Madagascar
Facts and historical events related to Madagascar, drawn from the Provenance Africa archive and the On This Day collection.
- A military-backed uprising forced President Andry Rajoelina to flee Madagascar, culminating in a coup that… (2025)
- Another incident of France sponsoring a 2009 coup in her former African colony of Madagascar. His sin? Pres…
- Happy independence to the Earth's oldest island, Madagascar, who secured its independence from France on th…
- During World War II, Hitler planned to ship 4 million Jews to Madagascar. It took Nazi German's defeat via…
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- Good morning world. All you need to know about Madagascar, one of planet Earth's biggest and unique islands.
- The oldest dinosaurs known are 230 million years old, and have been found in Madagascar.
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- Madagascar has been an isolated island for around 70 million years, so 90% of its wildlife is found to exis…
- The 1st recorded black to set foot on Canada was a free man, Mathieu Costa. The 1st to live there; A slave…
- 90% of plants and animals on Madagascar evolved there and nowhere else. The government set aside 9 million…
- Madagascar is the world's largest producer and exporter of vanilla. Also, over half of its people follow An…
- The people of Madagascar are found to have Malayo-Indonesian and African-Arab ancestry. Indonesians migrate…
- Andry Rajoelina, the President of Madagascar - who, in 2009 seized power via a coup - is Africa's youngest…
- Madagascar has an astounding total of 8 plant families, 5 bird families, and 5 primate families that live n…
- The Fosa is an endemic Madagascar carnivore. About 60 of them are in zoos in USA, with artificial Malagasy…
- Madagascar's diverse life resulted from 160 million years of isolation from both mainland Africa and people…
- The largest African island is Madagascar, lying on the eastern African coast. This is also the fourth large…
- The Merina Kingdom ruled most of Madagascar from the late 18th century until the French colony in 1896 & it…
- Until Sir Mervyn Brown's recent 'History of Madagascar,' there was no English-language history of the islan…
- Tropical Storm Irina killed more than 75 people as it passed through Madagascar. (2012)
- Rioting broke out in Antananarivo, Madagascar, triggering a political crisis that ended with President Marc… (2009)
- Richard Ratsimandrava, President of Madagascar, is assassinated just six days after taking office. (1975)
- The African and Malagasy Union, an early bloc of newly independent Francophone African states that cooperat… (1961)
- Marc Ravalomanana, who became President of Madagascar, was born. (1949)
- The Malagasy Uprising against French colonial rule began in Madagascar. (1947)
- Allied forces including South African troops opened a new phase of the Madagascar campaign against Vichy Fr… (1942)
- Albert Zafy, who became the third President of Madagascar, was born. (1927)