Events
Southern Nigeria occupied - CCRNorthern Nigeria occupied - CCRBechuanaland occupied - TGB defeated in Sudan General Gordon DeadGambia becomes a settlementBritish East Africa company receives royal charterSuez Canal Company set upBuilding Suez Canal StartedEgyptian cottonIshmil becomes khediveBasutoland treatySuez Canal OpensGriqualand West settlementDisraeli buys sharesGeneral Gordon becomes Governor General of SudanTransvaal occupiedIshmil Pasha replaced by TewfiqZululand protectorate (War)Sudan Mahdist revolt beginsRiot of AlexandriaEgypt and Sudan become a Client StateEvelyn Baring becomes Consul GeneralBritish Somaliland occupied - TUganda occupied CCRSecond Sudanese Campaign General KitchnerEgyptian dept now £100 millionIndian MutinyGovernment of India ActQueen Victoria made empress of IndiaDoctrine of Lapse - later removedResponce to Indian Mutiny:Germany unitedMalaya occupiedSarawak and North Borneo occupiedUpper Burma occupiedBerlin Conference 1884-8580% of land in africa still locally owned10% of land in africa still locally ownedBrussels ConferenceAfghanistan treaty of GandamakGold discovered in the TransvaalDiamonds discovered in KimberlyNorth Borneo trading company receives royal charterBritish South Africa Company receives royal charterImperial British East Africa company receives royal charterRoyal Niger company receives royal charterDavid Livingstone found by StanelyDavid Livingstone DiesSpeke found lake VictoriaSpeke dies before debate over nile sourceCecil Rhodes created De BeersZambesia renamed RhodesiaFirst Boer War 1880-1881Parliamentary reform Act 1884Reform Act 1867Disraeli's crystal palace speechGladstone PMGladstone resigns as PMLord Salisbury PM till 1892Lord Salisbury end of PMLord Salisbury back to PMLord Salisbury ends being PMEducation ActBoys own Paper createdShe by H. Rider HaggardKing solomons mines by H. Rider HaggardAfrican ExhibitionInternational ExhibitionNubian ExhibitionColonial and Indian ExhibitionGraqualand East annexedxhosa warSpeke's exhibition to locate source of the nile until 1863Livingstone's third journey for source of nile until 1873Canada becomes a DominionDiamonds found in south africaColonial Society foundedCape colony granted responsible governementGold Coast becomes a colonyStanleys exhibition to find source of the Nile until 1877Anglo-french control of Egyptian financesZulu war beginsINC formedZululand becomes a protectorateZanzibar becomes a British protectorateCecil Rhodes becomes PM of cape colonyMatebele warUganda becomes a protectorateBritish East Africa protectorate establishedJamerson RaidZanzibar warRhodes resigned as PM of cape colonyQueen victorias diamond jubileeSir Alfred Milner appointed high commissioner of south AfricaBattle of OmdurmanFashoda incidentFormal annexation of SudanCurzon becomes viceroy of indiaPeriods
Great / Long depresion
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