Dandara, a leader of the runaway-slave community of Quilombo dos Palmares in Brazil, is captured and takes her own life rather than return to slavery.
ResistanceOn this day — February 6 in African history
Real events, births and milestones from Africa and the diaspora.
The first 86 African American emigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society depart New York to found a settlement in present-day Liberia.
History
CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons 1952 Princess Elizabeth becomes Queen of the United Kingdom while staying at Treetops Hotel in Kenya, upon the death of her father George VI.
History
CC BY-SA 3.0 DE, Wikimedia Commons 1981 The National Resistance Army launches an attack on a Ugandan army installation, beginning the Ugandan Bush War.
Politics
Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1913 Mary Leakey, English-Kenyan archaeologist renowned for major hominid fossil discoveries at Olduvai Gorge, is born.
Birth
CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons 2013 Chokri Belaid, Tunisian opposition lawyer and politician, is assassinated outside his home near Tunis.
Death
CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons 2015 André Brink, acclaimed South African novelist and playwright, dies.
Death