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

  • 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

  • Peace of Vereenigning

  • Union of South Africa Constitution