-
Boers begin to move north to escape British rule.
-
There was a well established trade system between Europe and Africa.
-
David Livingstone traveled deep into central Africa, where he vanished and was assumed dead.
-
The first diamond mine was found.
-
The Suez Canal officially opens for transportation use.
-
Reporter Henry Stanley found Dr. Livingstone.
-
Cecil Rhodes wrote the famous Confession of Faith.
-
The French expanded their territory from the West African coast towards Sudan.
-
The French approved a treaty that gave France the northern bank of the Congo River.
-
The Berlin Conference sets rules for African colonization.
-
Gold was discovered for the first time.
-
The powerful Zulu territory fell and was now controlled by the British.
-
The worlds first automatic machine gun was created. It was called the Maxim gun.
-
The horrific Boer War begins.
-
The Belgian government took over a alrge African colony and later renamed it Belgian Congo.
-
The only two African counries still free of British rule were Liberia and Ethiopia.