Africa 1750-1900

By Caleb Nugent
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    1750-1900

  • Portugese established trade ports

    Portugese established trade ports
    The Portuguese established trading ports along the Atlantic Ocean, which was mainly for slave trade

  • Shaka Zulu Born

    Shaka Zulu Born
    Shaka Zulu was the illegitimate son of Senzangakona Shaka- Zulu was the king of the Zulu people

  • Freetown founded on west African coast

    Freetown founded on west African coast
    The city was founded by British Naval Lieutenant John Clarkson and freed American slaves from Nova Scotia. Freetown is the capital, principal port, commercial center, and largest city of Sierra Leone.

  • Rosetta Stone discovered

    Rosetta Stone discovered
    The Rosetta Stone helped us to translate new languages that we couldn't before

  • Kasanje

    Kasanje
    During the 17th and 18th centuries Kasanje was a major slave-trading place in Central Africa. Kasanje was a state made of three kingdoms that elected one ruler from those three kingdoms and it had separated from the Portuguese rulers in Africa at that time

  • Battle of Gqokli Hill

    Battle of Gqokli Hill
    Zwide's army Attacks Zulu alliance

  • Shaka defeats Zwide at the battle of Mhlatuze river

    Shaka defeats Zwide at the battle of Mhlatuze river
    Shaka's superior Leadership helps the alliance to defeat ndwandwe tribes

  • Agriculture

    Agriculture
    In exchange for slaves the Americas gave Central Africa ideas for their society. They were introduced to growing crops such as maize because of their rich soil

  • British seized Cape Colony in early nineteenth century, abolished slavery in 1833

    British seized Cape Colony in early nineteenth century, abolished slavery in 1833
    The British started to settle the eastern border of the colony, with the arrival in Port Elizabeth of the 1820 Settlers. They also began to introduce the first rudimentary rights for the Cape's black African population and, in 1834, abolished slavery.

  • Victoria Falls discovered by David Livingstone

    Victoria Falls discovered by David Livingstone

  • Suez Canal Built in Egypt

    Suez Canal Built in Egypt
    a sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea through the Isthmus of Suez. Constructed by the Suez Canal Company between 1859 and 1869, it was officially opened on 17 November 1869.

  • Lake Victoria discovered by John Speke

    Lake Victoria discovered by John Speke

  • End of atlantic slave trade

    End of atlantic slave trade
    Actually ended in 1807 but people get trading until 1860

  • Henry Stanley sent by Leopold II of Belgium to create colony in Congo

    Henry Stanley sent by Leopold II of Belgium to create colony in Congo

  • British Empire invades Zulu

    British Empire invades Zulu
    British Empire invaded Zulu empire in Kwazulu-Natal starting the Anglo-Zulu war

  • Berlin Conference 1884-85

    Berlin Conference 1884-85
    The 14 countries met to regulate European colonization and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period

  • First railroad and telegraph line opened from Kimberley to Cape Town

    First railroad and telegraph line opened from Kimberley to Cape Town
    This allowed for great communication and trading

  • Gold discovered in Transvaal

    Gold discovered in Transvaal
    This was bad because it brought lots of white men here

  • Kenya established as british colony

    Kenya established as british colony
    The British Empire established the East Africa Protectorate in 1895

  • By 1900, almost all of Africa dominated by European powers

    Almost all of Africa was dominated by white men