Day: January 23, 2015

FRENCH REVOLUTION AND AFTERMATH, 1789-1815 (Part 3)

COLONISATION AND DECOLONISATION OF ASIA  Coloniser, Colonies and Date of Independence:  United Kingdom:  Hong Kong (1997)  India (1947)  Burma (1948)  Palestine (1948)  Malaya (1957)  Ceylon (1948)  North Borneo (1963)  Sarawak (1963)  Singapore (1963)  Brunei (1984)  France: French India (1954)  Vietnam (1945)  Cambodia (1953)  Laos (1953)  Portugal: Portuguese India (1961)  Macau (1999)  Timor-Leste (1975/2002)  Spain:  Guam […]

Imperialism and Colonialism: Latin America   Colonisation of Latin America Extensive European colonization began in 1492, when a Spanish expedition headed by Genoese Christopher Columbus sailed west to find a new trade route to the Far East (India) but inadvertently found the Americas. selfstudyhistory.com Columbus’s first two voyages (1492–93) reached the Bahamas and various Caribbean […]