Domestic attitudes 1857-1914 Flashcards
What year did David Livingstone (explorer) try to find the source of the river nile
1866
What year did David Livingstone (explorer) see the 400 local Africans being killed by the Arab ruler
1871
When did John Kirk (explorer) become British consul in Zanzibar
1870
When did Burton (explorer) write Arabian Nights
1885
When did John Mackenzie (methodist missionary) place pressure on British govt to establish a protectorate over Bechuanaland?
1885
When did Cecil Rhodes (trader) make the British South Africa Company
1889
When did the territory run by the British East African Company was transferred to the British government.
1893
When did George Goldie (trader) persuade all British trading firms working on the Niger River to join to form the United African Company
1879
When did the British govt take direct control of the 2 protectorates included in Goldie’s company, Northern Nigeria and Southern Nigeria in exchange for £895,000
1900
When did Evelyn Baring become General Consul of Egypt
1882-1907
When did Evelyn Baring (administrator) approve of the Dufferin report
1883
When did Bartle Frere (adminstrator) become the high commissioner for the cape colony?
1887
When did Frere attempt to increase British control in South Africa. This led to a war with the local Zulu tribe, led by King Cetshwayo.
1878
When did the Parliamentary Select Committee recommended Britain withdraw from its West African settlements.
1865
When was Goldie able to get a charter from Parliament for his company in Niger.
1884
When did Benjamin Disraeli become PM
In 1868, then 1874-1880
When was the crytsal palace speech?
1872
When did Disraeli buy £4 millions worth of shares of the Suez Canal
1875
When was Queen Victoria declared Empress of India by Disraeli
1877
When did Benjamin Disraeli annex afghanistan
1878
When did Gladstone become PM?
In total, he was Prime Minister between 1868-1874, 1880-1885 and 1892-1894.
When did Gladstone refuse to commit further troops, time or money to the Boer conflict after the defeat at Majuba Hill.
1881
When did Gladstone send British troops into Egypt to suppress Arabi Pasha’s uprising in Alexandria that saw 50 Europeans killed.
1882
When did Gladstone withdraw Anglo-Egyptian troops after the Mahdist Rebellion in Sudan.
1884
When did Gladstone represent British interests at the Berlin Conference.
1884-1885
When did Gladstone introduce the Home Rule Bill for Ireland.
1886
When did Joseph Chamberlain become Colonial secetrary
between 1895 and 1903.
When was the annexation of Ashantiland
1901
When was Cecil Rhodes, PM of the cape colony?
1890
When was the Jameson Raid?
1895
When did Rhodes send settlers to establish Fort Salisbury in Matabeleland
1890
When did the productivity of Egypt’s cotton and sugar industries rise by 200% under Baring’s rule
1902
When was the Denshawai incident
1906
When did Baring resign
1907
When did Milner negotiate the peace at Vereeniging to end the Boer War.
1902
When did Curzon make the north west frontier
1901
When was the partition of Bengal
1905
When was the Khaki election
1900
When was the the Victoria League was created to show support for the Empire in a non-political manner. ?
1901
When did John A Hobson write the book ‘imperialism’
1902
When was the Education Act created?
1902
When was the free school meals initiative taken place
1906
When was the imperial college created
1907
When was the Daily Mail created
1896
