kenya

By hamadoq22
  • 600 BCE

    Arab settlement

    Arabs begin settling coastal areas, over the centuries developing trading stations which facilitated contact with the Arab world, Persia and India.
  • 300 BCE

    humanity

    Evidence of some of the earliest human tools have been found in Kenya, suggesting that it was the cradle of humanity from which descendents moved out to populate the world.

  • Multi-party elections

    December - Special conference of Kanu agrees to introduce a multi-party political system.

  • Independence

    Kenyatta freed and assumes presidency of Kanu.

  • Moi era begins

    Kenyatta dies in office, succeeded by Vice-President Daniel arap Moi.

  • Embassy bomb

    Moi appoints Richard Leakey to head government drive against corruption.

  • Kibaki victory

    December - Elections. Mwai Kibaki wins a landslide victory, ending Daniel arap Moi's 24-year rule and Kanu's four decades in power.

  • Somali refugees

    November - December - Regional flooding renders thousands homeless. Some 100,000 Somali refugees cut off by floodwaters in the north-east are supplied by air drops.