In 2013 a heritage centre to the abolition of slavery was created, where once 70,000 slaves a year were traded in 1946 Maud Watson, who became the first female Wimbledon tennis champion in 1884 (beating her sister, Lilian) and successfully defended her title the next year, died aged 81. In 1879 UK missionaries built a cathedral on the site, and in 1890 the country became a British protectorate. In 1873 the last permanent slave market in east Africa closed, after the UK government forced Sultan Barghash to end slavery in Zanzibar (Tanzania). Estimates of the death toll range from several hundred to thousands. ” in 1989 the massacre in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China, occurred, with troops firing on civilians. Five classes were headed by the knights and dames grand cross in 1940, after the retreat from Dunkirk, Winston Churchill delivered a speech containing the famous line “We will fight them on the beaches. The event has marked the official birthday of the sovereign since 1748 in 1878 Cyprus was ceded to Britain in return for the promise of military aid for the Turkish against the Russians in 1917 the Order of the British Empire was established by King George V, initially rewarding First World War service. In 1805 the first Trooping the Colour ceremony took place on Horse Guards Parade, London.
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