Ivory Coast

sovereign state in West Africa

10 dated entries naming Ivory Coast, drawn from 10 separate years between 1471 CE and 2002 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

1471January – Portuguese navigators João de Santarém and Pedro Escobar reach the gold-trading centre of Elmina on the Gold Coast of west Africa, and explore Cape St. Catherine, two degrees south of the equator, so that they begin to be guided by the Southern Cross constellation. They also visit Sassandra on the Ivory Coast.source

17th century

1637France places a few missionaries in the Ivory Coast, a country it will rule more than 200 years later.source

19th century

1893March 10 – Ivory Coast becomes a French colony.source
1896France establishes an administrative post in Abengourou, Ivory Coast.source

20th century

1934Abidjan becomes the capital of the French colony of Ivory Coast.source
1954April 10 – The modern form of value-added tax is first implemented by Maurice Lauré, joint director of the French tax authority, in France's Ivory Coast colony.source
1986April – The government of Ivory Coast requests international diplomatic use of the French form of its name, Côte d'Ivoire.source
1990September 1–10 – Pope John Paul II visits Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda and Ivory Coast.source
2000January 30 – Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes off the Ivory Coast into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169 people.source

21st century

2002September 19 – General Robert Guéï leads an army mutiny in an attempt to overthrow Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo, resulting in civil war.source