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Timeline of Africa 8 - Timeline Help

Timeline of Africa 8 of 22 from 1883 to 1889 at Timeline Help.

- 1883 - 1885

- 1883

- 1884 - 1885

- 1884

- 1885

- 1886

- 1889

France occupies Madagascar.

Mahdists destroy El Obeid.
French establishes a fort on the Middle Niger River at Bamako.

The Berlin Conference regulates European colonization in Africa. This event in Timeline of Africa 8 is the first step in uniting the European efforts.

German Karl Peters explores Lake Victoria region and colonizes Tanganyika.
Cameroon becomes a German protectorate.

France occupy Gabon when officially occupied it in.
Kabaka Mwanga executes Anglican missionary James Hanninton and dozens of Catholic converts.
First telegraph line and railroad from Kimberley to Cape Town.
Italy occupies Massawa at the Red Sea Coast.
Southern Nigeria becomes a British protectorate.
British forces reconquer Nile Valley from Mahdi.
Germany annexes territory in East African
Tanganyika.
Bechuanaland in Botswana becomes a British protectorate.
Mahdists defeat British forces in Sudan.
France colonizes Central Africa region.
Kongo or Zaire becomes Belgium colony.

Gold is discovered in Witwatersrand, South Africa.
The Suez Canal Convention, the canal remains open to all in peace and war times.
The National African Company (NAC) becomes the Royal Niger Company.
France and Britain settle land claims in East Africa.
Zanzibar becomes a British protectorate.

Cecil John Rhodes starts to colonize Rhodesia and South Africa for Great Britain.
Italy invades Eritrea.
Emperor Yohannes IV of Ethiopia dies. Menelik II succeeds him.
Addis Ababa becomes the capital of Ethiopia.

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Bates, R (2005). Markets and States in Tropical Africa. Political Basis of Agricultural Policies (California Series on Social Choice and Political Economy.
Griffin, S (2006). My Heart Is Africa. Flying Adventure.
Hamann, H (2007). Days Of The Generals. The Untold Story of South Africas Apartheid-era Military Generals.
Holt-Biddle, D (2007). South Africa. Quick Guide to Customs and Etiquette.
Glover, D, Hill, L, Marley, C and Marley, R (2008). Africa Unite.

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