Cecil Rhodes

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
07/05/1853	Rhodes Born
10/01/1870	Cecil started growing cotton with his brother in Natal
01/01/1871	"Diamond Fever" began attracting Cecil and his brother
01/01/1871	Cecil and brother from Natal begin their search for diamonds in their personal mines
01/01/1873	Returned to England to go to Oxford
01/01/1877	Rhodes revealed his British Imperialism ideas in his will after a heart-attack
01/01/1880	Rhodes formed business called De Beer's Mining Company
03/07/1880	Elected to the Cape Parliament
05/07/1881	Recieved Bachelor of Arts Degree from Oxford University
01/01/1888	Rhodes secured mining grants from Lobengula
01/01/1889	Rhodes persuades British to send charter to begin B.S.A.C.
03/07/1890	White settlers on Lobengula's territory because of BSAC
07/01/1890	Rhodes became the premier of the Cape
01/01/1892	Restricted Africans' educational and property qualifications
03/07/1893	Ndebele crushed by British forces in War of 1893
01/01/1894	Rhodes set up the new system of "native administration"
01/01/1895	Rhodes rushed his idea and plotted a rebellion against Boer
12/27/1895	Leander Jamesonturns in Rhodes for his plot
01/01/1896	Rhodes resigned his premiership because of Jameson
10/01/1899	rhodes trpped inside Kimberley during the Anglo-Boer war
02/16/1900	Released From Kimberley
02/01/1902	Traveled Europe and returned to Cape
03/26/1902	Cecil rhodes death in Muizenberg, South Africa
Timespan Dates:	Timespan Title:	Timespan Description:
03/07/1880 to 03/07/1895	Rhodes gets much richer