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Events relating to the british empire
Transvaal is given the self-governing status promised in the treaty ending the Boer War
The All-India Muslim League is set up at a meeting of the Muhammadan Educational Conference in Dhaka
New Zealand becomes independent as a self-governing dominion
Mahatma Gandhi, on a visit to India, publishes a pamphlet entitled Hind Swaraj ("Indian Home Rule")
The Union of South Africa becomes an independent dominion within the British empire
The British monarch George V holds a great durbar in Delhi to celebrate his coronation as emperor of India
Construction begins on the government buildings in New Delhi, designed by Edwin Lutyens and Herbert 1Baker
British rule is consolidated in Nigeria by the merging of north and south as a single colony
The British government changes the status of Egypt from a Turkish province to a British protectorate
Mahatma Gandhi returns to India after more than twenty years in South Africa
More than 300 die when British troops fire on a peaceful demonstration in Amritsar
League of Nations mandates give Britain responsibility for Iraq, Transjordan and Palestine
The Young Kikuyu Association is formed in Kenya, to fight for African rights and the restoration of Kikuyu land
Mahatma Gandhi is arrested by the British in India as an agitator and is sentenced to six years in prison
Rhodesia becomes a self-governing colony with political power exclusively in the hands of European settlers
The British government takes on the administration of Northern Rhodesia from the British South Africa Company
The Balfour Report, by former UK prime minister A.J. Balfour, suggests the way forward for the British Commonwealth of Nations
Jomo Kenyatta becomes the editor of Muigwithania, the newspaper of the Kikuyu Central Association
Mahatma Gandhi leads a 240-mile march from Ahmedabad to the sea to defy the British salt tax, thus launching a campaign of civil disobedience
Sectarian hostilities increase in Kashmir, with the Muslim majority resenting the favours shown by the British to the Sikh and Hindu elite
Mohammed Ali Jinnah becomes president of the Muslim League in India
Mahatma Gandhi launches the Quit India Movement, calling on a large crowd in Bombay to 'do or die' in the struggle to expel the British
Mahatma Gandhi and nearly all the leaders of India's Congress party are arrested and will remain in prison until the end of the war
Gamal Abdel Nasser and army colleagues form a secret party, the Free Officers, to fight for an independent Egyptian republic
In granting independence to India, Britain partitions the subcontinent along sectarian lines into Pakistan and the republic of India
