207 - Namibia Timeline *Data furnished by BBC.com (Namibia profile - Timeline).**Photos by The Nostomaniac***Short history of Namibia, anyone? Go here. Key Events: 1488 - Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias visits.1886-90 - Present international boundaries established by German treaties with Portugal and Britain. Germany annexes the territory as South West Africa.1892-1905 - Suppression of uprisings against German colonial occupation by Herero and Nama peoples. Possibly 60,000, or 80% of the Herero population, are killed, leaving some 15,000 starving refugees in an act that independent Namibia has deemed an act of genocide.South African occupation1915 - South Africa takes over territory during First World War.1920 - League of Nations grants South Africa mandate to govern South West Africa (SWA).1946 - United Nations refuses to allow South Africa to annex South West Africa. South Africa refuses to place SWA under UN trusteeship.1958 - Herman Toivo Ya Toivo and others create the opposition Ovamboland People's Congress, which becomes the South West Africa People's Organisation (Swapo) in 1960.1961 - UN General Assembly demands South Africa terminate the mandate and sets SWA's independence as an objective.1966 - Swapo launches armed struggle against South African occupation.1968 - South West Africa officially renamed Namibia by UN General Assembly.1973 - UN General Assembly recognises Swapo as "sole legitimate representative" of Namibia's people.1988 - South Africa agrees to Namibian independence in exchange for removal of Cuban troops from Angola.1989 - UN-supervised elections for a Namibian Constituent Assembly. Swapo wins.Independence 1990 March - Namibia becomes independent, with Sam Nujoma as first president.1994 - South African exclave of Walvis Bay turned over to Namibia.1998 - Hundreds of residents of the Caprivi Strip flee to Botswana, alleging persecution by the Namibian government. 1998 August - Namibia, Angola and Zimbabwe send troops to the Democratic Republic of Congo to support President Laurent Kabila against rebels.1999 August - Emergency declared in Caprivi Strip following series of attacks by separatists.1999 December - President Nujoma wins third presidential term.1999 December - World Court rules in favour of Botswana in territorial dispute with Namibia over the tiny Chobe River island of Sedudu - known as Kasikili by Namibians.2002 August - New prime minister, Theo-Ben Gurirab, says land reform is a priority. President Nujoma says white farmers must embrace the reform programme.2004 May - Road bridge across Zambezi river between Namibia, Zambia opens amid hopes for boost to regional trade.2004 August - Germany offers formal apology for colonial-era killings of tens of thousands of ethnic Hereros, but rules out compensation for victims' descendants.2004 November - Hifikepunye Pohamba, President Nujoma's nominee, wins presidential elections.2005 September - Government begins the expropriation of white-owned farms as part of a land-reform programme.2006 June - National anti-polio vaccination campaign is launched following the death of at least 12 people from the disease.2007 February - Chinese President Hu Jintao visits, signs aid and economic co-operation agreements.2007 August - Ten men are found guilty of treason for leading a secessionist rebellion in the Caprivi region and are given long prison terms.2009 November - Presidential and parliamentary polls. President Pohamba and his ruling Swapo party re-elected.2011 February - High Court dismisses legal challenge by nine opposition parties claiming irregularities in the 2009 parliamentary election.2011 July- Mines and Energy Minister Isak Katali says Nambia has found a possible 11bn barrels of offshore oil reserves.2011 October - Skulls of 20 Herero and Nama people repatriated from a museum in Germany to a welcome from hundreds of descendants.2014 August - A protester is shot and killed by police during a rare occurrence of political violence.2014 November - Hage Geingob is elected president, SWAPO wins parliamentary polls.2018 February - Politicians and civil servants are banned from all foreign business travel to cut expenditure. The economy has been hard hit by a drop in uranium revenues.2019 November - President Geingob wins re-election. Namibia, Batch 36by Mr. Nos T. O'maniacOctober 21, 2019Namibia Facebook0 Twitter LinkedIn0 Reddit Tumblr Pinterest0 0 Likes