Disraeli buys Suez Canal shares
1875 · Event
Prime Minister buys Egypt's stake in the Suez Canal Company with a Rothschild loan; secures Britain's route to India.
On these timelines: Master, United Kingdom (combined), England, North Africa, British Empire
Around 1875
- Berlin Conference / Scramble for Africa (1884)
- Anglo-Zulu War (1879)
- Meiji Restoration (1868)
- German unification (1871)
- Albert Einstein (1879)
- Joseph Stalin (1878)
- Bismarck's chancellorship (1871)
- Vladimir Lenin (1870)
- Founding of the German Empire (1871)
- Franco-Prussian War (1870)