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Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Basic timeline of Kenya

This post is a basic timeline of Kenya. There are 14 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

• Kansyore culture (5th millennium - 1st millennium BC)
• Urewe culture (6th century BC - 6th century AD)
• Bantu culture arrives (1st millennium AD)
• Vasco da Gama and Portugal arrive (1498)
• Siege of Fort Jesus (1696-1698)
• British East Africa rules Kenya (1895-1920)
• Kenya Colony (1920-1963)
• Mau Mau Uprising (1952-1960)
• Kenya gains independence (1963)
• Shifta War (1963-1967)
• Kisumu massacre (1969)
• Attempted coup d'état (1982)
• Wagalla massacre (1984)
• Kenya election crisis (2007-2008)

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