somaliland British ] II . POLITICAL HISTORY BRITISH SOMALILAND CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY 1840 Treaty with rulers of Tajura and Zeila . 1877 Conditional recognition of Egyptian jurisdiction in Somaliland . 1884-7 British Protectorate established . 1885 French Protectorate of Gulf of Tajura. 1889 Italian Somaliland delimited . 1897 Boundary with Abyssinia delimited . 1901-15 Wars with the Mullah . 1910 Withdrawal to coast. 1915 Interior reoccupied.

HISTORY THE Protectorate owes its origin to the capture and occupation of Aden by the authority of the Bombay Government in 1839. In the following year the East India Company made treaties with the Sultan of Tajura (now in FrenchSomaliland) and the Governor of Zeila , binding each of them , in effect, not to enter into treaty relations with other Powers, and securing the cession of small islands off these two harbours.

On September 7, 1877, an agreement was concluded between the British and Egyptian Governments, which recognized Egyptian jurisdiction on the Somali coast, subject to the following condition, embodied in Article V : The present Agreement shall definitely come into operation so soon as His Imperial Majesty the Sultan shall have given a formal assurance to Her Majesty's Government that no portion of the territory of the Somali coast , a territory which , together with all other countries incorporated with Egypt > 02