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The British established influence over Egypt in 1882, after a nationalist uprising against the Khedive Tewfik Pasha. The British also occupied the country militarily.
Establishment
October 1882: The Battle of Tel el Kebir between British and Egyptian forces on September 13, 1882, established British control of Egypt.
Chronology
Interactive Chronologies with maps are available in the section Changes Navigation
After helping the Egyptian government to end a nationalist uprising, the British made Egypt a protectorate.
Wars that saw the partecipation of Muhammad Ali Pasha, the Wali of Egypt.
2.1.Egyptian conquest of Sudan
Were a series of military expeditions of the nominally Ottoman Eyalet of Egypt in Sudan that resulted in the annexion of the region.
January 1884: The Egyptians leave Mangbetu.
Was a war by Mahdist Sudan against Egyptian rule. The Mahdista were finally defeated by Egyptian and British forces, and Sudan became an Anglo-Egyptian condominium.
March 1884: Sennar, Tokar and Sinkat were under Mahdist siege.
January 1885: Siege of Khartoum.
3.1.Mahdist Attacks to Ethiopia
Was the invasion of Ethiopia by Mahdist Sudan during the Mahdist War.
October 1884: According to the Hewett Treaty of 3 June 1884, Ethiopia agreed to facilitate the evacuation of Egyptian garrisons in southern Sudan. In September 1884, Ethiopia reoccupied the province of Bogos, which had been occupied by Egypt.
Was a conflict between Aussa, Oromo, and Somali tribesmen, and the Khedivate of Egypt from 1874 to 1885. In 1874, the Egyptians invaded Eastern Ethiopia and ruled it for 11 years.
April 1884: Egypt surrendered all of its possessions south of the Red Sea in March 1884.
January 1885: The British withdrew from Harar in 1884, leaving the city to Abdullahi II, son of the previous emir,
January 1885: Egyptian occupation of the Gulf of Tadjoura.
Expansion during the rule of Menelik II in the Ethiopian Empire.
March 1889: Expansion of Ethiopia by the end of the reign of Yohannes IV.
January 1898: Ethiopia's expansion under Menlik II until 1897.
January 1899: Ethiopia's expansion under Menlik II until 1898.
June 1899: Territorial change based on available maps.
Was a skirmish on the border between the British protectorate of Egypt and the Ottoman Empire.
May 1906: The Ottoman Sultan leaves Taba to the British.
January 1907: The Taba Crisis of 1906 started when Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II of the Ottoman Empire decided to build a post at Taba, on the border between the Ottoman Empire and British Egypt.
August 1885: Via the International Association of the Congo, king Leopold II of Belgium was able to lay claim to most of the Congo basin. On 29 May 1885, after the closure of the Berlin Conference, the king announced that he planned to name his possessions "the Congo Free State", an appellation which was not yet used at the Berlin Conference and which officially replaced "International Association of the Congo" on 1 August 1886.
January 1886: Emperor Yohannes IV of Ethiopia signed an accord with Great Britain to cease fighting the Egyptians and to allow the evacuation of Egyptian forces from Ethiopia and the Somalia littoral. The Egyptian garrison was withdrawn from Tadjoura.
July 1887: In 1887, after signing successive treaties with the then ruling Somali Sultans from the Isaaq, Issa, Gadabursi, and Warsangali clans, the British established a protectorate in the region referred to as British Somaliland.
May 1889: The Treaty of Wuchale was signed between Italy and Menelik II, the Emperor of Ethiopia. It established the borders between Italian Eritrea and the Ethiopian Empire in 1889.
February 1897: Belgian forces led by Chaltin continued defeated the rebels in the Battle of Rejaf, securing the Lado Enclave as a Belgian territory.
January 1899: In 1898, with the decline of the Mahdists, sultan Ali Dinar managed to establish Darfurs independence.
June 1899: Territorial change based on available maps.
June 1899: Abbas II of Egypt and the British decided to re-establish control over Sudan. Leading a joint Egyptian-British force, Lord Kitchener led military campaigns from 1896 to 1898. In 1899, Britain and Egypt formally agreed to establish a joint protectorate: Egypt on the basis of its previous claims and Britain by right of conquest. At this point the protectorate encompassed modern-day Sudan and South Sudan as well as the Sarra triangle.
September 1900: On September 5, 1900, the borders of the French Colony of Chad were formally established.
December 1914: British occupation of Egypt ended nominally with the deposition of the last khedive Abbas II on 5 November 1914 and the establishment of a British protectorate, with the installation of sultan Hussein Kamel on 19 December 1914.
Disestablishment
December 1914: British occupation of Egypt ended nominally with the deposition of the last khedive Abbas II on 5 November 1914 and the establishment of a British protectorate, with the installation of sultan Hussein Kamel on 19 December 1914.
Selected Sources
Tucker, S.C. (2011) Battles that changed History - An Encyclopedia of World Conflict, ABC-CLIO, p.367
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