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Name: Helgoland

Type: Polity

Start: 1808 AD

End: 1952 AD

Parent: great britain

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Was the British administration of the German island of Helgoland (it existed twice: one during the Napoleonic Wars and one during World War II).

Establishment


  • January 1808: In 1807, Heligoland was seized by the United Kingdom during the Napoleonic Wars. It was strategically important for controlling access to the North Sea. The territory was eventually returned to Germany in 1890 in exchange for Zanzibar.
  • Chronology


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    1. French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars


    Were a series of conflicts between France and several European monarchies between 1792 and 1815. They encompass first the French Revolutionary Wars against the newly declared French Republic and from 1803 onwards the Napoleonic Wars against First Consul and later Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. They include the Coalition Wars as a subset: seven wars waged by various military alliances of great European powers, known as Coalitions, against Revolutionary France - later the First French Empire - and its allies.


    2. World War II


    Was a global conflict that lasted from 1939 to 1945 (it started sooner in certain regions) between the Axis Powers (mainly Germany, Japan and Italy) and the Allies (mainly the Soviet Union, the U.S.A., the U.K., China and France). It was the war with more fatalities in history. The war in Asia began when Japan invaded China on July 7, 1937. The war in Europe began when Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. The war ended with the complete defeat of the Axis powers, which were occupied by the Allies.

    2.1.End of World War II in Europe

    Refers to the surrender of Axis forces and the end of World War II and to the territorial changes that were a direct consequence of World War II but happened after the traditional end of the War.

  • May 1945: On May 11, 1945, the German capitulation was also completed on Heligoland. British soldiers occupied the island.

  • 3. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)


  • July 1890: Britain ceded Helgoland to Germany inĀ 1890 in theĀ Heligoland-Zanzibar Treaty.

  • March 1952: On 1 March 1952, Heligoland was returned to German control, and the former inhabitants were allowed to return.

  • Disestablishment


  • March 1952: On 1 March 1952, Heligoland was returned to German control, and the former inhabitants were allowed to return.
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