2004, Bingu
wa Mutharika won the Presidency.
2002, Severe cholera epidemic and food shortages.
1999, Muluzi
was re-elected Presaident. However in 2006 he was arrested on corruption
charges.
1994, Bakili
Muluzi�s opposition United Front won the first democratic elections.
1993, One-Party
rule ended after referendum.
1992, Anti-Government riots, as illegal opposition groups united. Western
aid suspended over Human Rights violations.
1986, Over the next three years (to 1989), nearly one million refugees
entered Malawi from Mozambique.
6/7/1971, Dr Hastings Banda was sworn in as President of
Malawi for life, having established a One-Party State.
6/7/1964. Malawi,
formerly Nyasaland, became independent.�
It had been a British Protectorate since 1891. The Scottish explorer
David Livingstone named the lake, Lake Nyasa, after being told that was its
name by the locals; however nyasa
meant �mass of waters�. So Lake Nyasa meant �lake-lake�. On independence the
name Malawi was chosen, from the former 16th century Kingdom of
Maravi, believed to have ruled over the Zambesi river as far as Mombasa.
1/2/1963, Nyasaland
became independent, later to be called Malawi.
3/3/1959, In Nyasaland (Malawi) Hastings Banda and other leaders of the
Nyasaland African Congress were arrested.
20/2/1959, Disturbances in the British territory of Nyasaland (now Malawi).
1/8/1953, Nyasaland (now Malawi) federated with
Southern and Northern Rhodesia to form�
the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. This federation lasted until
1963.
1907, Hastings
Kumuzu Banda, first President of independent Malawi in 1964, was
born in what was then the British Protectorate of Nyasaland.
1891, The British Protectorate of Nyasaland was set up, after some years of
Scottish missionary activity.