kenya's major events

By pm_riley0546

  • The British Settlers

    Early 1900s - British settlers move into highlands, railway built from Mombasa to Lake Victoria.

  • Britain's anouncement

    1960 - State of emergency ends. Britain announces plans to prepare Kenya for majority African rule. Kenya African national Union (Kanu) formed by Tom Mboya and Oginga Odinga. which leads to freedom of Britain and Kenya is now its own country in 1961

  • Split sparks an unrest

    1966 : Odinga, a Luo, leaves Kanu after ideological split, forms rival Kenya People's Union (KPU).
    1969 :Assassination of government minister Tom Mboya sparks ethnic unrest. KPU banned and Odinga arrested. Kanu only party to contest elections.

  • Moi Era begins

    1982 June - Kenya officially declared a one-party state by National Assembly.
    1987 - Opposition groups suppressed. International criticism of political arrests and human rights abuses.
    1990 - Death of the foreign minister, Robert Ouko, in suspicious circumstances leads to increased dissent against government

  • Multi-party Elections

    1991 Aug-Forum for the Restoration of Democracy (Ford) formed by 6 opposition leaders, including Odinga. Party outlawed& members arrested. Creditors suspend aid to Kenya amid fierce intern. condemnation
    1992 -2,000 people killed in tribal western conflict
    1994 - Odinga dies.Opposition groups form coalition -the United National Democratic Alliance are plagued
    1997 Dec - Moi wins further term in widely-criticised elections. His main opponents are former vice-president Mwai Kibaki&Raila Odinga

  • Terrorist Season

    1998 August - Al-Qaeda operatives bomb the US embassy in Nairobi, killing 224 people and injuring thousands.Aftermath of US embassy bombing, Nairobi,More than 200 people were killed when al-Qaeda bombed the US embassy in Nairobi
    2002 July - Some 200 Maasai and Samburu tribespeople accept more than $7m in compensation from the British Ministry of Defence.
    2002 November - Terror attack on Israeli-owned hotel near Mombasa kills 10 Kenyans and injures three Israelis

  • War And Secrets

    2011 April - Truth commission begins public probe into 3,000 killings at Wagalla airstrip during a 1984 crackdown on ethnic Somalis, a secret chapter in Kenya's history
    2011 June-September - East Africa hit by worst drought in 60 years.
    2011 August-September - Suspected Somali militants raid Kenyan coastal resorts and a refugee camp, targeting foreigners

  • Troops of Somolia

    2011 October - Kenyan troops enter Somalia to attack rebels they have accused of several kidnappings of foreigners on Kenyan soil. On the battle field Kenya suffers suprise attacks
    2012 January - International Criminal Court rules that several prominent Kenyans must stand trial over the 2007 post-election violence
    2012 May - More than 30 people are injured in an attack on a Nairobi shopping centre, allegedly by Somalia's al-Shabab Islamist militia

  • Violence outbreaks

    2012 August-September - Five people die in riots by Muslim protesters in Mombasa after the shooting of preacher Aboud Rogo Mohammed
    2012 December -Deputy Uhuru Kenyatta and former minister William Ruto , bitter rivals in 2007 post-violence electon confirm that are forming an alliance for the 2013 election
    2013 June - The British government says it sincerely regrets the torture of thousands of Kenyans during the suppression of the Mau Mau insurgency in the 1950s and promises £20m in compensation

  • Al-shabab attacks

    2014 - At 48 people die after Islamist militants attack hotels and a police station in Mpeketoni, near the island resort of Lamu. Kenya revises the way it calculates growth, making the economy 25% bigger than previously thought.
    2015- Al-Shabab militants carry out a massacre at Garissa University College in northwest Kenya, killing 148 people. Barack Obama praises Kenya's progress but urges action to improve gay rights, as he make his first visit to his father's homeland as US president

  • Al-Shabab strikes again

    2016-Shabab claims to have killed more than 100 Kenyan soldiers in a raid on a base in southern Somalia.The Kenyan authorities give no casualty figure, but they do have an accusation of cover-up. Anti-terror police have carried out at least 81 killings in the mainly Muslim region since 2012.
    2017-Govern. declares a drought affecting a large part of the country to be a national disaster.Three-month curfew is declared in coastal areas which have been hit by Shabab.P.Kenyatta declared P in August