African Lakes Corporation
This article is about the specific polity African Lakes Corporation and therefore only includes events related to its territory and not to its possessions or colonies. If you are interested in the possession, this is the link to the article about the nation which includes all possessions as well as all the different incarnations of the nation.
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Was a British Company formed in 1877 that controlled territories in modern-day Malawi from 1889.
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.
Disestablishment
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.
