Cecil Rhodes
1853–1902 · Person
British colonial magnate who founded Rhodesia and the De Beers mining empire.
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More from British Empire
- Company rule in India (1757)
- Early English settlement of North America (1585)
- Victoria becomes Empress of India (1876)
- Equiano's Interesting Narrative (1789)
- London Declaration creates the modern Commonwealth (1949)
- Morant Bay Rebellion (1865)
- First Virginia Charter (1606)
- Independence of Ceylon (1948)
Around 1853
- Taiping Rebellion (1851)
- Great Famine of Ireland (1845)
- Indian Rebellion of 1857 (1857)
- Revolutions of 1848 (1848)
- Crimean War (1853)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) (1859)
- American Civil War (1861)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)
- Perry Expedition to Japan (1853)