Chronography of Mozambique
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11/2017, 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.
10/2014, 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.
4/10/1992, 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.
3/11/1986, President Machel died in a suspicious plane
crash in South Africa.� Joaquim
Chissano was elected President of Mozambique.
19/10/1986, President Samora Machel of Mozambique was killed in a
plane crash on the South African border. He was succeeded by Chissano
on 3/11/1986.
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.
23/11/1977, 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.
3/3/1976, The newly-independent country of Mozambique closed its border with
Rhodesia, as a protest against the illegal regime there.
25/6/1975. Mozambique
became independent from Portugal.� This
followed a ten-year war against Portuguese colonial rule.
20/9/1974, Friday (+10,727) A Nationalist government took control
in Mozambique, headed by Jacques Chissano.
1/1970, 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.
13/7/1622, 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.