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Kenya

country in Eastern Africa

27 dated entries naming Kenya, drawn from 24 separate years between 1498 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.

Also written as Republic of Kenya in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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15th century

  • 1498April 14 – Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama reaches Malindi, in modern-day Kenya.source

17th century

  • 1698December 12 – Mombasa (referred to at the time as Fort Jesus, and now part of Kenya) falls under control of the Emirate of Oman, with Imam Sa'if ibn Sultan as the first Omani Governor.source

19th century

  • 18901 July — Heligoland–Zanzibar Treaty. Germany receives Heligoland and the Caprivi Strip from the United Kingdom and a free hand to control and acquire the coast of Dar es Salaam. In return, Germany renounces its protectorate over Wituland (part of modern-day Kenya) and pledges not to interfere in the actions of the UK vis-à-vis the Sultanate of Zanzibar. The U.K. cedes sovereignty of the Heligoland archipelago to Germany.source

20th century

  • 1901December 20 – The final spike is driven into the Mombasa–Victoria–Uganda Railway, in modern-day Kisumu, Kenya.source
  • 1952February 6 – Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh, becomes monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the British Dominions: Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Pakistan and Ceylon. The princess, who is on a visit to Kenya when she hears of the death of her father, King George VI, aged 56, takes the regnal name Elizabeth II.source
  • 1952October 20 – Martial law is declared in Kenya, in the face of the Mau Mau uprising.source
  • 1952November 18 – Jomo Kenyatta is arrested in Kenya, for an alleged connection to the Mau Mau Uprising.source
  • 1953January 24 – Mau Mau Uprising: Rebels in Kenya kill the Ruck family (father, mother, and six-year-old son).source
  • 1953March 25–26 – Lari Massacre in Kenya: Mau Mau rebels kill up to 150 Kikuyu natives.source
  • 1954January 15 – Mau Mau leader Waruhiu Itote is captured in Kenya.source
  • 1957February 18 – Kenyan rebel leader Dedan Kimathi is executed by the British colonial government.source
  • 1961August 21 – Jomo Kenyatta is released from prison in Kenya.source
  • 1963December 12 – Kenya gains independence from the United Kingdom, with Jomo Kenyatta as prime minister.source
  • 1964December 12 – Jamhuri Day: Kenya becomes a republic, with Jomo Kenyatta as its first President.source
  • 1967January 15 – Louis Leakey announces the discovery of pre-human fossils in Kenya; he names the species Kenyapithecus africanus.source
  • 1978October 10 – Daniel arap Moi becomes president of Kenya.source
  • 1982August 1 – Attempted coup against the government of Daniel Arap Moi in Kenya.source
  • 1984December 1 – A peace agreement between Kenya and Somalia is signed in the Egyptian capital Cairo. With this agreement, in which Somalia officially renounces its historical territorial claims, relations between the two countries begin to improve.source
  • 1998United States embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed. Some 250 people were killed in the blasts and thousands more wounded. Osama bin Laden was the primary suspect.source

21st century

  • 20063 March – Kenya and Sudan, completing trade talks that have gone on since 2001, announce plans to sign a landmark trade agreement.source
  • 2007December 27 – Riots erupt in Mombasa, Kenya, after Mwai Kibaki is declared the winner of the general election, triggering a political, economic, and humanitarian crisis that killed over 1,000 people.source
  • 2009March 6 - The European Union will transfer to Kenya suspected Somali pirates captured during Operation Atalanta.source
  • 2015April 2 – 148 people are killed, the majority students, in a mass shooting at the Garissa University College in Kenya, perpetrated by the militant terrorist organization al-Shabaab.source
  • 20173 August – USAID expands food aid to Ethiopia as well as Kenya to help them against the famine. $137 million has been donated to Ethiopia.source
  • 2019October 31 – Heavy rain and flooding leave 3 dead and 200,000 people are homeless in Beledweyne, Somalia. Meanwhile, 29 are dead and 29,000 homeless due to flooding in nearby Kenya.source
  • 2020May 4 – A team of British and Kenyan scientists announce the discovery of Microsporidia MB, a parasitic microbe in the Microsporidia fungi group that blocks mosquitos from carrying malaria, potentially paving the way for the control of malaria.source
  • 2023April 25 – A mass cult suicide is uncovered in Shakahola forest in Kenya. 429 followers of the Good News International Ministries are found in shallow graves throughout the forest, with over 613 people missing.source

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