Sub-Saharan Africa 1903: Somaliland Campaign
25 October 1903
25 Oct 1903
Somaliland Campaign
26 Oct 1896 Treaty of Addis Ababa
13 Jul 1897 Batetela Rebellion
8 Apr 1898 Battle of Atbara
19 Sep 1898 Fashoda Incident
17 Jul 1899 Voulet–Chanoine and Rabih
17 Dec 1899 Second Boer War
5 Jun 1900 Invasion of the Boer Republics
23 Aug 1901 Lake Chad Rendezvous
31 May 1902 Treaty of Vereeniging
5 Feb 1903 Pacification of Northern Nigeria
25 Oct 1903 Somaliland Campaign
11 Jun 1904 Herero Wars
19 Sep 1905 Maji Maji Rebellion
12 Feb 1906 Conquest of the Sahara
6 Dec 1907 Consolidation of Ethiopia
15 Nov 1908 Belgian Congo
31 May 1910 Union of South Africa
4 Nov 1911 Neukamerun
14 Mar 1913 French invasion of the Tibesti
1 Jan 1914 Amalgamation of Nigeria
In the late 19th century Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, nicknamed the “Mad Mullah” by the British, gained power in the Somali interior. Leading his Dervishes in a long struggle against foreign expansion in the Horn of Africa, Hassan met his first major defeat in 1903–4, when British and Ethiopian forces chased him into Italian Somalia. He would recover a decade later to threaten British holdings during World War I, but the British retaliation, using RAF bombers, finally put an end to his resistance movement in 1920.
