Southern Nigeria Colony
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Was a British Colony covering southern Nigeria.
Establishment
- January 1900: Annexed by the Niger Company.
- January 1900: Niger Coast merged with the chartered territories of the Royal Niger Company on 1 January 1900 to form the Southern Nigeria Protectorate.
Chronology
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1. Anglo-Aro War
Was a conflict between the Aro Confederacy in present-day Eastern Nigeria, and the British Empire.
- December 1901: Arochukwu was captured by British forces after four days of fierce battles in and around the city.
- January 1902: By 1901 the city of Obegu signed a treaty with Great Britain and was integrated into the Southern Nigeria Colony.
- March 1902: The Aro Confederacy lost Ikotobo to British forces after the Battle of Ikotobo.
- April 1902: The Aro Confederacy ceased to exist after its defeat by British forces in the Battle of Bende.
2. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)
- January 1901: The coast of modern-day Nigeria was part of the British Colony of Southern Nigeria by 1900.
- January 1901: In the aftermath of prolonged wars between the mainland Yoruba states, the British Lagos Colony established a protectorate over most of Yorubaland by 1900.
- January 1905: The Daura Emirate became a protectorate part of the Southern Nigeria Colony by 1904, when British authorities made Malam Musa new Emir.
- January 1905: The border between the British protectorate of northern Nigeria and German Kamerun was marked in 1903/1904 from Yola to Lake Chad.
- March 1906: The Lagos Colony was incorporated into Southern Nigeria in February 1906.
- January 1912: In 1911, British colonial troops forced the reigning Eze Nri (King of Nri) to renounce to effective political power and annexed the Kingdom to the Southern Nigeria Colony.
- April 1913: Through a German-British border agreement, the Bakassi Peninsula came to Cameroon in 1913.
Disestablishment
- January 1914: In 1914, Southern Nigeria was joined with Northern Nigeria Protectorate to form the single colony of Nigeria. The unification was done for economic reasons rather than political. Northern Nigeria Protectorate had a budget deficit and the colonial administration sought to use the budget surpluses in Southern Nigeria to offset this deficit.