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Chronological Table Chronological Table Date Contemporary events Publications 1834 Abolition of slavery in Tennyson, '0 Mother the British empire Britain Lift Thou Up' 1837 Accession of Queen McCulloch, Statistical Victoria; Canadian Account of the British Rebellions Empire 1838 Apprenticeship system in Thackeray, the West Indies abolished Tremendous Adventures of Major Gahagan 1839 Lord Durham's Report; Carlyle, Chartism; Aden annexed; First Taylor, Confessions of Afghan War (1839-42) a Thug 1840 New Zealand annexed; Buxton, The African Union of the two Canadas Slave Trade; Taylor, Tippoo Sultaun 1841 Livingstone in Africa; Carlyle, Heroes & Buxton's Niger Hero Worship; expedition; Retreat from Marryat, Masterman Kabul Ready; Merivale, Lectures on Colonization and Colonies 1842 Hong Kong annexed Tennyson, Poems 1843 Natal annexed; Carlyle, Past & Present 183 184 The Imperial Experience Maori Wars (1843--47); Sind conquered 1845 First Sikh War Martineau, Dawn Island 1846 Kaffraria and Labuan annexed 1847 Governor of Cape Dickens, Dombey & Colony becomes High Son; Disraeli, Tancred; Commissioner for South Longfellow, Africa 'Evangeline'; Thackeray, Vanity Fair 1848 Transvaal and Orange Ballantyne, Hudson Free State annexed; Bay; Mill, Principles of Second Sikh War; Sa tara, Political Economy; Jaipur & Sambalpur 'lapse' Thackeray, History of to the British crown Pendennis 1849 Navigation Acts abolished Carlyle, 'The Nigger Question'; Dickens, David Copperfield; Lytton, The Caxtons; Wakefield, View of the Art of Colonization 1850 Australian Colonies Carlyle, Latter-Day Government Act; Baghat Pamphlets; Knox, Races lapses of Men 1851 Great Exhibition; Australian gold rush; Victoria becomes a separate colony 1852 Sand River Convention; Burton, Miss ion to Lower Burma annexed; Gelele; Dickens, Bleak Udaipur lapses House; Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin Chronological Table 185 1853 Jhansi lapses Dickens, 'The Noble Savage'; Thackeray, The N ewcomes 1854 Bloemfontein Convention; N agpur lapses; Crimean War (1854-6) 1855 New constitutions for C. Kingsley, Westward most Australian colonies Ho! 1856 Oudh annexed; Treaty of Burton, First Footsteps Paris ends Crimean War in East Africa; Reade, It Is Never Too Late to Mend 1857 May: Indian Ballantyne, The Coral Mutiny-Rebellion; June: Island; Dickens, 'Perils Fall of Cawnpore; Siege of Certain English of Lucknow and Delhi; Prisoners'; Livingstone, Sept: Delhi recaptured; Missionary Travels Nov: L ucknow relieved 1858 Proclamation of British Ballantyne, Young Fur rule over India; Traders; Ungava; Government of India Trollope, The Three Act; British Columbia Clerks established 1859 Palmerston Prime Darwin, Origin of Minister; Queensland Species; H. Kingsley, becomes a separate colony Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn; Trollope, West Indies & the Spanish Main 1860 Maori Wars resume (to Dickens, Great 1870); Kowloon leased Expectations; Russell, My Diary in India in the Year 1858-59 186 The Imperial Experience 1861 Lagos annexed; Indian Ballantyne, The Gorilla Councils Act Hunters 1862 British representative C. Kingsley, Water established at Mandalay Babies; Trollope, North America 1863 Ashanti War (1863-4); Huxley, Man's Place in Anthropological Society Nature; Lyell, The founded Antiquity of Man; Smith, The Empire 1864 Ionian Islands ceded to Lawrence, Maurice Greece Derring; Spencer, Principles of Biology 1865 Select Committee on Arnold, 'Heine's West African Grave'; Bury, Exodus Settlements; Morant Bay of the Western Nations; (Jamaica) rising H. Kingsley, Hillyers and Burtons 1867 Abyssinian Expedition; Carlyle, Shooting Straits Settlements Niagra; Hume, Life of Colony; Dominion of john Edward Eyre; Canada created Mayne Reid, Giraffe Hunters 1868 Basutoland annexed; Collins, The Colonial Society Moonstone; Dilke, founded; Dec: Gladstone Greater Britain; Grant, Prime Minister First Love and Last Love 1869 Suez Canal opened; H. Kingsley, Stretton; Hudson's Bay Company Wallace, The Malay cedes lands to Canadian Archipelago Dominion Chronological Table 187 1870 Red River Expedition; Disraeli, Lothair; Manitoba created Ruskin, Inaugural Lecture 1871 Griqualand West Austin, 'The Golden annexed; British Age'; Darwin, The Columbia joins Descent of Man; Canadian Dominion; Lytton, The Coming Leeward Islands federated Race; Whitman, 'Passage to India' 1872 Responsible government Bagehot, Physics and in Cape Colony; Politics; Butler, Disraeli's Crystal Palace Erewhon; Stanley, How speech I Found Livingstone; Taylor, Seeta; Tennyson, 'To the Queen' 1873 Ashanti War (1873-4); Ballantyne, Black Prince Edward Island Ivory; Trollope, joins Canadian Dominion Australia & New Zealand 1874 Disraeli Prime Minister; Henty, The March to Fiji Islands annexed; Coomassie Resident system introduced into Western Malay States; Lady Butler's 'Roll Call' 1875 Purchase Suez Canal W. Forster, Our shares; Carnarvon Colonial Empire; launches South African Thomson, The Straits confederation scheme of Malacca; Thorburn, The Great Game 1876 Victoria proclaimed Chesney, The Empress of India; Dilemma; Jenkins, The Bulgarian atrocities Blot on the Queen's Head 188 The Imperial Experience 1877 Annexation of the Ballantyne, Settler and Transvaal; Western Savage; Dicey, Pacific High Commission 'Gladstone & our created; G. W. Hunt's, Empire'; Gladstone, 'By Jingo!' 'Aggression on Egypt' 1878 Congress of Berlin; Carnarvon, 'Imperial Cyprus occupied; 2nd Administration'; Anglo-Afghan War; Gladstone, 'England's Walvis Bay Protectorate Mission'; Lowe, 'Imperialism'; Stanley, Through the Dark Continent; Tennyson, 'The Revenge' 1879 Anglo-Zulu War; Third Escott, Pillars of the Anglo-Afghan War; Dual Empire; Gladstone, Control established in Midlothian Speeches; Egytt; Gladstone's Tennyson, 'Defence of Mid othian campaign; Lucknow'; Trollope, Boy's Own Paper john Caldigate; launched; Butler, Wedderburn, Modem 'Remnants of an Imperialism in India Army' 1880 Gladstone Prime Ballantyne, Red Man's Minister; First Revenge;Froude, Two Anglo-Boer War Lectures on South {1880-1); Butler, Africa 'Defence of Rorke's Drift' 1881 British North Borneo Haggard, Cetewayo & Company chartered; his White Neighbours; Revolt of the Mahdi in Henty, In Times of Sudan Peril 1882 British occupation of Tennyson, 'Hands All Egypt; Butler, 'Floreat Round' Etona' Chronological Table 189 1883 Cromer becomes British Schreiner, Story of an Agent and Consul African Farm; Seeley, General in Egypt Expansion of England; Stevenson, Treasure Island 1884 Anglo-Portuguese Congo Haggard, Witch's Treaty; British Head; Henty, By Sheer Somaliland Protectorate; Pluck; With Clive in Papua annexed; Berlin India; Kingston, West Africa Conference Hendricks the Hunter 1885 Death of Gordon at Haggard, King Khartoum; Third Solomon's Mines; Anglo-Burmese War; Henty, The Young Anglo-Russian Penjdeh Colonists; True to the crisis; Oil Rivers Old Flag; Watson, Protectorate; 'Gladstone' Bechuanaland Protectorate; Indian National Congress formed; Lady Butler's 'After the Battle' 1886 Salisbury Prime Minister; Froude, Oceana; Gold discovered in Henty, For Name and Transvaal; Upper Burma Fame; Kipling, annexed; Anglo-German Departmental Ditties; East African agreement; Tennyson, 'The Royal Niger Company opening of the Indian chartered; Indian and and Colonial Colonial Exhibition Exhibition by the Queen' 1887 Victoria's Golden Jubilee; Haggard, She; Allan New Hebrides Quatermain; Henty, Condominium; Colonial With Wolfe in Canada; Conference; Informal A Final Reckoning; Anglo-Russian division Tennyson, 'On the of Persia into spheres of jubilee of Queen interest Victoria' 190 The Imperial Experience 1888 Imperial British East Froude, The English in Africa Company the West Indies; chartered; Protectorates Kipling, In Black and over Sarawak, Brunei, White; Plain Tales from North Borneo and Cook the Hills; Soldiers Islands; Zululand annexed Three; Wee Willie Winkie 1889 British South Africa Kipling, 'Ballad of East Company chartered; and West'; Stanley, My Salisbury announces Kalulu; Wallace, decision to remain in Darwinism Egypt for the forseeable future 1890 Cecil Rhodes Prime Dilke, Problems of Minister of Cape Colony; Greater Britain; Doyle, Anglo-German Sign of Four; Kipling, Heligoland-Zanzibar The Light That Failed; Treaty; Anglo-French Stanley, In Darkest treaty concerning West Africa Africa 1891 Anglo-Portuguese Henley, Lyra Heroica; agreement over Central Henty, Maori and and East Africa; Settler; Kipling, Life's Nyasaland Protectorate Handicap 1892 Gladstone Prime Haggard, N ada the Minister; Protectorate Lily; Henley, 'Pro Rege over Gilbert and Ellice Nostro'; Henty, The Islands; Indian Councils Dash for Khartoum; Act; Imperial Institute Held Fast For England; founded; Chums founded Kipling, Barrack Room Ballards; Tennyson, 'Akbar's Dream' 1893 Responsible government Keltie, Partition of in Natal; British South Africa; Kipling, Many Africa Company war Inventions; 'Song of the against the Ndebele; English' and 'Song of Halfpenny Marvel the Dead'; Pearson, founded National Life and Chronological Table 191 Character; Stevenson, Beach of Falesd 1894 Rosebery Prime Minister; Henty, Through the Uganda Protectorate; Sikh War; Kidd, Social Pluck founded; Union Evolution; Kipling, The Jack founded Jungle Book; Stevenson, Ebb-Tide 1895 Salisbury Prime Minister; Conrad, A/mayer's Chamberlain Colonial Folly; Kipling, The Secretary; Protectorate Second Jungle Book; over Kenya; Dec: 'William the Jameson Raid Conqueror' 1896 Rhodes resigns as Prime Austin, 'jameson's Minister of Cape Colony; Ride'; Baden-Powell, Lord Kitchener advances
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