1857 - 1914

Question 1

1857

Answer 1

Indian Rebellion (- ‘58)

Question 2

1858

Answer 2

• India become crown Colony
• Burton and Speke discover lake Taginyaka

Question 3

1860

Answer 3

Speke expedition to locate Nile source (-‘63)

Question 4

1866

Answer 4

• Livingstone expedition to Nile Source (-‘73)

Question 5

1867

Answer 5

• Canada Dominion status
• Diamonds discovered in SA

Question 6

1868

Answer 6

Colonial Society founded

Question 7

1869

Answer 7

SUEZ CANAL OPENING

Question 8

1871

Answer 8

• Stanley finds Livingstone
• Griqualand annexed (west of Cape Colony)

Question 9

1872

Answer 9

Cape Colony granted responsible government

Question 10

1873

Answer 10

• Long Depression (-‘79)
• Livingstone Dies

Question 11

1874

Answer 11

• Gold Coast declared a colony
• Stanley expedition Nile Source (-‘77)

Question 12

1875

Answer 12

DISRAELI BUYS SUEZ SHARES

Question 13

1876

Answer 13

• Victoria now ‘Empress of India’

Question 14

1877

Answer 14

• Transvaal Annexed
• Delhi Durbar
• Sir Bartle Frere appointed ‘High Commissioner of SA’

Question 15

1878

Answer 15

Afghan War (-‘80)

Question 16

1879

Answer 16

Zulu war (-‘80)

Question 17

1880

Answer 17

First Boer War (-‘81)

Question 18

1880

Answer 18

First Boer War (-‘81)

Question 19

1881

Answer 19

• Mahdist uprising (-‘98)
• British Majuba Hill Defeat
• Pretoria Convention (Transvaal Independence)

Question 20

1884

Answer 20

• Berlin Conference (-‘85)

Question 21

1885

Answer 21

• General Gordon killed in Khartoum
• Indian National Congress formed
• Bechualaland and Niger Coast protectorate established

Question 22

1886

Answer 22

• Gold in SA
• Royal Niger Company Charter
• Colonial and Indian exhibition in South Kensington
• Anglo-German agreement over East Africa ‘spheres of influence’
• first India National Congress meets

Question 23

1887

Answer 23

Zululand becomes protectorate

Question 24

1888

Answer 24

• Imperial BEAC charter
• Cook Islands now protectorate
• Imperial exhibition in Glasgow
• Rhodes amalgamates Kimberley Diamond Companies

Question 25

1889

Answer 25

- BSAC charter - Rhodesia Established - Nyasaland (partial) British Protectorate

Question 26

1890

Answer 26

- Zanzibar British Protectorate - Rhodes Prime Minister of Cape Colony

Question 27

1893

Answer 27

First Ndebele (Matabele) War (-‘94)

Question 28

1894

Answer 28

Uganda becomes Protectorate

Question 29

1895

Answer 29

- British East Africa Protectorate - Chamberlain Colonial Secretary - Jameson Raid

Question 30

1896

Answer 30

- Second Ndebele (Matabele) War (-‘97) - Zanzibar War - Rhodes resigns Prime Minster Cape Colony - Formation of Federation of Malay States

Question 31

1897

Answer 31

- VICTORIA DIAMOND JUBILEE - Sir Alfred Milner High Commissioner of SA

Question 32

1898

Answer 32

- Battle of Omdurman, and Fashoda Incident - Sudan Annexed - Curzon becomes Viceroy of India

Question 33

1899

Answer 33

- Second Boer War (-1902) - Sudan Condominium (Anglo-Egyptian)

Question 34

1900

Answer 34

Final Ashanti War

Question 35

1901

Answer 35

- Ashantiland incorporated into Gold Coast Protectorate - Union of SA established

Question 36

1903

Answer 36

Chamberlain campaign for tariff reform

Question 37

1905

Answer 37

Partition of Bengal

Question 38

1906

Answer 38

Transvaal and Orange River Colony granted self-government

Question 39

1907

Answer 39

- New Zealand Dominion Status - Mahatma Ghandi first non-violent resistance in SA - Indian National Congress Split - Anglo-Russian entent (Persia spheres of influence)

Question 40

1909

Answer 40

Morley-Minto Reforms