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| 1897 |
| | | The French exile the queen of Madagascar and claim the island as a French colony | |
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| 1897 |
| | | The British burn Benin City in a punitive expedition after members of a British delegation are murdered | |
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| 1898 |
| | | The US battleship Maine is blown up in Havana harbour, sparking off the Spanish-American War | |
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| 1898 |
| | | Theodore Roosevelt fights against the Spanish in Cuba with a volunteer regiment of cavalry, the Rough Riders | |
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| 1898 |
| | | French and British forces meet at Fashoda, in a potentially explosive incident in the scramble for Africa | |
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| 1898 |
| | | Kitchener's victory at Omdurman brings to an end thirteen years of rule in Sudan by followers of the Mahdi | |
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| 1898 |
| | | In the Treaty of Paris, ending the Spanish-American War, Spain cedes Puerto Rico and Cuba to the USA | |
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| 1898 |
| | | The agreement ending the Spanish-American War includes Spain selling the Philippines to the USA for a payment of $20 million | |
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| 1899 |
| | | The Sudan begins half a century of supposedly joint rule by Britain and Egypt | |
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| 1899 |
| | | Mohammed ibn Abdullah (the Mad Mullah in British eyes) leads an uprising in British Somaliland | |
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