Ivory Coast

sovereign state in West Africa

12 dated entries naming Ivory Coast, drawn from 12 separate years between 1471 CE and 2024 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 Cote d’Ivoire, Côte d'Ivoire in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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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

1910January 6 – Abé people in the French West Africa colony of Côte d'Ivoire rise against the colonial administration; the rebellion is brutally suppressed by the military.source
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
1983March 21 – Yamoussoukro officially becomes the Ivorian political capital after transfer from Abidjan.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
202411 January – A chartered Air Côte d'Ivoire flight from The Gambia to the Ivory Coast, transporting the Gambia national football team to the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations, makes an emergency landing in Banjul due to a loss of cabin pressure lasting for more than nine minutes. All passengers suffer some degree of carbon monoxide poisoning including loss of consciousness.source