British Empire

By Dave_jojo11

  • Slave Trade Act

    Illegal for GB ships to indulge in slave trade

  • Slavery Abolition Act

  • Vic becomes Queen

  • Lord Palmerston states 'it is the role of the gov to open and secure the roads for the merchant, but no more'

  • Period: to

    Ferdinand Le Lesseps asked to construct Suez Canal

  • Indian Rebellion

    AKA Mutiny // 1st War of Independence

  • Suez Canal Company est

  • Canada imposes tariffs on all imported goods (including GB)

    And aust in 60s- to protect growing industries

  • Darwin publishes 'On the Origin of Species'

  • Period: to

    US Civil War

  • Isma'il Pasha becomes Khedive in Egypt

  • Disraeli PM

  • Suez Canal Opens

  • Education Act

  • German Unification

  • Griqualand West (Cape Colony) becomes a settlement for GB settlers

  • Period: to

    Long Depression

    Triggered by Panic of 1873 (collapse of Vienna stock exchange) - spread to US where Jay Cooking Company (investment bank involved in financing railroad expansion) hit bankruptcy

  • GB begins annexing territories in Malaya

    In response to Fr activities
  • Period: to

    Disraeli PM

  • Disraeli buys £4 million shares to Suez Company

    Isma'il in debt - sells to PM- control over passage to India + fees from suez company

  • Brussels Conference

    Hosted by King Leopold of Belgium- motivated by desire to protect interests in Congo

  • Khedive Isma'il deposed

  • Fr extended control from Senegal into W Sudan

  • Int Afr Association renamed Int Association if The Congo

  • Anglo-Zulu War

  • Period: to

    Gladstone PM

  • North Borneo Trading Company est

  • GB sign Convention of Pretoria after losing 1st Boer War

    Feb

  • Egypt is occupied by GB

  • Muhammad Ahmed took control of area surrounding Khartoum

  • Arabi Pasha becomes Khedive of Egypt

  • Violence In Alexandria -> naval bombardment in Egypt

    5000 European settlers killed- Gladstone sends navy- Arabi declared war - Tewfiq becomes puppet leader

  • GB + Egy counterattack against jihadist army in Sudan

  • Ger annexation began in SW & W Africa

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    Berlin Conference

    Hosted by Otto Von Bismarck (Ger chancellor)

  • GB + Egy armies defeated by Mahdist forces

    Jan- Governor-General Gordon beheaded

  • Congo became known as Congo Free State

  • Gold found in S Afr republic of Transvaal in Witwatersrand

  • National Africa Company est -> Royal Niger Company

  • Colonial & Indian Exhibition

  • First Colonial Conference

    Discussed if there should be some trading preferences

  • Golden Jubilee

    50 years of Vic being on throne

  • De Beers formed

    Founded by Cecil Rhode

  • British South Africa Company est

  • Afr Exhibition

  • Kimberley Diamond Syndicate formed

    New monopoly on controlling prices of diamonds

  • Work on Trans-Siberian railway began by Russia

    In North of China

  • Congo renamed Leopold's private kingdom until this year