No. 96 II. POLITICAL HISTORY CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY 1505 Portuguese conquest of East African coast and Zanzibar. 1698 Expulsion of Portuguese : Zanzibar under rulers of Muscat (Oman) . 1832 Said , ruler of Oman , transfers his capital to Zanzibar. 1839 First Commercial Treaty with Great Britain . 1841 First English consul appointed at Zanzibar . 1845 Anti- Slave Trade Treaty . 1856 Death of Said . 1859 Commercial Treaty with Hanse Towns . Lord Canning's Award : Zanzibar separated from Muscat. 1862 Independence of Zanzibar recognised by Great Britain and France . Speke and Grant in Uganda. 1864 Universities' Mission established at Zanzibar . 1866-87 ( Sir) John Kirk at Zanzibar. 1873 Sir Bartle Frere's Mission : Anti-Slave Trade Treaty . 1875 Stanley in Uganda. 1883 Joseph Thomson explores Mombasa -Uganda route . 1884-85 German expeditions to the Interior. Sultan acknowledges German Protectorate over Usagara and Witu . 1886 Anglo -German Agreement. 1887 Peters in Uganda. 1888 Imperial British East Africa Company's Charter. 1890 Second Anglo-German Agreement (Heligoland ceded) .

Zanzibar a British Protectorate under the Foreign Office. 1891 Frontier of British East Africa with Italian Somaliland de limited . Uganda Protectorate established . 1895 Imperial British East Africa Company surrenders its . Charter. East Africa Protectorate and Uganda under Foreign Office. 1896 Usurpation of Khalid at Zanzibar. Bombardment of Zanzi .

bar . 1896-1903 Mombasa - Victoria Nyanza railway constructed . 1897 Abolition of legal status of slavery at Zanzibar. 1900-1 East Africa Protectorate enlarged.