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Uganda

country in East Africa

31 dated entries naming Uganda, drawn from 23 separate years between 500 BCE and 2019 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

  • 189310 March – The Government takes control of Uganda from the British East Africa Company.source
  • 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

  • 1944August 15 – Yoweri Museveni, president of Ugandasource
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1976June 27 – Palestinian militants hijack an Air France plane in Greece with 246 passengers and 12 crew. They take it to Entebbe, Uganda.source
  • 197627 June – Air France Flight 139, originating in Tel Aviv and carrying 248 passengers and a crew of 12 takes off from Athens, Greece, headed for Paris, France. The flight is hijacked by Palestinian Arab assailants with German Revolutionäre Zellen supporters and flown to Entebbe Airport (now known as Entebbe International Airport) in Uganda. Shortly after landing, all non-Jewish passengers were released. The hijacking of this flight leads to the IDF hostage-rescue mission "Operation Entebbe" carried out in the Entebbe Airport seven days later (see details above).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
  • 1976July 27 – The United Kingdom breaks diplomatic relations with its former colony Uganda in response to the hijacking of Air France Flight 139.source
  • 1979January 22 – Uganda–Tanzania War: Battle of Mutukula: The Tanzanian military captures the Ugandan border town of Mutukula after a short battle.source
  • 19828 March – A “Political Information System” seminar convenes in Nairobi, bringing together representatives from single-party states (Malawi, Zambia, Tanzania, Uganda) to discuss the viability of one-party democracy in post-colonial Africa.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
  • 1989January 13 – Former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is expelled to Senegal from Zaire after using a fake Zairean passport in an attempt to return to Uganda. Amin is eventually expelled from Senegal and subsequently returns to Zaire after the Saudi government refuses to allow him in Saudi Arabia.source
  • 1990October 1 – The rebel Rwandan Patriotic Front invades Rwanda from Uganda, marking the start of the Rwandan Civil War.source
  • 1990October 2 - The Tutsi Rwandan Patriotic Front makes an attack from Uganda, starting 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
  • 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
  • 1999March 1 – Rwandan Hutu rebels kill and dismember eight foreign tourists at the Buhoma homestead, Uganda.source
  • 1999April 20 - Uganda downplays an agreement in Libya to end the Second Congo War.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

  • 2001March 12 - Uganda is accused of harbouring anti-Rwandan elements starting a feud between the two countries.source
  • 2002August 28 - Uganda and Zimbabwe begin pulling their troops out of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.source
  • 2009January 1 – Japan, Mexico, Turkey and Uganda assume their seats on the United Nations Security Council.source
  • 2009October 6 - One of the most wanted suspects involved in the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, Idelphonse Nizeyimana, is arrested in the Ugandan capital Kampala.source
  • 2010March 16 – The Kasubi Tombs, Uganda's only cultural World Heritage Site, are destroyed by fire.source
  • 2019October 24 – Construction starts on a power line that will provide power from Uganda to the towns of Nimule, Kaya, and Kajo Keji.source

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