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
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