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Between 1885 and 1914, Britain brought nearly 30 % of Africa's population under its control, to 15 % for France, 9 % for Germany, 7 % for Belgium and 1 % for Italy: Nigeria alone contributed 15 million subjects to Britain, more than in the whole of French West Africa, or the entire German colonial empire.
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Between 1884 and 1885, European nations met at the Berlin West Africa Conference to discuss the partitioning of Africa.
Between 1878 and 1919 Britain, France and Germany, busy extending their own colonial territories in the region, threatened Liberia militarily, and France and Britain forced Liberia to cede parts of its territory to them ( 1883, 1885, 1892, 1903, 1919 ).
Between then and 1885, the Sorbonne served as the seat of the university's theology faculties and of the Académie de Paris.
Between 1880 and 1900, many significant canals were constructed, including the Huntington Canal ( 1884 ), Emery Canal ( 1885 ), Cleveland Canal ( 1885 ), and the Wakefield Ditch ( 1880 ).
Between 1 March 1883 and 30 September 1885 the line also served stations from Ealing Broadway to Windsor, running on the Great Western Main Line.
Between 1880 and 1885 the courts were clogged with a large number of cases, many of them about land claims and properties.
Between 1885 and 1888, several buildings were moved to the present location on the Whitewater River after the Missouri Pacific railroad came through the area.
Between 1885 and 1916, Crawick even had its own post office ( known as Crawick Bridge ); it also had gas-powered streetlights two years before the rest of the town of Sanquhar.
Between 1885 and 1915, the Liberty Bell made seven trips to various expositions and celebrations.
Between 1883 and 1885, she taught three terms of school, worked for the local dressmaker and attended high school, although she did not graduate.
Between 1870 and 1885 the canal was enlarged to a depth of six and a half meters at its centre, and to a width of 17 meters at its base and 68 meters at the surface level: bridges were rebuilt accordingly along the Belgian sector.
Between the years 1885 and 1897, Léo Taxil maintained a hoax against both Freemasonry and the Roman Catholic Church, by making increasingly outlandish claims regarding Freemasonry.
* Between 1884 and 1885 seasons
* Between 1885 and 1886 seasons
Between 1885 and 1918 it formed part of the South Monmouthshire constituency, and since then has been within the Monmouth county constituency.
Between 1883 and 1885 Maxim patented gas, recoil and blow-back methods of operation.
Between 1876 and 1883, Battleford was the territorial capital of the Northwest Territories ( now Alberta, Saskatchewan, Nunavut, northern Quebec, northern Ontario and the Northwest Territories ) and the NWMP fort ( Fort Battleford ) located there played an important role in the 1885 Northwest Rebellion.
Between 1885 and 1897, the people of Greystones campaigned for a harbour to aid the fishing industry and imports such as coal.
Between 1885 and 1886 he served as Lord Privy Seal in Lord Salisbury's first government.
Between 1866 and 1885, 57. 7 % all races were won by the crew on the Berkshire station, with the Buckinghamshire and Centre crews sharing 42. 3 %.
Between the passing of the Second Reform Act of 1867 and the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, the town was part of the East Cheshire constituency.
Between 1885 and 1918 the town was part of the Hyde county constituency.
Between 1861 and 1885 he served as Lord Lieutenant of Devon.
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Between 1914 and 1915 talks were held for a proposed amalgamation with rugby league, the predominant code of football in New South Wales and Queensland was considered and trialled.
Between the years 1910 and 1914, a prison rock quarry was operated on the Fidalgo Island side of the pass.
Between 1892 and 1914 destroyers became markedly larger: initially 420 tons with a length of for the US Navy's first Bainbridge class of torpedo boat destroyers, up to the First World War with long destroyers displacing 1000 tons was not unusual.
Between 1805 and 1914, the ruling dynasty of Egypt ruled de jure viceroys of the Ottoman Empire, but acted as de facto independent rulers who maintained a polite fiction of Ottoman suzerainty.
Between 1904 and 1914, around 40, 000 Jews settled in Southern Syria ( the Second Aliyah ).
Between the abolition of serfdom and the beginning of World War I in 1914, the Stolypin reforms, the constitution of 1906 and State Duma introduced notable changes to the economy and politics of Russia, but the tsars were still not willing to relinquish autocratic rule, or share their power.
Between 1898 and 1914, the peak years of Italian diaspora, approximately 750, 000 Italians emigrated each year.
Between the 1870s and the beginning of World War I in 1914, the United Kingdom, France, and the Netherlands — the established colonial powers in Asia — added to their empires vast expanses of territory in the Middle East, the Indian Subcontinent, and South East Asia.
Between 1908 and 1914, it was instrumental in pioneering the British avant-garde from Vorticism to Imagism.
Between 1860 and 1914, the gravity dropped from 1. 058 ° to 1. 050 ° and the hopping rate from two pounds to one pound per 36 gallon barrel.
Between 1906 and 1914 more than four million settlers arrived in that region.
Between 1905 and 1914 half the population of the western plains region died.
Between 1914 and 1916 he was literary editor of The Egoist, and columnist there.
Between 4 – 13 October 1914, the troops in Lille were able to trick the enemy by convincing them that Lille possessed more artillery than was the case ; in reality, the city had only a single cannon.
Between 1897 and 1914, applications were received from a number of other boroughs, but only one was successful: in 1905, Cardiff was designated a city and granted a lord mayoralty as " the Metropolis of Wales ".
Between August 7 and August 22, 1914, Kalisz was destroyed almost completely after the entry of the German units led by Hermann Preusker.
Between 1905 and 1914 he served as second conductor at the Royal Theatre.
Between 1910 and 1920, mining operations jumped around to several seams and the number of miners fluctuated between a low of 54 in 1910 and a high of over 600 in 1914.
Between 1914 and 1921 it was briefly returned to Forrest.
Between 1888 and 1914 numerous business developed along the corridor of Main and High Streets, those included: restaurants, drug stores, barber shops, banks, watch and clock repair shops, cigar factory, funeral parlor and casket factory, among several others.
Between 1909 and 1914, Dyersburg emerged as a regional railroad hub as it became the junction point for three different lines, led by the Illinois Central Railroad.
Between 1914 and 1918, the castle was home to both psychiatric and tuberculosis patients, 912 of whom died of malnutrition.
* The McMahon Line: A Study in the Relations Between India, China and Tibet, 1904 – 1914.
Between 1914 and 1918 there were 33 members of the LSO away on active service ; between 1939 and 1945 there were more than 60, of whom seven were killed.
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