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| 1884 |
| | | Bismarck invites the European powers to a West Africa Conference in Berlin | |
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| 1889 |
| | | France and Britain agree colonial boundaries for Senegal and Gambia in west Africa | |
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| 1892 |
| | | The French establish a protectorate in part of the ancient kingdom of Dahomey in west Africa | |
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| 1893 |
| | | France claims the Ivory Coast (or Côte d'Ivoire) in west Africa as a French colony | |
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| 1897 |
| | | The British burn Benin City in a punitive expedition after members of a British delegation are murdered | |
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| 1900 |
| | | The British government assumes direct responsibility for the entire region of Nigeria, previously entrusted to a commercial company | |
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| 1904 |
| | | A violent uprising by Herrero warriors in South West Africa targets male Germans of military age | |
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| 1904 |
| | | The German general Lothar von Trotha drives 8000 Herrero people to slow death in the Kalahari desert | |
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| 1912 |
| | | Turkey, beset by troubles elsewhere, cedes to Italy her north African province of Libya | |
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| 1913 |
| | | Albert Schweitzer and his wife become missionaries at Lambaréné in west Africa | |
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