Category: United Kingdom

Cause and Effect

Brexit and the Crisis of Europe

The 'Leave' vote in United Kingdom's...

Australasia 1788

First Fleet

Prior to the American Revolutionary War...

Australasia 1789

Mutiny on the Bounty

Even as the British were establishing the...

Australasia 1794

Australasia and the French Revolution

In 1789 the French Revolution forced King...

Australasia 1801

Napoleonic France in Australasia

In 1794–95 the revolutionary French Republic...

Australasia 1803

Expanding from New South Wales

Baudin’s French exploratory expedition to...

Australasia 1808

Rum Rebellion

In 1806 William Bligh was made Governor of New...

Australasia 1811

Interregnum in the Dutch East Indies

France’s occupation of the Netherlands during...

Australasia 1815

Settling the Australian interior

Until the 1810s all British attempts to...

Europe 1815

Holy Alliance

In the wake of the Seventh Coalition’s victory...

Europe 1818

Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle

In November 1815 the French signed the Second...

the Arctic 1818

Treaty of 1818

Fighting between Britain and the United States...

Australasia 1820

Australasia after the Napoleonic Wars

In 1815 the Napoleonic Wars came to an end and...

Europe 1820

Revolutions of 1820

Following the end of the Napoleonic Wars, the...

Europe 1821

Greek War of Independence

In 1814 a secret organization called the...