All Of The Dates Flashcards
1
Q
The Indian Rebellion
A
1857
2
Q
Burton and Speke were the first Europeans to reach Lake Tanganyika
A
February 1858
3
Q
Speke reached a great lake, which he named ‘Victoria’ in honour of the Queen
A
July 1858
4
Q
Establishment of the Raj
A
1858
5
Q
Treaty of Tientsin with China
A
1858
6
Q
David Livingstone received government funding and he began an exploration along the Zambezi River
A
1858
7
Q
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin published
A
1859
8
Q
American Civil War
A
1861-65
9
Q
International Exhibition held in South Kensington.
A
1862
10
Q
Robert Hart was appointed as the head of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Office
A
1863
11
Q
Burton and Speke were invited to the British Association for the Advancement of Science to debate their theories on the source of the Nile
A
1864
12
Q
Herbert Spencer came up with the phrase “the survival of the fittest”
A
1864
13
Q
Parliamentary Select Committee recommended pulling out of West Africa due to the cost
A
1865
14
Q
Mary Carpenter travelled to India
A
1866
15
Q
Reform Act
Franchise extended to 1.5 million
A
1867
16
Q
Canada becomes a Dominion
A
1867
17
Q
Discovery of diamonds in West Griqualand
A
1867
18
Q
Gold Coast acquired
A
1867
19
Q
John Kirk returned to Africa as medical officer and Vice-Consul in the Sultanate of Zanzibar
A
1868
20
Q
Basutoland becomes a protectorate
A
1868
21
Q
Mary Carpenter won funding to set up a training college for female Indian teachers
A
1868
22
Q
Suez Canal opened
A
1869
23
Q
Franco Prussian War
A
1870
24
Q
Education Act
A
1870
25
Royal Colonial Institute was founded to provide a meeting place for those interested in colonial and Indian affairs
1870
26
Germany was united as a single country
1871
27
First census of Indian population taken
1871
28
Annexation of Griqualand West
1871
29
The Crystal Palace Speech by Disraeli
1872
30
Onset of Long Depression
1873
31
2000 Griquas trekked to Griqualand East
1873
32
Annexation of Griqualand East
1874
33
Methodist missionaries prepared the ground for the establishment of British rule in Fiji
1874
34
Disraeli bought Pasha's 44% share of Suez Canal
1875
35
Foundation of Aligarh College
1875
36
Egypt is pressured into accepting significant external influence in financial affairs e.g. Caisse de la Dette publique
1876
37
The Brussels Conference
1876
38
The Great Famine (India)
1876-77
39
Queen Victoria declared Empress of India
1876/7
40
Annexation of Transvaal
1877
41
Xhosa War
1877
42
Bartle Frere appointed High Commissioner for South Africa
1877
43
France extended control from Senegal into Western Sudan
1879
44
Goldie persuaded all the British trading firms on the Niger River to join forces with his family firm to create a simple company, the United African Company, which controlled 30 trading posts
1879
45
The Dual Alliance
1879
46
Anglo-Zulu War
1879
47
Britain invades Zululand
January 1879
48
First Anglo-Boer War
1880-81
49
Pretoria Conference
1881
50
Goldie’s application for a royal charter was refused because of competing French interests in the Niger region
1881
51
Cecil Rhodes became a member of Cape Parliament
1881
52
Three Emperors’ League
1881
53
Beginning of Mahdist Uprisings in Sudan
1881
54
Charles Morrison (a British City financer) acquired the Mercantile Bank of the River Plate in Argentina
1881
55
The North Borneo Trading Company received a charter
1881
56
Nationalist revolt against Egyptian government led by Colonel Arabi
1882
57
The Daily Telegraph recounted that the rebels had killed “all the Christians they could find” in Alexandria and had left the ancient city in ruins (Colonel Arabi’s revolt)
14 July 1882
58
The Evening News reported that more Europeans had been murdered with “further massacres imminent” (Colonel Arabi’s revolt)
21 July 1882
59
A South African Conference was established (missionaries)
1882
60
The Triple Alliance
1882
61
Missionary John Mackenzie put pressure on the British government to establish a protectorate over Bechuanaland
1883
62
Evelyn Baring became Consul-General (Egypt)
1883
63
The Dufferin Report - established an Egyptian puppet parliament with no power and asserted the need for British supervision of reforms
1883
64
Reform Act
Franchise extended to 5.5 million
1884
65
Imperial League Federation established
1884
66
80% of Africa remained uncolonised
1884
67
The Berlin Conference
1884-85
68
Southern Nigeria - chartered company rule
1884
69
British Somaliland becomes a protectorate
1884
70
Germany seized Togoland and the Cameroons
1884
71
A West Indies Conference was established (missionaries)
1885
72
Bechuanaland becomes a protectorate
1885
73
Northern Nigeria - chartered company rule
1885
74
Gordon killed
January 1885
75
British led forces defeated at Khartoum; Britain withdraws interest in Sudan
January 1885
76
Indian National Congress formed
1885
77
Convention of London secured British influence in Egypt
1885
78
H. Rider Haggard’s King Solomon’s Mines Novel
1885
79
Gladstone introduced Home Rule Bill for Ireland
1886
80
Discovery of gold in South Africa
1886
81
Royal Niger Company receives charter
1886
82
Colonial and Indian Exhibition held in South Kensington
1886
83
H. Rider Haggard’s She Novel
1887
84
The Imperial British East Africa Company receives charter
1888
85
Cook Islands becomes a British protectorate
1888
86
Sarawak, North Borneo and Brunei become British protectorates
1888
87
Gambia - settlement established
1888
88
British East Africa - chartered company rule
1888
89
Uganda - chartered company rule
1888
90
The British South Africa Company receives charter
1889
91
Rhodes’ company established a fort at Salisbury in Mashonaland
September 1890
92
Zanzibar becomes a British protectorate
1890
93
Cecil Rhodes becomes Prime Minister of Cape Colony
1890
94
Formation of Kimberley Diamond syndicate
1890
95
Treaty between Britain and Germany, where Germany recognised British control of Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda and Zanzibar and Britain recognised German control of an island naval station in North Sea
1890
96
Acquired Nyasaland
1891
97
William Mackinnon founded the Free Church of Scotland East African Scottish Mission in Kibwezi
1891
98
Franco-Russian Alliance
1892
99
Acquired Matabeleland
1893
100
Imperial Federation League disbanded
1893
101
First Ndeble (Matabele) War
1893-94
102
Uganda becomes a protectorate
1894
103
The Jamerson Raid
December 1895 - January 1896
104
Further famines in India
1895-96, 1899-1900
105
British East Africa becomes a protectorate
1895
106
South Zambesia’s name changed to Rhodesia
1895
107
Matabeleland incorporated into Rhodesia
1895
108
Second Ndebele (Matabele) War
1895-96
109
Uganda Railway
1896
110
Sierra Leone becomes a protectorate
1896
111
The Daily Mail
1896
112
Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee
1897
113
Alfred Milner appointed High Commissioner for South Africa
1897
114
Battle of Omdurman
1898
115
Fashoda Incident
1898
116
Bal Tilak and Shivram Paranjape founded a weekly called Kaal
1898
117
British governor of Sierra Leone, Colonel Cradew, introduced a severe tax, know as ‘hut tax’
1898
118
Second Anglo-Boer War
1899.- 1902
119
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt penned the line “The white man’s burden, Lord, is the burden of his cash”
1899
120
Anglo-Egyptian condominium over Sudan
1899
121
Construction of first Aswan Dam begun
1899
122
Northern Nigeria becomes a British colony
1900
123
Khaki election
1900
124
Mahdist Uprisings
1900, 1902-3, 1904, 1908
125
Final Asante Uprising, which led to Britain’s formal annexation of the kingdom
1900
126
The Victoria League founded
1901
127
Southern Rhodesia becomes a protectorate
1901
128
Imperial Cadet Corps founded in India
1901
129
North-West Frontier Province was created
1901
130
Emily Hobhouse’s ‘Report of a Visit to the Camps of Women and Camps of Women and Children in the Cape and Orange River Colonies’
1901
131
Fawcett Commission
1901
132
Queen Victoria died
1901
133
Ashantiland incorporated into Gold Coast protectorate
1902
134
Construction of first Aswan Low Dam completed
1902
135
Empire Day first celebrated
1902
136
John A. Hobson wrote Imperialism
1902
137
Anglo-Japanese Naval Agreement
1902
138
Peace of Vereeniging ended 2nd Boer War
May 1902
139
Education Act - raise school standards
1902
140
Curzon mounted a temporary invasion of Tibet
1903-4
141
The Abhinav Bharat Organisation founded
1903
142
Entente Cordiale
1904
143
Partition of Bengal
October 1905
144
First Moroccan Crisis
1905
145
Conference held at Algeciras
1906
146
Southern Nigeria becomes a British colony
1906
147
Formation of All India Muslim League
1906
148
Denshawi Incident
1906
149
Election in Britain, in which Liberals received their greatest majority since the 1830s
1906
150
Free School Meals
1906
151
The Triple Entente
1907
152
School Medical Inspections
1907
153
Nyasaland becomes a protectorate
1907
154
Imperial College established
1907
155
Children’s Welfare Charter
1908
156
Old Age Pensions
1908
157
Paranjape was arrested for sedition
1908
158
Baden-Powell established the Boy Scout movement
1908
159
Constitution drawn up for The Union of South Africa
1908
160
Trade Boards Act
1909
161
India Councils Act
1909
162
The Round Table Movement founded
1909
163
Gorst tried to impose a tighter censorship of the press in Egypt
1909
164
Imperial Conferences (as a result of two power standard under threat)
1909, 1911
165
Orange Free State, Transvaal, Cape Colony and Natal becomes South Africa (a dominion)
1910
166
Unemployment and Health Insurance
1911
167
The Second Moroccan Crisis
1911
168
Dehli durbar marks transfer of Raj capital
1911
169
Reunification of Bengal
1911
170
Northern Rhodesia becomes a protectorate
1911
171
King George V’s coronation was celebrated with a Festival of Empire at the Crystal Palace
1911
172
Baden-Powell established Girl Guides
1912
173
Egypt becomes a protectorate
1914
174
World War One
1914-18
175
Northern and Southern Nigeria united as Nigeria
1914
176
Sykes-Picot Agreement
1915-16
177
Gallipoli campaign
April-December 1915
178
Empire Day officially recognised by Parliament
1916
179
Asquith replaced by David Lloyd George, who formed the coalition government
1916
180
Asquith replaced by David Lloyd George, who formed the coalition government
1916
181
Sinn Féin organised an unsuccessful rising in Dublin during Easter
1916
182
Battle for Vimy Ridge
April 1917
183
The Balfour Declaration
1917
184
The Imperial War Cabinet
1917
185
Britain placed 11% tax on Indian imports
1917
186
Armistice of Mudros
20 October 1918
187
Rowlatt Act
March 1919
188
The Amritsar Massacre
13 April 1919
189
The Government of India Act
(Designed by Edwin Montagu and Lord Chelmsford)
December 1919
190
Paris Peace Conference
1919
191
Treaty of Versailles
1919
192
Beginning of Pan-African Congresses
1919
193
National Congress of West Africa formed
1919
194
Non cooperation movement
1920-22
195
Treaty of Sevres
1920
196
Treaty of San Remo
1920
197
1 Jew : 10 Arabs in Palestine
1920
198
Civil government established under British appointed High Commissioner Herbet Samuel in Palestine
1920
199
British East Africa became known as Kenya
1920
200
The completion of Iraq being formally made a Class A mandate entrusted to Britain
25 April 1920
201
Iraqi Revolt
June 1920
202
In Sudan the British government allocated £3 million for the Gezira Cotton Scheme
1920
203
Cairo Conference
1921
204
The White Paper (following Balfour Declaration, in regard to Palestine)
1922
205
Chauri Chaura Incident
1922
206
The Chanak Crisis (Canada)
1922
207
Egypt becomes independent
February 1922
208
British mandate in Palestine, Transjordan divided from Palestine
July 1922
209
Treaty of Lausanne
1923
210
The Halibut Treaty
1923
211
Wembley Exhibition
1924
212
Organic Law (Iraq)
1925
213
In East Africa the British government allocated £10 million for improving rail and dock facilities
1925
214
Colonial Office split into 2 departments
1925
215
Agreement between Britain and Iraq regarding the Iraq Petroleum Company
1925
216
Britain returned to the gold standard
1925
217
The King Byng Crisis
1926
218
The Empire Marketing Board Set Up
1926
219
The Balfour Declaration/Report and the Imperial Conference
19 October-22 November 1926
220
A White Paper by Leo Amery
1927
221
The Simon Commission (India)
1929-30
222
Colonial Development Act
1929
223
A Royal Commission under Edward Hilton Young
1929
224
Anti-Jewish riots in Palestine
1929
225
Hebron Massacre (Palestine)
1929
226
Shaw Commission (Palestine)
1929
227
Wall Street Crash
1929
228
The Great Depression
1930s
229
Hope Simpson Enquiry (Palestine)
1930-31
230
The First Round Table Conference
12 November 1930
231
Anglo-Iraqi Treaty
1930
232
Salt March and civil disobedience campaign
1930
233
Britain was forced to abandon the gold standard
1931
234
Britain placed 25% tax on Indian imports
1931
235
Census (Palestine)
1931
236
The Statute of Westminster
1931
237
Canada becomes independent
1931
238
South Africa becomes independent
1931
239
Ireland becomes independent (Irish Free State)
1931
240
Jewish immigration to Palestine was 4075
1931
241
The Second Round Table Conference
September-December 1931
242
Iraq receives formal independence and was admitted into the League of Nations
1932
243
Third Round Table Conference
1932
244
Jewish immigration to Palestine was 37,337
1933
245
Jewish immigration to Palestine was 66,472
1935
246
Government of India Act
1935
247
Sanders of the River film
1935
248
Palestine Arab Revolt
1936-39
249
20,000 British troops were sent to Palestine to curb growing violence
1936
250
Anglo-Egyptian Treaty
1936
251
The Peel Commission Partition Plan
1937
252
Empire Exhibition in Glasgow
1938
253
The Four Feathers Film
1939
254
White Paper after fearing war and an attack on Egypt, regarding Palestine
1939
255
Colonial Development and Welfare Acts
1940 and 1945
256
Japan bombed Pearl Harbour
2 December 1941
257
Lend-Lease
1941
258
Australia becomes independent
1942
259
Quit India Movement
1942
260
The Battle of El Alamein
October-November 1942
261
Pan African Congress convened in Manchester
1945
262
The United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) was created
March 1946
263
Tanganyika Ground Nut Scheme
1946
264
The Burns Constitution drawn up in the Gold Coast
1946
265
Talks between Aung San and Attlee’s government in London took place
January 1947
266
Aung San and 6 of his cabinet ministers were assassinated by a rival political faction
July 1947
267
India becomes independent
August 1947
268
Britain decided to withdraw from Palestine by May 1948 and hand over control to a UN Commission
September 1947
269
New Zealand becomes independent
1947
270
1 Jew : 2 Arabs in Palestine
1947
271
The Sterling Crisis
1947
272
Jomo Kenyatta became president of the Kenya Africa Union
1947
273
Cohen Report
1947
274
The Federation of Malaya established
January 1948
275
State of Emergency declared in Federation of Malaya
June 1948
276
Afrikaner Nationalist Party came to power in South Africa and implemented apartheid
1948
277
Colonial Development Corporation set up
1948
278
Ireland left the Commonwealth
1948
279
Burma becomes independent
1948
280
Burma refuses to join Commonwealth
1948
281
Ceylon (Sri Lanka) becomes independent
1948
282
The British Nationality Act
1948
283
The Convention People’s Party (CPP) was founded by Kwame Nkrumah
1949
284
Charles Arden-Clarke became Governor of the Gold Coast
1949
285
Assassination of Henry Gurney, British High Commissioner
October 1951
286
Bantu Authorities Act
1951
287
King Farouk of Egypt renounced 1936 treaty
1951
288
The Macpherson Constitution in Nigeria
1951
289
Mau Mau Uprising
1952-56
290
State of Emergency in Kenya
October 1952 - December 1959
291
Kenyatta was arrested
October 1952
292
Major Commonwealth Economic Conference
1952
293
Nkrumah was given position of Prime Minister in the Gold Coast
1952
294
Central African Federation (CAF) created
1953
295
First Commonwealth Games took place
1954
296
Federal election in Federation of Malaya, where both the Malays and Chinese united against British rule and together won 81% of the votes
1955
297
The Reid Commission established to draw up new democratic constitution
1955
298
Nasser announced nationalisation of the Suez Canal Company
16 July 1956
299
The Suez Crisis
(The Protocol of Sèvres and fighting)
October 1956
300
Apolo Milton Obote joined the Uganda National Congress (UNC)
1956
301
Creation of the EEC
1957
302
Gold Coast becomes independent as Ghana
1957
303
Ghana joins the Commonwealth
March 1957
304
Malay becomes independent
1957
305
Gangs of white ‘teddy boy’ youths attacked black people and violent riots broke out in Nottingham and Notting Hill
1958
306
North West Frontier Film
1959
307
Iraq left Baghdad Pact
1959
308
Following Greek and Turk ethnic tensions, Britain’s Middle Eastern Base in Cyprus was granted independence
1959
309
Hola Camp atrocities
1959
310
Governor of Nyasaland declared a State of Emergency and banned the Nyasaland African Congress and imprisoned its leaders
1959
311
British commission concluded that the Emergency had been an overreaction (Nyasaland)
1959
312
Harold Macmillan’s Winds of Change speech
3 February 1960
313
Whilst in jail, Kenyatta was elected leader of the Kenya African National Union
May 1960
314
Nigeria joins the Commonwealth
October 1960
315
The Sharpeville Massacre
1960
316
British Somaliland becomes independent
1960
317
Nigeria becomes independent
1960
318
South Africa left the Commonwealth
May 1961
319
Sierra Leone becomes independent
1961
320
Tanganyika becomes independent as Tanzania
1961
321
British Cameroons becomes independent
1961
322
Commonwealth Immigrants Act
1962
323
Uganda becomes independent
1962
324
Empire Day abolished
1962
325
Lawrence of Arabia Film
1962
326
Apolo Milton Obote was appointed as Prime Minister of Uganda
1962
327
British membership of EEC vetoed for the first time
1963
328
Kenya becomes independent
1963
329
Kenya joins the Commonwealth
December 1963
330
Zanzibar becomes independent
1963
331
CAF was formally dissolved
1963
332
Malaya united with Singapore, Sabah (North Borneo) and Sarawak to form Malaysia
1963
333
Nkrumah was a founder member of the Organisation of African Unity
1963
334
Northern Rhodesia becomes independent
1964
335
Kenneth Kaunda led Northern Rhodesia to independence as Zambia
1964
336
Nyasaland becomes independent
1964
337
Dr Hastings Banda led Nyasaland to independence as Malawi
1964
338
Guns at Batasi Film
1964
339
Singapore expelled from Malaysia
August 1965
340
Race Relations Act
1965
341
Survey in North London - 1 in 5 objected to working with black people or Asians, 1/2 said they refused to live next door to a non-white person, 9/10 disapproved of racially mixed marriage
1965
342
Gambia becomes independent
1965
343
Prime Minister of Rhodesia, Ian Smith, illegally declared Southern Rhodesia to be independent
1965
344
Creation of Commonwealth Office
1966
345
Bechuanaland becomes independent
1966
346
Basutoland becomes independent
1966
347
British membership of EEC vetoed for the second time
1967
348
Evacuation from Aden
1967
349
Sterling devaluation
1967
