Disraeli noted for:
- Jewish decent
- Converted to the Anglican faith in order to serve in government offices
- Prime Minister twice 1868 and then again 1874-80
- Enacted many domestic reforms in housing, public health and factory legislation
- Notable for aggressive foreign policy
- Annexation of Fiji Island 1874
- Annexation of the Transvaal South Africa 1877
- The War against the Afghans 1878-79
- Zulu War of 1879
- England proclaimed as an Imperial Power
- Disraeli was a great favorite of Queen Victoria
- Under Disraeli the government purchased the controlling share of the Suez Canal Stock from the bankrupt Egyptians which strengthened British Mediterranean interests
- Secured the treaty revisions after Turkish War
- Disraeli induced Turkey to cede Cyprus to Great Britain
- Forced Russia to submit the Treaty of San Stefano to the Congress of Berlin 1878
- Reduced Russian power in the Balkans and help preserve peace in Europe
- Created Earl of Beaconsfield 1876
- Defeated by Gladstone in 1880
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