The Bechuanaland Protectorate (/ˌbɛtʃuˈɑːnəlænd/) was a protectorate established on 31 March 1885 in Southern Africa by the United Kingdom. It became the...

British Bechuanaland was a short-lived Crown colony of the United Kingdom that existed in southern Africa from its formation on 30 September 1885 until...

The office of Prime Minister of the Bechuanaland Protectorate existed from 3 March 1965 to 30 September 1966, during which time it was held by one individual...

newspapers advocated invading Bechuanaland if the "White Queen" was permitted to stay. Ruth's arrival in Bechuanaland in August 1949 coincided with the...

influential royal family of what was then the British protectorate of Bechuanaland, he was educated abroad in the neighbouring country of South Africa and...

area and declared a protectorate under the name of Bechuanaland. As decolonisation occurred, Bechuanaland became an independent Commonwealth republic under...

jurisdiction over the territory of present-day Botswana, naming it the Bechuanaland Protectorate. It did so in apprehension of the expansion of German colonies...

The Langeberg Rebellion of 1896–97, also known as Ntwa ya Bana ba Mokgothu in SeTswana, was a war of resistance waged by two Tswana groups: the Batlhaping...

The Botswana Democratic Party (abbr. BDP; Tswana: Phathi ya Tomokoraga) is the governing party in Botswana. Its chairman is the Vice-President of Botswana...

Bechuanaland and dissolving Stellaland and Goshen. Bechuanaland was proclaimed a British protectorate, with Mafeking as the capital. But Bechuanaland...

The British Bechuanaland Government Gazette was the government gazette of British Bechuanaland. It was published between 1887 and 1895, after which British...

by Isabel Fawcus, whose husband Peter Fawcus was the Commissioner of Bechuanaland in 1960–65, and Shiela England. The three waves symbolize water, and...

annexed to British Bechuanaland). Major-General Charles Warren annexed the land south of the Molopo River as the colony of British Bechuanaland and proclaimed...

The Botswana People's Party (BPP), originally the Bechuanaland People's Party, is a political party in Botswana formed in December 1960 during the colonial...

The Bechuanaland Expedition or Warren Expedition, of late 1884/1885, was a British military expedition to the Tswana country, to assert British sovereignty...

Bechuanaland first issued revenue stamps as Stellaland in 1884. Note: this information is wrong. Bechuanaland was split into British Bechuanaland and...

Botswana includes its pre-state history, its colonial period as the Bechuanaland Protectorate, and its modern history as a sovereign state. c. 73000 BCE...

replaced by the independent, non-denominational University of Basutoland, Bechuanaland Protectorate, and Swaziland with its own charter granted by Queen Elizabeth...

Vehicle registration plates of Botswana for normal motor vehicles begin with the letter B, followed by three digits, followed by three letters. The digits...

of Bechuanaland Protectorate. The first Bechuanaland Protectorate postage stamps were produced in 1888 by overprinting stamps of British Bechuanaland (some...

General elections were held in the Bechuanaland Protectorate on 1 March 1965, the country's first election under universal suffrage. The result was a landslide...

This is a list of the commissioners of the Bechuanaland Protectorate, which gained full independence as Botswana in 1966. From 1885 to 1891 the post was...

of British Bechuanaland. For many months, starting in 1883, pressure was placed on the British Government to do something in Bechuanaland because of unrest...

throne of the Bangwato Tribe in Serowe – one of many tribes found in then Bechuanaland Protectorate – with his wife Ruth Williams Khama. David Oyelowo and Rosamund...

Company, for whom the colony was named. The bounding territories were Bechuanaland (Botswana), Northern Rhodesia (Zambia), Portuguese Mozambique (Mozambique)...

Rugby union in Botswana is a growing sport. The Governing Body of Rugby Union in Botswana is the BRU (Botswana Rugby Union). The President is Mr. Elijah...

1892 until his death in 1911. During his lifetime, he resisted the 1885 Bechuanaland Protectorate as well as the control of his domains by Cecil Rhodes' British...

the Bechuanaland Civil Servants' Association after joining the civil service in 1949. Tsoebebe was a prominent political figure of the Bechuanaland Protectorate...

working as a traveling salesman along the railways being built through Bechuanaland and Rhodesia, Sonnenberg opened a grocery in Bulawayo in 1898. After...

1966–present : Republic of Botswana 1885–1966: Part of the British Empire as Bechuanaland Protectorate 600 AD: Bantu-speaking peoples first moved into the country...