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Suez Canal opens
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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
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Gold Coast colony established
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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
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Britain occupies Egypt
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1884 Berlin Conference
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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
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4th Ashante war
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Britain and France signed treaty defining boundaries in West Africa
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Britain and France signed treaty defining boundaries in West Africa
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Battle of Omdurman
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Royal Niger Company surrendered its administrative rights to the British government
but retained its trading rights -
European settlers began to come to Kenya
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Britain established the Protectorates of Northern and Southern Nigeria
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War of Golden Stool with Ashante
after which Britain assumed jurisdiction over whole of what later became Ghana