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| 1900 |
| | | Paul Kruger flees after the British take Pretoria and annexe both the Boer republics | |
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| 1900 |
| | | The British government assumes direct responsibility for the entire region of Nigeria, previously entrusted to a commercial company | |
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| 1901 |
| | | Six separate Australian colonies combine to form the independent Commonwealth of Australia | |
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| 1901 |
| | | Thousands of women and children die in the concentration camps used by the British army for displaced Boer families | |
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| 1902 |
| | | A treaty at Vereeniging ends the Boer War and brings the Boer republics under British control | |
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| 1902 |
| | | After the defeat of neighbouring Transvaal in the Boer War, the British take sole control of Swaziland | |
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| 1903 |
| | | Edward VII, the first British monarch to travel to India, holds a great coronation durbar in Delhi | |
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| 1904 |
| | | British troops under Francis Younghusband enter Tibet's holy city of Lhasa | |
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| 1905 |
| | | Kaiser Wilhelm II visits Tangier in support of Moroccan independence, causing a diplomatic crisis with the colonial powers France and Britain | |
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| 1906 |
| | | Mahatma Gandhi, confronted by racial discrimination in South Africa, launches a programme of passive resistance (satyagraha) | |
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