British Gold Coast: All Data

This page is about the data available for this polity, the chronology of the events of the polity is available here.

From the XVI century the coast of modern-day Ghana (then known as Gold Coast) was colonized by several European countries that created forts, trading posts and finally colonies. By 1867 all European colonies were absorbed by the British Gold Coast. The British went then to systematically annex all the territories in the interior of Ghana. It achieved independence as Dominion of Ghana in 1957.