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He is born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski.
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They moved to Warsaw, where Conrad's father joined the resistance against the Russian Empire
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Conrad's family was exiled to Vologda
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Conrad's mother dies of tuberculosis.
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Victor Hugo's Toilers of the Sea showed Conrad the sphere of activity to which he would devote his youth; Shakespeare brought him into the orbit of English literature. Most of all, though, he read Polish Romantic poetry
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After leaving Poland in 1874, Conrad began a career in the merchant navy in France
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20-year-old Conrad attempted suicide by shooting himself in the chest with a revolver
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Conrad's 3-year appointment with a Belgian trading company included serving as the captain of a steamer on the Congo River, an episode that would later become the setting of his novel Heart of Darkness.
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The Congo Free State was a corporate state privately controlled by Leopold II of Belgium
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Conrad writes Heart of Darkness
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The European and U.S. press agencies exposed the conditions in the Congo Free State to the public which were, according to Casement's report, indiscriminate "war", starvation, reduction of births and tropical diseases caused the country's depopulation.
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Public and diplomatic pressure led Leopold II to annex the Congo as the Belgian Congo colony
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Land is divided by countries whom have come to Africa to gain natural supplies.
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Joseph Conrad passes away.
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Parliamentary elections finalized the nationalist Patrice Lumumba as prime minister and pro-Western Joseph Kasavubu as president.
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The congo adopts the name The republic of Congo
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A military mutiny by Congolese soldiers against their European officers broke out in the capital and rampant looting began
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Lumumba was sent to Élisabethville, capital of Katanga. In full view of the press he was beaten and forced to eat copies of his own speeches
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In Stanleyville, those loyal to the deposed Lumumba set up a rival government under Antoine Gizenga
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Lieutenant General Mobutu seized control of the country and declared himself president for five years
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Mobutu was elected unopposed as president.
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Katangan rebels, based in Angola, began launching a series of invasions into the Shaba region. The rebels were driven out with the aid of Belgian paratroopers.
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All contries have settled in their selected areas of South Africa.
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The Tutsi militias began the rebellion against Mobutu when the Zairian government began to escalate its massacres.
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Kabila and the rebel leaders signed a peace accord in which Kabila would share power with former rebels.
