Timeline of Rwandan history
Appearance
This timeline of Rwandan history is a chronological list of major events related to the human inhabitants of Rwanda.
17th century
Year | Date | Event |
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17th century | Tutsi king Ruganzu Ndori comes to prominence. |
19th century
Year | Date | Event |
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1858 | The area is visited by British explorer John Hanning Speke, the first European to do so. | |
1884 | 28 March | The Karl Peters in order to acquire German colonial territories in overseas countries. Peters signs treaties with several native chieftains on the mainland opposite Zanzibar .
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August | Rwanda becomes a German protectorate.[1] | |
1885 | 2 April | The German East Africa Company is formed by Karl Peters to govern German East Africa. |
1899 | Rwanda is incorporated into German East Africa. |
20th century
Year | Date | Event |
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1901 | 23 February | A boundary is agreed between German East Africa and Nyasaland. |
1916 | Rwanda is occupied by Belgian forces. | |
1922 | 20 July | Rwanda-Urundi are joined as a League of Nations mandate, governed by Belgium.[1] |
1933 | All citizens in Rwanda-Urundi are issued with an identity card defining their ethnicity. | |
1943 | Famine affects the region. | |
1945 | Rwanda-Urundi becomes a United Nations Trust Territory .
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1957 | The Hutu Manifesto is published. | |
1959 | 24 July | Mutara III dies.[2]
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3 September | The Union Nationale Rwandaise (UNAR) party is formed.[2]
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1 November | Politician Dominique Mbonyumutwa is beaten by members of UNAR, leading to a violent backlash that kills thousands of Tutsis.[3] | |
1960 | An election is held. | |
1961 | Rwandans vote to abolish the Tutsi monarchy. | |
28 January | Dominique Mbonyumutwa becomes provisional President of Rwanda. | |
1962 | 1 July | Belgium grants Rwanda independence.[1] |
26 October | President of Rwanda .
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1963 | Following a Tutsi guerilla attack from Burundi, an anti-Tutsi backlash kills thousands. | |
1973 | 5 July | Grégoire Kayibanda is overthrown in a military coup d'état.[4] Juvénal Habyarimana becomes the third President of Rwanda. |
1985 | 26 December | American naturalist Dian Fossey is murdered in her Rwandan cabin.[5] |
1990 | 1 October | The Tutsi Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) makes an attack from Uganda, starting the Rwandan Civil War.[6] |
1993 | 4 August | The Arusha Accords are signed between President Habyarimana and leaders of the RPF in Arusha, Tanzania, ending the Rwandan Civil War.[7] |
1994 | 6 April | President Habyarimana and Burundian President Cyprien Ntaryamira are assassinated as their aircraft is shot down approaching Kigali. This incident sparks the Rwandan genocide.[1] |
8 April | Théodore Sindikubwabo becomes interim President of Rwanda. | |
3 July | The RPF takes control of Kigali.[1] | |
19 July | The RPF forms a provisional government[1] and Pasteur Bizimungu becomes President of Rwanda. | |
21 August | The RPF controls the whole of Rwanda.[1] | |
8 November | The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda is established.[8] | |
2000 | 24 March | Paul Kagame is selected as interim President of Rwanda.[9] |
22 April | Paul Kagame is sworn in as the fourth President of Rwanda.[10] |
21st century
Year | Date | Event |
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2006 | January | "Rwanda's 12 provinces are replaced by a smaller number of regions with the aim of creating Decentralised administrative areas."[11] |
2007 | 6 April | Former president Pasteur Bizimungu is released from prison after three years of a fifteen-year sentence, pardoned by President Kagame.[12] |
2009 | Rwanda becomes part of the Commonwealth of Nations.[11] |
See also
- Timeline of Kigali
- Chronology of the Rwandan Genocide
- List of years in Rwanda
References
- "Timeline: Rwanda". BBC. 25 February 2010. Retrieved 11 March 2010.
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- ^ "Accord Ends 3-Year Civil War in Rwanda", The New York Times, 5 August 1993, retrieved 5 April 2010
- ISBN 90-5095-216-X.
- ^ Hranjski, Hrvoje (24 March 2000), "Rwanda: Kagame selected as interim president", The Independent, Independent News and Media Limited, retrieved 30 March 2010[dead link]
- ^ "Rwanda's Kagame sworn in", BBC News, BBC, 22 April 2000, retrieved 20 March 2010
- ^ a b "Rwanda Profile: Timeline". BBC News. Retrieved 15 October 2017.
- ^ "Rwanda ex-leader freed from jail", BBC News, BBC, 6 April 2007, retrieved 20 March 2010
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