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  • 1487 - Bartholomew Diaz passes the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa

  • 1497 - Vasco Da Gama reaches India, sent by Henry the Navigator of Portugal

  • 1498 - Christopher Columbus discovers the sea route to America

  • 1503 - Zanzibar attacked by the Portuguese

  • 1505 - Portuguese explorer Francisco D’Almeida subdued Kilwa, Sofala and Mombasa

  • 1507 - Mozambique becomes the headquarters of the Portuguese in East Africa

  • 1580 - Sir Francis Drake became the first British man to round the cape

  • 1593 - Fort Jesus is built by the Portuguese in Mombasa

  • 1652 - Jan van Riebeeck establishes a Dutch post at the Cape of Good Hope

  • 1698 - Capture of Fort Jesus by Arabs, Portuguese lose the fort

  • 1698 - Zanzibar comes under control of the Sultan of Oman, Portuguese are defeated

  • 1700 - The end of Portuguese dominance in East Africa

  • 1776 - American Independence

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  • 1789 - French Revolution

  • 1800 - Coming of the Ngoni to East Africa

  • 1807 - The British passed a law which abolished the slave trade by its subjects

  • 1822 - A settlement for several thousands freed slaves was founded at Monrovia, Liberia

  • 1822 - Moresby Treaty discussed

  • 1840 - Sultan of Oman moves his capital from Muscat to Zanzibar

  • 1846 - Johann Krapf opened the first mission station at Rabai in Mombasa

  • 1859 - Darwin proposes the theory of evolution through natural selection

  • 1870/1871 - Franco-Prussian war

  • 1871 - Henry Stanley finds Dr. Livingstone near Lake Tanganyika

  • 1873 - Slave market closed in Zanzibar

  • 1875 - Discovery of gold in South Africa




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