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