Timeline

• 1857


  Indian Mutiny
• 1858


  India becomes a crown colony
• 1866


  Livingstone's 3rd journey into Africa to look for the source of the river nile
• 1867


  Diamonds discovered in South Africa
• 1869


  Suez Canal opens
• 1873


  Start of the first Great Depression
• 1874


  Gold Coast becomes a colony
• 1875


  Disraeli gets a controlling stake in the Suez Canal
• 1877


  Victoria becomes Empress of India,

  
  

  Annexation of the Transvaal
• 1878


  Afghan War begins (until 1880)
• 1879


  Zulu War begins (until 1880)
• 1880


  First Boer War
• 1881


  Mahdi Uprising in Sudan,

  
  

  British defeated at Majuba Hill
• 1882


  Start of occoupation of Egypt
• 1884


  Berlin Conference (ended in 1885)
• 1885


  Gordon killed in Khartoum,

  
  

  Indian National Congress formed
• 1886


  Discovery of gold in South Africa,

  
  

  Royal Niger Company recieves a charter,

  
  

  Anglo-German agreement over spheres of influence in East Africa
• 1888


  Imperial exhibition in Glasgow,

  
  

  Sarawak, North Borneo and Brunei become British protectorates,

  
  

  Cecil Rhodes amalgamates his Kimberly Diamond companies,
• 1889


  Rhodesia established
• 1890


  Cecil Rhodes becomes PM of Cape Colony
• 1895


  Jameson Raid
• 1896


  Joseph Chamberlain becomes colonial secretary,

  
  

  Rhodes Resigns as PM of Cape Colony
• 1897


  Milner becomes South Africa High Commissioner
• 1898


  Fashoda Incident,

  
  

  Formal annexation of Sudan,

  
  

  Curzon becomes Viceroy
• 1899


  Second Boer War
• 1902


  Union of South Africa established
• 1905


  Partition of Bengal
• 1907


  Gandhi starts resistance campaign in South Africa,

  
  

  Baden Powell founds Boy Scouts movement
• 1909


  The Morley-Minto reforms
• 1910


  Union of South Africa becomes self-governing Dominion
• 1913


  Crisis in Ireland - Ulster volunteers formed
• 1914


  WWI begins
• 1916


  Easter Rising in Dublin
• 1917


  Balfour Declaration,

  
  

  Creation of Imperial War cabinet
• 1919


  Amritsar Massacre,

  
  

  Irish war for independence starts - IRA formed,

  
  

  Treaty of Versailles
• 1920


  Gandhi leads Indian campaign of civil disobedience
• 1922


  Independence of Egypt
• 1929


  Great Depression
• 1930


  Gandhi's Salt March,

  
  

  First Round Tabke Conference between Britain and India
• 1931


  Statute of Westminster,

  
  

  Britain abandons Gold Standard