malawi
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The cluster includes all the forms of the country.
The cluster includes the following incarnations of the same nation:
African Lakes Corporation
British Central Africa Protectorate
British Nyasaland
Republic of Malawi
Establishment
April 1889: In response to the portuguese incursion, Johnston's deputy John Buchanan declared a Shire Highlands Protectorate in Johnston's absence.
November 1889: In 1889, Harry Johnston proclaimed the Nyasaland Districts Protectorate west of Lake Malawi, against Foreign Office instructions. The territory was eventually handed over to the African Lakes Corporation. Johnston was a British explorer and colonial administrator in Africa.
December 1889: After Serpa Pinto's departure owing to serious illness in November 1889, his second-in-command, João Coutinho, pushed on as far as Katunga, the nearest river port to Blantyre, and some Kololo chiefs fled to Blantyre for safety.
Chronology
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1. Events
March 1890: There followed an Anglo-Portuguese Crisis in which a British refusal of arbitration was followed by the 1890 British Ultimatum of 11 January 1890. This demanded that the Portuguese give up all claims to territories beyond the Ruo River and west of Lake Malawi. The Portuguese government accepted under duress and ordered their troops in the Shire valley to withdraw to the south bank of the Ruo. This order was received by the commander at Katunga on 8 March 1890 and all Portuguese forces had evacuated Katunga and Chiromo by 12 March.
January 1892: The British Central Africa Protectorate (BCA) was a British protectorate proclaimed in 1889 and ratified in 1891 that occupied the same area as present-day Malawi.
January 1892: The British Central Africa Protectorate was established under the leadership of British colonial administrator Harry Johnston. It was ratified in 1891, with the territory covering present-day Malawi.
January 1892: In 1891, the territory of Nkamanga was transferred to the British Central Africa Protectorate, which was established in 1889 and later ratified in 1891. This protectorate encompassed the region that is now known as Malawi.
July 1907: The British Central Africa Protectorate was renamed Nyasaland in 1907.
August 1911: In 1911 several territories controlled by the British South Africa Company are amalgamated to form Northern Rhodesia.
January 1917: The Portuguese increased efforts for occupying the interior of the colony of Mozambique after the Scramble for Africa, and secured political control over most of its territory in 1918.
August 1953: Establishment of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, which consisted of Southern Rhodesia, Northern Rhodesia, and Nyasaland.
December 1963: The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland officially ended, being succeeded by British Nyasaland, Northern Rhodesia and Southern Rhodesia.
July 1964: Independence of Nyasaland.
