Nigeria+History


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 Timeline: **500 B.C. - 200 A.D.:**  Nok culture flourishes. The Nok create clay figurines of human heads and animals, which are today.  **1472:**  Portuguese settlers become the first Europeans to live in Nigeria. Other Europeans follow.  **1800s:**  The Muslim Fulani empire rules the region.  **1903:** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Arial,Helvetica; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Britain takes control of Nigeria, creating a system of indirect rule through local kings and chiefs. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Arial,Helvetica; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"> **1914:** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Arial,Helvetica; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Britain unites the northern and southern regions, forming the Colony of Nigeria. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Arial,Helvetica; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"> **1958:** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Arial,Helvetica; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Nigerian Chinua Achebe's //Things Fall Apart// is published. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Arial,Helvetica; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"> **1960:** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Arial,Helvetica; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Nigeria gains independence from Britain and joins the United Nations. A new constitution and government are adopted. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Arial,Helvetica; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"> **1966:** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Arial,Helvetica; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"> The military takes control of the government. <span style="color: #000000; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;">Image from [|Google Images] <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Arial,Helvetica; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"> **1967-1970:** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Arial,Helvetica; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"> The eastern region of Nigeria secedes and proclaims itself the Republic of Biafra. This leads to a civil war that kills about 1 million people. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Arial,Helvetica; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"> **1970s:** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Arial,Helvetica; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"> An oil boom occurs. great surge in world oil prices boosts Nigeria's economy. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Arial,Helvetica; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"> **1979:** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Arial,Helvetica; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Nigeria briefly returns to civilian government rule. The military takes over again in 1983. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Arial,Helvetica; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"> **1986:** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Arial,Helvetica; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Wole Soyinka is the first African to be honored with the Nobel Prize for literature. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Arial,Helvetica; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"> **1996:** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Arial,Helvetica; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Nigeria wins the gold medal in soccer in the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Arial,Helvetica; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"> **1999:** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Arial,Helvetica; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Military rule ends. Nigerians vote in free presidential elections. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Arial,Helvetica; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"> **2003:** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Arial,Helvetica; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Olusegun Obasanjo is elected president, marking the first civilian transfer of power in Nigeria's history. Still, election observers express concern over irregularities in voting. Britain takes control of Nigeria, creating a system of indirect rule through local kings and chiefs.

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