Africa 1868-1914

By An P

  • Suez Canal opens

  • Rich diamond fields discovered in South Africa

    in sensitive area in angle of Orange and Vaal rivers, to which Transvaal, Orange Free State and Cape Colony all had claims

  • Sultan Barghash of Zanzibar signed an anti-slavery treaty with Britain

    British influence became politically dominant but was challenged on the commercial level by the Germans.

  • 3rd Ashanti War

  • Gold Coast colony established

  • Britain annexed the Transvaal

    which was bankrupt and threatened by resurgent Zulu power. Many Boers claimed that they never truly had given their consent.

  • G. Goldie formed United African Company

    later National African company. Its aim is to combat French competition on the Niger

  • First Boer War

  • Britain occupies Egypt

  • 1884 Berlin Conference

    1884 Berlin Conference

  • National African Company received royal Charter as Royal Niger Company

    and effectively took over the administration of the Niger delta

  • W Mackinnon's Imperial British East Africa Company chartered

    entrusted with the administration of what later became the British protectorates of Kenya and Uganda

  • Britain declared formal Protectorate over Uganda

  • 4th Ashante war

  • Britain and France signed treaty defining boundaries in West Africa

  • Britain and France signed treaty defining boundaries in West Africa

  • Battle of Omdurman

  • Royal Niger Company surrendered its administrative rights to the British government

    but retained its trading rights

  • European settlers began to come to Kenya

  • Britain established the Protectorates of Northern and Southern Nigeria

  • War of Golden Stool with Ashante

    after which Britain assumed jurisdiction over whole of what later became Ghana