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| 1893 |
| | | The British Central African Protectorate is set up in the region of present-day Malawi | |
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| 1895 |
| | | The territory south of the Zambezi is given the name Rhodesia, in honour of the man who has colonized it | |
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| 1895 |
| | | Khama III, the king of Bechuanaland, travels to London to demand the continuing protection of the British crown | |
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| 1895 |
| | | Leander Jameson leads a disastrous raid into the Transvaal, in an attempt to topple Paul Kruger's government | |
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| 1896 |
| | | Cecil Rhodes' involvement with the Jameson raid forces his resignation as the Cape Colony prime minister | |
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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 |
| | | The French exile the queen of Madagascar and claim the island as a French colony | |
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| 1899 |
| | | Within a single 'Black Week' the British forces in South Africa suffer three defeats, at Stromberg, Magersfontein and Colenso | |
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