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03/05/2023

11/10/2022

Dates and events defining Kenya since time immemorial>>>>>>>

PRE_COLONIAL PERIOD

50 BC: First written record of life on the
East African coast.
8th century AD: First contact with Muslim
traders from Arabian Peninsular and Iran.
14th and 15th centuries: Flourishing of Swahili
coastal towns on Indian Ocean trade routes.
1510: Portuguese sacking of Swahili
coastal towns.
1698: Mombasa and other coastal towns
captured from the Portuguese by Arabs, who
remained in control until the 19th century.
1840-90: The slave trade at its height in the
Kenyan interior.
1885-86: The Congress of Berlin divided
East Africa between Britain and Germany.

COLONIAL PERIOD

1895: Kenya declared a British protectorate
1896-1901: Building of the Uganda Railway
from Mombasa to Lake Victoria; British
conquest of Kenya.
1903-14: Settlers began to acquire land in the
Highlands; eviction of Maasai and Kikuyu.
1914-18: Thousands of Kenyans conscripted
into the World War I campaign against the
Germans in Tanganyika.
The 1920s: Beginning of political struggles.
1939-45: Thousands of Kenyans fought
in World War II, as far afield as Burma.
1944: Formation of the Kenya African Union
(KAU).
1946: Jomo Kenyatta returned from England,
having left Kenya in 1931; became President of
KAU in the following year.
1952: the State of Emergency was declared. Start of the
Mau Mau uprising. Kenyatta was arrested, tried,
and imprisoned.
1953-55: All political parties banned.
1954: Swynnerton Plan to consolidate
land holdings.
1960: Formation of Kenya African National
Union (KANU) and Kenya African Democratic
Union (KADU).
1961: Kenyatta was released from prison and
became President of KANU.