As a subject of the Austro-Hungarian Empire resident on a British colonial possession, he was effectively confined to New Guinea for several years.

With the expansion of the British Empire, and hence the growth of Anglicanism outside Great Britain and Ireland, the Communion sought to establish new vehicles of unity.

However, the enormous expansion in the 18th and 19th centuries of the British Empire brought Anglicanism along with it.

In 1971 Agatha Christie was made a Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.

* 1930 – Gandhi raises a lump of mud and salt and declares, " With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire.

* 1921 – The British install the son of Sharif Hussein bin Ali ( leader of the Arab Revolt of 1916 against the Ottoman Empire ) as King Faisal I of Iraq.

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* 1834 – Slavery is abolished in the British Empire as the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into force.

* 1838 – Non-laborer slaves in most of the British Empire are emancipated.

* 1840 – Laborer slaves in most of the British Empire are emancipated.

* Celebration of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 which ended the slavery in the British Empire, generally celebrated as a part of Carnival, as the Caribbean Carnival takes place at this time ( British West Indies ):

* The British Empire of The Peshawar Lancers by S. M. Stirling features a massive water powered engine at Oxford, used by two of the main characters.

Britannia's association with the oceanic British Empire is indicated by her holding a large anchor.

* 1947 – Pakistan gains Independence from the British Empire and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.

* 1947 – India gains Independence from the British Indian Empire and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.

* 1930 – The first British Empire Games were opened in Hamilton, Ontario by the Governor General of Canada, the Viscount Willingdon.

* 1914 – World War I: the United Kingdom declares war on Austria-Hungary ; the countries of the British Empire follow suit.

* 1833 – The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 receives Royal Assent, abolishing slavery through most the British Empire.

Although most dialects of English used in the former British Empire outside of North America and Australasia are, to various extents, based on British English, most of the countries concerned have developed their own unique dialects, particularly with respect to pronunciation, idioms and vocabulary.

Similarly, the language spread to numerous other parts of the world as a result of British trade and colonization elsewhere and the spread of the former British Empire, which, by 1921, held sway over a population of 470 – 570 million people, approximately a quarter of the world's population at that time.

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Abdülaziz cultivated good relations with the Second French Empire and the British.

Some years ago Julian Huxley proposed to an audience made up of members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science that `` man's supernormal or extra-sensory faculties are ( now ) in the same case as were his mathematical faculties during the ice age ''.

The trial will be held, probably the first week of March, in the famous Old Bailey central criminal court where Klaus Fuchs, the naturalized British German born scientist who succeeded in giving American and British atomic bomb secrets to Russia and thereby changed world history during the 1950s, was sentenced to 14 years in prison.

William Joseph Slim, First Viscount Slim, former Governor General of Australia, was the principal British commander in the field during the Burma War.

He had been a corps commander during the disastrous defeat and retreat of 1942 when the ill-prepared, ill-equipped British forces `` were outmaneuvered, outfought and outgeneraled ''.

Hastings, a former British Army officer, first meets Poirot during Poirot's years as a police officer in Belgium and almost immediately after they both arrive in England.

* 1947 – A British South American Airways Avro Lancastrian airliner crashes into a mountain during a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Santiago, Chile.

* Independence Day, celebrates the day on which Pakistan was made an independent country based on border lines created by the British during the end of their rule of India in 1947.

* 1900 – The Battle of Elands River during the Second Boer War ends after a 13-day siege is lifted by the British.

* 1929 – Hebron Massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attack on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, continuing until the next day, resulted in the death of 65-68 Jews and the remaining Jews being forced to leave the city.

* 1814 – British troops invade Washington, D. C. and during the Burning of Washington the White House is set ablaze, though not burned to the ground ; as well as several other buildings.

* 1799 – The entire Dutch fleet is captured by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the Second Coalition of the French Revolutionary Wars.

Thus, during the abdication crisis of 1936, caused by Edward VIII's desire to marry Wallis Simpson, the consent of all realms concerned, along with, in some cases, new acts of parliament, was required in Britain and throughout the British Dominions to allow for Edward's stepping aside and to ensure that if he had any children they would have no claim to the thrones.

The first tank to engage in battle was designated D1, a British Mark I, during the Battle of Flers-Courcelette ( part of the Somme Offensive ) on 15 September 1916.

Slavery was introduced to the British colonies in the early 17th century, and enslaved people largely replaced indentured servants as an economic labor force during the 17th century.

Although he himself was a blues purist, Korner criticised better-known British blues musicians during the blues boom of the late 1960s for their blind adherence to Chicago blues, as if the music came in no other form.

* 1973 – A British Vanguard turboprop crashes during a snowstorm at Basel, Switzerland killing 104.

Ajaigarh was the capital of a princely state of the same name during the British Raj.

In the year 1893, during rule of Amir Abdur Rahman Khan, a Royal Commission for setting up of Boundary between Afghanistan and British Governed India was set up to negotiate terms with the British, for the agreeing to the Durand line, and the two parties camped at Parachinar, now part of FATA Pakistan, which is near Khost, Afghanistan.

The basic methods were developed by Alexander Thom during his extensive surveys of British megalithic sites.

The German defences in Serre were supposed to have been obliterated by sustained, heavy, British shelling during the preceding week ; however, as the battalion advanced it met with fierce resistance.

Much later, he was reinstated by the British, ruling during 1839-1842.

In 1943, during World War II, the Portuguese rules António de Oliveira Salazar leased air and naval bases in the Azores to the British Empire.

An early Western description of the practice appears in the journals of Captain James Cook, a British explorer, who encountered amok firsthand in 1770 during a voyage around the world.