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Gold Coast (British colony)

former British colony (1867-1957), now Ghana

8 dated entries naming Gold Coast (British colony), drawn from 7 separate years between 1470 CE and 1960 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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15th century

  • 1470The first contact occurs between Europeans and the Fante nation of the Gold Coast, when a party of Portuguese land and meet with the King of Elmina.source

19th century

  • 1824January 21 – First Anglo-Ashanti War: Battle of Nsamankow – forces of the Ashanti Empire crush British forces in the Gold Coast (modern-day Ghana), killing the British governor Sir Charles MacCarthy.source
  • 1873July – The end of the war between the United Kingdom and Ghana's King Kofi KariKari, who is involved in the trading of slaves, leads to the establishment of the Gold Coast Colony.source

20th century

  • 1951February – The Convention People's Party wins national elections in Gold Coast (British colony).source
  • 1952March 21 – Kwame Nkrumah is elected Prime Minister of the Gold Coast.source
  • 1957March 6 – United Kingdom colonies Gold Coast and British Togoland become the independent nation of Ghana.source
  • 1960February 3 – Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Harold Macmillan makes the Wind of Change speech to the South African Parliament in Cape Town (although he had first made the speech, to little publicity, in Accra, Gold Coast – modern-day Ghana – on January 10).source
  • 1960January 10 – British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan makes the "Wind of Change" speech for the first time, to little publicity, in Accra, Gold Coast (modern-day Ghana).source

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