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Saturday, July 10, 2021

Basic timeline of Cameroon

This post is a basic timeline of Cameroon. There are 13 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

• Mandara kingdom (~1500)
• Portugal arrives (16th century)
• Aro confederacy (1690-1902)
• German Kamerun (1884-1916)
• French Cameroon (1916-1960)
• British Cameroon (1916-1961)
• Kamerun campaign (1914-1916)
• Bassa insurrection (1956)
• Cameroon gains independence (1960)
• Attempted coup d'état (1984)
• Boko Haram insurgency (2009 - now)
• Cameroonian protests (2016-2017)
• Anglophone crisis (2017 - now)

(This post includes any nation or civilization that occupied at least a portion of Cameroon at some point. Unless specified otherwise, the dates correspond to when a nation or civilization existed, but do not necessarily correspond to occupation of Cameroon.)