French Sudan

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Was a French Colony in West Africa. From an administrative point of view it was part of French West Africa for most of its existence. Most of its territories came from the Kénédougou Kingdom and Toucouleur Empire, two large precolonial polities of the region that France conquered at the end of the XIX century. It was a predecessor of modern Mali.

Establishment

August 1890: The western part of actual Mali was renamed French Sudan on August 18, 1890.

Chronology

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1. Events

January 1891: The central part of actual niger was conquered by the French in 1890.

January 1891: Ka`arta state extinguished by French colonial government.

January 1891: In 1890, the French, allied with the Bambara, occupied the city of Ségou.

January 1894: Segu state extinguished by French colonial government.

January 1894: In 1893 the French took control of the Toucouleur Empire and sent its ruler, Ahmadu Tall, into exile.

January 1895: In 1895, the Goma States became part of French Sudan. The are would later became part of the French protectorate of Upper Volta.

February 1895: Local Gurma ruler accept French protection.

May 1895: In 1895, Yatenga became part of French Sudan. The are would later became part of the French protectorate of Upper Volta.

January 1897: German Togo expanded north to the region around Sansane-Mangu, where a station was built in 1896.

January 1897: The part of the Mossi Kingdom in actual Burkina Faso is administered by the French Ivory Coast.

January 1897: In 1896, the French took over the Mossi Kingdom and created the French Upper Volta which largely used the Mossi administrative structure for many decades in governing the colony.

January 1897: In 1896, French forces occupied Tenkodogo in present-day Burkina Faso.

January 1898: French occupation of Gwirko.

May 1898: The French launched an artillery assault against Sikasso's tata in April 1898, and the city fell on May 1 of the same year. Rather than see the French take control of his city, Fama Babemba ordered his guards to kill him. The territory of the Kénédougou Kingdom was soon assimilated into the colony of French Sudan.

January 1899: French military expedition to Sikasso.

June 1899: Northern Nigeria was partitioned between Great Britain and France by the Anglo-French Convention of 1898.

July 1899: Meeting on 30 July at the Battle of Tirmini, 10 km from Zinder, the well-armed Senegalese-French troops defeated the Sultan and took Damagaram's capital.

January 1900: The Sultanate of Maradi was occupied by France during the Voulet-Chanoine military mission.

January 1901: The Sultanate of Agadez was conquered by the French in 1900.

December 1902: Masina state extinguished by French colonial government.

May 1903: French Mauritania was officially established on 21 May 1903.

January 1914: At some point before WWI the borders of the Protectorates of Northern and Southern Nigeria with the French colonies in Africa were adjusted in accordance with the agreements made at the Berlin Conference.

January 1914: Part of French Sudan administered by the French Ivory Coast.

October 1922: Niger was established as a colony on October 13, 1922, inside French West Africa.

September 1932: The Upper Volta Colony was dissolved and divided between the colonies of Ivory Coast, French Sudan and Niger.

September 1947: The Mossi renewed their pressure for separate territorial status and on 4 September 1947. Upper Volta became a French West African territory again in its own right.

October 1958: French Guinea became independent from France in 1958 after its voters rejected Charles de Gaulle's Constitution of 1958. This led to the territory joining the Republic of Guinea.

April 1959: The Mali Federation (French: Fédération du Mali) was a federation in West Africa linking the French colonies of Senegal and the Sudanese Republic (or French Sudan) for two months in 1960. It was founded on 4 April 1959 as a territory with self-rule within the French Community.