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| 1895 | Thuku, Harry |  |
| Birth of Harry Thuku |
| 1928 | Thuku, Harry | |
| Founds a movement which becomes KANU, the Kenyan African National Union |
| 1930 | Mboya, Thomas Joseph | |
| Luo Birth of Thomas Joseph Mboya |
| 1947 | Kenyatta, Jomo | |
| Appointed Party Leader of the KANU |
| Helps found KANU, a nationalist group seeking political rights for black |
| 1952 | Kenyatta, Jomo | |
| 24th Aug Denounces the Mau Mau risings |
| 19th Oct British troops are despatched to Kenya |
| 20th Oct Organizes the Mau Mau, black terrorists, to drive out the white settlers from Kenya |
| 25th Nov Arrested and indicted with six others on the charges of "managing and being a member" of the Mau Mau Society |
| 1953 | Kenyatta, Jomo | |
| Begins a 10 year campaign for Kenyan independence |
| 8th April Arrested for leading the Mau Mau risings & sentenced to 7 years hard Labour |
| 8th April Found guilty of organizing a terrorist campaign to drive out white settlers from Kenya |
| 8th April Lodwar The court sentences Kenyatta to seven years of hard labor, sent into exile on probation in Lodwar, a remote part of Kenya |
| 1953 | Mboya, Thomas Joseph | |
| Appointed Treasurer of the Kenyan African National Union |
| 1959 | Kenyatta, Jomo | |
| 14th April Completes his sentence for the Mau Mau risings |
| 1960 | Kenyatta, Jomo | |
| Kenyatta is elected KANU President in absentia |
| 1960 | Mboya, Thomas Joseph | |
| Helps found the Kenyan African National Union |
| London Joins Kenyatta as a delegate |
| 1961 | Kenyatta, Jomo | |
| 21st Aug Fully released |
| 1962 | Mboya, Thomas Joseph | |
| Appointed Minister of Labour |
| 1963 | Kenyatta, Jomo | |
| May KANU wins 83 seats out of 124 |
| 1st June Kenyatta is appointed Prime Minister of the autonomous Kenyan government, and is known as mzee (a Swahili word meaning old man or elder) |
| 12th Dec Retains the role of prime minister after independence was declared |
| 1963 | Mboya, Thomas Joseph | |
| Appointed Minister of Constitutional Affairs |
| Appointed Minister of Justice |
| 1963 | Moi, Daniel Toroitich arap | |
| Kenyatta convinces Moi that KADU and KANU should be merged to complete the process of decolonisation, Kenya becomes a de facto single-party state, dominated by the Kikuyu-Luo alliance |
| 1964 | Kenyatta, Jomo | |
| Asks for British troops' help against Somali rebels Shiftas in the northeast and an army mutiny in Nairobi |
| 1st June Appointed President on the inauguration of the Republic of Kenya |
| 10th Nov KADU's representatives join the ranks of KANU, forming a single party |
| 12th Dec Kenya becomes a republic, with Kenyatta as executive president |
| 1964 | Mboya, Thomas Joseph | |
| Appointed Minister of Economic Planning & Development |
| 1964 | Moi, Daniel Toroitich arap | |
| Appointeed Minister for Home Affairs |
| 1966 | Kenyatta, Jomo | |
| Changes the constitution to gain extended powers |
| Kenyatta is re-elected |
| 1967 | Moi, Daniel Toroitich arap | |
| Appointed Vice President of Kenya |
| 1969 | Mboya, Thomas Joseph | |
| 5th July Nairobi Assassinated by a member of the Kikuyu |
| 5th July Nairobi Death of Thomas Joseph Mboya, assassinated |
| 1974 | Kenyatta, Jomo | |
| Re-elected in elections that are neither free nor fair, in which he runs alone |
| 1978 | Kenyatta, Jomo | |
| 22nd Aug Mombasa Death of Jomo Kenyatta |
