EVENT INFORMATION

1
Januari
1885

Berlin Conference formalizes the European scramble for Africa

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📅 1 Januari 1885 📍 Africa, Duitsland

The Berlin Conference’s General Act set rules for European claims and trade in Africa without African political participation. It did not itself draw every later border, but it legitimized imperial competition and accelerated colonial partition, resource extraction, and resistance that would shape the war’s African theatres.

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Personen in deze gebeurtenis

Otto von Bismarck

Organisaties in dit Evenement

Berlin Conference

European empires