Africa
- 1820 - The colony of Liberia is founded by the United States.
- 1854 - The Orange Free State is founded.
- 1856 - The state of Transvaal is founded.
- 1877 - Transvaal is dissolved after the First Boer War.
- 1881 - France creates the colony of Brazzaville. Transvaal is recreated with the agreement at the Pretoria Convention which gives the local Boer population self-rule.
- 1882 - Egypt is occupied by the United Kingdom and becomes a colony.
- 1884 - The colony of British Somaliland is created. Germany creates the colonies of Kamerun and German South-West Africa.
- 1885 - The colony of German East Africa is created. The Belgian Congo is created (then officially called the Congo Free State).
- 1889 - 1890 - Italy establishes its first two colonies, the colony of Eritrea in 1889 and the colony of Italian Somaliland is created in 1889 and quickly expands until 1890.
- 1894 - Dahomey (now named Benin) is annexed by France as a colony.
- 1899 - 1902 - The Second Boer War occurs in which both the Orange Free State and Transvaal are occupied by the British and become colonies.
- 1910 - The Orange Free State and Transvaal are annexed by South Africa. French Equatorial Africa is founded, uniting the territories of Gabon, Middle Congo (now the Republic of the Congo), Oubangui-Chari (or Ubangi-Shari, now the Central African Republic)
- 1911 - France cedes territory to German Cameroon.
- 1912 - The Ottoman Empire loses the colony of Libya to Italy. Morocco becomes a French colony
Read more about this topic: List Of National Border Changes From 1815 To 1914
Famous quotes containing the word africa:
“Day by day we hear the cry of AFRICA FOR THE AFRICANS. This cry has become a positive, determined one. It is a cry that is raised simultaneously the world over because of the universal oppression that affects the Negro.”
—Marcus Garvey (1887–1940)
“What is Africa to me:
Copper sun or scarlet sea,
Jungle star or jungle track,
Strong bronzed men, or regal black
Women from whose loins I sprang
When the birds of Eden sang?”
—Countee Cullen (1903–1946)
“I know no East or West, North or South, when it comes to my class fighting the battle for justice. If it is my fortune to live to see the industrial chain broken from every workingman’s child in America, and if then there is one black child in Africa in bondage, there shall I go.”
—Mother Jones (1830–1930)