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Rwanda

30 entries quoted from the Wikipedia articles written per year for Rwanda, 1962 CE to 2019 CE. Each century below shows a sample spread across it; the year link on a line opens everything held for that year.

20th century

16 entries, 1962 CE to 1999 CE

  • 1962July 1 - Rwanda gains its independence from Belgium.Rwandasource
  • 1965March 10 - Rwandan general election, 1965Rwandasource
  • 196821 March — Rwanda signs the International Coffee Agreement of 1968.Rwandasource
  • 1969September 29 - Rwandan general election, 1969Rwandasource
  • 1981December 28 – Rwandan parliamentary election, 1981Rwandasource
  • 1985December 26 - American naturalist Dian Fossey is murdered in her Rwandan cabin. It is still unknown who committed the murder.Rwandasource
  • 1990October 2 - The Tutsi Rwandan Patriotic Front makes an attack from Uganda, starting the Rwandan Civil War.Rwandasource
  • 1993August 4 - The Arusha Accords are signed between President Juvénal Habyarimana and leaders of the RPF in Arusha, Tanzania, ending the Rwandan Civil War.Rwandasource
  • 1994July 4 – The Hutu government is finally defeated by the Rwandan Patriotic Front, thus ending the genocide.Rwandasource
  • 1994April 6 – The airplane carrying Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian President Cyprien Ntaryamira was shot down as it prepared to land in Kigali. This was the major cause for the Rwandan genocide.Rwandasource
  • 1994Tens of thousands of Tutsi Rwandans flee to Zaire, Burundi and Tanzania.Rwandasource
  • 1994April 7 – The Hutu Rwandans started murdering thousands of Tutsi Rwandans and moderate Hutus. Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana was among those murdered.Rwandasource
  • 19946 April – Juvénal Habyarimana, politician, President (1973–1994; born 1937)Rwandasource
  • 19974 February - Five UN Human Rights Field Operation in Rwanda (HRFOR) workers are ambushed and killed in southwest Cyangugu Province. The victims included a Briton, Cambodian, and three Rwandans, all of whom were human rights observers of the OHCHR.Rwandasource
  • 1997January–August - At least 6,000 people, most of whom civilians and returnees from the Great Lakes refugee crisis, are reported to have been killed by militants across the country.Rwandasource
  • 1999April 21 – Rwanda rejects the peace agreement in Libya to end the Second Congo War.Rwandasource

21st century

14 entries, 2001 CE to 2019 CE

  • 2001March 12 - Uganda is accused of harbouring anti-Rwandan elements starting a feud between the two countries.Rwandasource
  • 2007July 21 - Two Rwandan men wanted for their role in the 1994 genocide are arrested in France.Rwandasource
  • 2008September 17 - Rwanda becomes the first nation where women outnumber men in parliament.Rwandasource
  • 2008October 9 - The Democratic Republic of the Congo accuses Rwanda of sending troops across the border, threatening the city of Goma.Rwandasource
  • 2008December 18 - The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda finds Théoneste Bagosora guilty of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes and sentences him to life imprisonment.Rwandasource
  • 2009August 6 - The Presidents of Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, Joseph Kabila and Paul Kagame, pledge to boost economic and security ties after a rare meeting.Rwandasource
  • 2009May 13 - The Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda kill at least 90 people in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo.Rwandasource
  • 2009October 18 - A Rwandan doctor working in a French hospital is suspended after a nurse locates an Internet Interpol arrest warrant, accusing him of a 1994 "genocide, war crimes".Rwandasource
  • 2009October 6 - One of the most wanted suspects involved in the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, Idelphonse Nizeyimana, is arrested in the Ugandan capital Kampala.Rwandasource
  • 2010February 17 - Rwanda will be the global host of World Environment Day on 5 June 2010.Rwandasource
  • 2010April 7 - At least six people die and at least twelve others are injured after a boat sinks in Lake Kivu while carrying people to commemorations to mark the 16th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide.Rwandasource
  • 2017100% of the population will have access to clean water.Rwandasource
  • 2019The Rwandan government added menstrual pads to the list of VAT-exempted goods in an effort to make pads more affordable.Rwandasource
  • 201924 February - the 2019 Tour du Rwanda begins.Rwandasource