TIMELINE OF IMPERIALISM |
| 1756 | French and Indian War>>Britain vs. France for control over India; fought on 3 continent |
| Early 1800s | Britain arrives control of Cape Colony |
| 1807 | Britain outlaws slavery and slave trade |
| 1815 | British declare formal control of Cape Colony and increase British immigration in South Africa. Despite government resistance, Boers began to move inland in search of better land and, after 1815, to escape control by the British government. |
| 1820 | France, Portugal, and Spain outlaw slavery |
| 1818-1828 | Shaka, Zulu chief, unifies Nguni peoples and forges an impressive fighting force, launching the mfecane (wars of crushing and wandering) against neighboring black Africans and white Europeans througho ut southern Africa. (Learn more about Shaka and his descendant King Goodwill Zwelethini.) Shaka was assassinated in 1828, but Zulu power continued to rise (see Zulu culture). |
| 1830-1834 | "Great Trek" of Dutch-descent Boers north to lands across Orange River into Natal, South Africa, occupied by southern Nguni peoples; white Boer republics of Orange Free State and Transvaal established in 1850s. |
| 1839-1842 | Amistad Revolt |
| 1853 | Commodore Perry opens up Japanese ports |
| 1854 | Treaty of Kanagawa>>U.S. and Japan; Japan opens up its ports |
| 1857 | Sepoy Massacre |
| 1865 | U.S. outlaws slavery |
| 1870-1914 | European countries control all of Africa except Liberia and Ethiopia |
| 1876 | Queen Victoria is named Empress of India |
| 1879 | Europeans "partition" West Africa (to 1890s). |
| 1882 | British takeover of Egypt |
| 1884-1885 | The Berlin Conference: Intense rivalries among Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Spain, and Portugal for additional African territory, and the ill-defined boundaries of their various holdings |
| 1885 | Indian National Congress is formed |
| 1890s | Europeans "partition" East Africa. |
1896 |
Ethiopians under Emperor Menelik II were successful in resisting European conquest, annihilating Italians at the Battle of Adwa (or Aduwa). By 1 914, only Liberia in the west and Ethiopia in the east remained independent of European colonial control. |
| 1899-1902 | Anglo-Boer War in South Africa: While British "win" the war, they must make concessions to Afrikaner (Boer) political organizations for int ernal control of South Africa, opening path for Afrikaners to free themselves eventually of British domination and, in turn, dominate the black African majority in South Africa |
1910 |
South Africa is established as a independent country |
1935 |
India got limited self-government |
1952 |
Nasser and Egypt overthrow British rule |
1957 |
Ghana gets its independence |
1976 |
Soweto Massacre |