Africa
Arrival of Freed Slaves in Sierra Leone
British Capture of Cape Colony
British Recapture of the Cape of Good Hope
Establishment of Freetown, Sierra Leone
Britain Annexes the Natalia Republic
British government buys Danish territory in Accra
Britain Annexes Lagos
Britain annexes Basutoland
Britain, France, and Italy take financial control of Tunisia
Britain colonises the Gold Coast
Britain annexes the South African Republic
Zulu War
British invasion of Alexandria
South African Republic regains its independence
Scramble for Africa
Britain annexes Bechuanaland
Imperial British East Africa Company given charter to administer Kenya and Uganda
Cecil Rhodes forms the British South Africa Company
Second Boer War
France and Britain agree on boundaries for Senegal and Gambia
Cecil Rhodes sends colonists to Rhodesia
Zanzibar becomes a British protectorate
Rhodes attains right to administer present-day Zambia
Britain cedes Heligoland to Germany
Establishment of British Central African Protectorate
Establishment of the British Protectorate of Uganda
Creation of Rhodesia
Khama III, king of Bechuanaland seeks continued British protection
Establishment of the East African Protectorate
Buganda and three other kingdoms are unified under the Protectorate of Uganda
Zululand merged with Natal
Appointment of Alfred Milner as High Commissioner in South Africa
British destroy Benin City
French and British hostilities in Fashoda
Kitchener defeats Mahdi forces in Sudan
British and Egyptian rule of Sudan
Mohammed ibn Abdullah leads an uprising in British Somaliland
British capture Pretoria and annex both Boer Republics
British government assumes direct responsibility of Nigeria from the Royal Niger Company
Deaths of Boer women and children in British concentration camps
End of Boer War and Boer Republics become British territories
Moroccan Crisis
Union of South Africa becomes an independent dominion of the British Empire
North and South Nigeria are merged into a single colony
Britain and France invade and capture German Kamerun
British and French forces capture Togoland and Kamerun
South West Africa becomes a British mandated territory administered by South Africa
German East Africa becomes British mandated Tanganyika
Egyptian Independence
Britain and France receive mandate to govern Cameroon and Togoland
South African National Native Congress renamed African National Congress
Southern Rhodesia becomes a self-governing settler colony
British government takes on administration of Northern Rhodesia from the South Africa Company
Dominion status granted to South Africa
British Togo merged with the Gold Coast after plebiscite
Independence of Ghana
Decolonisation of East Africa; Migration of Asians from various East African nations
PM Harold Macmillan in Cape Town warns white settlers that ‘the wind of change’ is blowing through Africa
Kenneth Kaunda elected President of UNIP in Northern Rhodesia
Creation of independent Somali Republic
Kenyatta is elected leader of KANU in Kenya
Nigerian independence
Independence of Sierra Leone
Independence of Tanganyika
Independence of Uganda
End of British Protectorate of Zanzibar
Independence of Kenya
Establishment of the Organization of African Unity
Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania
Independence of Northern Rhodesia
Independence of Nyasaland
Unilateral Declaration of Independence of Rhodesia
Kenyan Asians denied work permits
UN sanctions on Rhodesia
Commonwealth Immigrants Act
Expulsion of Ugandan Asians
Independence of Rhodesia
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