Jameson Raid
December 29, 1895
At Cecil Rhodes's instigation, Dr. Leander Starr Jameson led five hundred men on a botched raid into the Transvaal, hoping to spark an uitlander rising in Johannesburg against the Boers. It failed ignominiously; Jameson was captured in two days. The scandal forced Rhodes from the Cape premiership and made the Second Boer War almost inevitable.
In context
Also in 1895 (7 other events on record)
- Röntgen's X-rays · Europe · Science
- First Cinema · Europe · Technology
- Treaty of Shimonoseki · East Asia · Politics
- Cuban War of Independence · North America · War
- Hamidian Massacres · Middle East · Disaster
- Queen Min Assassinated · East Asia · Politics
Before and after in Africa
- Before: 1886: Gold at Witwatersrand
- After: March 1, 1896: Battle of Adwa
Before and after in Politics
Era
Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.
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