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1906
 
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Transvaal is given the self-governing status promised in the treaty ending the Boer War        
1906
 
   
The All-India Muslim League is set up at a meeting of the Muhammadan Educational Conference in Dhaka      
1907
 
    
New Zealand becomes independent as a self-governing dominion       
1909
 
     
Mahatma Gandhi, on a visit to India, publishes a pamphlet entitled Hind Swaraj ("Indian Home Rule")        
1910
 
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The Union of South Africa becomes an independent dominion within the British empire        
1911
 
    
The British monarch George V holds a great durbar in Delhi to celebrate his coronation as emperor of India       
1913
 
     
Construction begins on the government buildings in New Delhi, designed by Edwin Lutyens and Herbert 1Baker        
Edwin Lutyens, by Robert Lutyens, 1959
National Portrait Gallery, London

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1914
 
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British rule is consolidated in Nigeria by the merging of north and south as a single colony      
1914
 
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The British government changes the status of Egypt from a Turkish province to a British protectorate     
1914 August 4
 
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Bound by treaty to defend Belgium, Britain declares war on Germany