Imperialism late 19th C

Completed in 1871.

Napoleon III sends forces to capture the port of Da Nang, beginning the French colonization of Vietnam

Britain, France and Italy take joint control of the finances of a bankrupt Tunisia.

France invades Tunisia from Algeria, and in the Treaty of Bardo forces the bey of Tunis to accept the status of a French protectorate.

French marines land at Tamatave in Madagascar to protect French interests and assert French control.

France brings Cambodia and Vietnam into a federation of protectorates under the title French Indochina.

After quarrels over Egypt. Treaties signed to define the boundaries of the French and British Empires (Senegal and Gambia).

The French establish a protectorate in part of the ancient kingdom of Dahomey in west Africa

France claims the Ivory Coast (or Côte d'Ivoire) in west Africa as a French colony

French and British forces meet at Fashoda, in a potentially explosive incident in the scramble for Africa

An international conference at Algeciras effectively gives France informal control of Morocco

German settlers moved in and began setting up cattle ranchhes, fencing off the land from the nomads

German troops were dispatched from Berlin to South West Africa. Herero cattle-herders were shot and hanged. Women and children were driven into the desert and left to starve.

Made punishable by loss of civil rights.

The Rubattino Shipping Company bought land in the Bay of Assab on the Red Sea from the local sultan. It occupied the whole of Eritrea.

Britain, France and Italy take joint control of the finances of a bankrupt Tunisia.

Annexed or purchased piece by piece with a series of pacific treaties with local sultans and , in part, ceded by Great Britain as a compensation for Italy that did not receive any of the German colonies parted after WWI.

Failure.

Acquired in the war with Turkey in 1911-12, as well as Rhodes and the islands of Dodecaneses (at present, part of Greece) .

Underlined the power's determination to avoid international conflis in Europect.

With the Viena Peace Settlement, it underlined the power's determination to avoid international conflicts in Europe.

A tradition inagurated by Britain's great exhibition. "Colonial pavilions" included - among other things - exhibitions of natives in their "natural environment".
The first was Great Britain's Great Exhibition; later there were expositions in Paris, Belgium ...

Set off the scramble for colonies in Africa and other parts of the world. Established that "effective occupation" was necessary to claim territory.

Boxer rebellion in China to stop European colonization.