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DATES IN THE HISTORY OF SENEGAL |
2nd to the 11th
century : The Empire of Ghana.
9th century : The Empire of Tekrour,
founded in the dying days of the Empire of
Ghana.
1080 : The beginning of Islamization,
under the Almoravide Dynasty.
13th century : The rise of Djolof Empire
in the centre of Senegal.
13th and 14th centuries : The Empire
of Mali is based in eastern Senegal.
15th century : Arrival of the first
colonists (Portuguese). Established the first
trading posts on the Cap-Vert Peninsula, at
Goree,
Rufisque and Joal.
16th century : Start of the slave
trade, organised by the Portuguese.
1617 : The Dutch settle at Goree.
1626 to 1659 : French colonization
on the future site of Saint-Louis.
End of the 17th century : Goree
taken by the English then again by France.
From 1758 to 1814 : The English and
the French fight over Saint-Louis
and Goree.
15th of April 1789 : A dispatch sent
to the Constitutional Convention at Versailles
- "A List of Complaints and Remonstrances".
1802 : The colony represented at "The
Meeting of Five Hundred" (Paris).
30th May 1814 : Senegal is given to
France by the Treaty of Paris.
1815 : France views itself as having
a monopoly of all trade out of Senegal. The
slave trade abolished.
1816 : Shipwreck of "La Méduse"
off the coast of Mauritania.
1848 : Abolition of slavery.
1854 to 1865 : Faidherbe
becomes governor of the colony. Dakar
is established. The kingdoms of Djolof and
Kayor are overthrown.
1862 : Pinet-Laprade designs a town
plan for Dakar.
1882 : Under French governor Servatine
the railway between Dakar
and Saint-Louis
is constructed...
1895 : A central governing body for
French West Africa is formed :"Le
Gouvernement général de l'Afrique
Occidentale Française (A.O.F.)".
1904 : Dakar
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Tirailleurs Sénégalais
(infantrymen) in 1915.
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1916 : The inhabitants
of the "Quatre communes"
(Dakar,
Goree,
Saint-Louis
and Rufisque) are granted French citizenship.
The first members sit at the "Chambre
des Députés" in Paris.
1940 : The British Navy bombs Dakar.
1946 : The "Union Française"
(French Union) is founded.
1956 : The blue-print law for the eight
self-governing states of the A.O.F. (including
Senegal) is voted.
1960 (April 4th) : Senegal is recognized
as an independent state within the Federation
of Mali.
1960 (August 20th) : Split up of the
Federation of Mali.
1960 (September 5th) : Léopold
Sédar Senghor is elected President
of the Republic of Senegal ; he was to be
President seven years running.
1962 (December 18th) : When accused
of undermining the Parliament's rights, Prime
Minister Mamadou Dia is arrested. Léopold
Sedar Senghor holds and exercises the
whole executive power.
1963 (March 3rd) : A referendum ratifies
the new constitution of a presidential regime.
1970 (February 26th) : The constitution
is reformed. President Senghor
appoints Abdou
Diouf as Prime Minister.
1971 (February) : French President
Georges Pompidou pays a visit to Senegal.
1971 (November 2nd) : President
Senghor goes to Israel and Egypt, along
with three other African Heads of states,
in order to act as mediator in the Middle
East conflict.
1974 ( March 26th) : President
Senghor announces the liberation of all
the political prisoners ; the liberation will
take place in April, for the 14th anniversary
of the independence of the country.
1975 (February 4th) : Delegates from
110 developing countries and non-aligned countries
meet in Dakar
to discuss the prices of raw materials.
1976 (March 16th) : The National Assembly
passes a law of amnesty for all political
prisonners ; the law is to take effect from
April 4th 1976.
In the course of April the constitution is
reviewed thus allowing three political parties,
with three different leanings, to set up.
Apart from the UPS (governmental party) which
will later become the PS (Socialist Party),
are founded Abdoulaye
Wade's party (PDS : liberal-democrat leanings),
the PAI (African Party for Independence, led
by Maihemout Diop whose leanings are Marxist-Leninist).
1977 ( April 20th) : The fourth Afro-French
conference is held in the presence of French
President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing.
1978 (February 26th) : Léopold
Sedar Senghor is re-elected President
of the Republic of Senegal ; for the first
time he had to face an opponent, Abdoulaye
Wade, leader of the PDS, who polled 17
% of the votes.
1978 (March 18th) : Diplomatic relations
between the Ivory Coast, Guinea and Senegal
are restored after the Heads of those States
met in Monrovia.
1980 (December 31st) : Léopold
Sedar Senghor leaves office in favour
of Abdou
Diouf the Prime Minister.
1981 (January 1st) : Abdou
Diouf takes office as President of the
Republic of Senegal.
1981 (November 14th) : The confederation
of Senegambia is founded.
1982 (February 1st) : The confederation
of Senegambia is officially announced.
1983 ( February 23rd) : Abdou
Diouf is officially elected President
of the Republic ; he polled 80 % of the votes
when he stood as a candidate opposite four
other candidates, in a universal suffrage
election.
1983 (April 3rd) : Abdou
Diouf takes the oath. A new government
is set up.
1983 (April 29th) : The National Assembly
passes a constitutional reform that abolishes
the post of Prime Minister.
1983 (May) : Léopold
Sedar Senghor is elected member of the
"Académie Française"
(French Academy).
1983 (December) : In Casamance,
confrontations with the police caused the
death of 24 persons ; the persisting discords
makes an armed intervention necessary.
1984 (January 11th) : French Prime
Minister Pierre Mauroy arrives in Dakar
on a four-day visit. Both co-operation and
economic help on the part of France are consolidated.
1988 (February) : The economic and
social context is one of crisis. Abdou
Diouf is re-elected President of the Republic
of Senegal polling over 73 % of the votes
; his own success is strengthened when his
party wins the general elections by absolute
majoriry. The opposition takes issue over
the results ; riots and confrontation with
the police cause the State of Emergency to
be declared.
1989 (April 25th) : Following the looting
of shops owned by Mauritanians in Senegal,
about 200 Senegalese are slaughtered in Nouakchott
and Nouadhibou in Mauritania ; curfew is then
imposed.
March 2000 : Abdou
Diouf loses the presidential elections.
Abdoulaye
Wade's election as president puts an end
to 40 years of continuous power by the Socialist
Party
See also (in French):
- Les actualités
de 1994
- Les actualités
de 1995
- Les actualités
de 1996
- Les actualités
de 1997
- Les actualités
de 1998
- Les actualités
de 1999 |
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