 1916 Protectorate
Sources: Text of the Treaty of 3 November 1916 between His Majesty's Government and Sheikh Abdullah bin Jassim of al-Katar · Qatar Digital Library / British Library India Office Records, Qatar: History (Persian Gulf, Oil, Gas) · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Africa
Belgium occupies Rwanda
Belgian forces take Rwanda from Germany during the First World War; from 1922 it is governed with Burundi as Ruanda-Urundi under a League of Nations mandate.
Era: German and Belgian Rule
Sources: History of Rwanda · Wikipedia, Divided by Ethnicity · United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Asia
Balfour Declaration
Britain declared its support for a Jewish national home in Palestine while affirming the rights of the existing, overwhelmingly Arab, non-Jewish communities.
Era: The British Mandate and the Nakba
Sources: Origins and Evolution of the Palestine Problem, Part I (1917-1947) · United Nations, Balfour Declaration · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Africa
Colony of Upper Volta created
France establishes the separate colony of Upper Volta (Haute-Volta) within French West Africa.
Era: Conquest and the Colony of Upper Volta
Sources: French Upper Volta · Wikipedia, Background Notes: Burkina Faso · U.S. Department of State
- Africa
Partition into French and British mandates
The League of Nations divided the former German colony between France, which took the larger French Cameroun, and Britain, which administered the Northern and Southern Cameroons alongside Nigeria.
Era: Partition: French Cameroun and British Cameroons
Sources: Cameroon (country overview and history) · Encyclopaedia Britannica, A Guide to the History of Recognition: Cameroon · U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, History of Cameroon · Wikipedia
- Africa
Tanganyika becomes a British mandate
After the First World War the Treaty of Versailles strips Germany of the colony; Britain administers the mainland as the Tanganyika Territory under a League of Nations mandate from 1922.
Era: German East Africa and the British Mandate
Sources: German East Africa · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Tanganyika Territory · Wikipedia
Colonisation in the 1910s
Every event in the Terralore archive tagged colonisation — the establishment, administration and ending of colonial rule, narrowed to the 1910s — 21 of them, drawn from 19 nations, running from 1910 to 1919. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.
- Events
- 21
- Nations
- 19
- Earliest
- 1910
- Latest
- 1919
- Africa
- 15
- Asia
- 6
Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.