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Gold Coast (British colony)

former British colony (1867-1957), now Ghana

11 dated entries naming Gold Coast (British colony), drawn from 8 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.

Also written as British Gold Coast in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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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
  • 182422 January – 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
  • 185030 March – All Danish Gold Coast Settlements are sold to Britain and incorporated into the British Gold Coastsource
  • 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
  • 187327 September – Third Anglo-Ashanti War: Royal Engineers land on the Gold Coast (modern-day Ghana) to prepare for an attack on the Kingdom of Ashanti's ruler Kofi Karikari, who has been involved in the trading of slaves.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
  • 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
  • 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

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