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Ethiopian (Abyssinian) Empire 1137 - 1975 838   |
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Aussa Sultanate Ethiopia |
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Warsangali Sultanate Somalia 1290s - 1884 590s |
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Ajuuraan Somalia 1300s - 1600s 300s |
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Majeerteen Somalia 1700s - 1875 170s |
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Gobroon Somalia 1690s - 1890s 200s
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Marehan Sultanate Somalia |
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Buganda Uganda 1380s - 1894 515s |
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Bunyoro Uganda 1520 - 1899 379 |
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Ngazidja Grande Comore 1480s - 1900s 420s
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Mayotte Mayotte 1500 - 1832 332 |
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1529 - 43 14 Ethiopian / Adal War. Ethiopia. Ethiopian Empire,
Portuguese Empire vs Adal Sultanate,
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1531 Battle of Antukyah  |
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Kingdom of Ethiopia
1137 - 1975 838
| 1916 Battle of Segale |
| 1940 - 1 1 East African Campaign. Sudan, British Somaliland, Colonial Kenya, Italian Eritrea, Italian Somaliland, French Somaliland, Abyssinia UK, British Somaliland, Kenya Colony, British India, Gold Coast, Colonial Nigeria, N. Rhodesia, S. Rhodesia, Nyasaland, South Africa, Free Ethiopians, Belgium, Belgian Congo, Free French 20 then 250+ 4+ VS Italy 74, Italian E. Africa 182 Eritrean & Somalians 156 6+ 230C |
| 1940 Italian conquest of British Somaliland. Ethiopia Italy, Italian East Africa 24 465X 1.5W VS UK, India, British East Somaliland, Northern Rhodesia, British East Africa 4 38X 102W 120M 3+SomaliSoX * Fall of British Somoliland |
| 1941 Battle of Gondar. Ethiopia UK KenyaACReg, Ethiopians VS Italy 40 |
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| 1513 Battle of Flodden |
| 1531 Battle of Amba Sel |
| 1541 Battle of Sahart |
| 1542 Battle of Bacente |
| 1542 Battle of Hill of Jews |
| 1542 Battle of Wolfa |
| 1543 Ethiopian/Portuguese troops decisively defeat Muslim army at Battle of Wayna Daga ; Imam Ahmad Gragn killed. |
| 1634 Emperor Fasilides expels Catholic Patriarch Afonso Mendes & several Jesuit missionaries from Ethiopia. |
| 1520 1st European diplomatic mission to Ethiopia by Portuguese, arrives at Massawa 9 April, & reaches imperial encampment of Emperor Dawit II in Shewa 9 October. |
| 1529 Imam Ahmad Gragn defeats Ethiopian Emperor Dawit II in Battle of Shimbra Kure, opening clash of Ethiopian–Adal War |
| 1557 Ottomans capture Massawa, all but isolating Ethiopia from rest of world. |
| 636 Gondar founded by Emperor Fasilides, which becomes capital of Ethiopia for next two centuries. |
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| 1606 Battle of Gol |
| 1608 Battle of Ebenat |
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| 1782 Battle of Wuchale |
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| 1868 Expedition to Abyssinia. Ethiopia. British Empire,
India vs Ethiopian Empire |
| 1868 - 72 4 War of Abyssinian Succession. Ethiopia. Ethiopian Empire vs Rebels |
| 1895 - 6 1 1st ItaloEthiopian War Ethiopia
Eritrean Rebels/Remnants of army Kingdom of Italy |
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| 1935 Italian invasion of Ethiopia |
| 1941 Ethiopia captured by Commonwealth troops |
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| 1885 Battle of Kufit. |
| 1887 Battle of Dogali. |
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| 1916 - 22 6 St Josephs Cathedral, Asmara |
| 1940 - 1 1 East African Campaign. Sudan, British Somaliland, Colonial Kenya, Italian Eritrea, Italian Somaliland, French Somaliland, Abyssinia UK, British Somaliland, Kenya Colony, British India, Gold Coast, Colonial Nigeria, N. Rhodesia, S. Rhodesia, Nyasaland, South Africa, Free Ethiopians, Belgium, Belgian Congo, Free French 20 then 250+ 4+ VS Italy 74, Italian E. Africa 182 Eritrean & Somalians 156 6+ 230C |
| 1941 Battle of Keren. Eritrea UK, India 2Div, Free French 2Bat 13 536X 3.2W VS Italy 23 12.1X 21.7W |
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| 1580 - 9 9 Turkish–Portuguese Conflicts. Somalia. Kingdom of Portugal vs Ottoman Empire. |
| 1507 - 43 36 Ahmad ibn Ibrihim alGhazi, Somali Imam & general |
| 1542 Battle of Jarte |
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@Hobyo, Somalia. Somali & Arabic |
| 1896 St Georges Cathedral, Addis Ababa |
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@Hobyo, Somalia. Somali & Arabic |
| 1936 - 41 5 Holy Trinity Cathedral Addis Ababa |
| 1940 - 1 1 East African Campaign. Sudan, British Somaliland, Colonial Kenya, Italian Eritrea, Italian Somaliland, French Somaliland, Abyssinia UK, British Somaliland, Kenya Colony, British India, Gold Coast, Colonial Nigeria, N. Rhodesia, S. Rhodesia, Nyasaland, South Africa, Free Ethiopians, Belgium, Belgian Congo, Free French 20 then 250+ 4+ VS Italy 74, Italian E. Africa 182 Eritrean & Somalians 156 6+ 230C |
| 1940 Italian conquest of British Somaliland. Ethiopia Italy, Italian East Africa 24 465X 1.5W VS UK, India, British East Somaliland, Northern Rhodesia, British East Africa 4 38X 102W 120M 3+SomaliSoX * Fall of British Somoliland |
| 1960 British Somaliland Independant. |
| 1987 Islamic Solidarity Mosque Somalia |
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| 1976 Seychelles Independent |
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@ Mayotte, French Protectorate |
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@ Mayotte, French Protectorate |
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@ Mayotte, French Protectorate |
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Moheli, Comoros. |
1852 56 Livingstone crosses Africa |
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Moheli, Comoros. |
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@ Tanzania
| 1499 - 1505 6 Ibrahim ibn Suleiman (Emir Ibrahim, Mir Habraemo in Portuguese) minister of Sultan alFudail; deposed & murdered sultan & tooks power himself not as sultan, but in name of an absent ^ an earlier sultan Suleiman. Incensed, regional vassals of Kilwan Sultanate refuse to recognize usurpation. Emir Ibrahim will be driven out & deposed by Portuguese captain Francisco de Almeida in 1505. |
| 1505 - 6 1 Muhammad ibn Rukn ad Din (Muhammad Arcone to Portuguese, Kilwan noble, not of royal lineage) installed by Francisco de Almeida as Portuguese vassal sultan of Kilwa. But remembering importance of constitutional propriety, Muhammad immediately appointed royal prince Muntari, ^ late alFudail, as his successor. He was assassinated after a year. |
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| 1896 AngloZanzibar War, shortest war in history. Tanzania. British Empire vs Zanzibar |
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| 1914 Battle of Tanga |
| 1915 Battle of Jassin |
| 1963 Zanzibar independent |
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| 1940 - 1 1 East African Campaign. Sudan, British Somaliland, Colonial Kenya, Italian Eritrea, Italian Somaliland, French Somaliland, Abyssinia UK, British Somaliland, Kenya Colony, British India, Gold Coast, Colonial Nigeria, N. Rhodesia, S. Rhodesia, Nyasaland, South Africa, Free Ethiopians, Belgium, Belgian Congo, Free French 20 then 250+ 4+ VS Italy 74, Italian E. Africa 182 Eritrean & Somalians 156 6+ 230C |
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Island, Kenya. |
| 1810 - 3 3 Lamu Expansion Lamu
Oman Paté Tribes Kenya |
Witu Sultanate
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@ Witu, Kenya |
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1918 British East Africa becomes Kenya
1900s Kenya
Ghost & Darkness 1996
Flame Trees of Thika 1982
Out of Africa 1985 |
| 1940 1 1 East African Campaign. Sudan, British Somaliland, Colonial Kenya, Italian Eritrea, Italian Somaliland, French Somaliland, Abyssinia UK, British Somaliland, Kenya Colony, British India, Gold Coast, Colonial Nigeria, N. Rhodesia, S. Rhodesia, Nyasaland, South Africa, Free Ethiopians, Belgium, Belgian Congo, Free French 20 then 250+ 4+ VS Italy 74, Italian E. Africa 182 Eritrean & Somalians 156 6+ 230C |
| 1941 Battle of Gondar. Ethiopia UK KenyaACReg, Ethiopians VS Italy 40 |
1952 Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya |
1952 - 60 rebellion in Kenya
Something of Value 1957
Kitchen Toto 1987
Hemingway, Hunter of Death 2001
Snows of Kilimanjaro 1952
1954 Withdrawal from Sudan
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@ Uganda & Zaire, Rwanda & Burundi. Lake Victoria area |
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@ Kumasi, Uganda. Ancestor worship. Twi. 259KM #3M |
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@ Kumasi, Uganda. Ancestor worship. Twi. 259KM #3M |
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@ Kumasi, Uganda. Ancestor worship. Twi. 259KM #3M |
1855 Discovery of source of Nile, Uganda
Mountains of Moon 1990 |
| 1894 Uganda becomes protectorate |
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@ Kumasi, Uganda. Ancestor worship. Twi. 259KM #3M |
| 1972 Asians expelled from Uganda |
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@Kampala, Uganda. L English, Luganda. Lake Victoria area |
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@Kampala, Uganda. L English, Luganda. Lake Victoria area |
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@Kampala, Uganda. L English, Luganda. Lake Victoria area |
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@Kampala, Uganda. L English, Luganda. Lake Victoria area |
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