1802 | The Treaty of Amiens restores the Cape of Good Hope to the Netherlands |
1806 | The British recapture the Cape of Good Hope from the Dutch |
1808 | The British government uses Freetown, in Sierra Leone, as a base in the fight against the slave trade |
1809 | The British impose the so-called Hottentot Code, protecting Africans at the Cape but also tying them to employers' farms |
1816 | The British establish Bathurst (now Banjul) at the mouth of the Gambia as a base against the slave trade |
1820 | The first big influx of British settlers, numbering some 5000, arrives at Cape Town in South Africa |
1821 | The American Colonization Society buys the area later known as Liberia to settle freed slaves |
1822 | The first shipload of freed slaves reaches Cape Mesurado (in the region soon called Liberia) from the USA |
1827 | The Turkish governor of Algiers, flicking at the French consul with his fly whisk, finds that he has provoked a French blockade and eventually invasion |
1830 | Richard Lander and his brother John explore the lower reaches of the Niger, proving that the great river is navigable A French army invades Algeria, beginning the process which brings the region within the French empire |
1832 | The paddle steamer Alburkah becomes the first ocean-going iron ship, completing the journey from England to the Niger |
1836 | Hendrik Potgieter sets off with some 200 Boers and their cattle at the start of the Great Trek to the north The Portuguese ban the shipping of slaves from the coast of Angola Hendrik Potgieter and the Boers, protected by a laager at Vegkop, hold off an attack by a large force of Ndebele tribesmen |
1837 | After a victory at Vegkop, Boers massacre the inhabitants of a dozen Ndebele villages in secret dawn raids Piet Retief emerges as the new leader of the Great Trek, replacing Potgieter Potgieter defeats the Ndebele at the Marico river and drives them north of the Limpopo Piet Retief reaches a provisional agreement with Dingaan, the Zulu leader, for a Boer settlement in southern Natal |
1838 | During a ceremony to celebrate their treaty with Dingaan, Piet Retief and his Boer companions are overpowered and killed Dingaan's warriors massacre Boer families in a series of dawn raids near the Bloukrans river The river Ncome becomes known as the Blood River after thousands of Zulu die attacking Andries Pretorius and the Boers |
1839 | Abd-el-Kader proclaims a holy war against the French in Algeria and begins a military campaign that will last for eight years Andries Pretorius sets up the Boer republic of Natalia, with its capital at Pietermaritzburg |
c. 1841 | Britain sends four naval ships up the river Niger to make anti-slavery treaties with local kings |
1843 | The British take control of the existing Boer republic and proclaim Natal a British protectorate |
1847 | Pretorius leads the last Boer families out of Natal and over the Drakensberg to the high veld Liberia wins independence and international recognition as a republic |
1848 | Harry Smith annexes for Britain the land between the Orange and Vaal rivers, calling it the Orange River Sovereignty |
1850 | The British government buys the Danish fortresses on the Gold Coast, including Christiansborg castle in Accra |
1854 | The Boers establish the Orange Free State as an independent republic, with its own custom-built constitution |
1857 | The Boers of the southern Transvaal declare independence as the South African Republic |
1861 | Lagos, on the coast of Nigeria, is annexed as a British colony when the royal family prove unable or unwilling to end the slave trade |
1868 | Britain annexes Basutoland (now Lesotho), the kingdom of the Sotho leader Moshoeshoe |
1869 | Britain, France and Italy take joint control of the finances of a bankrupt Tunisia |
1871 | 18-year-old English entrepreneur Cecil Rhodes, on a temporary visit to South Africa, arrives in the new diamond town of Kimberley |
1874 | The southern region of present-day Ghana becomes a British colony, to be known as the Gold Coast |
1876 | Leopold II hosts a conference in Brussels on the subject of opening up the African continent |
1877 | Britain annexes the Boer republic in the Transvaal Stanley completes his exploration of the Congo, reaching the Atlantic coast at Boma after a three-year journey |
1878 | Stanley agrees to work for Leopold II in opening up the Congo river to commerce |
1879 | The British find a pretext to march into the territory ruled by Cetshwayo, thus launching the Zulu War Zulu tribesmen surprise and annihilate a British army encamped near Isandhlwana Immediately after Isandhlwana a tiny British garrison at Rorke's Drift fights off an overwhelming Zulu attack George Goldie and British traders on the Niger form the United African Company (later the Royal Niger Company) to consolidate their interests The British destruction of Cetshwayo's kraal at Ulundi ends the Zulu War |
1880 | French explorer Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza forestalls Stanley in opening up the Congo, reaching Stanley Pool ahead of him |
1881 | The Boers inflict a convincing defeat on a British army at Majuba, in the Transvaal France invades Tunisia from Algeria, and in the Treaty of Bardo forces the bey of Tunis to accept the status of a French protectorate Stanley finds Brazza's French tricolor already flying on the north bank of the Congo, on the site of what later becomes Brazzaville |
1882 | Stanley establishes a foothold for Leopold II on the southern bank of the Congo, at a site which he names Leopoldville (now Kinshasa) Anti-western riots in Alexandria result in many deaths and provoke a British invasion |
1883 | French marines land at Tamatave in Madagascar to protect French interests and assert French control |
1884 | General Gordon marches south to protect Khartoum from the advancing forces of the Mahdi Bismarck launches the colonial scramble for Africa by suddenly annexing three territories for Germany (Togo, Cameroon and Angria Pequena) The Boer republic in the Transvaal regains its independence from Britain Gustav Nachtigal arrives in Togo and persuades local chiefs to accept the protection of the German emperor Gustav Nachtigal, moving on to Cameroon, annexes this region too for the new German empire Karl Peters hurries round east Africa persuading chiefs to accept the German emperor as their protector British general Garnet Wolseley sails from London on a mission to rescue Gordon, trapped by the Mahdi in Khartoum Bismarck invites the European powers to a West Africa Conference in Berlin Spain begins to colonize the Western Sahara, subsequently known as the Spanish Sahara |
1885 | Bismarck grants Karl Peters a charter to rule a German protectorate in east Africa Britain annexes Bechuanaland as a protectorate, to secure the route north from the Cape into central Africa Italian troops occupy Eritrea, a province of Ethiopia German warships arrive in Zanzibar harbour to persuade the sultan to cede territory to the Kaiser, William I |
1886 | Germany and Britain define neighbouring spheres of interest in east Africa The German and British agreement in east Africa creates the present-day boundary between Tanzania and Kenya |
1887 | A gathering of leaders from the British empire holds a colonial conference in London to coincide with Queen Victoria's jubilee |
1888 | The Ndebele chieftain, Lobengula, grants Rhodes mining rights in what is now Zimbabwe The Imperial British East Africa Company is given a charter to administer Kenya and Uganda |
1889 | Cecil Rhodes forms the British South Africa Company to push British commerce and imperial control further north France and Britain agree colonial boundaries for Senegal and Gambia in west Africa In the treaty of Uccialli, Menelik II cedes the Ethiopian province of Eritrea to Italy |
1890 | Cecil Rhodes sends colonists to settle the newly won colony of Rhodesia Zanzibar, under its Arab sultan, is declared a British protectorate |
1890 | Cecil Rhodes sends colonists to settle the newly won colony of Rhodesia Zanzibar, under its Arab sultan, is declared a British protectorate |
1891 | Germany takes direct control of German East Africa as a protectorate Rhodes wins the right to administer the region from the Zambezi up to Lake Tanganyika, forming present-day Zambia Britain cedes the tiny island of Heligoland to Germany in return for vast areas of Africa |
1892 | Frederick Lugard's Maxim machine gun settles a Protestant-Catholic clash in Kampala, the capital of Buganda The French establish a protectorate in part of the ancient kingdom of Dahomey in west Africa |
1893 | France claims the Ivory Coast (or Côte d'Ivoire) in west Africa as a French colony Leander Jameson, finding a pretext for war, drives Lobengula out of his kingdom in Rhodesia The British Central African Protectorate is set up in the region of present-day Malawi |
1895 | The territory south of the Zambezi is given the name Rhodesia, in honour of the man who has colonized it Khama III, the king of Bechuanaland, travels to London to demand the continuing protection of the British crown The British government takes responsibility for Kenya, as the East Africa Protectorate Leander Jameson leads a disastrous raid into the Transvaal, in an attempt to topple Paul Kruger's government |
1896 | Cecil Rhodes' involvement with the Jameson raid forces his resignation as the Cape Colony prime minister The Ethiopian emperor, Menelik II, inflicts a shattering defeat on Italian forces at Aduwa Britain unites Buganda and three other kingdoms into the single Uganda Protectorate Italy, one of the local colonial powers, accepts Ethiopia's claim to the Ogaden region of the Somali territory |
1897 | Zululand, annexed by Britain in 1887, is now merged with the colony of Natal Paul Kruger, prime minister of the Transvaal, forms an alliance with the other Boer republic, the Orange Free State The UK colonial secretary, Joseph Chamberlain, appoints enthusiastic imperialist Alfred Milner as high commissioner in South Africa Germany claims Ruanda and Urundi as a joint colony adjacent to German East Africa The French exile the queen of Madagascar and claim the island as a French colony The British burn Benin City in a punitive expedition after members of a British delegation are murdered |
1898 | French and British forces meet at Fashoda, in a potentially explosive incident in the scramble for Africa Kitchener's victory at Omdurman brings to an end thirteen years of rule in Sudan by followers of the Mahdi |
1899 | The Sudan begins half a century of supposedly joint rule by Britain and Egypt Mohammed ibn Abdullah (the Mad Mullah in British eyes) leads an uprising in British Somaliland |
1900 | Paul Kruger flees after the British take Pretoria and annexe both the Boer republics The relief of Mafeking ends a long siege which brings fame to the British commander of the garrison, Robert Baden-Powell The British government assumes direct responsibility for the entire region of Nigeria, previously entrusted to a commercial company |
1901 | Thousands of women and children die in the concentration camps used by the British army for displaced Boer families |
1902 | A treaty at Vereeniging ends the Boer War and brings the Boer republics under British control After the defeat of neighbouring Transvaal in the Boer War, the British take sole control of Swaziland |
1903 | Edward VII, the first British monarch to travel to India, holds a great coronation durbar in Delhi Roger Casement, British consul in the Congo Free State, discovers appalling abuses by Belgian companies |
1904 | A violent uprising by Herero warriors in South West Africa targets male Germans of military age The German general Lothar von Trotha drives 8000 Herrero people to slow death in the Kalahari desert |
1905 | Transvaal politician Louis Botha forms Het Volk ('The People'), a party committed to Afrikaner self-government Kaiser Wilhelm II visits Tangier in support of Moroccan independence, causing a diplomatic crisis with the colonial powers France and Britain The Maji-Maji rising results in alarming outbreaks of violence in German East Africa The German commander in east Africa uses famine as a means of ending the Maji-Maji rising |
1906 | An international conference at Algeciras effectively gives France informal control of Morocco Transvaal is given the self-governing status promised in the treaty ending the Boer War |
1908 | International outrage at Congo atrocities forces Belgium to annexe King Leopold's private colony |
1909 | National delegates from the four provincial parliaments draw up a draft constitution for a South African union Mineral discoveries on the border of Northern Rhodesia and the Belgian Congo give the first hint of the riches of the Copper Belt |
1910 | The Union of South Africa becomes an independent dominion within the British empire Three French colonies south of the Sahara are consolidated as French Equatorial Africa |
1911 | Italy finds a reason to invade Libya, a province of the Turkish empire. Copper mining begins in Katanga, soon to be followed by the extraction of even more profitable diamonds |
1912 | By the treaty of Fès a French protectorate is formally established in Morocco France and Spain agree that Spain shall become the colonial power in the north of Morocco and France in the south The South African National Native Congress (subsequently the ANC, African National Congress) is set up in Cape Province |
1914 | British rule is consolidated in Nigeria by the merging of north and south as a single colony The British government changes the status of Egypt from a Turkish province to a British protectorate August - British and French forces invade the German colony of Togoland |
1915 | February - British and French forces invade and capture the German colony of Cameroon July - South African troops capture German South West Africa |
1916 | British and French forces win full control of the German colonies of Togoland and Cameroon June 17 - Belgian troops from the Congo occupy the German colony of Ruanda-Urundi |
1918 | Wafd, a national party, is formed in Cairo with the purpose of ending Egypt's enforced link with Britain November 23 - Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, commander of the German army in East Africa, surrenders after four stubborn years of resistance |
1919 | More than 300 die when British troops fire on a peaceful demonstration in Amritsar The League of Nations makes South West Africa (Namibia) a mandated British territory, to be administered by South Africa June 28 - German East Africa is to be governed by Britain as Tanganyika, under a League of Nations mandate |
1920 | Destour is formed as a nationalist party in Tunisia, demanding full independence from France |
1921 | The Young Kikuyu Association is formed in Kenya, to fight for African rights and the restoration of Kikuyu land Abd-el-Krim wins a sensational victory over Spanish forces in Morocco and gains control of the Rif |
1922 | Egypt becomes an independent kingdom, subject to a British military presence to protect the Suez canal The League of Nations gives France and Britain mandates to govern separate areas of the German colony of Cameroon France and Britain are given a League of Nations mandate to govern separate areas of the German colony of Togoland |
1923 | The African National Congress (ANC) is formed in South Africa by renaming the South African National Native Congress Rhodesia becomes a self-governing colony with political power exclusively in the hands of European settlers |
1924 | The League of Nations grants Belgium a mandate to administer the former Germany colony of Ruanda-Urundi The British government takes on the administration of Northern Rhodesia from the British South Africa Company |
1926 | The Balfour Report, by former UK prime minister A.J. Balfour, suggests the way forward for the British Commonwealth of Nations |
1928 | Jomo Kenyatta becomes the editor of Muigwithania, the newspaper of the Kikuyu Central Association |
1933 | The Hutus and Tutsis of Ruanda-Urundi are issued with racial identity cards by the Belgians |
1934 | Neo-Destour, a party demanding Tunisian independence, has Habib Bourguiba as its secretary general |
1935 | Mussolini uses a disagreement over grazing rights as a pretext for an empire-building invasion of Ethiopia |
1936 | The Italian forces invading Ethiopia reach Addis Ababa, and Haile Selassie flees into exile |
1941 | January 22 - Archibald Wavell's Allied divisions, after a rapid desert campaign, drive the Italians from the Libyan port of Tobruk April 6 - the Allies recover Ethiopia from the Italians and Haile Selassie returns to his throne in Addis Ababa |
1942 | Algerian nationalist Ferhat Abbas produces a manifesto demanding independence from France |
c. 1945 | Gamal Abdel Nasser and army colleagues form a secret party, the Free Officers, to fight for an independent Egyptian republic Demonstrations in Algeria spark off an uprising against French rule, which is put down with the loss of perhaps 10,000 Muslim lives |
1950 | The British government bans hereditary ruler Seretse Khama from Bechuanaland because he has married a white woman |
1951 | Libya wins independence from Italy, as a kingdom with Idris I as head of state |
1952 | Kwame Nkrumah, recently released from gaol, becomes prime minister of the British colony of the Gold Coast A group of officers led by Gamal Abdel Nasser depose Egypt's king, Farouk, and send him into exile Ahmed Ben Bella forms the Front de Libération National (FLN) to fight for Algerian independence An outbreak of terrorism in Kenya is orchestrated by a secret Kikuyu organization, the Mau Mau |
1953 | Jomo Kenyatta, charged with having organized the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya, is sentenced to seven years in prison The two Rhodesias and Nyasaland are merged in the self-governing Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland |
1954 | A radical manifesto and acts of terrorism alert the world to the emergence of the FLN, committed to independence for Algeria |
1955 | An armed uprising in Morocco persuades France to accept the principle of independence for the colony |
1956 | The Sudan, declining the opportunity of union with Egypt, opts for independence as a separate state Tunisia wins independence from France, with Habib Bourguiba as prime minister French Morocco and Spanish Morocco win independence from the two colonial powers After a plebiscite British Togo is merged with the neighbouring colony of the Gold Coast |
1957 | Kwame Nkrumah leads the Gold Coast into independence under a name of historic resonance, Ghana The FNLA is established, with US support, as a guerrilla group to fight for a non-communist independent Angola |
1958 | French Algerians seize government buildings in Algiers, in a campaign to ensure that Algerian remains French On his second day in power, de Gaulle visits Algiers to confront the settlers with an unwelcome message The colony of French Guinea opts for immediate independence as the republic of Guinea, breaking its links with France |
1960 | UK prime minister Harold Macmillan, in Cape Town, warns the white settlers of Africa that 'the wind of change' is blowing through their continent French Cameroun becomes independent as the republic of Cameroun, with Ahmadou Ahidjo as the first president Kenneth Kaunda is elected president of UNIP, a new party fighting for an independent Northern Rhodesia French Togo becomes independent as the republic of Togo, with Sylvanus Olympio as president French Sudan becomes independent as the republic of Mali, with Modibo Keita as president Madagascar becomes independent (under the name Malagasy republic from till 1975), with Philibert Tsiranana as president Patrice Lumumba becomes prime minister of the newly independent Democratic Republic of the Congo, previously the Belgian Congo The South West Africa People's Organization is founded to fight against South African control of Namibia British and Italian colonies merge as the independent Somali republic, also known as Somalia, with Aden Abdullah Osman as president Anti-European riots in the Congo cause some 25,000 Belgians to flee the country The French colony of Dahomey (known from 1975 as Benin) becomes independent but suffers six military coups in its first twelve years Niger becomes independent, with Hamani Diori as the new nation's first president Kenyatta, still in prison, is elected leader of KANU, a new political party in Kenya The French colony of Upper Volta becomes independent as Burkina Faso, with Maurice Yaméogo as president Félix Houphouët-Boigny, first president of the newly independent Ivory Coast, begins thirty-three years of relatively peaceful rule The French colony of Chad becomes independent with François Tombalbaye as president The French colony of Gabon becomes independent with Léon M'ba as president The French colony of Ubangi-Shari becomes independent and takes the name Central African Republic The French Congo becomes independent as the republic of Congo, with Fulbert Youlou as president The French colony of Senegal becomes independent, with Léopold Senghor as the new nation's first president Nigeria wins independence, with Abubakar Tafawa Balewa as prime minister, but its stability is threatened by tribal and regional factions The French colony of Mauritania becomes independent, with Moktar Ould Daddah as president |
1961 | Patrice Lumumba is sent to Katanga, where he is murdered Former British colony Sierra Leone becomes an independent state within the Commonwealth Joshua Nkomo founds ZAPU, the Zimbabwe African People's Union, in the British colony of Southern Rhodesia Two French generals, Raoul Salan and Edmond Jouhaud, form the OAS (Organisation de l'Armée Secrète) to preserve French rule in Algeria The southern part of the British Cameroons votes to merge with Cameroun, becoming the federal republic of Cameroon Tanganyika becomes an independent nation with Julius Nyerere as prime minister |
1962 | Frelimo emerges as a Marxist guerrilla group dedicated to winning independence for Mozambique Ian Smith's white supremacist party, the Rhodesian Front, wins power in Rhodesia's election A massive yes vote in a referendum is immediately followed by French recognition of Algerian independence The former British colony of Uganda becomes an independent republic, with Milton Obote as prime minister |
1963 | The OAU (Organization of African Unity) is founded in Addis Ababa to give Africa a united voice in world affairs Robert Mugabe and Ndabaningi Sithole split from ZAPU to found ZANU, the Zimbabwe African National Union Zanzibar becomes an independent nation and a member of the Commonwealth Kenya becomes independent, with Jomo Kenyatta as prime minister The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved, as the three colonies go their separate ways |
1964 | Ian Smith, now prime minister of Rhodesia, arrests leading black politicians Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge as the United Republic of Tanzania Hastings Banda is prime minister of the newly independent nation of Malawi, formerly Nyasaland Kenneth Kaunda becomes president of the independent republic of Zambia, previously Northern Rhodesia |
1965 | The Gambia becomes an independent member of the Commonwealth, with Dawda Jawara as prime minister Ian Smith makes a unilateral declaration of Rhodesia's independence |
1966 | UNITA, led by Jonas Savimbi, joins the fight for Angolan independence Former chief Seretse Khama becomes the first president of an independent Botswana |
1968 | Spanish Guinea becomes an independent republic as Equatorial Guinea, with Francisco Macias Nguema as president The United Nations, with the approval of Britain as the colonial power, imposes economic sanctions on Rhodesia |
1973 | The Polisario is formed to fight for the independence of Western Sahara |
1974 | Portuguese Guinea becomes independent as Guinea-Bissau, with Luís Cabral as president |
1975 | The independence of Angola is established in the Alvor agreement between Portugal and three rival guerrilla groups, the MPLA, FNLA, and UNITA The king of Morocco sends 350,000 settlers across the border into Western Sahara Portuguese East Africa becomes independent as Mozambique, with Frelimo as the only political party The Cape Verde islands, off the west coast of Africa, become independent as the republic of Cape Verde |
1976 | The UN entrusts the Western Sahara to joint administration by Morocco and Mauritania The Polisario, as a government-in-exile in Algeria, proclaim the independence of Western Sahara as the Saharan Arab Democratic Republic |
1977 | The French Territory of Afars and Issas becomes independent as Djibouti, with Hassan Gouled Aptidon as president |
1979 | Morocco annexes the Mauritanian part of the Western Sahara, thus taking control of the entire region A conference in London, at Lancaster House, finally achieves agreement on Southern Rhodesia |
1980 | Rhodesia becomes independent, taking the name Zimbabwe, with Robert Mugabe as prime minister |
1990 | Namibia becomes independent with Sam Nujoma as president |
Check this outMwarimu, do you have any literature on the life of the Agikuyu from their creation to the years before nyakerù invasion?
Cc @Meria
Najua shida si time. You are more worried about your CPU overheating.Hii yote tutasoma SAA ngapi Mwalimu Gashui?
Hehehe. Kweli kabisaNajua shida si time. You are more worried about your CPU overheating.![]()
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Omani Arabs were no joke. The Portuguese however held on to Angola for a long time. Also, the Chinese beat them in discovering the East Coast.Portuguese discovered many places around the world, but had very few colonies, or were evicted very easily
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Zheng He, Wade-Giles romanization Cheng Ho, original name Ma Sanbao, later Ma He, (born c. 1371, Kunyang, near Kunming, Yunnan province, China—died 1433, Calicut [now Kozhikode], India), admiral and diplomat who helped extend the maritime and commercial influence of China throughout the regions bordering the Indian Ocean. He commanded seven naval expeditions almost a century before the Portuguese reached India by sailing around the southern tip of Africa.Omani Arabs were no joke. The Portuguese however held on to Angola for a long time. Also, the Chinese beat them in discovering the East Coast.