timeline

  • 1400

    1400

    begin to make sea voyages
  • 1500

    1500

    begin to sell enslaved people
  • 1600

    southern and eastern Africa was colonized
  • 1800

    European powers begin colonized Africa
  • 1800

    the slave trade was mostly outlawed
  • 1900

    Europeans have divided most of Africa colonies
  • 1910

    South Africa gained independence from Britain
  • 1930

    Ethiopia was invaded by Italy
  • 1948

    they adopted apartheid a former south african
  • 1950

    Africa gained independence
  • 1957

    Ghana became independent
  • 1960

    Belgian congo
  • 1962

    nelson Mandela was put in jail
  • 1965

    army leader Joseph Mobutu sized power
  • 1967

    an oil-rich region controlled by the lgbo
  • 1989

    South Africa president
  • 1990

    they released Mandela from prison
  • 1994

    all of the races voted
  • 1994

    democratic election
  • 1994

    South Africa president wasn't president anymore
  • 1994

    hutu military and militia groups killed and estimate of 800,000
  • 2000

    most of the black farmers were killed
  • 2005

    civil wars ended
  • 2010

    a movement for democracy
  • 2011

    South Sudan became independent
  • 2011

    more democratic government
  • 2011

    arab spring protests Hosni to resign
  • 2011

    Tunisia dictator resigned in January
  • 2012

    a new islamist constitution was put into place
  • 2013

    military was imprisoned Morsi and banned his political party