Chronography of Mozambique
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November 2017, An Islamist rebellion began in northern Mozambique.
Whilst the south of the country derived�
income from the South African gold trade, the north was
poorer and relied on Swahili agriculture.
October 2014, Renamo signed a truce with the Mozamique
Government.
2007, Chinese
President, Hu
Jintao, visited and promised major Chinese investment.
2004, Armando
Guebuza won the Presidential elections for Frelimo.
2000, Mozambique hit hy severe flooding, followed by a major drought in
2002.
1995, Mozambique joined the Commonwealth, becoming the only member not to
be a former Brirtish colony.
1994, Frelimo won democratic elections.
December 1992, Inflation in Mozambique reached 50% this month. The
situation improved in 1993 as Government revenue rose but tax evasion was still
an issue. In 1993 Mozambique received aid from Denmark and the UK, to improve medical
facilities and agriculture, and to train journalists.
4
October 1992, Chissano signed the Rome Peace
Agreement with Renamo.
This ended the Mozambique conflict.
1990, Renamo
lost support from South Africa as apartheid ended there.
1989, Frelimo
dropped its Marxist-Leninist
stance and supported multi-party elections and the free market. War and
malnutrition claimed one million lives.
3
November 1986, President Machel died in a
suspicious plane crash in South Africa.� Joaquim
Chissano was elected President of Mozambique.
19
October 1986, President Samora Machel
of Mozambique was killed in a plane crash on the South African border. He was
succeeded by Chissano
on 3 November 1986.
1984, The Nkomati Accord. South
Africa agreed to cease funding rename if Mozambique halted aid to the ANC.
However fighting continued.
1982, Zimbabwean
troops arrived in Mozambique to help defend the important Mutare-Beira rail
link.
23
November 1977, Rhodesian troops entered
Mozambique and killed over 1,000 alleged guerrillas.
1976, Renamo
(Resistencia Nacional Mozambicana)
was set up within Mozambique with the help of Rhodesia and later with South
African assistance also. It was an armed resistance movement against the
Frelimo Government.
3 March 1976, The newly-independent country of Mozambique closed its
border with Rhodesia, as a protest against the illegal regime there.
25
June 1975. Mozambique became independent from Portugal.� This
followed a ten-year war against Portuguese colonial rule.
20
September 1974, A Nationalist government took control in
Mozambique, headed by Jacques Chissano.
January 1970, Construction work began on the Cabora Bassa dam,
Zambesi River, Mozambique.
1962, Frelimo,
the Frente de Libertacao de Mocambique,
was founded in Dar es Salaam. Initially led by Eduardo Mondlane, until his
assassination, it fought for the independence of Mozambique from the
Portuguese. When independence was achieved in 1975, the Marxist-Leninist Frelimo became the
only legal party in Mozambique. A civil war began with the violent dissident
group Renamo,
which by the end of the 1990s had claimed over 100,000 lives and created one
million refugees. Frelimo and Renamo siged a peace treaty in 1992,
and Renamo
was recognised as a legitimate political party. Frelimo won Mozambique�s first
multiparty elections in 1994.
1951, Mozambique was constituted an overseas department of Portugal. Lisbon
introduced settlement schemes.
1894, The Mapondera Movement
began a resistance against Portuguese taxation, led by Kadungire Mapondera. Regarded
as a hero by the local workers, he was captured and executed in 1904.
1842, Poretugal
nominally outlawed the slave trade in Mozambique, but it went on
anyway for decades afterwards.
1684, The Mwene Matapa Kingdom recognised Portuguese sovereignty.
13
July 1622, English and Dutch ships defeated the Portuguese near Mozambique.
1505, Mozambique became a Portuguese colony
1498, Vasco da Gama arrived in Mozambique.
Ca.1000, Shona Empire
flourished between the Limpopo and Zambezi Rivers.
Ca. 200 CE, Bantu
peoples moved into what is now Mozambique, from central-west Africa.