British Empire Every Year

[@CodeBlocksCode]

Watching a DoniMaps video is an out of body experience

[@JS-jh4cy]

As soon as Shakespeare farted, the empire started to grow

[@RonaldoFan-b9w]

Same with your mother

[@gcb4763]

Forgot New Zealand and Fiji and Samoa. They are the best parts.

[@tonyt7948]

I love the British empire

[@haroldkane9714]

Lucky red country's

[@paulroberts3639]

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

[@vijayvisht5499]

And then they lost everything.

[@ruralsheepdogsheep6790]

New zealand doesn't exist 😂

[@wh_kers]

​@@vijayvisht5499no. they just reprogrammed

[@TheWarAtHome]

Omg I'm a lie.

[@denisallen7783]

Absolutely!!!!!

[@geoffreydonaldson2984]

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

[@the_womble_king4357]

And it is a map without New Zealand or pacific islands.

[@lorddevonshire6382]

And horrendous mistakes with the Asian possessions after World War II, Kenya, Bechuanaland.... The list goes on. Utterly unreliable video.

[@lorddevonshire6382]

@phusseyo8781 Yup!

[@robbillington1982]

@phusseyo8781Shanghai weiheiwei, Hong Kong

[@dave3gan]

Has ireland painted red until approx 1970

[@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.

[@stanleybuchan4610]

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.

[@Gitsmasher]

You, my good sir are technically older than my country❤

[@lorddevonshire6382]

Glorious days

[@Donimaps420]

Thank you for your service

[@E69apeTheMatrix420]

But the jews won ww2 and made you give it all back and work for money they print backed by nothing other than the fact you work for it. The irony.

[@ForçaBarça86]

Ahora os gobierna un Indio 😂😂 Arriba España!

[@julianmorris9951]

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

[@kvarnerinfoTV]

Great? Genocides, theft, bullying... List of genocides, evil deeds, land theft, natural resources theft is endless. And now you dare to say anything to Russia and China. You should be happy that you still exist after everything your evil empire did and even after UK continued with its path of I justice, bullying, killing. Destruction of Libya, invasion of Iraq, pushing the Ukraine into this war by provoking Russians for decades along with USA. I am disgusted by UK, not common people, by its politics. British humornis my fav.

[@sandrider1406]

You think that displacing people and genocide is something to be proud of?

[@julianmorris9951]

@which empire are you talking about?, they all did it you know and you reap the benefits today.

[@ИльШакиров-о4д]

Великие сатанисты?

[@ckpalmeiras1318]

Come on. All the Johnny come lately empires of Britain, France and Spain just copied Portuguese innovation with larger populations. The Portugueezers invented the modern world with the invention of the caraval, the first time hundreds of men could man a ship that could survive in blue water far from the coasts, that allowed West Europe dominant the world.

[@Paul630sqdrn]

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

[@gulabchandkumawat9714]

It happens when you build your economy on the loots from other countries and it suddenly stops. I hope it helps. No love from India.

[@staraptor2711]

@@gulabchandkumawat9714Britain had a good economy long before it started conquering other places.

[@howardjones7370]

​@gulabchandkumawat9714 : Been to India several times, lots of love, especially from the older generations! 😂 And who would your many legions of scammers target, if not for elderly British people? Are you hankering for the old caste system days, when you treated your poorest like garbage, and set fire to your widows, oh wait! You still do a lot of that kind of thing! 😂

[@teleprojectinformer]

​@@staraptor2711Yup but their is a difference in good and prosperous economy, karma. They're back to good economy again

[@dcarbs2979]

@@gulabchandkumawat9714 Since when did India have anything worth looting?

[@agacummins4460]

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

[@Feuer-fs3kr]

No

[@ed7002]

We date the founding of the Irish State to 21 Jan 2019 when the first Dail met, declared independence and the Irish war of independence began the same day.

[@johnkeane1419]

​@@ed70021919?

[@bigbad25]

​@@ed7002 wrong. Takes like five mins to find out the Irish government and country officially recognise 6th of December 1921 Every Irish child knows this from school.

[@MrWelshboy81]

All because they plotted the assassination of Michael Collins

[@Eraeraeric]

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

[@HIT029]

fun fact...most of the independence was caused due to WW2...most of Arfica, Asia got their independence from rest of the European colonies after WW2...of WW2 didn't happen probably most will still be European colonies

[@AncestorsArchives]

Wonder what would happen if they didn't got the independence

[@onestepbeyond5221]

They probably wouldn't be killing each other ​@@AncestorsArchives

[@Tony_milne]

There's some more when Scotland and Wales regain their independence

[@Paul630sqdrn]

@@Eraeraeric brilliant mate.

[@kurketin]

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

[@geoffreydonaldson2984]

Prior to the treaty, many nations staked claims in Antarctica. The Norwegian claim is huge and, according to the treaty, unrecognized.

[@jpcodnia9133]

The portion of Antarctica that lies just South of Tierra del Fuego has been administered by Argentina since the year 1900 it basically has about 2/3 of the area shown on red South of Argentina. The international community will meet again in the year 2048 to confirm Sovereignty to those who have a designated territory down there or whether some changes would have to be made. Also, the islands next the southern Argentina went from Argentina (1820-1832) to Britain (since 1833) following the attack from the USS Lexington a war ship which went there to destroy the Argentine Settlement in 1832 as a result of retaliation on the part of the americans who were hunting whales and seals without a proper permit

[@cristeaadrian7419]

Nothing international and nothing to claim, just ice lots of it, not melting as they claim but continously expanding. But if you try to go there some military boats will stop anyone and start asking questions. Antarctica is split between 7 countries so as I said not international. So if is just ice, nothing interesting why we can't visit? Because there away from world eyes are most secret labs, facility, organisations, military secret operations. Also haarp installations using weather as a weapon. In Africa and Antarctica they also search for viruses take to secret labs and try to improve to be used as weapons of mass destruction. But there is still hope empires of corporations and greed are about to collapse as Greek, Romans, Persian, Egyptian and all previous ones collapsed despite all weapons, gold, armies they had. Just like in sports, today you are champion, after few years you're not on top. Nothing is forever.

[@rajivmurkejee7498]

More correctly previous claimant's put their claim on hold-they haven't surrendered them.

[@alasdairgow4919]

@@jpcodnia9133but did it pass to Argentina from Spain when Argentina got independence in 1816? At that time there would still have been a plaque stating it was under claim of UK King George III. In any case where was Argentina in 1840 when the UK declared it theirs again? As with all empire battles… fight you for it.

[@legend3706]

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

[@ThaiSoup39]

Normans + Anglo-Saxons is quite the combo

[@Parasmunt]

Tech advantage wherever they went, unlike the Nazis their empire didn't gobble up advanced places. Mainly people armed with spears or riding on elephants.

[@ThaiSoup39]

@@Parasmunt The British Empire was spreading the impartial rule of English Common Law and thriving commerce. The Nazis were spreading tyranny. Very different models!

[@jimakach5802]

​@@ThaiSoup39plus Vikings 😅

[@malcolmabram2957]

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.

[@Donimaps420]

Thank you for kindly pointing that out! I'm sorry I made those mistakes, I guess there is not much I can do

[@malcolmabram2957]

@@Donimaps420 Videos like this are very much appreciated. Thank you again for producing.

[@mangojujube]

the falkland first name iles Malouines ( saint Malo Britagne) French second name islas Malvinas gestolen from France by argantinas third name falkland gestolen from argentina by the englanders

[@vidarottesen880]

Canaries islands?

[@resilient9798]

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

[@klashnacovak47]

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

[@orestebormioli192]

Guerrafondai nel sangue ,prima o poi bisogna pagare il conto.

[@salvadorvizcarra769]

The British Empire (UK), owes its "Greatness" to Piracy, Slavery, Looting, to Opium Trafficking, and to the 12 Genocides committed in Africa, Australia, Tasmania, America, the Middle East, India and China. All over the world! Shame! And, it also owes its "Greatness" to the Assassinations of Gov't Leaders and the weakness of many Sovereign Nations. Jeezzz!!!

[@eddiel7635]

bore off comrade

[@boblordylordyhowie]

It is because of the Empires' addiction to make everyone British that we have such problems now, much like the US insist on telling everyone they are the greatest country in the world, so everyone wants to go and see.

[@rickycosman33]

Spain had the same fate.

[@johnireland7612]

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

[@salvadorvizcarra769]

The British Empire (UK), owes its "Greatness" to Piracy, Slavery, Looting, to Opium Trafficking, and to the 12 Genocides committed in Africa, Australia, Tasmania, America, the Middle East, India and China. All over the world! Shame! And, it also owes its "Greatness" to the Assassinations of Gov't Leaders and the weakness of many Sovereign Nations. Jeezzz!!!

[@Mido-y3k]

You are what you conquer 😂

[@ColinWilson-j9i]

Serves you right 😂😂

[@eddiel7635]

@@Mido-y3k it’s a russian bot so i assume he’s talking about russia

[@triplehiodia.1714]

Thats we call Karma hits back hard.

[@kevinfarrell9820]

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

[@realjohn4064]

Ireland was a dominion i.e. head of state was the British monarch until 1937.

[@gerarddonovan4145]

I never realised that ​@@realjohn4064

[@DJTheTrainmanWalker]

​​@@realjohn4064 Problem is... The video implies Eire was part of the empire up to 1973... Which doesn't work. With any of the dates. 22 Irish free state, 37, rejection of monarchy, 49 formal Republican non-commonwealth status. It doesn't help that the map implies Botswana remains part of empire, rather than the democratic republic it has been since 1966.

[@Mark-wb8dv]

But now mass immigration has united us together my celtic brother ❤

[@mikedon5205]

What I don't understand is Scotland and N Ireland were outside the union in 1600s

[@OG-dp1kx]

Scotland should be there right from the start. There was no Britain without Scotland. It was just England at the time

[@user-wm2tw]

Wales, Scotland and NI are English colonies.

[@OG-dp1kx]

@user-wm2tw the parliament in Scotland voted to create the act of union in 1704 to create great Britain. About 100 years before that, it was a Scottish king that united the separate kingdoms of England and Scotland into one kingdom. Scotland has never been anyone's colony. Not even the Romans were able to make it one. India prior to independence is what you call a colony. If you still don't understand the difference

[@douglasherron7534]

@@OG-dp1kx The Act of Union was 1707, not 1704, and James VI of Scotland united the crowns of Scotland and England in 1603 when he was offered the throne of England on the death of Elizabeth I. However, I agree, Scotland is not a colony.

[@AndrewHepburn]

@@user-wm2twwhat an idiot. England and Scotland united after the Scottish King James VI inherited the English throne and only a decade ago we democratically confirmed that we want that to continue.

[@mikedon5205]

That's what I don't get both islands were one nation in 1600 or am I wrong

[@1har2vey3]

Canada still has the king on its coins so are still part of empire

[@zenithkaijaou4182]

Yeah but not really.

[@jlove8445]

And seeing how Canada never (ever) publicly critisized or ever said anything derogatory against England or the Royal family should speak volumes. Half the country is what they refer to as “Crown land” and Canadian Politics and societal norms are also incredibly similar to England today.

[@cristoforodelnero5138]

As does Australia.

[@ryrvoch4345]

Except nobody uses the term empire anymore, since that is usually understood to imply a central authority, which at least for Australia, New Zealand, Canada, UK etc., hasn't existed for a fairly long time.

[@njorogefred150]

Incredible how that small dot at the beginning is the reason we have independence days in the world over 😅

[@stevos7111]

That little red spot in South Africa? Massive crater formed by an asteroid millions of years ago, major source of diamonds and rare minerals....

[@patricksweeney1924]

Kerguelen DID have some British activity, mostly during the ages of discovery and commercial whaling. But by 1892, France had asserted (or reasserted) its claim over the Kerguelen Islands.

[@DOESb]

The Glorious Revolution, also known as the Revolution of 1688, was the overthrow of King James II of England (VII of Scotland and II of Ireland) in 1688 by a union of English Parliamentarians and an invading army led by Stadtholder William III of the Dutch Republic. Orange-Nassau (William of Orange), who as a result ascended the English throne as William III of England , you forgot this 😂😂😂

[@lordzeus6166]

King James Stuart of Scotland becoming king of England? 1603? Hello?😂

[@Dinobaburas.]

Yeah, but As the english will have it It's the english empire!

[@ianmorris4922]

​@@Dinobaburas.had yer wish mon

[@komodosp]

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

[@robbillington1982]

Only left commonwealth in 1948 wasn’t it?

[@Joseph-bu9tv]

We fought for our Independence and got it in 1921 after a Bloody war with the British, interesting note , the english language has only been spoken widespread in Ireland since the 1860s.

[@daintree98]

@@robbillington1982 Ireland was the first country to join the Commonwealth and the first country to leave it.

[@vinorob]

@@komodosp 1922

[@josemanuelgarciacastrillo6769]

Las islas Canarias, las islas Azores y las de Cabo Verde nunca fueron británicas. Y hay más inexactitudes siempre a favor de la extensión del Imperio Británico en el continente americano

[@hogwash9140]

Yes. They also didn't show Gibraltar or the Falklands.

[@vinorob]

But we still have Gibraltar Jeffe

[@luisito5000]

@@josemanuelgarciacastrillo6769 Con estos y su “leyenda negra” no podría ser de otro modo!

[@vatsal7640]

@@luisito5000 lol Spanish are at salty at losing to the Brits??🤣😂 🇬🇧🤜🇪🇸

[@javierjimenez8282]

Por que no vais a la mierda de roca de vacaciones?​@@vinorob

[@mikman7219]

British Commonwealth (Empire) still includes 56 countries. 14 countries are under direct King's rule: 1.Antigua and Barbuda 2.Australia 3.Bahamas 4.Belize 5.Canada 6.Grenada 7.Jamaica 8.New Zealand 9.Papua New Guinea 10.Saint Kitts and Nevis 11.Saint Lucia 12.Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 13.Solomon Islands 14.Tuvalu. It's not a secret. This info is open.

[@harryw29]

The Commonwealth isn't an empire. It's a membership organisation of independent states

[@claudioramirez3503]

Most of those countries look like a fly shit in the map😂😂😂

[@ryrvoch4345]

@@harryw29 Very true. But whoever made this map doesn't appear to have been consistent about this.

[@RamZar50]

The expansion of the British Empire began with supremacy at sea in the late 16th Century under QEI. The peak of the British Empire was shortly after WWI. After WWII the British Empire went into a continuous decline.

[@mulletheadbanger]

Correct , and thanks for saving me the bother , excellent piece of history in short sentence .

[@mrm0max]

Et sont petits frères les États-Unis à pris le relais. Le monde est resté au mains des anglo-saxons

[@RamZar50]

@@mrm0max Yes. U.S. was a colony of the Brits specially in the east. Let’s not forgot Canada, Australia and New Zealand. U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia and New Zealand still coordinate closely in intelligence. The rise of the U.S. as a world power started shortly after the American Civil War with railroads, oil, electricity, etc. and the defeat of the Spanish in 1898. Superpower status during and specially right after WWII. U.S. was so powerful that in 1944 it helped assemble two massive armadas to invade Europe on June 6th and the Mariana Islands on June 15th.

[@brucejensen3081]

They were in decline way before WW1. Germany and America exported like 90% of all product just before WW1. A few decades before that Britain dominated the export trade. They were begging Germany for money just before WW1

[@RamZar50]

@@brucejensen3081 You’re talking about economy which is true. I was talking about territory.

[@RanjitKonkar]

Nice video. One suggestion is to alert the viewer to where on the map something is going to turn red or clear next. For larger countries, their turning red grabs attention, but for the smaller ones one misses change in colour in a small region on the outer parts of the world map.

[@blockmasterscott]

What’s amazing is for a good period of time this empire was maintained on wind and sail travel and pen and paper record keeping. For example, a British private raised in London had to have taken really long time to reach his duty station in the farthest reaches of India.

[@warcreed5658]

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.

[@ChannelNotFound]

Also forgot about Gibraltar

[@marguskiis7711]

Canda and Australia are still part of the Empire bc they are under the crown.

[@Blitzmagee]

Belize gained independence in the 1980s. Too many errors, I wouldn't rely on that graphic as legit.

[@kevinfarrell9820]

It was 1922 for Irish Independence not 1919.

[@blackpowder4016]

Canada didn't become independent until 1982. King Charles III is still King of Canada.

[@julesfisher3551]

Falkland Islands appears to be missing as well as the territories in France UK had initially.

[@GeorgeMorgan-w9y]

And our politicians still think we have an obligation to support some of those old colonies,and it costs us billions.

[@albertcheeni]

'Politician' is a nice word for traitors, robber, swindlers who care only for themselves

[@LindaGrey-wm9uc]

Aha, but you rip us off for billions more, otherwise we would have been dumped in ruins like the rest.

[@rafaelhernandezmontarce3558]

Será para devolverles lo robado😂😂😂

[@omarfrancis7685]

Wrong, those colonies used to support your country. Because your country illegally expliot other countries wealth

[@t.s.satyanarayanan8344]

The loot has to be returned

[@chrisbacos]

You showed Botswana in red until the end. It was Beuchanaland until 1966 when it won independence and changed its name

[@tommywulfric9768]

Yes, that was strange, regarding Bechuanaland Protectorate. If anything, Rhodesia temporarily became British again as Zimbabwe-Rhodesia 1979-80 until Robert Mugabe took power in Zimbabwe after the election.

[@robertwalker7896]

The UK of Great Britain didn't exist until 1707

[@TheBourn1ad]

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

[@user-cm9pt8bo3l]

It could be said that the first century, the last part of the last century, and territories such as Antarctica are superfluous in the sequence.

[@davidmacevoy5842]

Beautiful brings a tear to my eye 😢

[@Truthbetold367]

Many inaccuracies Britain didn’t manage to colonise and control Afghanistan

[@beaucaspar3990]

Britain did actually control most of Afghanistan including key areas such as Kabul for a short period of time from 1839-1842, before a major uprising broke out in 1841 which lead to British-Indian forces withdrawing from the area

[@finnmanproductions9240]

It was like, grab what you can, while you can.

[@raulandalucia9880]

Me encanta, que pongas las islas Canarias, Azores, Madeira y Cabo Verde, como británicas es un poco peculiar, no sabía que Florida era de Inglaterra tampoco 😂😂😂

[@tommywulfric9768]

Florida was actually British 1763-83.

[@jamventura02]

Pobrezito! Queria que os arquipélagos fossem ingleses, mas não são!

[@julianandressalazar5755]

Gibraltar should be in red after the Spanish Succession War. Nice video though!

[@miguelruiz5727]

Not for long

[@Nicholas_119]

Canarias should not be in red, cabo verde and azores too

[@lorddevonshire6382]

So many mistakes, I'm afraid

[@kebabtank]

​@You wish, onion breath.miguelruiz5727

[@josebeniteziglesias8602]

Falta Cartagena de Indias, conquistada por el grandioso Vernon!!!

[@USViper]

What about the Falkland islands?

[@topherbec7578]

I kept looking for them to turn red but they never did.

[@lucone2937]

German East Africa (1885-1919) was the same size as the modern Tanzania, Ruanda and Burundi combined, but the map makes it look smaller than Kenya and Uganda. During the First World War (1914-1918) the commander of the German East Africa Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck with a force of about 14,000 (3,000 Germans and 11,000 Africans) held in check a much larger force of 300,000 British, Indian, Belgian, and Portuguese troops.

[@YasinDesktop]

U forgot to remove Ireland after WW1, it wasn’t occupied in WW2

[@lordbuckethead8700]

It was all worth it, just to see Argentina screech about the Falklands.

[@patrickpet7905]

Don't let the Irish see this video...

[@paulkelly8456]

Why ? He miscalculated our independence by about half a century but anyone can make a mistake.

[@bob6693]

Its ok, they're all.down the pub

[@paulennis2996]

At least we exist... spare a though for the poor Kiwis

[@Why_Am_I-Here01]

Can you do of ottoman empire and Persian Empire too?

[@daveharvey8460]

Why bother🇬🇧

[@jeremydean9694]

Thanks for the video - one comment: missed the Falkland Islands. First settled in 1690, continuously administered since 1833.

[@leefairhurst9058]

It doesn't even include London anymore

[@eddiel7635]

bore off comrade

[@WilliamKenny-g6g]

With all the illegal immigrants it hardly includes Britian anymore .

[@DanMurphy-w3m]

After watching this video no Brit is in a position to complain about immigration ​@WilliamKenny-g6g

[@vinorob]

London is the capital of Pakistan

[@eddiel7635]

@@vinorob the Pakistani community isn’t that big numbnuts.

[@hiddenharmonicssystemforwi4484]

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

[@KevTheImpaler]

Ah, the good old days.

[@luisito5000]

@@KevTheImpaler Yes, but very old days

[@jasonpalacios1363]

You forgot to include Belize AKA British Honduras.

[@homomorphic]

Also New Zealand, Malta, Gibraltar.

[@1688gundam]

@@homomorphicAlso forgot Hong Kong

[@fireball1066]

As a "yank," I so enjoy watching the red disappear from the U.S. when the timeline hits 1783. All the same, I'm glad it was the Brits who got this former colony started. I think we took the best bits and moved on. So, I offer a sincere thank you!

[@LucBylemans]

Maybe you can understand that the us should withdraw everywhere and go back on their stolen continent!

[@p.istaker8862]

But you did keep all of the religious nutters !

[@dutchcourage70]

Except that they didn’t. The Spanish started it. And the Dutch, French, and Swedes followed very shortly after the British.

[@fireball1066]

I didn't say Brits were the only influence. They were the dominant one by far. The others waned. I thought that was obvious.

[@dutchcourage70]

@@fireball1066 While waning is correct in terms of formal colonial power over the US, I don’t think that is true for the socio-economic development of the US. Eg I doubt New York would have become what it is today if there had never been a New Amsterdam.

[@redouanalkamouchi4806]

I think Canada and Australia are independent states/countrys within Brittish commonwealth/empire. So technically Australië and Canada is still Brittish empire. Also i didnt see Hongkong added in this video.

[@ryrvoch4345]

There is, strictly speaking, no "British Commonwealth" today - that name was officially dropped generations ago, in recognition of the fact that the member states are equal, which is just one of the ways that the Commonwealth is not what we usually call an empire.

[@mois6860]

The British, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch & so on, carved - up the world between us (we took the most). Now it’s coming back to bite us…

[@9615544]

Aşşalık hırsız bir topluluk olduğunuz için olabilir mi acaba

[@HanifStormborn]

Colonial empires will one day have what’s coming to them.

[@CodeBlocksCode]

Nice videos!

[@Donimaps420]

THANK YOU SO MUCH MAN!

[@thakery5720]

... and to think, the Roman empire declined as the people from it's 'conquored' states took up residence in Rome and trashed it. Exactley the same situation as in London now.... I wonder if anyone in ancient Rome was pilloried in the same way as Enoch !

[@geofflepper3207]

It probably wasn't a good idea to purposely destroy your reputation by going online and telling the world that you are a racist, xenophobic bigot.

[@micksmith106]

We might have had an empire... but just look at us now . Talk about from rags to riches . It's now the other way round...

[@stephens2850]

Can you please Redo this to include the most important country in the world- New Zealand. It is just to the right of Australia

[@radleytube]

What is important about it ?

[@stephens2850]

I live here

[@fomobull4187]

​@@radleytubePeter Jackson? And they have sheep. Still worth conquering, if barely so.

[@radleytube]

@@fomobull4187 but he is English ! And the sheep are Spanish!

[@stephenmani8495]

Agreed.

[@bernardusjones9814]

I've always found it fascinating that only a small portion of England, spoke English and how its language and culture became the standard around the world. Thanks.

[@geoffwag]

Excellent

[@stephennelmes4557]

You should do one about the cause of World War 1 and how it was caused by Germanys' insatiable insane Empire building, and it's lust for power.

[@jamestunstall2032]

New Zealand isn't shown

[@ThomasMadden-hd1oz]

Why miss out New Zealand?

[@chalkandcheese1868]

You should be used to that by now

[@crazyhumansope]

Who?

[@kumarapatch1234]

Cause nz us a dump

[@lorddevonshire6382]

So many mistakes in this amateurish video!

[@brittakriep2938]

From 1714 to 1839 British Kings had also been in socalled Personal Union Electors or Kings of Hanover.

[@mikeblanch3453]

What happened to New Zealand?

[@diannehogan7605]

Am I missing something? It showed Australia being in the British empire until WWII but federation happened in 1901.

[@YousufAlee]

Thank God for the British

[@bmcmillian69]

Were the faeroes ever British? See them highlighted in red but don’t think they ever were?

[@aaronlemos5401]

The British never had the Canary Islands... This map has several bugs

[@CheerfulCabezonFish-yf3zn]

We do now. Have you seen the amount of British Chav scum that are there 😂

[@alasdairgow4919]

As a Scot/Brit, there are a hell of a lot of inaccuracies. The entirety of Ireland acceding in the 1970s? There were a lot of troubles in that sensitive time, you may want to rethink that! Canada/USA departure times look wrong also.

[@keepingitwild5994]

My second favourite empire ever - after the Roman empire of course. It's amazing how such a small nation managed to colonize huge swathes of land with millions of people living in them.

[@pinkpanther7030]

And so much travelling by sea with no airplanes. Must have been extremely exhausting to control all those lands and people 😮

[@Ruslan74-vt5fz]

Don't forget the atrocities and pillaging of everything from each of those nations they colonized too.

[@autodigitvlogs]

Ofcourse its easier to gloat

[@A-j8x]

You can either become the villan or a victim ​@@Ruslan74-vt5fz

[@insideoutsideupsidedown2218]

There was no total control. Many areas such as in India never saw a Brit.

[@davidholland6304]

What's the bottom bit .. is this the so called ice wall or has the south pole grew a lot ...

[@garymacdonald7165]

The entire world owes the UK a fortune!

[@Ν.Τ-η9β]

Εhm....if it didn't exist Greeks maybe

[@erekekabulov6816]

There are some inaccuracies. The Sepoy Rebellion and the liberation of India in 1858 is not reflected on the map. Also, during World War II, the occupation of Iran was joint with the USSR and partial.

[@Donimaps420]

I see, I thank you for pointing that out

[@simonlaw9234]

Albion. God's gift to the world.

[@equitek]

What happened to the Falkland Islands?

[@jeremyfoulds6202]

Falkland Islands and Hong Kong??

[@1688gundam]

Hong Kong was established as a colony of the British Empire after the Qing dynasty ceded Hong Kong Island in 1841-1842 as a consequence of losing the First Opium War. The colony expanded to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 and was further extended when the United Kingdom obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories in 1898.The territory was handed over from the United Kingdom to China in 1997

[@NULLBDBB]

The Final Boss Music make this so good. The British really were the final boss of the great Empires

[@brentadams7672]

Canadian here. Newfoundland and Labrador joined canada in 1949 not 1959.

[@WhydoIsuddenlyhaveahandle]

Canada, despite the Statute of Westminster, didn't leave the British Empire until they patriated their Constitution in the 1980s. You don't have your own nation if your constitution is a law of another government and are merely autonomous because the parent nation allows it.

[@ryrvoch4345]

No serious person really thinks there was a British Empire by that time. Also, the patriation of the constitution was really only delayed for so long because the few people who actually cared about the amending formula couldn't agree. There's no real grounds to believe that the British could have unilaterally changed the Canadian constitution before that, much as they couldn't truly control Canadian foreign policy even before the Statute of Westminster.

[@essexfarmer9610]

Forgot New Zealand and Gibraltar. And Rhodesia went independent in April 1980 but still shows up in 1982! But still a very informative video.

[@househistorian]

Fun to watch but there are quite a few inaccuracies. You placed British Honduras (Belize) too far south on the coast of Nicaragua and the once independent Dominion of Newfoundland which rejoined the British Empire due to economic problems joined Canada in March of 1949. Also the panhandle portion of Russian Alaska seemed missing. Even if Britain had claims further west among the mountains of the panhandle, Russian Alaska clearly extended further south along the coast.

[@Donimaps420]

Thank you for pointing that out. I highly respect comments that don't just say "inaccurate"

[@househistorian]

@@Donimaps420 I am in awe of the research and work you did. I could never do it... but i do know my maps. 😎 Keep up the great work.

[@Donimaps420]

@@househistorian thank you

[@jordirivasparedes1388]

Resulta que Canarias es parte de Gran Bretaña desde siempre y yo toda mi vida sin darme cuenta… 😂 pensé que era español y resulta que soy inglés! Y los de Cabo Verde estarán contentos también de no haber sido portugueses hasta su independencia… 😂😂😂😂 Cape Green please!!!!

[@br.game0]

Britain also invaded the northern part of Russia's Kola Peninsula and also occupied the southern region of Vietnam.

[@Emperorli90]

According to what source?

[@GrenvilleP710]

What isc realy intresting about that is its clear most of the expansion was by the aquisition of territories from other european powers after wars. Or by trade deals and agreements. Not by imvasion.

[@jamescooper9010]

You could literally walk from Egypt to South Africa and never leave British soil.

[@seancurran6590]

The island of Britain is British. The rest was stolen from others

[@manoloxxl8776]

Not british but occupied by brits

[@johnorourke2279]

Hahaha, that's hilarious

[@jamescooper9010]

@@manoloxxl8776 Show me anywhere that is habitable that hasn't been "occupied" by one group or another throughout recorded history, what I do know is that they brought infrastructure, law, medicine the ending of tribal warfare and open slavery wherever the Union Jack waved.

[@rodgermann8365]

Or put another way imposed rules, values and a view on the ‘correct’ social order through colonisation and imperialism.

[@Low_fee.6937]

Indians should thank britain for unifying india, otherwise it would've remained like present day africa, with no territorial unity, concurrent civil wars, geneocides, diseases and famines. India instead of celebrating independence day, should be celebrating the day of it's unification.

[@subhashishdeb6602]

The famines happened under British rule. There hasn’t been a single famine after independence. The Brits didn’t actually come to unify India but is a consequence of their stay here.

[@Low_fee.6937]

@@subhashishdeb6602 Only famine that was caused by british was in bengal during world war 2. Brtish along with other colonialists actually increased the agricultural productivity of india during their reign, by bringing in crops like potatos, papaya, maize, peanuts, sugarcane, rubber, guava, avocado, carrots, tomatos etc There wasn't a single famine in india, since independence. The reason is UNITED NATIONS was formed after ww2 and they aided the indian govt to feed the poor, even at the time of drought or at the time of redundant food supply. There are droughts in india even till this day, which could've caused famines.

[@Low_fee.6937]

@@subhashishdeb6602 British fought against durrani empire, mughals, mysore sultanates, bengal nawab, marathas and sikhs to form the bulk of india & kept many regions under their control as princely states letting the indegenous kings to rule and collect taxes, just like as they did before. If there weren't any british interference, delhi would be under the afghans, because of durrani invasions, south india will be under tipu, hyderabad will be under the nizams or have been conquered by mysore, bengal will be under the afghan nawabs, northern deccan will be under marathas, and princely states like rajasthan, gujarat, j&k might have remained as sovereign countries or defeated by durrani- rohilla/oudh coalition

[@subhashishdeb6602]

While I agree with some of the details you have provided, when the British took over India Marathas and Sikhs were the dominant powers in India. The Mughals were actually under the protection of the Scindias.

[@Low_fee.6937]

@@subhashishdeb6602 Durranis defeated marathas in majority of the battles they have engaged in. After battle of panipat, maratha empire was weakened. Pakistan was under durrani control, there was an imminent threat of a full scale invasion of the subcontinent, just like what the mughals did in 16th century and durrani at that period was allied with the afsharids of iran & rohillakhand of awadh, india and had ethnical ties with bengal sultanate British curtailed scope of such an invasion, by their direct military engagement against afghans and pushed them back to the boundaries of pakistan that exists to this day.

[@DaveBartlett]

@DoniMaps So what about New Zealand? Do you see that as so insignificant that you don't even see the need to show it on your map?

[@kebabtank]

Yes

[@andreytolmachev1435]

"For you were made from dust and to dust you will return..."

[@lorddevonshire6382]

Far-called, our navies melt away, On dune and headland sink the fire; Lo, all our pomp of yesterday is one with Nineveh and Tyre.

[@johnvoice815]

Yawn yawn yawn....m

[@mensurabdu3613]

Eritrea was under italian colony ,British occupied Eritrea after the World war 2 after defeat of italian in around 1945

[@josemarb]

First notice that England had the Canary Island, Cabo Verde and the Azores. Specially those places were heavily defeated by the spanisg

[@DistantLights]

Great music!

[@drc9675drc]

The largest empire the world has ever seen and will ever see and will never be repeated ever.

[@marriedkiwi]

Amazon

[@LindaGrey-wm9uc]

Thank God.. the british colonial conquest was incredibly cruel and arrogant.

[@marriedkiwi]

@@LindaGrey-wm9uc nonsense. You know nothing of history and accept too much angle from the perspecs of the sad and pathetic culture you like in. British colonial history is not so much a conquest as a humanitarian and trade endeavour. Of course there were abuses and the fatal impact causes disease and native societal imbalances but they gave so much treasure to the world they entered. No Maori has ate another Maoru since 1841! This is why the chief declared "stay with us, be our governor, resolve our disputes." Wherever the British went no Mao, Hitler Stalin (responsible for 270 million deaths) could follow because they gave the principles of civll society.

[@kebabtank]

But we did it. Suck on that!​@@LindaGrey-wm9uc

[@BRTowe]

​@@LindaGrey-wm9uc Maybe. It was also the greatest leap forward the world has ever seen.

[@CuthbertsFudgeCupboard]

Be very interesting to see the spanish and french colonial empires along side this.

[@BramFortesque]

Glad and proud to be English 🇬🇧🇬🇧👊

[@mindblowingproducts3347]

Worst nation of the world

[@paulkelly8456]

Yes on balance you have every right to feel that way. Any genuine English person I ever dealt with left a positive impression on me.

[@toptonychick]

Well done! However...... The Falkland Islands appear on the map but never coloured red. And yet today it's the UK's largest overseas territory.

[@RobertBooker-xi8cc]

Where are Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Malta, Nauru, Gilbert and Ellice Islands, New Hebrides (part), St. Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha? And of course Pitcairn Island? There are also still a few colonies in the Caribbean.

[@roalddahl1623]

New Zealand?

[@RobertBooker-xi8cc]

@@roalddahl1623 Someone else had already pointed that out.

[@mospeada1152]

We may not be part of the British Empire any more, but I'd like to think we are still members of the Commonwealth!

[@jimcajfeldt1739]

New Zealand ?????