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Uganda

country in East Africa

19 dated entries naming Uganda, drawn from 15 separate years between 500 BCE and 2010 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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5th century BC

  • 500 BCEBantu-speaking people migrate into south-west Uganda from Central Africa. (approximate date)source

19th century

  • 1894June 18 – Britain establishes a protectorate over Uganda.source
  • 1899April 9 – In Uganda, King Chwa II Kabalega of the Bunyoro kingdom, a leader of the fight against British colonial occupation, is taken prisoner after being shot in a battle near Hoima. Kabalega is exiled to the Seychelles and remains there until 1923.source

20th century

  • 1966May 24 – Battle of Mengo Hill: Ugandan army troops arrest Mutesa II of Buganda and occupy his palace.source
  • 1969July 31 – Pope Paul VI arrives in Entebbe, Uganda for the first visit by a reigning Pope to Africa.source
  • 1971January 25 – In Uganda, Idi Amin deposes Milton Obote in a coup, and becomes president.source
  • 1972August 4 – Expulsion of Asians from Uganda: Dictator Idi Amin declares that Uganda will expel 50,000 Asians with British passports to Britain within 3 months. Most of their property is confiscated.source
  • 1976July 27 – The United Kingdom breaks diplomatic relations with its former colony Uganda in response to the hijacking of Air France Flight 139.source
  • 1976July 4 – Entebbe Raid: Israeli airborne commandos free 103 hostages being held by Palestinian hijackers of an Air France plane at Uganda's Entebbe Airport; Yonatan Netanyahu and several Ugandan soldiers are killed in the raid.source
  • 1976June 27 – Palestinian militants hijack an Air France plane in Greece with 246 passengers and 12 crew. They take it to Entebbe, Uganda.source
  • 1979January 22 – Uganda–Tanzania War: Battle of Mutukula: The Tanzanian military captures the Ugandan border town of Mutukula after a short battle.source
  • 1986January 25 – Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Army Rebel group takes over Uganda after leading a five-year guerrilla war in which up to half a million people are believed to have been killed. They will later use January 26 as the official date to avoid a coincidence of dates with Dictator Idi Amin's 1971 coup.source
  • 1986January 29 – Yoweri Museveni is sworn in as President of Uganda.source
  • 1990October 1 – The rebel Rwandan Patriotic Front invades Rwanda from Uganda, marking the start of the Rwandan Civil War.source
  • 1996February 29 – At least 81 people drown when a boat capsizes 120 kilometres east of Kampala, Uganda.source
  • 1996May 9 – Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni wins a landslide victory in the country's first direct presidential elections, securing 75% of the vote.source
  • 2000March 17 – Uganda mass suicide: 778 members of the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die in Uganda.source

21st century

  • 2009January 1 – Japan, Mexico, Turkey and Uganda assume their seats on the United Nations Security Council.source
  • 2010March 16 – The Kasubi Tombs, Uganda's only cultural World Heritage Site, are destroyed by fire.source

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