Nigeria: Timeline

1862   Britain United Kingdom

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 annexes Lagos Lagos

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 island in modern-day Nigeria

1892   British troops defeat Ijebu infantry at the battle of Yemoja river, in modern-day Nigeria, using a maxim gun

1892   British United Kingdom

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 conquest of Ijebu-Ode marks major extension of colonial power into Nigerian interior.

1900   Nigeria becomes a British Britain

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 Protectorate Protectorate

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1901   Nigeria becomes a British United Kingdom

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 protectorate

1947   Nigeria gains limited autonomy

1960   October 1 — Nigeria gains independence — Nnamdi Azikiwe is the first native Governor General.

1966   A conference about the situation in Rhodesia Rhodesia

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 begins in Lagos Lagos

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, Nigeria.

1966   A violent military coup is staged in Nigeria.

1966   The military government of Nigeria announces that ex-prime minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was killed during the coup.

1966   The Nigerian government forbids all political activity in the country (until January 17, 1969).

1966   The Nigerian army rebels and executes head of state General Aguiyi-Ironsi.

1966   A military coup occurs in Nigeria - General Yakubu Gowon takes over.

1967   Biafra Biafra

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, in eastern Nigeria, announces its independen , Moshe Dayan Moshe Dayan

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 and Yitzhak Rabin Yitzhak Rabin

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 entering Jerusalem in June 1967]]

1967   Nigerian forces invade Biafra Biafra

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, following the latter's secession May 30: beginning of the Biafran War.

1970   After a 32-month fight for independence from Nigeria, Biafra Biafra

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n forces under General Effiong formally surrender to General Yakubu Gowon.

1973   A Alia Royal Jordanian Boeing 707 Boeing 707

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 flight from Jeddah Jeddah

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 crashes in Kano, Nigeria; 176 are killed.

1976   Plans to move the Nigerian capital from Lagos Lagos

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 to Abuja are approved.

1995   In Nigeria, playwright and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, along with 8 others from the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (Mosop), are hanged by government forces.

1999   Olusegun Obasanjo becomes Nigeria's first elected president since mid-1983.

2000   In southern Nigeria, a leaking petroleum pipeline explodes killing about 250 villagers who were scavenging gasoline Gasoline

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.

2002   Several explosions at a military dump in Lagos Lagos

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, Nigeria kill more than 1,000.

2002   In Nigeria, more than 100 people are killed at an attack aimed at the contestants of the Miss World Miss World

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 contest.

2005   Bellview Airlines Flight 210, a Boeing 737 Boeing 737

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 airliner, crashes in Nigeria.