burundi
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The Nation includes all the forms of the country.
The cluster includes the following incarnations of the same nation:
Establishment
- January 1681: King Ntare I (reigned 1675-1705) expanded and annexed many of its neighbors.
Chronology
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1. Events
- January 1861: Bugufi is occupied by Urundi (Burundi).
- January 1884: From 1883 Arab slave and ivory trader Rumaliza was the leader of the Swahili community at Ujiji on Lake Tanganyika.
- July 1890: In 1890, Burundi became part of the German colonial empire as part of German East Africa. By 1st july 1890 Germany controlled all of Tanganyka (the continental part of modern-day Tanzania), Burundi and Rwanda as with the Heligoland-Zanzibar Treaty the treaty with the East Africa Protectorate controlled by Britain was fixed.
- July 1962: In 1962, the Kingdom of Burundi regained its independence as a constitutional monarchy.
- November 1966: Mwambutsa's son, Ntare V, deposed his father in a July 1966 coup d'état, but was himself ousted from power in a November 1966 coup d'état by his Prime Minister, Michel Micombero, who abolished the monarchy.
- May 1972: The Republic of Martyazo was a secessionist state proclaimed by Hutu rebels in Burundi at Vyanda.
- June 1972: Few days after the republic was declared, forces of the Tutsi-dominated government of Michel Micombero occupied the region, ending the rebellion and the existence of Martyazo.
- June 1972: The Republic of Martyazo quickly expanded to its surroundings, even reaching the border with Tanzania.
Selected Sources
- Langer, W. L. (1951): The Diplomacy of Imperialism, 1890-1902, (1951) , Cambridge (USA), pp. 6-10