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  1. May 15, 2018 · Despite the presence of Fort Ross, it would have been tough for Imperial Russia to pacify and administer California. Britain on the other hand demonstrably had the resources to run overseas colonies, and already had major business interests nearby in what is now British Columbia. Around 1830, as its business connections in mainland Mexico ...

  2. Jul 7, 2000 · Nigel Saul tells how, in spite of famines and visitations of the plague, conditions were better than ever before for those living in 1400. At the end of the fourteenth century the British Isles were a land transformed. At the beginning of the century the population everywhere had been high and rising. Towns and villages had been crowded.

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  4. May 5, 2021 · For the sixth-century British writer Gildas, the end of Roman Britain was sudden, dramatic and apocalyptic. The actions of such ‘tyrants’ certainly played a part in depleting the British garrison, which towards the end of the fourth century numbered between 12,000 and 30,000 men. In AD 367, a rebellion of the troops on Hadrian’s Wall was ...

  5. Nov 26, 2019 · The largest in history at its height, there is little left of the British Empire today. Award-winning spoken word artist George the Poet has revealed that he turned down an MBE because of the ...

  6. The California Gold Rush not only transformed the cultural landscape of California but also had far-reaching effects on the state’s economy and infrastructure. The massive influx of people during the gold rush led to rapid population growth. California’s population swelled from around 14,000 in 1848 to over 223,000 by 1852.

  7. Sep 10, 2018 · Dr Amanda Behm, a Lecturer in the Department of History has won a British Academy Small Research Grant for her project ‘ Albion Pacific: California and the contested frontiers of Imperial Britain ’. This project reframes existing models of British imperial history by actively querying the nineteenth-century divergence between authoritarian ...

  8. Jan 2, 2021 · A leap year is a year with 366 days, instead of the usual 365. Leap years are necessary because the actual length of a year is nearly 365.25 days, not 365 days as commonly stated. Leap years occur every four years, and years that are evenly divisible by four (2020, for example) have 366 days. This extra day is added to the calendar on February 29.