Explore: British History (history)

This is a timeline of British history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in the United Kingdom and its predecessor

The history of the British Isles began with its sporadic human habitation during the Palaeolithic from around 900,000 years ago. The British Isles has

The history of the British Virgin Islands is usually, for convenience, broken up into five separate periods: Pre-Columbian Amerindian settlement, up to

The history of British newspapers begins in the 17th century with the emergence of regular publications covering news and gossip. The relaxation of government

The British farthing (derived from the Old English feorthing, a fourth part) was a British coin worth a quarter of an old penny (1⁄960 of a pound sterling)

rule over Indonesia. The British also colonized Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa with large numbers of British colonists emigrating to

the term is used in contexts other than British history, "whig history" (lowercase) is preferred. In the British context, whig historians emphasize the

Rebellion of 1857, the British Government took over the administration to establish the British Raj. The British Raj was the period of British Parliament rule

into existence on 1 January 1901 as a federation of former British colonies. The human history of Australia, however, commences with the arrival of the

The history of Egypt under the British lasted from 1882, when it was occupied by British forces during the Anglo-Egyptian War, until 18 June 1956, when