Annotated Timeline

By drewt15

  • The British gain control of the Cape Colony in South Africa from the Dutch

    During the Napoleonic wars, the Cape passed first to the British (1795-1803) then to the Batavian Republic (1803-1806), and then to the British again in 1806

  • Opium Wars

    The Opium Wars were two wars involving China and the British Empire over the British trade of Opium.

  • Treaty of Nanking

    The Treaty of Nanking was a peace treaty which ended the first Opium War.

  • Indian Revolt

    The Indian Rebellion was a major uprising in India against the rule of the British East India compnay.

  • Otto Von Bismarck becomes Chancellor or Prussia

    Germany became a modern unified nation under the leadership of the "Iron Chancellor" Otto Von Bismarck who effectively ruled first Prussia and then all of Germany until 1890.

  • Danish War

    German-Danish war, also called the second schelswig war, was the 2nd of two conflicts over the settlement of the Schleswig-Holstein question.

  • Austo-Prussia War AKA Seven Weeks War

    War betwenPrussia on one side and Austria, Bavaria, Saxony, Hanover, and certain minor German states on the other.

  • Suez Canal Opens

    The Suez Canal is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt

  • Franco-Prussian War

    Franco-Prussian War was a conflict between France and Prussia that signaled the rise of German military power

  • Prussia declares a German empire AKA the second Reich

    German states (excluding Austria) united to create the German empire under Prussian leadership .

  • Beginning of the Scramble for Africa

    The scramble for Africa was a process of invasion, occupation, and colonization of African territory.

  • Great Britain occupies Egypt

    From 1882-1914, Egypt was a veiled protectorate of Britain, meaning that the British controlled most of Egypt.

  • Berlin Conference

    The Berlin Conference regulated European colonisation and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism.

  • Convention of Constantinople

    The convention of Constantinople was a treaty signed by the United Kingdom, Germany, Austo-Hungary, Spain, France, Italy, and the Netherlands.

  • France Occupies Djibouti

    Formerly known as French Somaliand and the French territory of the Afars and Issas the country took its name when it gained independence from France.