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 ):

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.

The Afghan leader did not follow up this triumph by retaking Peshawar, however, but instead contacted Lord Auckland, the new British governor general in British India, for help in dealing with the Sikhs.

The British demanded that Dost Mohammad sever all contact with the Iranians and Russians, remove Vitkevich from Kabul, surrender all claims to Peshawar, and respect Peshawar's independence as well as that of Kandahar, which was under the control of his brothers at the time.

During the Indian Rebellion of 1857, some British officials suggested restoring Peshawar to Dost Mohammad, in return for his support against the rebellious sepoys of the Bengal Army, but this view was rejected by British political officers on the North West frontier, who believed that Dost Mohammad would see this as a sign of weakness and turn against the British.

In 1865, Mir Jahandar Shah sent his ambassador Syed Muhammad to the British Commissioner in Peshawar to establish friendly relations.

Small part of the Pashtunistan region around Peshawar was invaded by Ranjit Singh and his Sikh army in the early part of the 19th century, but they were defeated by the British Raj, the new powerful empire which reached the Pashtunistan region from the east.

The FATA area was created to further placate the Pashtun tribesmen who never fully accepted British rule and were prone to rebellions, while the city of Peshawar was directly administered as part of a British protectorate state with full integration into the federal rule of law with the establishment of civic amenities and the countruction of railway, road infrastructure as well as educational institutes to bring the region at par with the developed world.

In May 1931, during the British Raj in India, the 80 white residents of Baskul are being evacuated to Peshawar, owing to a revolution.

In 1846 Sir Harry Lumsden raised a Corps of Guides for frontier service from British Indian recruits at Peshawar.

Ghaffar Khan was born into a generally peaceful and prosperous family from Utmanzai in the Peshawar Valley of British India.

Dost Mohammad was enjoined to abandon the attempt to recover Peshawar, and to place his foreign policy under British guidance.

His father, Taj Mohammed Khan, was an Indian independence activist from Peshawar, British India.

Raj Kapoor was born in Peshawar, British India ( present day Pakistan ) to Prithviraj Kapoor and Ramsarni ( Rama ) Devi Kapoor ( née Mehra ).

Dilip Kumar was born as " Muhammad Yusuf Khan " on 11 December 1922 in Peshawar, British India ( now a city in Pakistan ).

Born in Bannu District, British India, Ghulam Ishaq was educated at Islamia College Peshawar and Peshawar University where he studied nuclear chemistry.

Dost Mohammad had recently lost Afghanistan's second capital of Peshawar to the Sikh Empire and wanted support to retake it, but the British were not inclined.

The leased region was then treated as part of British India, administered by a Political Agent at Gilgit responsible to Delhi, first through the Resident in Jammu and Kashmir and later a British Agent in Peshawar.

started conquests to reclaim the Punjabi lands from invaders and he recruited local Punjabis and established a formidable army and under his command not only Sikhs but Punjabi Muslims were united and he started a conquest of Reclaiming the lands of Punjab and also as a retribution of Afghan Empire he attacked Peshawar and defeated all Pukhtoon tribes up to Khyber Pass and formed the secular Sikh Empire and later as a result of Wars between Sikh Empire and British out of which the most famous were First Anglo-Sikh War and the Second Anglo-Sikh War the Sikh Empire came to an end but until the Britishers came no Pukhtoon tribe was able to recapture Peshawar from Sikh Punjabi forces.

A number of armored regiments in the British Army retain the historic designations of Hussars, Dragoons, Dragoon Guards or Lancers.

On the northwest frontier of India during the British Raj, Scottish-Canadian Lieutenant Alan McGregor ( Gary Cooper ) welcomes two replacements to the 41st Bengal Lancers, Lieutenant Forsythe ( Franchot Tone ) and Lieutenant Donald Stone ( Richard Cromwell ), the son of the unit's commander, Colonel Tom Stone ( Guy Standing ).

Part of a reconnaissance troop of the British 12th Lancers on training manoeuvres, c 1938

The British light cavalry regiment, the 21st Lancers, was sent ahead to clear the plain to Omdurman.

A British Indian Army cavalry regiment, 6th Duke of Connaught's Own Lancers ( Watson's Horse ) was named for the duke.

At the age of 19, he joined the 17th Lancers, the regiment of his maternal uncle, HRH The Duke of Cambridge, who was the commander-in-chief of the British Army from 1856-1895.

* The Queen's Royal Lancers, an armoured regiment of the British Army

In the Sbiba area facing the German armored advance was the British 6th Armoured Division ( less its 26th Armoured Brigade which except for the tanks of the 16 / 5th Lancers had been sent to Thala ).

Recognizing the opportunity, Latour-Marbourg's 2nd Hussars and First Vistula Lancers ( a Polish unit ) to attack the British line before the infantry could form its defensive squares.

* Charge of the 21st Lancers in the Battle of Omdurman, September 2, 1898: 400 British cavalry charge 2, 500 Mahdist infantry.

In an environment of systematic reprisal by the British, Captain Octavius Anson, of the 9th Lancers, recalled observing acts of punitive violence against Indian civilians, including the alleged kiling of incapacitated villagers by soldiers of the 8th Foot.

* The British Army's Queen's Royal Lancers continue to use the skull and crossbones in their emblem, inherited from its use by the 17th Lancers-a unit raised in 1759 following General Wolfe's death in Quebec, with an emblem of a death's head and the words ' Or Glory ' chosen in commemoration of him.

In 1915, Fitzmaurice enlisted in the British Army, 17th Lancers ( a cavalry unit ).

It augments the Joint CBRN Regiment and provides CBRN reconnaissance capability to the British Army's formation reconnaissance regiments ( the Household Cavalry, Light Dragoons, Queen's Royal Lancers, 9th / 12th Royal Lancers and Queen's Dragoon Guards ).

In British Army service the CVR ( T ) is mainly used by the Formation reconnaissance regiments which are the Household Cavalry, 1st Queen's Dragoon Guards, 9th / 12th Royal Lancers, Light Dragoons, Queen's Royal Lancers, the Royal Yeomanry and the Queen's Own Yeomanry.

In August 1974, Scorpions from A Squadron 16th / 5th The Queen's Royal Lancers, were transported by C-130 Hercules to Cyprus, to protect the British Sovereign Base Areas during the Turkish invasion.

He was about 33 years old, and a private in the 9th Lancers ( The Queen's Royal ), British Army during the Indian Mutiny when the following deed took place on 19 June 1857 at Delhi, India for which he and John Purcell were awarded the VC:

The 17th Lancers ( Duke of Cambridge's Own ) was a cavalry regiment of the British Army, notable for its participation in the Charge of the Light Brigade in the Crimean War.

He joined the British Army and served in the 9th Queen's Royal Lancers and then in the 12th ( Prince of Wales's ) Royal Lancers, finally as a major.

The son of John de La Poer Beresford, 4th Marquess of Waterford, Beresford was 31 years old, and a captain in the 9th Queen's Royal Lancers, British Army during the Zulu War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.

He was Major in the 7th Hariana Lancers, British Indian Army, during World War I.