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Rwanda

country in East Africa

16 dated entries naming Rwanda, drawn from 10 separate years between 1959 CE and 2025 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 Rwanda in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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20th century

  • 1959November 1 – In Rwanda, Hutu politician Dominique Mbonyumutwa is beaten up by Tutsi forces, leading to a period of violence known as the wind of destruction.source
  • 1967November 4–5 – In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, mercenaries of Jean Schramme and Jerry Puren withdraw from Bukavu, over the Shangugu Bridge, to Rwanda.source
  • 1985December 27 – American naturalist Dian Fossey is found brutally murdered in Rwanda.source
  • 1990September 1–10 – Pope John Paul II visits Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda and Ivory Coast.source
  • 1990October 1 – The rebel Rwandan Patriotic Front invades Rwanda from Uganda, marking the start of the Rwandan Civil War.source
  • 1994April 6 – Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundi President Cyprien Ntaryamira die when a missile shoots down their jet near Kigali, Rwanda. This is taken as a pretext to begin the Rwandan genocide.source
  • 1994April 6 - The airplane carrying Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian President Cyprien Ntaryamira was shot down by Hutu extremists as it prepared to land in Kigali. This was the major cause for the Rwandan genocide in Rwanda.source
  • 1994April 7 – The Rwandan genocide begins in Kigali, Rwanda.source
  • 1994April 21 – The Red Cross estimates that hundreds of thousands of Tutsi have been killed in Rwanda.source
  • 1997January 18 – In northwest Rwanda, Hutu militia members kill 6 Spanish aid workers and three soldiers, and seriously wound another.source
  • 1998April 24 – Rwanda executes 22 Hutus, including Froduald Karamira, for their roles in the 1994 genocide.source
  • 1998August 10 - Military experts from Namibia, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Tanzania are due in Kinshasa later this week to investigate allegations of Rwandan and Ugandan troops being sent across the border.source
  • 1998September 2 – A United Nations court finds Jean-Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide, marking the first time that the 1948 law banning genocide is enforced.source
  • 1999March 1 – Rwandan Hutu rebels kill and dismember eight foreign tourists at the Buhoma homestead, Uganda.source

21st century

  • 2020May 16 – Félicien Kabuga, a Rwandan businessman responsible for supporting the Rwandan genocide, is arrested in Asnières-sur-Seine, France, after 26 years as a fugitive.source
  • 2025June 27 – The U.S., with Qatari support, brokers a preliminary peace treaty between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, ending their armed conflict that started in 2022.source

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