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Will the sun ever set on the British empire?
The world’s largest empire
The British empire spanned the globe. This led to the saying that the sun never set on it, since it was always daytime somewhere in the empire.
It’s hard to figure out exactly when this long daylight began. The whole process of claiming a colony (on land already occupied by other people) is awfully arbitrary in the first place. Essentially, the British built their empire by sailing around and sticking flags on random beaches. This makes it hard to decide when a particular spot in a country was “officially” added to the empire.
The exact day when the sun stopped setting on the empire was probably sometime in the late 1700s or early 1800s, when the first Australian territories were added.
The empire largely disintegrated in the early 20th century, but – surprisingly – the sun hasn’t technically started setting on it again.