The Scramble for Africa
Explore The Scramble for Africa on Ever-When, an interactive timeline of history from the Big Bang to the present day.
Key events on this timeline
- Berlin Conference / Scramble for Africa (1884)
- Congo Free State (1885)
- Second Boer War (1899)
- Battle of Adwa (1896)
- Herero and Nama genocide (1904)
- Congo rubber atrocities (1891)
- Britain occupies Egypt (1882)
- Siege of Khartoum (1884)
- Battle of Omdurman (1898)
- Stanley crosses Africa (1874)
- Mahdist War / Fall of Khartoum (1881)
- The French conquest of West Africa (1880)
- Fashoda Incident (1898)
- Belgian annexation of the Congo (1908)
- Heart of Darkness (1899)
- Casement Report (1904)
- Union of South Africa (1910)
- Maji Maji Rebellion (1905)
- End of the Second Boer War (1902)
- First Boer War (1880)
- Founding of Rhodesia (1895)
- Jameson Raid (1895)
- Second Moroccan Crisis (Agadir) (1911)
- First Moroccan Crisis (Tangier Crisis) (1905)
- Entente Cordiale (1904)