istoryworld
Events relating to africa
Germany claims Ruanda and Urundi as a joint colony adjacent to German East Africa
The French exile the queen of Madagascar and claim the island as a French colony
The British burn Benin City in a punitive expedition after members of a British delegation are murdered
Winston Churchill gallops into battle with the Twenty-First Lancers at Omdurman
French and British forces meet at Fashoda, in a potentially explosive incident in the scramble for Africa
Kitchener's victory at Omdurman brings to an end thirteen years of rule in Sudan by followers of the Mahdi
The Sudan begins half a century of supposedly joint rule by Britain and Egypt
Mohammed ibn Abdullah (the Mad Mullah in British eyes) leads an uprising in British Somaliland
Within a single 'Black Week' the British forces in South Africa suffer three defeats, at Stromberg, Magersfontein and Colenso
Paul Kruger flees after the British take Pretoria and annexe both the Boer republics
The relief of Mafeking ends a long siege which brings fame to the British commander of the garrison, Robert Baden-Powell
The British government assumes direct responsibility for the entire region of Nigeria, previously entrusted to a commercial company
Thousands of women and children die in the concentration camps used by the British army for displaced Boer families
A treaty at Vereeniging ends the Boer War and brings the Boer republics under British control
After the defeat of neighbouring Transvaal in the Boer War, the British take sole control of Swaziland
The first Aswan dam, at this time the world's largest, is completed on the Nile
Edward VII, the first British monarch to travel to India, holds a great coronation durbar in Delhi
Roger Casement, British consul in the Congo Free State, discovers appalling abuses by Belgian companies
A violent uprising by Herrero warriors in South West Africa targets male Germans of military age
The German general Lothar von Trotha drives 8000 Herrero people to slow death in the Kalahari desert
Transvaal politician Louis Botha forms Het Volk ('The People'), a party committed to Afrikaner self-government
Kaiser Wilhelm II visits Tangier in support of Moroccan independence, causing a diplomatic crisis with the colonial powers France and Britain
The largest diamond yet known is found in a South African mine belonging to Thomas Cullinan
The Maji-Maji rising results in alarming outbreaks of violence in German East Africa
The German commander in east Africa uses famine as a means of ending the Maji-Maji rising
