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| 1897 |
| | | Zululand, annexed by Britain in 1887, is now merged with the colony of Natal | |
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| 1897 |
| | | Paul Kruger, prime minister of the Transvaal, forms an alliance with the other Boer republic, the Orange Free State | |
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| 1897 |
| | | The UK colonial secretary, Joseph Chamberlain, appoints enthusiastic imperialist Alfred Milner as high commissioner in South Africa | |
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| 1897 |
| | | Germany claims Ruanda and Urundi as a joint colony adjacent to German East Africa | |
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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 |
| | | 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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| 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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