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1511
Cuba
In 1511, Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar set out from Hispaniola to form the first Spanish settlement in Cuba, with orders from Spain to conquer the island.Cuba has a long and difficult history of colonialism, beginning with Christopher Columbus' first encounter with the island in 1492. Spain established settlements in Cuba in the early 1500s, and the island became Spain's prime base in the Caribbean for goods such as sugar and tobacco. -
1511
Maylasia
Malacca fell into the hands of the Portuguese and that was the beginning of the colonial era in Malaya. After that, Malaya fell into the hands of the Dutch in 1641 and British in 1824 through the Anglo–Dutch Treaty. British colonization was the longest compared to others. -
1565
Philipines
The history of the Philippines from 1565 to 1898 is known as Spanish colonial period, during which the Philippine Islands were ruled as the Captaincy General of the Philippines within the Spanish East Indies, initially under the Viceroyalty of New Spain, based in Mexico City, until the independence of the Mexican. -
Indonesia
Europeans such as the Portuguese arrived in Indonesia from the 16th century seeking to monopolise the sources of valuable nutmeg, cloves, and cubeb pepper in Maluku. In 1602, the Dutch established the Dutch East India Company (Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie or VOC) and became the dominant European power by 1610. -
Austrailia
British settlement of Australia began as a penal colony governed by a captain of the Royal Navy. Until the 1850s, when local forces began to be recruited, British regular troops garrisoned the colonies with little local assistance -
Mexico
Colonial Mexico was part of the Spanish Empire and was administered by the Viceroyalty of New Spain. The Spanish colony of Mexico embarked on a war for independence in 1821. Following a successful revolt later that year, the Colony won its freedom from Spain. Alta California, which encompasses present-day California, passed quietly into Mexican control -
China
Colonialism first stepped into China after the victory of the British Navy in the first opium war (1839-42). This war is marked in history as the first in which steam-driven ships were used as the main force. -
New Zealand
Whalers, missionaries and traders followed, and in 1840 Britain formally annexed the islands and established New Zealand's first permanent European settlement at Wellington. -
India
The British Raj was the time when the British ruled the Indian subcontinent somewhere from 1858 and 1947, and the British occupation lasted around 89 years. The system of governance was instituted in 1858 when the rule of the East India Company was transferred to the Crown in the person of Queen Victoria. -
Egypt
Imperial powers have extensive spheres of influence, in which their overwhelming power enables them to coerce or persuade countries to align their policies with the hegemon's interests. The British occupied Egypt in 1882, but they did not annex it: a nominally independent Egyptian government continued to operate. -
Kenya
The British Empire established the East Africa Protectorate in 1895, from 1920 known as the Kenya Colony. During the wave of decolonisation in the 1960s, Kenya gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1963, had Elizabeth II as its first head of state, and Jomo Kenyatta as its Prime Minister. -
Congo
In 1908, under the pressure of the CRA and other international groups, the Belgian Government took control of the Congo Free State from Leopold and renamed it the Belgian Congo. -
Austria
Austria was occupied by the Allies and proclaimed independence from Nazi Germany on 27 April 1945 (confirmed by the Berlin Declaration for Germany on 5 June 1945), as a result of the Vienna offensive and ended with the Austrian State Treaty on 27 July 1955. -
Vietnam
Communist forces ended the war by seizing control of South Vietnam in 1975, and the country was unified as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam the following year. -
Sudan
Sudanese military, led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, took control of the Government of Sudan in a military coup.