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Saturday, June 26, 2021

Basic timeline of the Democratic Republic of Congo

This post is a basic timeline of the Democratic Republic of Congo. There are 18 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

• First humans (90,000 years ago)
• Kingdom of Kongo (1390-1914)
• Atlantic slave trade (1500-1850)
• Kingdom of Luba (1585-1889)
• Kingdom of Lunda (1665-1887)
• King Leopold II rules Congo Free State (1885-1908)
• Belgian occupation (1908-1960)
• Democratic Republic of Congo gains independence (1960)
• Congo Crisis (1960-1965)
• Zaire (1971-1997)
• Allied Democratic Forces insurgency (1995 - now)
• First Congo War (1996-1997)
• Renamed to Democratic Republic of Congo (1997)
• Second Congo War (1998-2003)
• Ituri conflict (1999-2003)
• Kivu conflict (2004 - now)
• M23 rebellion (2012-2013)
• Kamwina Nsapu rebellion (2016 - now)

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