Unit 7 Decolonization Timeline

  • 17 BCE

    Kikuyu Tribe

    Kikuyu Tribe
    The Kikuyu are a Bantu ethnic group native to Central Kenya. At a population of 8,148,668 as of 2019, they account for 17.13% of the total population of Kenya, making them Kenya's largest ethnic group. The term Kikuyu is derived from the Swahili form of the word Gikuyu
  • India Independence Movement

    The Indian independence movement was a series of historic events with the ultimate aim of ending British rule in India. It lasted from 1857 to 1947. The first nationalistic revolutionary movement for Indian independence emerged from Bengal.
  • Indian National Congress

    Indian National Congress
    The Indian National Congress was founded at Gokuldas Tejpal Sanskrit College in Bombay, with 72 delegates in attendance. Hume assumed office as the General Secretary, and Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee of Calcutta was elected president.
  • Constitutional Revolution

    Constitutional Revolution
    The Persian constitutional revolution, also known as the constitutional revolution of Iran, took place between 1905 and 1911 during the Qajar dynasty. The revolution led to the establishment of a parliament in Persia, and has been called an "epoch-making episode in the modern history of Persia"
  • Satyagraha

    Satyagraha
    Gandhi first conceived satyagraha in 1906 in response to a law discrimination against Asians that was passed by the British colonial government of the Transvaal in South Africa. In 1917, the first satyagraha campaign in India was mounted in the indigo-growing district of Champaran.
  • Muslim League

    Muslim League
    The All-India Muslim League was a political party established in Dhaka in 1906 when some well-known Muslim politicians met the Viceroy of British India, Lord Minto, with the goal of securing Muslim interests on the Indian subcontinent.
  • Muhammad Ali JInnah

    Muhammad Ali JInnah
    Muhammad Ali Jinnah was a barrister, politician and the founder of Pakistan. Jinnah served as the leader of the All-India Muslim League from 1913 until the inception of Pakistan on 14 August 1947, and then as the Dominion of Pakistan's first governor-general until his death.
  • Balfour Declaration

    The Balfour Declaration was a public statement issued by the British government in 1917 during the First World War announcing its support for the establishment of a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine, then an Ottoman region with a small minority Jewish population
  • Nelson Mandela Life

    Was born July 18,1918 in MVEZO.
    1944 African National Congress
    National party ,1948
    1952- The Defiance Campaign
    1956-Treson trails
  • Mohandas Ghandi

    Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule. He inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world.
  • Patrice Lumumba

    Patrice Émery Lumumba (/lʊˈmʊmbə/; 2 July 1925 – 17 January 1961), born Isaïe Tasumbu Tawosa, was a Congolese politician and independence leader who served as the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (then known as the Republic of the Congo) from June until September 1960, following the May 1960
  • Quit then Separate

    Quit then Separate
    The Quit India Movement was a movement started by Mahatma Gandhi on 9 August 1942. The movement wanted to end British rule in India. The movement was started in a speech in Bombay, where Mahatma Gandhi asked Indians to Do or Die. The Congress launched a protest asking the British to withdraw from India.
  • Salt March

    Salt March
    The Salt March, also known as the Salt Satyagraha, Dandi March and the Dandi Satyagraha, was an act of nonviolent civil disobedience in colonial India led by Mahatma Gandhi
  • Civil Disobedience

    Civil Disobedience
    On March 12, 1930, Indian independence leader Mohandas Gandhi begins a defiant march to the sea in protest of the British monopoly on salt, his boldest act of civil disobedience yet against British rule in India.
  • The Shah

    The Shah
    Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, more well known in the west as Mohammad Reza Shah, was the last Shah of the Imperial State of Iran from 16 September 1941 until his overthrow in the Islamic Revolution on 11 February 1979. Owing to his status, he was usually known as the Shah
  • Quit India

    Quit India
    The Quit India Movement, also known as the Bharat Chhodo Andolan, was a movement launched at the Bombay session of the All India Congress Committee by Mahatma Gandhi on 8th August 1942, during World War II, demanding an end to British rule in India
  • Mandela joined the African National Congress

    Mandela joined the African National Congress
    Mandela, a lawyer, joined the African National Congress (ANC), the oldest black political organization in South Africa. In 1952, he became deputy national president of the ANC, advocating nonviolent resistance to apartheid–South Africa’s institutionalized system of white supremacy and racial segregation. Nelson helped organize a paramilitary branch of the ANC to engage in guerrilla warfare against the white minority government.
  • Palestine

    Palestine
    Palestine, area of the eastern Mediterranean region, comprising parts of modern Israel and the Palestinian territories of the Gaza Strip (along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea) and the West Bank (west of the Jordan River).
  • Accra Riots

    Accra Riots
    The Accra Riots started on 28 February 1948 in Accra, the capital of present-day Ghana, which at the time was the British colony of the Gold Coast.
  • Israel Formation

    Israel Formation
    On May 14, 1948, David Ben-Gurion, the head of the Jewish Agency, proclaimed the establishment of the State of Israel. U.S. President Harry S. Truman recognized the new nation on the same day.
  • Universal Declaration of Human Rights

    The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted by the UN General Assembly on 10 December 1948, was the result of the experience of the Second World War.
  • Mau Mau Rebellion

    Mau Mau Rebellion
    The Mau Mau rebellion, also known as the Mau Mau uprising, Mau Mau revolt or Kenya Emergency, was a war in the British Kenya Colony between the Kenya Land and Freedom Army, also known as the Mau Mau, and the British authorities.
  • Cuban Revolution

    The Cuban Revolution was a military and political effort to overthrow the government of Cuba between 1953 and 1959. It began after the 1952 Cuban coup d'état which placed Fulgencio Batista as head of state and the failed mass strike in opposition that followed.