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Congo Free State becomes a Belgian colony

1908 · importance 2/5 · ai_extracted

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Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference pp. 335-338 · open book
By 1908, Leopold was forced to turn the Congo from a private domain into a formal Belgian colony and make gestures to cleaning up its administration.

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Start date (EDTF) 1908 End date (EDTF, empty for a point event)

1914 · 1914-07-28 · -0489 (490 BCE) · 1930~ (circa) · 19XX (century) · 197X (decade)

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