Burundi
sovereign state in Africa
7 dated entries naming Burundi, drawn from 6 separate years between 1972 CE and 2023 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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20th century
- 1972April 27 – Ikiza: Burundi government forces begin a 4-month genocide against the Hutu people, killing 100,000–300,000.source
- 1990September 1–10 – Pope John Paul II visits Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda and Ivory Coast.source
- 1993October 21 – A coup in Burundi results in the death of president Melchior Ndadaye and sparks the Burundi Civil War.source
- 1994April 6 – Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundi President Cyprien Ntaryamira die when a missile shoots down their jet near Kigali, Rwanda. This is taken as a pretext to begin the Rwandan genocide.source
- 1996April 3 – Burundian Civil War: massacres of Hutus by Tutsis in Burundi take place with more than 450 killed within a few days.source
- 1996July 25 – The Tutsi-led Burundian army performs a coup and reinstalls previous president Pierre Buyoya, ousting current president Sylvestre Ntibantunganya.source
21st century
Named in the same entries
- Rwanda (3)
- Democratic Republic of the Congo (1)
- Pope John Paul II (1)
- Tanzania (1)
- Ivory Coast (1)
- Rwandan genocide (1)