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Royal Charter granted to the East India Company

Seven Years’ War

Battle of Plassey

British Colonial Expansion in India

First Anglo-Mysore War

First Anglo-Maratha War

Second Anglo-Mysore War

Arrival of Freed Slaves in Sierra Leone

Third Anglo-Mysore War

Fourth Anglo-Mysore War

Second Anglo-Maratha War

Establishment of Freetown, Sierra Leone

First Anglo-Afghan War

Britain Annexes the Natalia Republic

End of Company Rule in India

Britain annexes Basutoland

France and Britain agree on boundaries for Senegal and Gambia

Establishment of the British Protectorate of Uganda

French and British hostilities in Fashoda

First World War

Britain and France invade and capture German Kamerun

British and French forces capture Togoland and Kamerun

Third Anglo-Afghan War

Government of India Act, 1919

South West Africa becomes a British mandated territory administered by South Africa

German East Africa becomes British mandated Tanganyika

Britain and France receive mandate to govern Cameroon and Togoland

Government of India Act, 1935

Cripps Mission

Quit India Movement

Mass Migration from the Commonwealth to Britain

Partition and Independence of India and Pakistan

Commonwealth Immigrants Act

Independence of Uganda

Establishment of the Ministry of Overseas Development

Commonwealth Immigrants Act

Immigration Act

British entry to the European Economic Community

Establishment of the Department for International Development

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