Uganda: Timeline

500 BC   Bantu Bantu

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-speaking people migrate into south-west Uganda from the west. (approximate date)

1953   Edward Mutesa II, the ''kabaka'' (king) of Buganda is deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda.

1961   Uganda becomes self-governing by holding its first general elections.

1962   Uganda becomes independent within the Commonwealth of Nations Commonwealth of Nations

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1966   Ugandan army troops arrest Mutesa II of Buganda and occupy his pala

1971   August 25 – Border clashes occur between Tanzania Tanzania

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 and Uganda.

1971   Idi Amin Idi Amin

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 leads a coup deposing Milton Obote Milton Obote

Apollo Milton Obote, Prime Minister of Uganda [i] 1962 [i]-1966 [i] and President of Uganda [i] 1966 [i] ... 

, and becomes Uganda's president.

1972   Dictator Idi Amin Idi Amin

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 declares that Uganda will expel 50,000 Asians with British passports to Britain within three months.

1972   Uganda announces that there are Tanzania Tanzania

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n troops in its territory.

1976   Palestinian extremists hijack an Air France Air France

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 plane in Greece with 246 passengers and 12 crew. They take it to Entebbe, Uganda, where Israel Israel

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i commandos storm it on July 4.

1976   In the Entebbe Raid, Israeli Israel

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 airborne commandos free 103 hostages being held by Palestinian hijackers of an Air France Air France

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 plane at Uganda's Entebbe Airport; one Israeli and several Ugandan soldiers are killed in the raid.

1976   The United Kingdom United Kingdom

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 breaks diplomatic relations with Uganda.

1979   Tanzania Tanzania

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n troops take Kampala, the capital of Uganda; Idi Amin Idi Amin

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 flees.

1986   Yoweri Museveni becomes President of Uganda after leading a successful 5-year liberation struggle. Flees to Hawaii Hawaii

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1999   Rwanda Rwanda

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n Hutu Hutu

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 rebels kill and hack to pieces eight foreign tourists at the Buhoma homestead, Uganda.