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| 1821 |
| | An Egyptian army makes its camp at Khartoum, subsequently the capital of an Egyptian province in the Sudan | |
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| c. 1835 |
| | English artist Edward Lear begins a series of travels, sketching around the Mediterranean and in the Middle East | |
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| 1837 |
| | Zanzibar becomes the main place of residence of the sultan of Oman | |
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| c. 1850 |
| | The Scottish missionary David Livingstone is profoundly shocked by what he sees of the slave trade at the heart of Africa | |
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| 1855 |
| | An Ethiopian baron usurps the throne and proclaims himself emperor, as Theodore II | |
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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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| 1869 |
| | British explorer Samuel Baker annexes the southern Sudan, or Equatoria, on behalf of the khedive of Egypt | |
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| 1873 |
| | The British consul in Zanzibar persuades the sultan to end the island's notorious slave trade | |
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| 1874 |
| | Stanley sets off from Bagamoyo, intending to resume the exploration of central Africa where Livingstone left off | |
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| 1876 |
| | Stanley passes Nyangwe on the Lualaba, the furthest point down the Congo river system reached by Livingstone | |
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