Congo Free State
1885–1908 · Event
King Leopold II of Belgium turns the Congo into a private rubber colony; millions perish.
On these timelines: Master, The Scramble for Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, The Low Countries
Around 1885
- Berlin Conference / Scramble for Africa (1884)
- Dreyfus Affair (1894)
- Anglo-Zulu War (1879)
- Adolf Hitler (1889)
- Albert Einstein (1879)
- Joseph Stalin (1878)
- Van Gogh's The Starry Night (1889)
- Mao Zedong (1893)
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881)
- Pablo Picasso (1881)