Gerri -- HOD

  • May 1, 1482

    Diogo Cão

    Diogo Cão
    He sailed from Lisbon, Portugal to Africa. He discoverd muddy brown water and followed it, discovering the Congo River.
  • Pierre-Joseph Pelletier and Joseph Bienaimé Caventou

    Pierre-Joseph Pelletier and Joseph Bienaimé Caventou
    They extracted quinine from the bark of the South American cinchona tree, which helped cure malaria. It let Europeans explore Africa without the dangers of malaria
  • Promotion

    Promotion
    Leopold is promoted to lieutenant-general. He served as the honorary commander in his regiment
  • Control

    Control
    Belgium took complete control over of the "Congo Free State" and it became Belgian Congo until the 20th century.
  • Berdyczow

    Berdyczow
    Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski was born, his father was imprisoned, his mother passed when he was 8 and his father at 12.
  • Leopold the Second

    Leopold the Second
    Leopold assumes the throne when his father dies, and persists in trying to obtain a colony.
  • Tadeusz Bobrowski

    Tadeusz Bobrowski
    Conrad's maternal uncle becomes his guardian
  • Henry Morton Stanley

    Henry Morton Stanley
    Begins an expedition of Africa, from the East Coast to the river of the Atlantic
  • The Association Internationale Africaine

    The Association Internationale Africaine
    Leopold proses a benevolent committee for "propagation of civilisation among the peoples of the Congo region by means of scientific exploration, legal trade and war against the 'Arabic' slave traders."
  • Smuggling

    Smuggling
    Conrad involved in Carlist plot, smuggling arms to the Spanish rebels from Marseilles
  • CEHC

    CEHC
    Comité d'Études du Haut Congoa was set up by Leopold. It was used to further explore Congo by Morton Stanley, who established Belgian power on the river.
  • Suicide

    Suicide
    He tries to commit suicide by shooting himself, his uncle clears his debts, he loses his french mariner's ticket, and joins a british -registered ship
  • North of the river Congo

    North of the river Congo
    That area became a French protectorate because of a treaty between the King of the Bateke, Makoko, and the explorer Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza.
  • Euro nations

    Euro nations
    Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, and the US meet at the Berlin Conference to split up Central Africa
  • British

    British
    Conrad becomes a naturalized British subject and recieves his exam for a British merchant navy Master's certificate
  • Otago

    Otago
    Conrad is command of Otago, but resigns and writes Almayer's Folly
  • Decrees

    Decrees
    Leopold prohibits arms trade, sets employment for Native workers (allows the workers to be indentured in terms of seven years to their employers), and establishes Force Publique.
  • The dark continent

    The dark continent
    Conrad goes to Africa and writes his Congo Diary, which becomes Heart of Darkness
  • Arrival

    Arrival
    Conrad's arrival in Europe from his journey to the Congo; he was hospitalized for what he said was a long illness
  • Gospel of Labour decree

    Gospel of Labour decree
    Leopold tells his agents in Congo to place the population under new laws "the most imperious as well as the most salutary of which is assuredly that of work."
  • Arthur Conan Doyle

    Arthur Conan Doyle
    Publishes Crime of the Congo, which shows Leopold's "thieving" against the Congo
  • Death

    Death
    Leopold dies in Laeken, his nephew Albert succeeds him.
  • Under Western Eyes

    Under Western Eyes
    Conrad publishes UWE, but goes through a mental breakdown
  • Death

    Death
    Conrad dies from a heart attack
  • Enslaved no more

    Enslaved no more
    the Congo nation declared independence from Belgium, however was poisoned by their string of leaders succeeding the victory with controversial policies.