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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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| 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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| 1905 |
| | | The Maji-Maji rising results in alarming outbreaks of violence in German East Africa | |
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| 1905 |
| | | The first German submarine, or U-boat, is constructed in a programme to catch up with Britain and France in this area | |
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| 1905 |
| | | The German commander in east Africa uses famine as a means of ending the Maji-Maji rising | |
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| 1906 |
| | | In direct response to Britain's new Dreadnought, Germany increases the production of battleships | |
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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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| 1914 |
| | | British rule is consolidated in Nigeria by the merging of north and south as a single colony | |
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