British Empire

By lily cleary

  • Swing to the East

  • Durham Report

    Self-gov in white settler colonies e.g Canada 1848 , New Zealand 1856

  • Indian Enlistment Order - liable overseas

  • Indian Mutiny

    Bengali sepoy rebellion
    EIC dismantled

  • David Livingstone - back to Africa

    Christianity, Civilisation, Commerce
    2000 letters
    Lecture at Cambridge

  • Government of India Act

    Crown rule of BR
    EIC dismantled
    Viceroy, India council, Civil Service
    1858 Doctrine of Laps removed - 565 Princely states

  • Suez Canal Company created

    De Lesseps

  • Informal Empire

    Mexico - 1861 free trade treaties
    Peru + Chile 1857 Royal Navy
    Treaty of Gandamak
  • Period: to

    American Civil War

    Use of Egypt for cotton

  • Diamonds - West Griqaland

  • Suez Canal finished + opened

  • Period: to

    Long Depression

  • Britain takes West Griqaland

  • Disraeli's Crystal Palace Speech

  • British-Boer federation rejected

  • Disraeli buys £4 million shares in Suez Canal

  • Pedi-Boer Conflict

    Stealing children and sheep

  • Brussels Conference

  • Empress of India

  • Xhosa Wars

    Annex Boers into Cape Colony

  • British annex Transvaal

  • Dual French + British control of the EG economy

  • Zulu War

  • Period: to

    Urabi Pasha nationalist revolt

  • Battle of Iswalanda

  • Roarke's Drift

  • Treaty of Gandamak

    Treaty with Afghanistan - foreign policy control

  • Pasha deposed - Tewfiq as Khedive

  • Battle of Ulundi

    Absorbed into Natal

  • Battle of Kabul - Afghanistan

  • Period: to

    First Boer War

  • Battle of Majuba Hill

  • Mahdist Rebellion - Sudan

    Jihadist army

  • Convention of Pretoria

  • Alexandria Riots

    50 Europeans killed
    Gunboat diplomacy

  • Egypt - declaration of veiled protectorate

  • Berlin Conference

    Effective Occupation

  • Imperial Federation League

  • Battle of Khartoum - Sudan

  • British annex Bechaunaland

  • Indian National Congress

  • Royal Niger Company -Goldie

  • Witswaterand Gold Rush

  • Imperial East Africa Company (Mackinnon 1888)

  • British South Africa Company (Cecil Rhodes 1889)

  • British-German Treaty of Uganda + Kenya

  • British-German Treaty of Zanzibar + Tanzania

  • Royal Niger Company agreement with France

  • Fort Salisbury (Rhodes)

  • Trans-Siberian Railway

  • Jameson Raid

  • Fourth Anglo-Asanti War

    King Prempeh refused protectorate status

  • 38 minute war - Zanzibar

  • Portuguese Arab attacks in Nyasaland

  • Somaliland as a protectorate

  • Fashoda Incident

  • Battle of Omdurman

  • Period: to

    Second Boer War

  • Anglo-Egyptian Sudan

  • Black Week - seiges on Natal + Ladysmith

  • Bloemfontein Conference

  • British-French agreement - FR out of Nile Valley

  • North-West Frontier Province

  • Empire Day

  • Peace of Vereenigning

  • Edward Elgar - land of hope and glory

  • Indian invasion of Tibet

  • Partition of Bengal

  • Denshawai Incident

  • Russian Entente with BR

  • Union of South Africa Constitution

  • Morley- Minto Reforms

  • Period: to

    World War I

  • Asquith's Home Rule Bill

  • EG becomes a protectorate - WWI

  • Dublin Easter Rising

  • Sykes-Picot Agreement

  • London University's School of Oriental and African Studies

  • Balfour Declaration for zionism

  • Montagu Declaration

  • Sinn Fein wins 73/108 seats

  • National Congress of West Africa

  • Period: to

    Irish War of Independence

  • Dail Eireann established in Dublin

  • Saad Zaghul deported to Malta

  • Cairo Protests - Abdin Palace

  • Rowlatt Acts

  • Amritsar Massacre

  • League of Nations Mandates

  • Gov of India Act

  • Treaty of San Remo

  • Baghdad Riots against BR

  • Gov of Ireland Act

  • East African Association

  • Milner Report

  • Cairo Conference

  • Anglo-Irish Treaty

  • Iraq - independent bound to BR, end 1930

  • Chauri Chaura Incident

  • EG 'independence'

  • Chanak Crisis

  • Palestinian Mandate legitimised

  • Afrikaner Nationalist Party in SA

  • Wembley Exhibition

    26 million attendees

  • West African Students' Union

  • Return to gold standard

  • Empire Marketing Board - Leo Amery

  • Imperial Conference

  • Balfour Declaration - limited self gov

  • Simon Commission

  • Round Table Conferences proposed - India

  • Colonial Development Act

  • Wall Street Crash

  • Aba Women's War in SE Nigeria

  • Salt Tax March rebellion

  • Passfield White Paper

  • Period: to

    Round Table Conferences

  • Statute of Westminster

  • Harry Thuku - president of Kikuyu Central Association

  • Professorships in Imperial History - Cambridge

  • Period: to

    Imperial Preference system

  • Ottawa Conference - dominions

  • Iraqi Independence

  • Period: to

    Arab Revolt

  • Anglo-EG Treaty

  • Peel Commission

  • Eire - IR new constitution

  • Canada + USA set up Joint Defence Board

  • Quit India Campaign

  • Manchester Pan-African Congress

    Autonomy and independence of black AF

  • Anglo-Amercian Committee

  • Operation Agatha

  • King David Hotel Bombing

  • Abeokuta riots - Abeokuta Women's Union

  • Burns Constitution

  • Richards Constitution

  • UN Resolution 181 (II) - rejected

  • UGCC invite Nkrumah

  • Ghanian Riots

  • Israel declared as a state

  • Period: to

    First Arab-Israeli War - Naqba

  • Republic of Ireland + leaves the Commonwealth

  • Convention People's Party - Nkrumah

  • Positive Action - Nkrumah

  • Ghanian Elections- Nkrumah wins

  • Coussey Constitution

  • Macpherson Constitution

  • Free Officers' Coup - EG

  • 1954 Anglo-EG agreement

  • Baghdad Pact

  • Czech-EG Arms Deal

  • Sudanese independence

  • Withdrawal of aid for Aswan High Dam

  • Nasser nationalises the canal

  • Sevres Protocol

  • Israel invade EG via Sinai

  • France and Britain invade EG

  • Anglo-American Mutual Defence Agreement

  • Iraq leave Baghdad Pact

  • Muslim-Igbo coalition in Nigeria

  • Sierra Leone negociations

  • Sierra Leone independence

  • Gambian independence

  • Period: to

    Biafra - Nigerian Civil War