Berlin Conference
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The Berlin Conference of 1884–1885 was a meeting of colonial powers that concluded with the signing of the General Act of Berlin, an agreement regulating European colonisation and trade in Africa duri
The conference of Berlin, as illustrated in Illustrirte Zeitung
Press cartoon published in L'Illustration on 3 January 1885, showing German Chancellor Bismarck about to partition Africa
The conference of Berlin, as illustrated in German newspaper Die Gartenlaube
Cartoon depicting Leopold II sharing the Congo
Leopold II of Belgium
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Leopold II was the second king of the Belgians from 1865 to 1909, and the founder and sole owner of the Congo Free State from 1885 to 1908.
Berlin Conference
…the New Imperialism period. The conference of fourteen countries was organised by Otto von Bismarck, the first chancellor of Germany, at the request of Leopold II of Belgium at a building (No. 77, now No. 92) on Berlin's central Wilhelmstrasse. It met on 15 November 1884 and, after an adjournment, concluded on 26 February…
Leopold in 1889
Queen Louise of Orléans with her son Prince Leopold, later Leopold II. Painting by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1838)
Young Prince Leopold by John Partridge (1841)
Leopold as a younger man in the uniform of the Grenadiers (Portrait by Nicaise de Keyser)