1819    settlement of Singapore
1821    British settlements in the Gambia are placed under Crown rule and administered from Sierra Leone (the Gambia becomes a separate colony in 1894 and
                inland territory is added as a protectorate in 1894)
            British settlements in the Gold Coast are placed under Crown rule and administered from Sierra Leone (a protectorate is extended inland in 1830 and the
                colony off the Gold Coast is created in 1874)
1824    the first of three wars (1852, 1885) in which the British conquer the  territory of Burma (Burma is administered as part of India)
1826    Malacca, Penang, and Singapore are placed under a joint government—the Straits Settlement—under the East India Company (administered under the
                government of India from 1858 and as a separate colony from 1867)
1831    Britain creates British Guiana out of three Dutch possessions (Berbice, Demerara, and Essequibo conquered in 1796 and 1803 and annexed to Britain in
                1814)
1839    the EICo seizes Aden (transferred to the Crown as part of British India in 1859)
1838    Britain establishes crown rule in the Pitcairn Islands
1840    the Sultan of Brunei appoints James Brooke Rajah of Sarawak
1841    Britain establishes colonial rule in the Falkland Islands
1842    China cedes Hong Kong to Britain (additional territory is acquired in 1860)
1847    establishment of the colony of British Kaffraria (incorporated in the Cape Colony in 1866)
1861    Britain annexes Lagos (the Niger Districts Protectorate is established in 1885 and the Royal Niger Company gains territory in 1886, 1892, and 1898;
                Nigeria comes under crown rule in 1900)
1864    Britain seizes territory in Bhutan
1868    Britain annexes Basutoland (transferred to the Cape Colony in 1871 but returned to British protection in 1884)
1874    Britain annexes Fiji at the invitation of Fiji chiefs
            Britain starts signing treaties with Malay rulers
1878    Cyprus is placed under British administration by treaty with Turkey
1879    the ruler of Tonga signs a treaty of friendship with Britain
1882    Britain conquers and occupies Egypt, though it remains nominally under the control of the Egyptian government
1884    the settlement in British Honduras (Belize) becomes a separate colony (to this point, it had been administered from Jamaica)
            Britain establishes a protectorate over British New Guinea
            the coast of British Somaliland is brought under protection from Aden (separate colony is set up in 1905)
1885    Bechuanaland declared a protectorate
1886    Britain demarcates a part of East Africa with Germany (the Imperial East Africa Company annexes the territory in 1888; it switches to Crown rule in 1895;
                becomes the colony of Kenya in 1920)
1887    the Maldive Islands become a British protectorate
            the Trucial States (Oman) sign treaties of protection with Britain
1888    Brunei is brought under British protection
            Britain annexes the Cook Islands
1891    Northern Zambesia is allocated to the British South Africa Company (crown rule replaces company rule in 1924)
            the Central African Protectorate is proclaimed over Nyasaland
1893    Britain establishes a protectorate over the Solomon Islands
1894    Buganda becomes a crown protectorate (the colony of Uganda is created in 1905)
1898    Britain re-establishes rule over the Sudan and set up an Anglo-Egyptian condominium
1899    Kuwait becomes a British protectorate