Timeline: East Africa
| Years: c. 15 million years ago - 2011 | Subject: Encyclopedias, Geographical reference |
| Publisher: HistoryWorld | Online Publication Date: 2012 |
| Current online version: 2012 | eISBN: 9780191735776 |
| Year | Event |
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| c. 15 million years ago | Go to Simiiformes in A Dictionary of Zoology (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 6 million years ago | Go to Paranthropus in A Dictionary of Zoology (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 4.5 million years ago | Go to hominid in A Dictionary of Biology (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 4.4 million years ago | Go to Ardi in New Oxford American Dictionary (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 3.6 million years old | Go to Australopithecus in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 3.2 million years ago | Go to Australopithecine in A Dictionary of Genetics (7 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 2.6 million to 14,000 years ago | Go to Palaeolithic in The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 2.6 to 1.2 million years ago | Go to Neanderthal man in A Dictionary of Biology (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Paranthropus in A Dictionary of Zoology (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 2.5 million years ago | Go to hominid in A Dictionary of Biology (6 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 2.2 million years ago | Go to Homo in A Dictionary of Genetics (7 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 2.2 to 1.4 million years ago | Go to Homo habilis in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 1.85 million years ago | Go to Homo habilis in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 1.8 million years ago | Go to Homo erectus in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1.6 million years ago | Go to Homo erectus in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 5000 BCE | Go to Neolithic in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 2000 BCE | Go to Bantu in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Khoisan in Encyclopedia of Africa (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 500 BCE | Go to Aksum in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 350 | Go to Frumentius, St (c.300–c.380) in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (2 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 543 | Go to Nubia, Christianity in in The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (3 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 780 | Go to Kenya in The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 1000 | Go to Salt Trade in Encyclopedia of Africa (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 1050 | Go to Kanem-Bornu in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Kilwa in The Oxford Companion to Archaeology (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1315 | Go to Nubia, Christianity in in The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (3 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1329 | Go to Prester John in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (2 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 1450 | Go to coffee in A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1483 | Go to Congo in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1503 | Go to Zanzibar in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1530 | Go to Ethiopia in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1698 | Go to Mombasa in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1821 | Go to Khartoum in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1837 | Go to Zanzibar (Tanzania) in The Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 1850 | Go to Livingstone, David (1813–73) in A Dictionary of British History (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1855 | Go to Ethiopia in The Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1862 | Go to Speke, John Hanning (1827–1864) in Encyclopedia of Africa (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1869 | Go to Baker, Sir Samuel White (1821–93) in The Oxford Companion to English Literature (7 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1873 | Go to Zanzibar in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1874 | Go to Stanley, Sir Henry Morton (1841–1904) in The Oxford Companion to British History (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1876 | Go to Stanley, Sir Henry Morton (1841–1904) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1877 | Go to Stanley, Sir Henry Morton (1841–1904) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1880 | Go to Brazza, Pierre Savorgnan de (1852–1905) in Encyclopedia of Africa (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1881 | Go to Brazza, Pierre Savorgnan de (1852–1905) in Encyclopedia of Africa (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1882 | Go to Stanley, Sir Henry Morton (1841–1904) in A Dictionary of British History (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1883 | Go to Mahdi in The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1884 | Go to Gordon, Charles George (1833–85) in A Dictionary of British History (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Peters, Karl (1856–1918) in The Oxford Companion to World Exploration (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Gordon relief expedition (1884–5) in The Oxford Companion to Military History (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1885 | Go to Peters, Karl (1856–1918) in The Oxford Companion to World Exploration (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Asmara, Eritrea in Encyclopedia of Africa (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Zanzibar (Tanzania) in The Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1886 | Go to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in Encyclopedia of Africa (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Africa, partition of in A Dictionary of British History (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Scramble for Africa in Encyclopedia of Africa (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1888 | Go to Concessionary Companies in Africa in Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1889 | Go to Menelik II (1844–1913) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Menelik II (1844–1913) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1890 | Go to Zanzibar in A Dictionary of British History (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1891 | Go to Tanzania in A Dictionary of British History (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1892 | Go to Maxim, Sir Hiram S. in The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1895 | Go to Kenya in The Oxford Companion to British History (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1896 | Go to Menelik II (1844–1913) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Uganda in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Menelik II (1844–1913) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1897 | Go to German East Africa in Oxford Dictionary of English (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1898 | Go to Omdurman, battle of (2 September 1898) in The Oxford Companion to Military History (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Fashoda crisis (1898) in A Dictionary of British History (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Omdurman, battle of (2 September 1898) in The Oxford Companion to Military History (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1899 | Go to Sudan in The Oxford Companion to British History (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Hasan, Muhammad Abdille Sayyid (1864–1920) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1903 | Go to Casement, Sir Roger (1864–1916) in A Dictionary of British History (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1905 | Go to Maji-Maji in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Maji-Maji in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1908 | Go to Leopold II (1835–1909) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1909 | Go to Zambia in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1910 | Go to French Equatorial Africa in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1911 | Go to Katanga (Democratic Republic of the Congo) in The Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1915 | Go to Cameroon in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1916 | Go to Ethiopia in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Burundi in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1918 | Go to Lettow-Vorbeck, Gen Paul Emil von (1870–1964) in The Oxford Companion to Military History (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1919 | Go to Tanzania in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1921 | Go to Kenya in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1924 | Go to Burundi in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1928 | Go to Kenyatta, Jomo (b. 10 Oct) in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1930 | Go to Haile Selassie I (1892–1975) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1931 | Go to Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1933 | Go to Hutu and Tutsi in Encyclopedia of Africa (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1935 | Go to Abyssinia, Italian invasion of (1935–6) in The Oxford Companion to Military History (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1936 | Go to Haile Selassie (1892–1975) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1937 | Go to Blixen, Karen (1885–1962) in The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1941 | Go to Abyssinia, WW II campaign in (1941) in The Oxford Companion to Military History (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1952 | Go to Eritrea in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Mau Mau (1952–9) in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1953 | Go to Kenyatta, Jomo (1894?–1978) in Encyclopedia of Africa (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1956 | Go to Sudan in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Sudan in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1959 | Go to Leakey, Louis Seymour Bazett (1903–1972) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Rwanda in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1960 | Go to Cameroon in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Lumumba, Patrice Emergy (b. 2 July 1925) in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Somalia in The Oxford Companion to the Politics of the World (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Tshombe, Moise (1920–69) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Congo crisis (1960–65) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Kenya in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Chad in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Gabon in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Central African Republic in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Congo, Republic of the in Encyclopedia of Africa (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Mobutu, Sese Seko (1930–97) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Mobutu, Sese Soko (1930–1997) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1961 | Go to Lumumba, Patrice (2 July 1925) in A Dictionary of Political Biography (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Hammarskjöld, Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl (1905–61) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Tanzania in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1962 | Go to Eritrea in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Uganda in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1963 | Go to Tshombe, Moise-Kapenda (1919–1969) in Encyclopedia of Africa (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to African Union in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Rwanda in Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Zanzibar in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Kenya in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1964 | Go to Nkomo, Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo (b. 17 June 1917) in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1965 | Go to Mobutu, Sese Soko (1930–1997) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1966 | Go to Bokassa, Jean Bédel (b. 22 Feb. 1921) in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1968 | Go to Equatorial Guinea in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1971 | Go to Amin, Idi (1925) in A Dictionary of Political Biography (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Congo, Democratic Republic of in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1972 | Go to Burundi in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1973 | Go to Habyarimana, Juvénal (1937?–1994) in Encyclopedia of Africa (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1974 | See this event in other timelines: Go to Haile Selassie I, Emperor (27 Jul. 1882) in A Dictionary of Political Biography (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1976 | Go to Leakey, Mary (1913–1996) in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Entebbe Raid in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1977 | Go to Mengistu Haile Mariam (1940) in A Dictionary of Political Biography (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Djibouti in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Bokassa, Jean Bédel (b. 22 Feb. 1921) in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1978 | Go to Moi, Daniel Toroitich arap (b. 2 Sept. 1924) in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1979 | Go to Amin, Idi (1925) in A Dictionary of Political Biography (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Bokassa, Jean Bédel (b. 22 Feb. 1921) in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1980 | Go to Obote, Milton Apollo (28 Dec. 1925) in A Dictionary of Political Biography (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1983 | Go to Sudan, Christianity in in The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (3 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1984 | Go to Ethiopia in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Hominid Evolution in Encyclopedia of Evolution (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1985 | Go to Obote, Apollo Milton (b. 1924) in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Nyerere, Julius Kambarage (Mar. 1922) in A Dictionary of Political Biography (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1986 | Go to Museveni, Yoweri Kaguta (1944) in A Dictionary of Political Biography (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Rwanda in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1990 | Go to Rwanda in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1991 | Go to Mengistu Haile Mariam (1940) in A Dictionary of Political Biography (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Zenawi, Meles (1995) in Encyclopedia of Africa (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Rwanda in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
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| 1993 | Go to Eritrea in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Habyarimana, Juvénal (1937?–1994) in Encyclopedia of Africa (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Burundi in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Burundi in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1994 | Go to Rwandan Genocide in The Oxford Companion to the Politics of the World (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Somalia in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Habyarimana, Juvénal (1937?–1994) in Encyclopedia of Africa (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Burundi in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Rwandan Genocide in The Oxford Companion to the Politics of the World (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Rwandan Genocide in The Oxford Companion to the Politics of the World (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Somalia in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Rwanda in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Ardi in New Oxford American Dictionary (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Rwandan Genocide in The Oxford Companion to the Politics of the World (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1995 | Go to Somalia in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Zenawi, Meles (1995) in Encyclopedia of Africa (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1996 | Go to Bin Laden, Osama (1957–2011) in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1997 | Go to Mobutu Sese Seko, Joseph-Désiré (b. 14 Oct. 1930) in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Congo, Democratic Republic of in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1998 | Go to Central African Republic in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Congo, Republic of in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Eritrea in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Congo, Republic of in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to al-Qaeda in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: US cruise missiles attack al-Qaeda bases in Afghanistan and a suspected chemical factory in Khartoum Go to al-Qaeda in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1999 | Go to Congo, Democratic Republic of in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Rwandan Genocide in The Oxford Companion to the Politics of the World (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 2001 | Go to Kabila, Laurent‐Désiré (b. 1 Jan 1958) in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 2003 | Go to Human Evolution in The Oxford Companion to Archaeology (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Sudan in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 2011 | Go to United Nations in A Dictionary of British History (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
