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Evelyn Baring is Consul-General in Egypt

1883-1907

Emily Hobhouse produced detailed report on conditions in concentration camps in Boer War

1901

General election in Britain- rejected Chamberlain's proposals in favour of Liberal's proposals

1906

London Colonial Conference for leaders from Britain and white settlers

1902

Swadeshi movement starts to seek to undermine the Raj

1905

Whole of Tropical Africa only took 1.2% of British exports

1897

Imperial Federation League disbanded

1893

All India Muslim League adopt self-gov as their goal for India.

1913

New Zealand becomes semi-independent

1907

North-West Frontier Province created

1901

National Party revives in Egypt as a secret society

1893

Bengal is reunited

1911

Self-gov restored to Transvaal and Orange River Colony

1906

Curzon mounts a temporary invasion of Tibet

1903-04

Australia becomes semi-independent

1901

India becomes a Crown Colony

1858

Diamonds discovered in South Africa

1867

Suez Canal opened

1869

Livingstone is found

1871

Annexation of Griqualand West to Cape Colony

1871

Great Depression starts

1873

PM Disraeli secures controlling stake in Suez Canal

1875

Victoria became Empress of India

1876

Annexation of Transvaal

1877

Zulu War begins

1879

First Boer War begins

1880

Mahdi Uprising in Sudan

1881 until 1898

Jameson Raid

1895

British defeated at Majuba Hill

1881

Berlin Conference

1884-85

Indian National Congress formed

1885

J.Chamberlain appointed Colonial Sec

1896

Curzon becomes Viceroy of India

1898

Rhodes resigns as PM

1896

Milner appointed High Commissioner for South Africa

1897

France and Britain agree to recognise Britains domination of Nigeria in return for Brit recognition of French Madagascar

1890

Indian Civil Service acknowledge some degree of Indian representation on provincial councils in reforms

1892

Partition of Bengal

1905

Second Boer War

1899

Formal annexation of Sudan

1898

Britain and Germany sign treaty establishing spheres of influence in East Africa

1890

Imperial Cadet Corps

1901

Fashoda Incident

1898

Denshawai Incident

1906

Entente Cordiale- GB and FR recognising eachothers claims

1904

Gold discover in South Africa

1886

Royal Niger Co. receives charter

1886

Indian Mutiny

1857

Morley-Minto reforms in India

1909

Anglo-German agreement over spheres of influence in East Africa

1886

Imperial British East Africa Co. chartered

1888

Sarawak

North Borneo and Brunei become British protectorates

Rhodesia established

1889

British South Africa company chartered

1889

Cecil Rhodes becomes PM of Cape Colony

1890

Ashantiland incorporated into Gold Coast

1902

Chamberlain launches campaign for tariff reform

1903

Baden Powell founds Boy Scout movement

1907

Morley-Minto Reforms

1909

Imperial Conference in London

1911

African National Congress formed in S Africa

1912

Ulster Volunteers formed

1913

Egypt becomes a protectorate

1914

North + South Nigeria united as Nigeria

1914

ANZAC's Land at Gallipoli

1915

Easter Rising

1916

Balfour Declaration (1st)

1917

Imperial War Conferences

1917

Imperial war cabinet created

1917

Amritsar Massacre

1919

Irish War for Independence

1919

Treaty of Versailles considers mandates

1919

Gandhi=leaderof INC

1920

British East Africa becomes Kenya

1920

Formation of National Congress of British West Africa

1920

Independence of Egypt

1922

Irish Civil War

1922

Colonial Development Act

1929

Civil Disobedience Campaign + salt march

1930

Statute of Westminster

1931

Britain abandons gold standard

1931

Gov of India Act (2nd)

1935

Quit India Movement

1942

Indian Independence

1947

Withdrawal from Palestine

1948

ANC win power in South Africa

1948

Ceylon = independent

1948

Burma = independent

1948

Communist insurgency in Malaya

1948

Malayan Emergency

1948-1960

Ireland leaves Commonwealth

1948

Mau Mau Rebellion

1952-1959

Nkrumah = PM of Gold Coast

1952

Creation of CAF

1953

Withdrawal from Sudan begins

1954

British troops removed from Egypt

1954

Nasser nationalizes Suez Canal

1956

Suez Canal Crisis

1956

Gold Coast = independent as Ghana

1957

Malay States = independent as Malaya

1957