Togo Colonial Period

1884    
Bismarck launches the colonial scramble for Africa by suddenly annexing three territories for Germany (Togo, Cameroon and Angria Pequena)
                                   
1884
Gustav Nachtigal arrives in Togo and persuades local chiefs to accept the protection of the German emperor           
                       
1916
British and French forces win full control of the German colonies of Togoland and Cameroon     
                       
1922 
France and Britain are given a League of Nations mandate to govern separate areas of the German colony of Togoland.                          

1956
After a plebiscite British Togo is merged with the neighbouring colony of the Gold Coast           
    
1960
French Togo becomes independent as the republic of Togo, with Sylvanus Olympio as president