British Empire

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  • Indian Mutiny

  • India Becomes Crown Colony

    Formal Raj

  • Canada becomes a Dominion

  • Diamonds found in South Africa

  • Suez Canal opens

  • Stanley found Livingstone

  • Cape Colony given Self Government

  • Period: to

    Long Depression

  • Gold coast becomes a colony

  • Disraeli purchases shares in the Suez Canal

  • Queen Victoria becomes Empress of India

  • Delhi Durbar

  • Bartle Frere: High commissioner of South Africa

  • Annexation of Transvaal

  • Afghan Wars

  • Period: to

    Zulu War

  • Period: to

    First Boer War

  • Pretoria Convention

  • Period: to

    Mahdi uprising in Sudan

  • Arabi Pasha Revolt/ Bombardment of Alexandria and Occupation of Egypt

  • Ilberts Bill

  • Period: to

    Berlin Conference

    Discusses colonisation in Africa

  • Gordon killed in Khartoum

  • Founding of the NIC

  • Bechanauland and Niger Coast Protectorate established

  • Gold found in Transvaal

  • Royal Niger Company receives charter

  • China recognises British control of Burma

  • Zululand becomes a protectorate

  • Imperial British East Africa company charter rewarded

  • Sarawak, North Borneo and Brunei become protectorates

    Far East

  • British South Africa Company gets a charter

  • Rhodesia established

  • Rhodes as PM of Cape Colony

  • Zanzibar becomes a protectorate

  • Matabele War

  • Uganda becomes a protectorate

  • British East Africa Protectorate established

  • Jameson Raid

  • Rhodes resigned

  • Formation of the Federated Malay states

  • Milner appointed as High commissioner of South Africa

  • Fashoda incident

  • Battle of Omdurman

  • Formal annexation of the Sudan

  • Period: to

    Second Boer War

  • Ashanti War

  • Union of South Africa established

  • Partition of Bengal

  • Denshawai Incident

  • New Zealand gains dominion status

  • Morely-Minto reforms in India

  • Union of South Africa becomes a self-governing dominion

  • Imperial Conference in London

  • Outbreak of WW1

  • Home rule for Ireland

    Suspended for war

  • Egypt becomes a protectorate

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