2 فبراير - treaty between the Damel of Cayor Madiodio and the governor of Senegal Louis Faidherbe 1 .
19 فبراير - King Muteesa I of Buganda welcomes the explorer Speke and the Arab traffickers who came from the south 2 .
10 مارس - declaration by France and the United Kingdom which guarantee to Paris the integrity of the States of Zanzibar and Muscat and Oman 3 .
11 مارس - توقيع معاهدة أبوك، establishing a French protectorate in the north of خليج تاجورة (جيبوتي). France acquires the harbor of Obock and buys the site of Djibouti for 10,000 thalers from the Sultan of Raheito 4 .
13 أبريل - El Hadj Omar Tall leaves from Ségou to attack the Fulani Empire of Macina 5 . The king of Macina Amadou Amadou made an alliance with the king of Ségou to resist El Hadj Omar .
17 أبريل - the Portuguese take the commercial crossroads of Malange , Angola 6 .
10-15 مايو - Amadou Amadou and the king of Ségou are defeated at Tayawal (or Thiéréwal) and the Fulani kingdom of Macina is annexed to the empire of El Hadj Omar 8 .
16 مايو - El Hadj Omar Tall conquers the city of Hamdallaye , capital of the Fulani Empire of Macina 8 . A surviving Fulani chief, Ba Lobbo (in) raises his people and besieges Hamdallaye , the capital, theJune 10, 18638 . El Hadj Omar died during his flight into the Dogon country ( Bandiagara cliff ) by the explosion in a cave of his powder reserve (February 12, 1864) 9 . The empire created by El Hadj Omar, however, continued under the direction of his nephew Tidjani in the North and his son Ahmadou Tall (1864-1895 ) in Ségou , until the French occupation in 1893 .
19 مايو - العلم الفرنسي يُرفع على أراضي أبخ (في ما هو اليوم جيبوتي).
1 يونيو - France acquires Cape Lopez in Gabon by treaty 11 .
يوليو - Lat Dior is proclaimed Damel du Cayor after his victory over Madiodio 12 . He led an active guerrilla war in Senegal which ended with his death in 1886 .
12 سبتمبر - King Radama II of Madagascar signs a treaty with France 14 .
29 أكتوبر - The negus of Ethiopia Theodoros II writes to Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom proposing a total alliance against the Ottomans . The Foreign Office 's refusal irritated the emperor, who detained and then imprisoned the British consul Cameron and a few other Europeans (January 4, 1864). Western diplomacy fails to obtain their release beforeFebruary 186615 . Around 1862-1863 , Theodoros succeeded in having cannons made by German and Swiss missionaries and craftsmen 16 .
4 ديسمبر - King Radama II of Madagascar signs a treaty with the United Kingdom 14 .
23 ديسمبر - opening in Tetouan of the first school of the Universal Israelite Alliance in Morocco 18 . Founded in Paris in 1860 , it created a school network. The schools of Tetouan, Essaouira (1865), Tangier (1867) and Safi (1868) brought together, in 1868, 108 teachers and 1400 students. The fate of the Jewish community in Morocco improved with the intervention on its behalf by Moses Montefiore with the sultan in 1864 . Although closely linked to European interests, it is an integral part of Moroccan society.
ديسمبر - Marius Daumas, agent of the Régis, is appointed vice-consul of France in Ouidah ( Dahomey )