British Empire
Explore British Empire on Ever-When, an interactive timeline of history from the Big Bang to the present day.
Key events on this timeline
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- British East India Company chartered (1600)
- Abolition of slavery in British Empire (1833)
- Indian Rebellion of 1857 (1857)
- Britain abolishes the slave trade (1807)
- Company rule in India (1757)
- Battle of Plassey (1757)
- Early English settlement of North America (1585)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869)
- First British settlement in Australia (1788)
- American Revolutionary War (1775)
- Captain Cook's first Pacific voyage (1768)
- Second Boer War (1899)
- Victoria becomes Empress of India (1876)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Gandhi begins the Salt March (1930)
- British Raj (1858)
- Jamestown founded (1607)
- Statute of Westminster 1931 (1931)
- Diwani of Bengal granted to East India Company (1765)
- Treaty of Paris (1763) (1763)
- Atlantic slave trade (1500)
- Opium Wars (1839)
- Fall of Singapore (1942)
- Treaty of Waitangi signed (1840)
- Jallianwala Bagh massacre (1919)
- British Raj begins (1858)
- Hong Kong returned to China (1997)