Pax Britannica

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin Pax Britannica, from pāx (“peace”) + Britannica (“British”) after the model of the imperial Roman Pāx Rōmāna. Earliest recorded use is in 1871 in a work by the British jurist and historian Sir Henry James Sumner Maine.

Proper noun

Pax Britannica

  1. (history) The period of British hegemony over the seas and most oversea colonies between the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 and the onset of World War I in 1914.

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