Somalia: Timeline

1527   Ahmed Gragn of Somalia defeats the Ethiopia Ethiopia

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n army with his new firearms.

1969   Siad Barre comes to power in Somalia in a coup.

1977   The last "wild" infection of smallpox Smallpox

Smallpox was a highly contagious viral disease [i] unique to humans. ... 

 is reported in Somalia.

1977   German Autumn German Autumn

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: Four Palestinians hijack a Lufthansa Airlines flight to Somalia and demand release of 11 members of the Red Army Faction Red Army Faction

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. (See Lufthansa Flight 181)

1977   The last natural case of smallpox Smallpox

Smallpox was a highly contagious viral disease [i] unique to humans. ... 

 is discovered in Merca district, Somalia. The WHO and the CDC consider this date the anniversary of the eradication of smallpox, the most spectacular success of vaccination Vaccination

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 and, by extension, of modern scien

1978   Somalia mobilizes its troops, due to an apparent Ethiopia Ethiopia

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n attack.

1978   Ethiopia Ethiopia

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 admits that its troops are fighting with the aid of Cuba Cuba

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n soldiers against Somalian troops in Ogaden.

1984   A peace agreement between Kenya Kenya

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 and Somalia was signed in the Egypt Egypt

[i] country in [[North Africa]... 

ian capital Cairo Cairo

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 in December 1984. With this agreement, in which Somalia officially renounced its historical territorial claims, relations between the two countries began to improve.

1991   Somalia President Siad Barre flees his compound in Mogadishu.

1991   Siad Barre is succeeded by Ali Mahdi Muhammad in Somalia. '', U.S. military decimates the Iraqi Army as it retreats from Kuwait Kuwait

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1992   UN Security Council Resolution 794 is unanimously passed, approving a coalition of United Nations United Nations

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 peacekeepers led by the United States United States

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 to form UNITAF, tasked with ensuring humanitarian aid gets distributed and establishing peace in Somalia.

1992   U.S. military forces invade Somalia.

1995   In Somalia, the United Nations United Nations

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 peacekeeping Peacekeeping

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 mission ends.

1998   In Somalia, the southern port of Kismayo is declared the capital of independent Jubaland under Muhamed Said Hersi.

2004   Abdullahi Yusuf is chosen as the new transitional president of Somalia.