Africa
Africa before the early 19th c
15th c Portugal as the precedent setter: 1394-1487
1415-1462: Ceuta, Madeira, Azores, Cape Bojador, Cape Verde, Serra Lyoa (Henry the Navigator)
1470-1487: Sao Tomé, Principe, Bioko, Annobon, Congo River, Cape of Good Hope (Dias)
16th c Portugal disintegrates:
1578: battle of El Ksar-el-Kebir
(1580-1640: Iberian Union)
17th c 1624: France colonizes Senegal
Dutch traders:
1652: Jan v. Riebeeck settles in Cape Colony along with a couple of farmers (= resupply post for VOC)
18th c Seventy Years War 1744-1814:
Napoleonic Wars: 1792/99-1815:
1798: French victory of the Pyramids
1798: French defeat at the Nile
, North Africa
19th c 1805-49: Muhammed Ali viceroy
The scramble of Africa?:
1849-63: Said & Ismail khedives in Egypt
1853: de Lesseps receives autoristaion for Suez canal in Egypt
1827: French occupation of Algeria (= département)
1833-37/1839-47: insurrection of Abd al-Qadir
1876: Caisse de la Dette: French-British condominium in Egypt next to Egyptian king
1878: Tunisia awarded to France after Russo-Turkish War
1881: French protectorate
1880: Conference of Madrid
1881: Islamitic insurrection of Ahmed Arabi in Egypt
1882: Egypt de facto (‘veiled’) protectorate
1885: Sudan becomes Mahdi empire
20th c 1904: Entente Cordiale France & Britain
1905-1906: first Moroccan Crisis
1905: Wilhelm II visits Tangier
1906: Algeciras Conference
1911-12: Second Moroccan Crisis
1911: rebellion against sultan Abdelhafid
1912: Treaty of Fez
Africa before the early 19th c
15th c Portugal as the precedent setter: 1394-1487
1415-1462: Ceuta, Madeira, Azores, Cape Bojador, Cape Verde, Serra Lyoa (Henry the Navigator)
1470-1487: Sao Tomé, Principe, Bioko, Annobon, Congo River, Cape of Good Hope (Dias)
16th c Portugal disintegrates:
1578: battle of El Ksar-el-Kebir
(1580-1640: Iberian Union)
17th c 1624: France colonizes Senegal
Dutch traders:
1652: Jan v. Riebeeck settles in Cape Colony along with a couple of farmers (= resupply post for VOC)
18th c Seventy Years War 1744-1814:
Napoleonic Wars: 1792/99-1815:
1798: French victory of the Pyramids
1798: French defeat at the Nile
, North Africa
19th c 1805-49: Muhammed Ali viceroy
The scramble of Africa?:
1849-63: Said & Ismail khedives in Egypt
1853: de Lesseps receives autoristaion for Suez canal in Egypt
1827: French occupation of Algeria (= département)
1833-37/1839-47: insurrection of Abd al-Qadir
1876: Caisse de la Dette: French-British condominium in Egypt next to Egyptian king
1878: Tunisia awarded to France after Russo-Turkish War
1881: French protectorate
1880: Conference of Madrid
1881: Islamitic insurrection of Ahmed Arabi in Egypt
1882: Egypt de facto (‘veiled’) protectorate
1885: Sudan becomes Mahdi empire
20th c 1904: Entente Cordiale France & Britain
1905-1906: first Moroccan Crisis
1905: Wilhelm II visits Tangier
1906: Algeciras Conference
1911-12: Second Moroccan Crisis
1911: rebellion against sultan Abdelhafid
1912: Treaty of Fez
