Sierra Leone

sovereign state in West Africa

17 dated entries naming Sierra Leone, drawn from 13 separate years between 1460 CE and 1997 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

1460Portuguese navigator Pedro de Sintra reaches the coast of modern-day Sierra Leone.source

17th century

1607September 5 – Hamlet is performed aboard the East India Company ship Red Dragon, under the command of Capt. William Keeling, anchored off the coast of Sierra Leone, the first known performance of a Shakespeare play outside England in English, and the first by amateurs.source

18th century

1792Many Black Loyalists in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia migrate to Sierra Leone in West Africa, mainly because the promises of land in Canada were not kept by the British.source
1792March 7 – A settlement is formed in Sierra Leone in West Africa as a home for freed slaves.source
17927 March – a settlement is formed in Sierra Leone in West Africa as a home for freed slaves.source
1796About 600 Jamaican Maroons are deported from Jamaica to Nova Scotia. They helped rebuild the Halifax Citadel. In 1800, most petition to be sent to Sierra Leone, Africa.source

19th century

1808January 1 – Sierra Leone becomes a British Crown Colony.source
18081 January – Sierra Leone becomes a British Crown Colony.source
185710 August — John Bowen is consecrated as Bishop of Sierra Leone.source
1882March 20 – British gunboats enter Monrovia, with Arthur Havelock demanding that Liberia cede disputed territory to the British colony of Sierra Leone, of which he is Governor.source
1882June 28 – The Anglo-French Convention of 1882 is signed, marking territorial boundaries between Guinea and Sierra Leone.source

20th century

1940December 25 – The German cruiser Admiral Hipper attacks a British shipping convoy (WS 5A) en route to Sierra Leone 700 miles (1,100 km) west of Cape Finisterre in Spain. Admiral Hipper sinks one ship but has to withdraw with engine trouble.source
1943March 15 – Italian submarine Leonardo da Vinci sinks Canadian Pacific liner RMS Empress of Canada off Sierra Leone. Nearly half of the 392 fatalities are Italian prisoners of war.source
1971April 21 – Siaka Stevens is sworn in as the first president of Sierra Leone.source
1990August 21 – The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone send peacekeepers to intervene in the First Liberian Civil War.source
1996March 6 – A boat carrying market traders capsizes outside Freetown harbour in Sierra Leone, killing at least 86 people.source
1997May 25 – A military coup in Sierra Leone replaces President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah with Major Johnny Paul Koroma.source