Ceiling of Debre Birhan Selassie church, Gondar, Ethiopia. Photo: Rod Waddington, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence · Source
Real events, births and milestones from Africa and the diaspora.
Dandara, a leader of the runaway-slave community of Quilombo dos Palmares in Brazil, was captured and took her own life rather than return to slavery.
Sources: Fundacao Cultural Palmares, Ministerio da Cultura (Brazil) ; Oxford African American Studies Center
ResistanceThe first 86 African American emigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society departed New York to found a settlement in present-day Liberia.
Sources: PBS (Global Connections: Liberia) ; White House Historical Association
History
CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons 1952 Princess Elizabeth became Queen on the death of her father George VI, while staying at Treetops, a lodge built into a fig tree in the Aberdares near Nyeri, Kenya. She learned of the accession later that day, from Prince Philip.
Sources: Kenya News Agency ; ABC News (Australia) ; The Royal Family (royal.uk)
History
CC BY-SA 3.0 DE, Wikimedia Commons 1981 The National Resistance Army launched an attack on a Ugandan army installation, beginning the Ugandan Bush War.
Sources: The Africa Report ; Embassy of the Republic of Uganda (Doha) ; GlobalSecurity.org
Politics
Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1913 Mary Leakey, English-Kenyan archaeologist renowned for major hominid fossil discoveries at Olduvai Gorge, was born.
Source: Britannica
Birth
CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons 2013 Chokri Belaid, Tunisian opposition lawyer and politician, was assassinated outside his home near Tunis.
Sources: UN News ; Los Angeles Times
Death
CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons 2015 André Brink, acclaimed South African novelist and playwright, died.
Sources: BBC News ; The Guardian
DeathPiet Retief and his party were killed at Dingane's capital, uMgungundlovu, after being invited to farewell festivities. Lesniewski gives the dead as 68 or 70 Boers and 29 agterryers; Laband puts the party that set out at 69 Boers and 30 agterryers.
Sources: Brill ; Jonathan Ball Publishers ; University of Cape Town, Emandulo archive
ConflictOn the morning they marched out of Kumasi, British troops of Sir Garnet Wolseley's expedition blew up the Asantehene's palace and set the Asante capital on fire.
Source: Internet Archive
Read the full articles: Asante, the Forest Kingdom of Gold, c. 1700-1901 · Britain and Asante at War, 1824-1900
War