- Africa
Effective occupation completed
Only in the early twentieth century, with pacification campaigns continuing into the 1920s, did Portugal establish effective control over the whole of Angola.
Era: The slow conquest of the interior
Sources: History of Angola · Wikipedia, Angola — Colonialism, Independence, Civil War (history) · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Asia
British mandate and the Iraqi revolt
After capturing Baghdad in 1917, Britain is granted a League of Nations mandate over Iraq; a widespread anti-British revolt in 1920 pushes Britain toward installing an Arab monarchy.
Era: Ottoman Rule, the British Mandate and the Kingdom
Sources: Iraq — British occupation and the mandatory regime · Encyclopædia Britannica
- Africa
Kenya Colony created
The protectorate's interior becomes the Crown colony of Kenya, while a coastal strip leased from the sultan of Zanzibar remains a protectorate.
Era: British East Africa and the Settler Colony
Sources: History of Kenya · Wikipedia, U.S. Relations With Kenya / History · U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian
- Asia
Creation of Greater Lebanon
French High Commissioner Henri Gouraud proclaims the State of Greater Lebanon, enlarging the old province with the coastal cities and the Bekaa under a French mandate.
Era: 1860, the Mutasarrifate and the French Mandate
Sources: History of Lebanon · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Lebanon · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Africa
Colony of French Soudan
The conquered upper Niger is administered as French Soudan within French West Africa, its economy reoriented toward the colonial metropole.
Era: French Soudan and Independence
Sources: Modibo Keita — 1st President of Mali · Encyclopædia Britannica, Mali Federation · Wikipedia
- Africa
League of Nations mandate
The League of Nations granted South Africa a mandate to administer the territory as a trust for its inhabitants; South Africa instead governed it as a near-province, settling white farmers and suppressing African political life.
Era: South African rule, the mandate, and apartheid
Sources: Namibia (country, history and government) · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Namibia · Wikipedia
- Asia
Arab Kingdom of Syria and the French Mandate
An independent Arab Kingdom of Syria under Faisal is proclaimed in Damascus, but French forces defeat it at Maysalun in July 1920, and the League of Nations assigns Syria to France as a mandate.
Era: The French Mandate and Independence
Sources: Syria — history · Encyclopaedia Britannica, A Guide to the History of Recognition, Diplomatic, and Consular Relations: Syria · U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian
- Africa
League of Nations mandate of Ruanda-Urundi
Belgium receives Ruanda-Urundi as a mandate; rule through Tutsi-favouring indigenous hierarchies deepens ethnic stratification. The mandate became a UN Trust Territory in 1946.
Era: Ruanda-Urundi: German and Belgian Rule
Sources: Ruanda-Urundi · Wikipedia, Burundi: History · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Africa
Niger becomes a French colony
After the desert Tuareg were finally subdued in the early 1920s, Niger was constituted as a colony within French West Africa, administered through the federation's governor-general in Dakar.
Era: Conquest, the Voulet-Chanoine column and colonial Niger
Sources: History of Niger · Wikipedia, Niger (country) · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Asia
British Mandate for Palestine
The League of Nations entrusted Britain with governing Palestine; the Mandate incorporated the Balfour Declaration's commitment to a Jewish national home.
Era: The British Mandate and the Nakba
Sources: Origins and Evolution of the Palestine Problem, Part I (1917-1947) · United Nations, Palestine - region, history · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Africa
Closed District ordinances
Colonial 'closed district' rules restrict travel and trade between north and south, isolating the southern provinces and curbing northern and Arabic influence.
Era: The Condominium and the Southern Policy
Sources: British policy in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan and the north–south divide · Africa at LSE, London School of Economics, History of South Sudan · Wikipedia
- Africa
Partition into British and French mandates
Togoland was divided between Britain and France and formalised by the League of Nations as two mandates — British Togoland in the west and French Togoland in the east — splitting the Ewe and other peoples.
Era: Conquest, partition and the mandates
Sources: Togoland · Wikipedia, British Togoland · Wikipedia, Togo (country overview and history) · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Africa
Northern Rhodesia becomes a Crown protectorate
Administration passed from the British South Africa Company to the Colonial Office, making Northern Rhodesia a British protectorate; the capital later moved to Lusaka in 1935.
Era: Company rule, Northern Rhodesia and the Copperbelt
Sources: Northern Rhodesia · Wikipedia, History of Zambia · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Asia
Cyprus made a Crown Colony
Cyprus was formally declared a British Crown Colony, consolidating colonial administration over the island.
Era: British Rule, the Demand for Énosis and the EOKA Campaign
Sources: Cyprus: Ottoman rule · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Cyprus profile – Timeline · BBC News
- Africa
Bioko and Río Muni united as Spanish Guinea
From 1926 Spain governed Fernando Pó and the mainland enclave of Río Muni together as the colony of Spanish Guinea, its economy resting on the cocoa plantations of the island.
Era: Spanish Guinea and the road to independence
Sources: Spanish Guinea · Wikipedia, History of Equatorial Guinea · Wikipedia
Colonisation in the 1920s
Every event in the Terralore archive tagged colonisation — the establishment, administration and ending of colonial rule, narrowed to the 1920s — 15 of them, drawn from 15 nations, running from 1920 to 1926. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.
- Events
- 15
- Nations
- 15
- Earliest
- 1920
- Latest
- 1926
- Africa
- 10
- Asia
- 5
Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.