East Africa Protectorate

This article is about the specific polity East Africa Protectorate 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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When the British East Africa Company went bankrupt its region was organized into a colony, predecessor of modern-day Kenya.

Establishment

July 1895: The Imperial British East Africa Company began to fail, and the British government proclaimed a protectorate.

Chronology

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1. World War I

Was a global conflict between two coalitions, the Allies (primarily France, the United Kingdom, Russia, Italy, Japan, and the United States) and the Central Powers (led by Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire). It was mainly caused by the competition of the western countries over domain in Europe and in the rest of the world with their colonial empires. The war ended with the defeat of the Central Powers. The war also caused the Russian Revolution and the ensuing Russian Civil War.

1.1.World War I African Theatre

Was the African Theatre of World War I.

1.1.1.East African campaign

Was a series of battles and guerrilla actions during World War I, which started in German East Africa (GEA) and spread to portions of Mozambique, Rhodesia, British East Africa, Uganda, and Belgian Congo.

1.1.1.1.Fall of Taveta

Was the conquest of Taveta (Kenya) by German forces during World War I.

August 1914: Taveta, a town on the British side of Kilimanjaro, was captured by two companies of Askari (German colonial troops) from German East Africa.

1.1.1.2.British Offensive (East African campaign)

Was the British offensive against German forces in the East Africa Campaign of World War I.

March 1916: British conquest of Taveta.

2. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)

January 1901: Uganda was made into a British protectorate at the end of the 19th century. Prior to this, the region was divided between several closely related kingdoms.

January 1901: Jubaland annexed to East Africa Protectorate.

January 1903: In 1902, the boundaries of the British Protectorate of Uganda were extended to include what was previously the Eastern Province of Uganda.

January 1903: In 1902, the British East Africa Syndicate received a grant of 1,300 square kilometres to promote white settlement in the Highlands. Around this time the British were in control of the interior of modern-day Kenya.

January 1906: From 1905 Witu was administered as a part of Tana District of the British East Africa Protectorate.

June 1920: The Colony and Protectorate of Kenya was established on 11 June 1920 when the territories of the former East Africa Protectorate (except those parts of that Protectorate over which His Majesty the Sultan of Zanzibar had sovereignty) were annexed by the UK.