Timeline

By Supreme Doge
  • 1400

    Europeans learned the riches of Africa

    When Europeans started to make long sea trips in the 1400s they learned the riches of Africa beyond the Sahara and started to set up some new colonies
  • 1400

    Africans began trading with Europeans

    In 1400s africans beyond the Sahara started trading with the Europeans who had just recently arrived at their coastlines
  • 1500

    African traders started to sell slaves for guns and other European goods

    In the 1500s, African traders started to sell slaves for guns and other things from from the Europeans
  • 1500

    Europeans built trading posts by the African coast.

    AT the beginning of the 1500s the Europeans built some trading posts close to the African coast.

  • Both Southern and Eastern Africas were colonized

    Both of the Southern and Eastern Africas were colonized by the early 1600s

  • Slave trade was mostly outlawed

    the slave trade was mostly outlawed in the 1800s but then the Africans conflict continued

  • European powers started actively colonizing Africa

    In the 1800s the European powers started actively colonizing Africa

  • Africans regained the power over their lands

    Since the Europeans powers took control and transformed most of the African land, in 1900s they took it back

  • The European nations had divided most of Africa into different colonies

    By the early 1900s the European nations managed to divide most of Africa into different colonies

  • South Africa

    South Africa gained independence from Britain

  • People started a political organization with a goal of becoming independent from Britain

    People started a political organization with a goal of becoming independent from Britain

  • Italy took over Ethiopia

    Italy took over Ethiopia in the 1930s

  • African independence moves gained momentum

    In the 1940s the African independence moves gained more momentum

  • White Minority

    White minority adopted apartheid in 1948

  • Ghana decided to become independent

    Ghana decided to become independent

  • Nigeria gained independence

    Nigeria gained their independence in the 1960s

  • Belgium was quickly given independence to the Belgian Congo

    Belgium was quickly given independence to the Belgian Congo

  • Nelson Mandela and Apartheid

    Nelson Madera had a major role to do with ending Apartheid. Nelson Mandela was a ANC leader who ended up getting put in jail.

  • Finally after years of fighting Kenya gained independence from the British

    After many years of fighting with Britain Kenya earned their independence from Britain

  • Joseph Mobutu seized power and changed his country's name to Zaire

    Joseph Mobutu (army leader) seized power and changed the country's name to Zaire

  • Igbo attempted to leave Nigeria

    Igbo attempted to leave Nigeria and start their own country

  • Nelson Mandela was released from Prison

    Nelson Mandela was released from jail because he agreed to end Apartheid

  • Mandela was voted president

    Nelson Mandela was voted to be president of South Africa

  • Civil wars were still going until 2005

    The civil war was on until 2005 and it killed millions of people

  • South Sudan

    South Sudan became independent

  • President Hosni Mubarak

    President Hosni Mubarak was forced by the Arab Spring to resign in 2011

  • Qaddafi killed

    In the October of 2011 Qaddafi was killed

  • Tunisia Dictator resigned

    Tunisia dictator resigned in the January of 2011

  • Morsi elected

    In 2012 Mohammed Morsi was elected as Islamic president by the Egyptians

  • Morsi imprisoned

    In 2013 the military decided to imprison Morsi and ban his political party