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Nazi Germany occupied by Britain, France, the United States and the Soviet Union in 1945. Unlike in Austria , no German central government was retained in any of the occupation zones. The British and American occupation zones were merged in 1947 to form the Bizone , and the French zone was added into it in 1948.
List of conflicts in the British America is a timeline of events that includes Indian wars, battles, skirmishes massacres and other related items that occurred in Britain's American territory up to 1783 when British America was formally ended by the Treaty of Paris and replaced by British North America and the United States.
1861–65: The American Civil War in the United States, between the United States and the Confederate States of America, which was formed out of eleven southern states. 1863–65: A counter-rebellion occurred in the self-declared Free State of Jones in Mississippi. 1861–66: Quantrill's Raiders in Missouri. 1862: The Sioux Uprising in ...
Battle of Flodden Field: Invading England, King James IV of Scotland and thousands of other Scots were killed in a defeat at the hands of the English. 1516 18 February Mary I, the future queen of England (r. 1553-1558), is born to parents Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon. 1521: Lutheran writings begin to circulate in England. 1527 21 May
The United States expropriated from Panama additional areas around the soon-to-be-built Madden Dam and annexed them to the Panama Canal Zone. [367] [375] Caribbean Sea: May 3, 1932 The United States adjusted the border at Punta Paitilla in the Canal Zone, returning a small amount of land to Panama. This was the site for a planned new American ...
The United States would gain all of the area east of the Mississippi River, north of Florida, and south of Canada. The northern boundary would be almost the same as today. The United States would gain fishing rights off the Atlantic coast of Canada, and agreed to allow British merchants and Loyalists to try to recover their property. It was a ...
By the 18th century, England rivaled the Netherlands as one of the freest countries in Europe. [ 107 ] In 1665, London was swept by the plague , and in 1666 by the Great Fire for 5 days which destroyed about 15,000 buildings.
A History of Britain is a series of three books by Simon Schama, written to accompany his BBC television series A History of Britain. The volumes are: A History of Britain I: At the Edge of the World? 3000 BC–AD 1603 (BBC, 2000, ISBN 0-563-48714-3) A History of Britain II: The British Wars 1603–1776 (BBC, 2001, ISBN 0-563-48718-6)