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| 1867 |
| | | The Canadian nation is called the Dominion of Canada – the first example of 'dominion status' | |
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| 1868 |
| | | Britain annexes Basutoland (now Lesotho), the kingdom of the Sotho leader Moshoeshoe | |
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| 1868 |
| | | An uprising against Spanish rule in Cuba sparks off a Ten Years' War | |
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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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| 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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| 1874 |
| | | The southern region of present-day Ghana becomes a British colony, to be known as the Gold Coast | |
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| 1876 |
| | | The chaotic government finances of Egypt are placed under joint French and British control | |
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| 1876 |
| | | India becomes the 'jewel in the crown' of Queen Victoria when Benjamin Disraeli secures for her the title Empress of India | |
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| 1877 |
| | | Britain annexes the Boer republic in the Transvaal | |
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| 1878 |
| | | Stanley agrees to work for Leopold II in opening up the Congo river to commerce | |
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