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Name: Missionaries in East Africa

Type: Polity

Start: 1851 AD

End: 1888 AD

Parent: great britain

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British missionaries began settling in the area from Mombasa to Mount Kilimanjaro in the 1840s.

Establishment


  • January 1851: European missionaries began settling in the area from Mombasa to Mount Kilimanjaro in the 1840s, nominally under the protection of the Sultanate of Zanzibar.
  • Chronology


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    1. Events


  • January 1859: In 1858 Sultan Ahmad ibn Fumo Bakari, from the old ruling family of the Nabahani, founded the town of Pate on the island of the same name and established an independent sultanate.

  • January 1862: Malindi was conquered by Sultan Majid of Zanzibar in 1861.

  • April 1888: Formation of the British East Africa Association which led to the Imperial British East Africa Company being chartered in 1888 and given the original grant to administer the dependency. It administered about 240 kilometres of coastline stretching from the River Jubba via Mombasa to German East Africa which were leased from the Sultan.

  • Disestablishment


  • April 1888: Formation of the British East Africa Association which led to the Imperial British East Africa Company being chartered in 1888 and given the original grant to administer the dependency. It administered about 240 kilometres of coastline stretching from the River Jubba via Mombasa to German East Africa which were leased from the Sultan.
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