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Uganda

Speke and Grant seek the source of the Nile

Henry Morton Stanley visits the court of the Kabaka of Buganda

Arrival of British missionaries to Uganda – Church Missionary Society

Arrival of French Catholic missionaries to Uganda – Peres Blancs

Imperial British East Africa Company given charter to administer Kenya and Uganda

Emergence of mission schools in Uganda

War between Protestant and Catholic factions in Uganda

Establishment of the British Protectorate of Uganda

Establishment of the Uganda Rifles

Buganda and three other kingdoms are unified under the Protectorate of Uganda

Uganda Rifles mutiny

Kabaka defeated by British forces

Kabaka exiled to the Seychelles

Uganda Agreement of 1900

Elevation of Protestant Bakunga client-chiefs as administrators led by Apollo Kagwa

Toro Agreement

Ankole Agreement

Completion of the Uganda Railway

Expansion of cash crop cultivation by Ugandans

Establishment of the King’s African Rifles

Transfer of the eastern section of the Uganda Protectorate

Banyoro rebellion

Emergence of native journals and newspapers in Uganda – Ebifa, Munno, Sekanyolya

Establishment of the Uganda Intelligence Department

Ugandans in the King’s African Rifles saw action against German forces in East Africa

Establishment of the Young Baganda Association

Agitation of Ankole and Toro chiefs

Asians establish sugar plantations in Uganda

Bataka uprisings

Bunyoro and Busoga chiefs demand mailo system

Resignation of Apollo Kagwa, generational change of leadership

Buganda land reform

Bunyoro Agreement

Sons of Kintu Movement

Strikes and protests in all the main towns of Uganda

Establishment of the Bataka Party

Establishment of the Ugandan African Farmers’ Union

Popular uprising against Asian businesses and Buganda chiefs

Establishment of the Uganda National Congress

Constitutional changes under colonial governor Andrew Cohen

Kabaka Crisis

The Wild Report

UPU changed name to Uganda People’s Congress

Ugandan Constitutional Conference

Independence of Uganda

Dissolution of Buganda

Dissolution of Bunyoro

Speech of President Amin to a Meeting of Leaders of the Asian Community in Uganda

Implementation of ‘Ugandanisation’ policy

President Idi Amin declares an expulsion order on British Ugandan Asians

90 Day Expulsion Notice Goes Into Effect

Final Order declared making the expulsion order an official edict

Asians with Ugandan citizenship had to prove their citizenship

Idi Amin addresses mass rally in Rukungiri

Assures President Nyerere of Tanzania that Asians would be paid for their sold possessions.

Statement by Chairman of the Uganda Resettlement Board

Canada declares that it will set up an Immigration Office in Kampala, Kenya

All Asians leaving Uganda had to declare their assets

Leicester City Council publish an advertisement in the Ugandan Argus

Beginning of British airlift initiative

Ugandan Asians arrive at Stansted

First chartered flight to Canada organised by the Canadian High Commission

Leicester City Council publishes a third advertisement in the Ugandan Argus

Expulsion of Ugandan Asians

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