Africa Timeline

By millerkas
  • 1450

    Beyond the Sahara

    Gold drew Europeans to Africa. That's how Europe got into to the slave trade
  • 1500

    Atlantic Slave Trade

    ​Africans started to trade the trans-Saharans to the Europeans
  • 1500

    European Trade Post

    The Europeans​ started to make trade posts in the ​1500s

  • Southern and Eastern Africa

    The Southern and Eastern parts of Africa was colonized in the 1600s

  • Slave Trade

    The slave trade was outlawed in the ​1800s

  • Europeans Colonizing Africa

    Europe started to take over Africa

  • Europe Took Control of Africa

    When the 1900s came around, Africa regained their power over there land

  • Africa into Colonies

    By the 1900s Europe has divided Africa into colonies

  • In South Africa

    South Africa started to gain independence early as the 1910s​

  • South Africa has Independence

    South Africa gained independence from Britain in 1910

  • Kenyas Kikuyu

    The Kikuyu started a​ political organization for independence in the 1920s

  • Ethiopia

    Ethiopia was the only independent colonized place, but later got invaded by Italy in 1930​

  • African Independence

    Africa started to gain independence in the 1940s

  • Genocide in Rwanda

    The genocide caused Hutu military and militia groups killed to an estimated ​800,000

  • South Africa Adopted Apartheid

    South Africa adopted apartheid for a strict policy between races in 1948

  • Ghana

    Ghana became independent in 1957

  • Nigeria

    Nigeria became independent in 1960

  • Sudan

    Sudan gained independence in 1956

  • Belgium Granted Independence to the Belgium Congo

    The Belgium Congo gained independence​ in 1960

  • Nelson Mandela

    Nelson played a key role in putting an end to apartheid, but he was jailed in 1962​

  • Kenya

    Kenya became independence​t in 1963

  • Most of Africa

    Most of Africa became independent during 1950-1970

  • Joseph Mobutu Changed Names

    The Belgium Congo named changed to Zaire in 1965

  • Oil-Rich Region

    Nigeria was an oil-rich region before the ethnic group Igbo tried to leave in 1967, which cause a bloody civil war

  • Nelson gets out of Prison

    Nelson gets released in 1990 then made a contract with the president to end apartheid​

  • South Africas President

    The president finally realized that apartheid was destroying​ them apart

  • Voted Nelson

    In 1994 all of the races in South Africa voted for Nelson to become president

  • Darfur

    ​In Darfur, there was a war against black farmers and the Arab headers

  • Civil Wars Continued

    The civil wars in Africa continued into 2005

  • President Hosni Mubarak

    President Mubarak was forced to resign in 2011 from the Arab Spring

  • Arab Spring

    A movement​ of more democracy was named; Arab Spring

  • South Sudan

    South Sudan became independent in 2011

  • Tunisia's Dictator

    ​Tunisia's dictator resigned in January of 2011

  • King of Morocco

    The king of Morocco issued a new constitution​ that voters approved of

  • Libya

    Muammar Qaddafi was killed in October 2011

  • Elected President Mohammed Morsi

    The Egyptians​ elected Mohammed Morsi in 2012

  • Military Imprisons Morsi

    The military imprisoned Morsi and also banned all of his political party​

  • European Voyages

    Europeans started to make long sea voyages, they learned the riches of Africa and beyond the Sahara