Protectorate of Uganda

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Was a protectorate of the British Empire from 1894. The colony became independent in 1963 as the Republic of Uganda.

Establishment

June 1894: In 1894, the British government declared that all occupied territories in Uganda would become a Protectorate of Uganda under British protection. This decision was made under the leadership of British colonial administrator Sir Gerald Portal and Commissioner Ernest Berkeley.

Chronology

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1. Events

January 1895: In 1894 Great Britain declared the Kingdom of Bunyoro its protectorate.

January 1897: In 1894 the British government declares a protectorate over Buganda. Two years later British control is extended to cover the western kingdoms of Ankole, Toro and Bunyoro.

January 1897: Kooki was incorporated into the kingdom of Buganda in 1896.

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.

June 1899: Territorial change based on available maps.

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: Conquered by Britain. 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: The chiefdoms of Busoga signed treaties with the British.

October 1901: The Kingdom of Nkore was incorporated into the British Protectorate of Uganda by the signing of the Ankole agreement.

January 1902: All former Mpororo States become part of kingdom of Ankole (whch had already been integrated into British Uganda).

January 1902: All former Mpororo States (the regions inhabited by the Hororo people) become part of kingdom of Ankole (which had already been integrated into British Uganda).

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 1915: The borders of the Eastern Province of Uganda is defined.

January 1927: The Eastern Province of Uganda is annexed to Kenya.

October 1963: Uganda became an independent sovereign state.