Africa 1857-1967
Category: History
Updated: 3 months ago
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Egypt - Suez canal opensEgypt - suez canal startsEgypt - Disraeli 44% sharesEgypt -
Arabi Pasha revolt
Veiled ProtectorateEgypt - becomes protectorateEgypt - InderpendenceEgypt - Anglo Egyptian treatyEgypt - Nasser PM
removes GB troopsEgypt - Suez Canal Crisis
'protocol of Sevres'Egypt - Debt is £3millionEgypt -
Debt crisisEgypt -
Anglo-French rescue planEgypt -
Debt £100 million
Ishail replaced by TewfiqSudan -
Mahdi uprisingSudan- Gladstone
ordered evacuationSudan -
General Gordon deadSudan - Second
Sudanese campaign
KitchnerSudan -
Battle of OmdurmanSudan - under joint GB
and Egyptian controlSudan - Geizar Cotton
Scheme £3millionSudan - withdrawal
of GB troops startSudan -
InderpendentKenya - British East
African ProtectorateKenya -
Named KenyaKenya - Kenya African
Union createdKenya -
Mau Mau Rebellion startsKenya - Escalates into
Mau Mau Emergency
1952-1956Kenya -
Kenyatta arrestedKenya - Kenyatta elected
leader of Kenya African
National Union (KANU)Kenya - Kenyatta
released from prisonKenya - Independece
Kenyatta PMKenya - Becomes republic
Kenyatta first presidentSomaliland -
ProtectorateSomaliland -
Dervish RevoltSomaliland - Dervish
Revolt defeatedSomaliland -
IndependenceZanzibar -
ProtectorateZanzibar -
Anglo-Zanzibar war
Shortest in HistoryTanganyika -
GB given as MandateTanganyika-
Ground Nut Scheme starts
£49 millionTanganyika-
Ground Nut Scheme
Abandoned £49 millionTanganyika -
IndependentTanganyika - Nyerere
demands self-govZanzibar -
IndependenceZanzibar and Tanganyika -
Combine to be TanzaniaNorth Rhodesia/ Zambia -
acquisition of terriotyNorth Rhodesia/ Zambia -
Protectorate under British
South African CompanyNorth Rhodesia/ Zambia -
Kaunda increasingly popularNorth Rhodesia/ Zambia -
IndependentNyasaland -
Occupied by British
South African CompanyNyasaland -
Formal protectorateNyasaland -
Independent
now MalawiSouth Rhodesia/ Zimbabwe -
British South African
Company occupiedSouth Rhodesia/ Zimbabwe -
Responsible self-govSouth Rhodesia/ Zimbabwe -
Ian Smith PMSouth Rhodesia/ Zimbabwe -
Ian Smith declares UDIBausotoland -
Independent as LesothoSouth Africa - Diamonds
discovered in KimberlySouth Africa - GB
annexes TransvaalSouth Africa - Zulu War
won by GBSouth Africa -
Union of South Africa
Self-gov dominionSouth Africa -
Discovery of GoldSouth Africa -
Jamerson RaidSouth Africa - African
National Congress foundedSouth Africa -
Statute of WestministerSouth Africa - Afrikaner
Nationalist Party win power
Set up ApartheidSouth Africa - African
National Congress start
Programme of action
Civil DisobedienceSouth Africa - Macmillian's
winds of change speechSouth Africa - Leaves
Commonwealth
Becomes RepublicSouth Africa -
Mandela imprisoned for 27yrsBechuanaland -
ProtectorateBechuanaland -
Independent as BotswanaSwaziland -
Independent as EswatiniGold Coast/ Ghana-
Ashantiland OccupiedGold coast/ Ghana -
4th Anglo-Ashanti war
GB wonGold coast/ Ghana -
Ashantiland formally annexed
due to uprisingsGold Coast/ Ghana -
Ashantiland incorporated
into Gold CoastGold Coast / Ghana -
Burns ConstitutionGold Coast / Ghana -
Riots in AccraGold Coast / Ghana -
Arden Clarke is governor
Conventions Peoples Party
founded by NkrumahGold Coast / Ghana -
Nkrumah imprisonedGold Coast / Ghana -
Conventions Peoples Party
won 2/3rds of Assembly seats
Nkrumah had to be releasedGold Coast / Ghana-
Nkrumah PMGold Coast / Ghana-
togoland unified with
Gold CoastGold Coast / Ghana -
Indepence as GhanaGold Coast / Ghana -
Became republic
Nkrumah as 1st president
until 1966Sierra Leone -
OccupiedSierra Leone -
ProtectorateSierra Leone -
IndependenceNigeria -
GB occupied, taken over from RNC
agreement with french
they can have MadagascarNigeria -
South and North
unifiedNigeria -
Richards Constitution
split west, east and south
due to regional needsNigeria -
Macpherson Constitution
Regional autonomy
federal union and
central govNigeria -
Nationalist uprisings
1951 - 1959
AzikiweNigeria -
Independence
Azikiwe as leaderGambia -
IndependentGambia -
GB ProtectoratePeriods
Central African Federation
Nyasaland, South and North RhodesiaSouth Africa -
1st Boer warSouth Africa -
2nd Boer War
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