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| 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 | |
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| 1862 |
| | | Richard Burton, visiting Dahomey, provides reports of the kingdom's celebrated Amazons preparing for war | |
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| 1862 |
| | | Speke and Grant find the Ripon Falls, over which the headwater of the Nile flows from Lake Tanganyika | |
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| 1868 |
| | | Britain annexes Basutoland (now Lesotho), the kingdom of the Sotho leader Moshoeshoe | |
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| 1869 |
| | | Britain, France and Italy take joint control of the finances of a bankrupt Tunisia | |
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| 1869 |
| | | The proprietor of the New York Herald gives Henry Morton Stanley a very concise commission – 'Find Livingstone' | |
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| 1869 |
| | | British explorer Samuel Baker annexes the southern Sudan, or Equatoria, on behalf of the khedive of Egypt | |
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| 1869 |
| | | Thousands of distinguished guests assemble at Port Said for the opening of the Suez Canal | |
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| 1871 |
| | | The Afghan philosopher Jamal al-Din, moving to Cairo, urges drastic and violent measures against western influence | |
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| 1871 |
| | | 18-year-old English entrepreneur Cecil Rhodes, on a temporary visit to South Africa, arrives in the new diamond town of Kimberley | |
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