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1900
 
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Paul Kruger flees after the British take Pretoria and annexe both the Boer republics      
1900
 
    
Puerto Ricans are granted limited democracy in a bill of rigfhts introduced after two years of US military occupation       
1900
 
   
Hostility to foreign intrusion erupts in China with the Boxer Rising      
1900
 
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The British government assumes direct responsibility for the entire region of Nigeria, previously entrusted to a commercial company      
1901
 
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Thousands of women and children die in the concentration camps used by the British army for displaced Boer families       
1902
 
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Cuba becomes independent after three years of US military rule, with certain restrictions imposed by the Platt Amendment of 1901   See in Google maps   
1902
 
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A treaty at Vereeniging ends the Boer War and brings the Boer republics under British control       
1902
 
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After the defeat of neighbouring Transvaal in the Boer War, the British take sole control of Swaziland       
1903
 
   
Cuba is forced to accept a permanent US military presence in Guantanamo Bay   See in Google maps   
1903
 
    
Edward VII, the first British monarch to travel to India, holds a great coronation durbar in Delhi