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| 1889 |
| | | Cecil Rhodes forms the British South Africa Company to push British commerce and imperial control further north | |
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| 1892 |
| | | Constantine Cavafy begins a 30-year career as a civil servant in Alexandria's Irrigation Service | |
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| 1902 |
| | | The first Aswan dam, at this time the world's largest, is completed on the Nile | |
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| 1905 |
| | | Kaiser Wilhelm II visits Tangier in support of Moroccan independence, causing a diplomatic crisis with the colonial powers France and Britain | |
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| 1906 |
| | | An international conference at Algeciras effectively gives France informal control of Morocco | |
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| 1911 |
| | | Italy finds a reason to invade Libya, a province of the Turkish empire. | |
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| 1911 |
| | | Germany causes international alarm by sending a warship to Agadir, a port in French-controlled Morocco | |
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| 1912 |
| | | Turkey, beset by troubles elsewhere, cedes to Italy her north African province of Libya | |
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| 1912 |
| | | By the treaty of Fès a French protectorate is formally established in Morocco | |
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| 1912 |
| | | France and Spain agree that Spain shall become the colonial power in the north of Morocco and France in the south | |
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