British Empire Every Year

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This video is about the territorial gains and losses of the British Empire from 1600 to 1982. Minor colonies and shared land are not shown on this map.

Music (All are Hoi4 Songs):
Days of Thunder
Axis Theme
The Attack

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[CodeBlocksCode]

Watching a DoniMaps video is an out of body experience

[paulroberts]

You left New Zealand off the entire map. And from the Commonwealth.

[resilient]

Really cool map. Who cares if it was off by a couple years or so. The point came across. And it was entertaining. Good job

[geoffreydonaldson]

Many inaccuracies—the ceding of Newfoundland, for example, was ten years off and, for another example, the Falklands seems to have been totally forgotten.

[stanleybuchan]

When I joined the RAF in 1972, you could fly from UK to Aus hopping from one RAF base to the next all the way.

[kevinfarrell]

This is an incorrect depiction of Ireland. We obtained our independence from Britain (excluding 6 of the 32 counties in Northern Ireland) in 1922.

[Eraeraeric]

Fun fact: the majority of independence days were caused by The British Empire

[Lemarchelesa]

One of the things that most greatly influenced Britains interest in America was the massive forests filled with straight and impressively tall Eastern white pines. Since throughout most of Europe trees straight and tall enough to provide masts for the ships of the British Navy had long since disappeared, there only remained Finland as a source of these trees. The route to Finland passed through Swedish waters and the British had to pay tariffs every time they did so. The tension between Britain and Sweden became so fraught that they looked for an alernative solution.

[legend]

Crazy to imagine that a small speck on the world map controlled so many landmasses.

[agacummins]

Republic of Ireland became independent on the 6th of December 1921 as Anglo-Irish Treaty was signed

[johnireland]

We've gone from an empire, to a third world slum in a very short period of time.

[Paulsqdrn]

Now we can't organise the filling of a pothole.

[kurketin]

In Antarctica, the international treaty governs, according to which there is no sovereignty of any
country 2:22

[klashnacovak]

It's crazy how much the British empire ruled and to see the state of Britain today.

[julianmorris]

Great men built this empire, weak men ran it into the ground.

[malcolmabram]

Thank you for producing this video. Two observations. The Faroe islands have never been part of the British Empire. The Falklands (which are still British) were never highlighted. Thank you.

[hiddenharmonicssystemforwi]

Canada became an independent country in 1867. It was a member of the commonwealth, it was not a colony after that.

[komodosp]

You messed up Republic of Ireland, it was independent long before 1970.

[warcreed]

The map has some errors. Ireland got independance in 1919 and wasn't part of British commonwealth (except north Ireland). Egypt got independance in 1936 and Jordan in 1946, Israel in 1948, they were no longer parts of the British empire at that point. For some reason the map didn't update. By the way, why Canada, Australia and South africa were dissapeared from the British empire at 1930's? They were already independent much before.

[TheBournad]

You forgot Hong Kong, and I can't see New Zealand