British Overseas Territories

State · 2000–2026 CE · at its largest around 2000 CE

The fourteen territories under British sovereignty that are not part of the United Kingdom, remnants of the British Empire such as Gibraltar, Bermuda and the Falkland Islands. Most are largely self-governing.

On its lands while it lasted

Léopold Sédar Senghor (1906 CE – 2001 CE): Poet and co-founder of the Négritude movement who became the first president of Senegal (1960–1980).
Pope Francis (1936 CE – 2025 CE): Argentine Jesuit Jorge Mario Bergoglio, archbishop of Buenos Aires, elected in 2013 as the first pope from the Americas.
Pelé (1940 CE – 2022 CE): Brazilian footballer who won three World Cups (1958, 1962, 1970) and spent most of his career with Santos; widely regarded as one of the greatest players.
Sierra Leone Civil War (1991–2002 CE): Civil war in which the Revolutionary United Front, funded partly by diamonds, committed widespread atrocities against civilians.
West African Ebola epidemic (2013–2016 CE): Largest Ebola outbreak in history, which began in Guinea in December 2013 and spread to Liberia and Sierra Leone, killing more than 11,000 people.