Third Anglo-Ashanti Ends
January 15, 1874
Wolseley entered Kumasi, looted the royal palace, burned it, and dictated the Treaty of Fomena: fifty thousand ounces of gold in indemnity and a road to the coast. The Ashanti asantehene kept his throne. A generation later the British would come back for it and exile him to the Seychelles.
In context
Also in 1874 (3 other events on record)
- First Impressionist Exhibition · Europe · Culture
- Barbed Wire Patented · North America · Technology
- Universal Postal Union · Europe · Politics
Before and after in Africa
Before and after in War
- Before: 1873: Anglo-Ashanti War
- After: June 25, 1876: Little Bighorn
Era
Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.