Kenya History Timeline & Facts

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10,000BC Upper Paleolithic (the Old Stone Age) period
5000 - 3000BC Neolithic (New Stone Age) period
3000BC - 1000BC - Evidence of migration of people from Somalia and Ethiopia
400 AD - Migration of the Bantu Cushitic and Nilotic peoples into East Africa
600 - Arabs began to settle on the Coastal area introducing the Muslim religion
700 - Trade with the Arabs and Phoenicians in ivory, rhino horn, gold, shells and slaves

1400 - 1700 - The Portuguese extend their empire to East Africa
1720 - Control of the coast was won back by the Arabs
1800 - Christian missionaries and explorers come in to Africa and the Europeans start a process of the colonization of Kenya
1800's - The Maasai settled in the Rift Valley
1895 - The British declared Kenya a Protectorate
1895–1901 - A railroad was built from Mombasa to Kisumu on Lake Victoria
1896 - 1905 Kenyan people resist the British rule
1956 - Mau Mau Rebellion and Emergence of the Kenya African Union (KAU)
1961 Jomo Kenyatta become independent Kenya's first president
1963 - Kenya gained Independence
1964 - Kenya became a Republic.

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