He was born in Karachi ( then under British colonial rule ), to Aga Khan II and his third wife, Nawab A ' lia Shamsul-Muluk, who was a granddaughter of Iran Fath Ali Shah of Persia ( Qajar dynasty ).

In 1906, the Aga Khan was a founding member and first president of the All India Muslim League, a political party which pushed for the creation of an independent Muslim nation in the north west regions of South Asia, then under British colonial rule, and later established the country of Pakistan in 1947.

* 1961 – CONCP is founded in Casablanca as a united front of African movements opposing Portuguese colonial rule.

Before then, the government was a Crown colony consisting of either colonial administration solely ( such as the Executive Council ), or a mixture of colonial rule and a partially elected assembly, such as the Legislative Council.

Whereas up until this point the Dutch presence had been simply as traders, that was sometimes treaty-based, the Banda conquest marked the start of the first overt colonial rule in Indonesia albeit under the auspices of the VOC.

Throughout the colonial period, large areas of Chad were never governed effectively: in the huge BET Prefecture, the handful of French military administrators usually left the people alone, and in central Chad, French rule was only slightly more substantive.

The state gradually came under French colonial rule.

The Cayman Islands ' physical isolation under early British colonial rule allowed the development of an indigenous set of administrative and legal traditions which were codified into a constitution in 1959.

Responsible to the governor, town councils known as Cabildo administered local municipalities, the most important of which was Santiago, which was the seat of a Royal Appeals Court () from 1609 until the end of colonial rule.

The underdeveloped agrarian economy inherited from colonial rule has been transformed into a modern economy, with dynamic services, industrial and agricultural sectors and an advanced physical and social infrastructure.

The Spanish colonial rule posited, according to Cahill, that the character and quality of people varied according to their color, race and origin of ethnic types.

Post-colonialism ( or post-colonial theory ) can refer to a set of theories in philosophy and literature that grapple with the legacy of colonial rule.

It has been noted that this was a key part of the process of the reduction of the Indian economy from sophisticated textile production to a mere supplier of raw materials which occurred under colonial rule, a process described by Nehru and more recent scholars as " de-industrialization.

In 1949 during the French colonial rule, the law required the main ethnic groups, the Afar and the Somali to participate as separate electorates.

Political developments, including the formation and growth of the Tanganyika African National Union ( TANU ), led to Tanganyika attaining independence from colonial rule in December 1961.

It is one of Canada's oldest universities, founded during British colonial rule.

The Criollos ' resentment of the privileges enjoyed by the Peninsulares was the fuel of revolution against colonial rule.

Thus, this early revolt against colonial rule ( one of the first in Spanish America ) was, paradoxically, an expression of loyalty to the Spanish king.

The second chapter in Ecuador's struggle for emancipation from Spanish colonial rule began in Guayaquil, where independence was proclaimed in October 1820 by a local patriotic junta under the leadership of the poet José Joaquín de Olmedo.

The dominant religion of Fortaleza is Roman Catholicism due to the influence of Portuguese settlers and missionaries during the colonial rule of Brazil.

However, by 1915 this process was complete, enabling Portuguese colonial rule to progress in a relatively unruffled state-until the emergence of nationalist movements all over Africa in the 1950s.

In Haiti, deforestation has long been cited by scientists as a source of ecological crisis ; the timber industry dates back to French colonial rule.

Although it was the primary language since colonial rule, Italian greatly declined under the rule of Muammar Gaddafi, who expelled the Italian Libyan population and made Arabic became the sole official language of the country.

This was particularly true in the world arena, which was an anarchical battleground characterized by strife and avaricious competition for colonial empires.

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

The name " Alaska " ( Аляска ) was already introduced in the Russian colonial period, when it was used only for the peninsula and is derived from the Aleut alaxsxaq, meaning " the mainland " or, more literally, " the object towards which the action of the sea is directed ".

Thus a colonial bishop and colonial diocese was by nature quite a different thing from their counterparts back home.

Afonso de Albuquerque ( or archaically spelt as Aphonso d ' Albuquerque and also spelt as Alfonso, and Alphonso ; ; 1453December 16, 1515 ), 1st Duke of Goa, was a Portuguese fidalgo, or nobleman, an admiral whose military and administrative activities as second governor of Portuguese India conquered and established the Portuguese colonial empire in the Indian Ocean.

The American lobster was a staple of the colonial diet.

His last opera was a German language singspiel Die Neger, ( The Negroes ), a melodrama set in colonial Virginia with a text by Georg Friedrich Treitschke ( the author of the libretto for Beethoven's Fidelio ) performed in 1804 and was a complete failure.

He was active in community affairs, colonial and state politics, as well as national and international affairs.

Her father was " the sort of rebel destined to transform colonial America "; as clerk of the court, he was jailed for disobeying the local magistrate in defense of middle-class shopkeepers and artisans in conflict with wealthy landowners.

Its expansion over the following two and a half centuries was largely a result of an expanding British colonial footprint and has resulted in the creation of several branch institutions, the first being the British Museum ( Natural History ) in South Kensington in 1887.

With British colonial expansion from the seventeenth century onwards, the Anglican Church was planted across the globe.

The Kingdom of Italy was a relative newcomer to the colonial scramble for Africa.

" Lewis believes that it " was his farsighted certainty that total annihilation of Baratieri and a sweep into Eritrea would force the Italian people to turn a bungled colonial war into a national crusade " that stayed his hand.

The decisive colonial battle for Chad was fought on April 22, 1900 at Battle of Kousséri between forces of French Major Amédée-François Lamy and forces of the Sudanese warlord Rabih az-Zubayr.

At the Battle of Vienna ( 1683 ), the Army of the Holy Roman Empire, led by the Polish King John III Sobieski, decisively defeated a large Turkish army, ending the western colonial Ottoman advance and leading to the eventual dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire in Europe.

* 1997 – China resumes sovereignty over the city-state of Hong Kong, ending 156 years of British colonial rule.

* Kowloon Walled City-Kowloon, Hong Kong ( demolished before Britain handed over Hong Kong to the Chinese, ending the reason for Kowloon Walled City's existence, it was a small ungoverned land of Chinese territory embedded in British colonial territory )

The Samoan crisis came to a critical juncture in March 1889 when all three colonial contenders sent warships into Apia harbour, and a larger-scale war seemed imminent, until a massive storm on 15 March 1889 damaged or destroyed the warships, ending the military conflict.

The Samoan crisis came to a critical juncture in March 1889 when all three colonial contenders sent warships into Apia harbour, and a larger-scale war seemed imminent, until a massive storm on 15 March 1889 damaged or destroyed the warships, ending the military conflict.

In 1898, the United States won victory in the Spanish-American War from Spain, ending the colonial era.

But the war between the French colonial forces and the Việt Minh continued, ending in 1954 shortly after a major victory for the Việt Minh at Điện Biên Phủ.

At the London Economic Conference of 1933, the head of the German delegation, the Economics Minister Dr. Alfred Hugenberg of the German National People's Party, put forth a programme of German colonial expansion in both Africa and Eastern Europe as the best way of ending the Great Depression, which created a major storm at the conference.

It incorporates a number of other factual elements such as the European-like appearance of many Nuristani people, and an ending modelled on the return of the head of the explorer Adolf Schlagintweit to colonial administrators.

Spain returned its portion of Louisiana to France in 1800, but French leader Napoleon Bonaparte sold it to the United States in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, permanently ending French colonial efforts on the American mainland.

Spain returned its portion of Louisiana to France in 1800 under the secret Treaty of San Ildefonso, but French leader Napoleon Bonaparte sold it to the United States in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, permanently ending French colonial efforts on the North American mainland.

In 1654, the Swedes captured Fort Casimir, but the following year in 1655, the Dutch took control of New Sweden, ending the official Swedish colonial presence in North America and renaming the fort ' Fort Altena '.

After the 1890 British Ultimatum, colonial treaties with the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ( one signed in August 1890 that defined their African borders along the Zambezi and Congo rivers and another signed on 14 October 1899, that confirmed colonial treaties of the 17th century ) stabilised the situation in Africa, ending Portuguese claims of sovereignty on the Pink Map.

Political independence came on September 7, 1822, and the prince was crowned emperor in Rio de Janeiro as Dom Pedro I, ending 322 years of colonial dominance of Portugal over Brazil.

The school changed its name and location several times, ending up as the Academy of Newark in 1769 ( chartered by the colonial government ).

The division of Korea into North Korea and South Korea stems from the 1945 Allied victory in World War II, ending Japan's 35-year colonial rule of Korea.

It is a successor region that was created by areas from existing territories undergoing parallel political transitions beginning with disputes over which country owned the region ( See Oregon Country ); by 1863 the area west of the Continental Divide that was formerly part of the huge Oregon Territory ( by now some was a state ) had been sundered from the coastal Washington Territory north of the young State of Oregon to the far west and the remnant of the Oregon Territory was officially ' unorganized '— whereas most of the area east of the Continental Divide had been part of the loosely defined Dakota Territory ending along the 49th parallel — now the border with Canada, then a colonial possession of Great Britain.

On 07 / 05 / 1954 Dien Bien province has made historic victory of Dien Bien Phu is regarded as " illustrious earth tremors five continents ", ending 80 years under the yoke of colonial slavery feudalism.

This was a war of annihilation through terrorism and insurgency waged by black guerrillas ( ZANLA / ZANU and ZIPRA / ZAPU ) with the goal of ending white minority rule in Rhodesia, a colonial nation led by Ian Smith.

On 9 February 1662, Frederick Coyett handed over the keys to the fort and led the remaining Dutch forces and civilians back to Batavia by sea, ending 38 years of Dutch colonial rule on Taiwan.

* Britain engages in war on France in the North American theatre, marking the start of King George's War, the third French and Indian War, ending American colonial neutrality in the War of the Austrian Succession.

The Spanish protectorate of Morocco ( Himayet Isbaniya fi Al-Maghreb ; ) was the area of Morocco under colonial rule by the Spanish Empire, established by the Treaty of Fez in 1912 and ending in 1956, when both France and Spain recognized Moroccan independence.

The Manifesto was published in two versions ( October 11, 1849 and December 1849 ) by the Annexation Association, an alliance of 325 Montreal businessmen ( mostly English-speaking Tories ), who were opposed to Britain's abolition of the Corn Laws, thus ending preferential colonial trade, and by its consent to the Rebellion Losses Bill, and French Canadian nationalists ( including Louis-Joseph Papineau ) who supported the republican system of government in the United States.