British Empire

THE BRITISH EMPIRE

IRENE RODRÍGUEZ, ANA PASTOR, CARLOS JIMÉNEZ, MARIO FERNÁNDEZ

INDEX

1. INTRODUCTION

2. TIMELINE

3. QUEEN VICTORIA

4. CONCLUSION

INTRODUCTION

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• From the 16th to the 20th century.
• 412 million people, 23% of the world population.
• 35.500.000 Km2, 24% of Earth's total land area.
• Main reason: trade and financial benefit.

The colonies

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• They established their colonies in North America.
• Spread gradually to Africa and Asia.
• Then they lost 13 American colonies ; Australia and New Zealand.

British controlled the sea routes. There was a group called the Pax Britannica, who had the role of global policeman.

TIMELINE

19 century

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Lost of the thirteen American colonies

Exploration of the Pacific

War with Napoleonic France

Abolition of slavery

East India company in Asia

Enemity with Russia

Independence of the white colonies

1776

1815

1786

1914

100 years later

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18001810

• British captured Malta
• Nelson won Battle of Trafalgar

18101820

• War in the Canada vs Americans
• British burnt the White House

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18201830

• Chinese tea monopoly ended because of India.
• Anglo-Russian Treaty: border Alaska-Canada

18301840

• First Afghan War
• First Opium War in China

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18401850

• Britain conquered Hong Kong
• Daniell O'Connell found guilty of political conspiracy.

18501860

• Treaty of Peshawar: Britain and Afghanistan vs Persia
• Abolition of slavery

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18601870

• Canada becoame a Dominion
• Football Association form

18701880

• Wimbledon Tennis Championship
• Victoria became Empress of India

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18801890

• Jack the Ripper murders in London
• Victoria's Golden Jubilee.

18901900

• Women suffrage in New Zeland
• Death duties introduced in Britain

QUEEN VICTORIA

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24 May 1819 22 January 1901

CONCLUSION

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• The British Empire was very powerful.
• But like all empires ended up falling.
• Most of the colonies became independent.

Mr Rochester , Jane's lover, went to Jamaica.

Jamaica was a British colony from 1707 until 1962, when it became independent

REFERENCES ON JANE EYRE

REFERENCES ON JANE EYRE

• The author described the era from a social point of view.
• She did not refere to the wars as much as she wrote about society.

Mario Fernández Carlos Jiménez Ana Pastor Irene Rodríguez

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