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Africa

continent

24 dated entries naming Africa, drawn from 22 separate years between 2807 BCE and 1969 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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29th century BC

  • 2807 BCE2807 BC: Suggested date for an asteroid or comet impact occurring between Africa and Antarctica, around the time of a lunar eclipse on May 10, based on an analysis of flood stories. Possibly causing the Burckle crater and Fenambosy Chevron.source

3rd century BC

  • 270 BCEHamilcar Barca, founder of Barcid Spain and leading Carthaginian general who will fight against Rome in Sicily and Italy, against the Libyans and the mercenary revolt in Africa, and against the Iberians and Celti-Iberians in Spain (d. 228 BC)source

2nd century BC

  • 149 BCEThe Third Punic War begins. The Romans land an army in Africa to begin the Battle of Carthage.source

1st century BC

  • 88 BCEAugust: The consul Lucius Cornelius Sulla becomes the first Roman commander to march on Rome with his army and to capture the city by force. This extraordinary act is prompted by his desire to maintain his proconsular command for the First Mithridatic War in Asia Minor. Sulla then murdered his enemy P. Sulpicius Rufus and forced Gaius Marius to flee to Africa.source
  • 82 BCEPompey is ordered by Sulla to stamp out Marian rebels in Sicily and Africa, after his campaigns in he gets the insulting nickname of adulescentulus carnifex, the "teenage butcher".source

1st century

  • 24The revolt of Tacfarinas revolt in Africa is repressed.source
  • 43In Coptic Orthodox Christianity, Mark the Evangelist becomes the first Pope of Alexandria, thus establishing the Christian Church in Africa.source
  • 65The first Christian community in Africa is founded by Mark, a disciple of Peter.source

2nd century

  • 189Pope Victor I succeeds Pope Eleuterus as the fourteenth pope, the first from Africa.source

4th century

  • 373Quintus Aurelius Symmachus becomes proconsul of Africa, and is made a member of the pontifical college.source
  • 394The Council of Bagaï in Africa brings 310 Donatist bishops together.source

5th century

  • 429Bonifacius, weakened by the civil war against empress Galla Placidia, sues for peace and is elevated to the rank of supreme commander (magister militum) of Africa.source

6th century

  • 525Kaleb, king of Aksum, collects a fleet and crosses from Africa to conquer Yemen. He establishes better trade ports on the Red Sea.source
  • 590Maurice establishes the Exarchate of Carthage in Africa. He combines the civil authority of a praetorian prefect and the military authority, based at Carthage.source

9th century

  • 900The east coast of Africa is impacted by trade and Arab, Persian and Indian traders mix with the indigenous Bantu. Many of the coastal Bantu adopt Islam, reaching as far south as Sofala (Mozambique).source

10th century

  • 920The Golden Age of the Ghana Empire begins in Africa (approximate date).source

15th century

  • 1472An extensive slave trade begins in modern Cameroon as the Portuguese sail up the Wouri River and Fernão do Po claims the central-African islands Bioko and Annobón for Portugal.source
  • 1480April 6 – King Afonso V of Portugal orders his navy to "capture anyone trading illegally in Africa, and to throw the goods and ship's crew into the sea.source
  • 1480March 6 – The Treaty of Toledo is signed as Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain recognize the African conquests of Afonso V of Portugal, and he cedes the Canary Islands to Spain.source

17th century

  • 1620July 3 – Captain Andrew Shilling, on behalf of the English Honourable East India Company, lays claim to Table Bay in Africa.source

19th century

  • 1899The 1899–1923 cholera pandemic begins, spreading to Europe, Asia and Africa.source

20th century

  • 1907April 24 – Al Ahly SC is founded in Cairo by Omar Lotfi, as a gathering place for Egyptian students' unions in the struggle against colonization; it is the first association football club officially founded in Egypt or Africa.source
  • 1969Common African, Malagasy and Mauritian Organization (OCAMM) (Organisation Commune Africaine Malgache et Mauricienne) is established.source
  • 1969July 31 – Pope Paul VI arrives in Entebbe, Uganda for the first visit by a reigning Pope to Africa.source

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