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| 1925 | Lumumba, Patrice mery |  |
| 2nd July Birth of Patrice mery Lumumba |
| 1958 | Lumumba, Patrice mery | |
| A pro-independence nationalist group that emerges in the colonized Belgian Congo |
| Onalua Founds & the 1st nationwide Congolese political party, Mouvement National Congolais |
| Dec Accra Lumumba and his team represent the MNC at the All-African People's Conference in Accra, Ghana |
| Dec Accra President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana & Lumumba further solidify his Pan-African beliefs |
| 1959 | Lumumba, Patrice mery | |
| Stanleyville Lumumba as leader of the MNC is arrested for allegedly inciting an anti-colonial riot in Stanleyville where thirty people were killed, for which he was sentenced to six months in prison |
| 1960 | Kalonji, Albert | |
| A number of MNC members led by Albert Kalonji break off the form their own more moderate branch of the MNC known as the Mouvement National Congolais-Kalonji, believing Lumbumba and his followers to be too leftist |
| Internal splits in the MNC occur between left-leaning (the United States believed him to get aid from the Soviet Union and being its puppet) future Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba and a number of MNC members led by Albert Kalonji |
| 1960 | Lumumba, Patrice mery | |
| After the country is granted independence by Belgium and holds its first parliamentary elections chaotic fighting almost immediately breaks out, with the MNC being one of the groups vying for power |
| Internal splits in the MNC occur between left-leaning (the United States believed him to get aid from the Soviet Union and being its puppet) future Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba and a number of MNC members led by Albert Kalonji |
| Jan Despite Lumumba's imprisonment at the time, the MNC win a convincing majority in the local elections in the Congo |
| 18th Jan Not coincidentally, the trial's start date is also the first day of a round-table conference in Brussels to finalize the future of the Congo |
| 27th Jan Brussels conference culminates on January 27th with the declaration of Congolese independence and the establishment of June 30, 1960, as the independence date with national elections from May 11-25, 1960 |
| 31st May it is confirmed that Lumumba and the MNC had won electoral victory and the right to form a government |
| 23rd June Lumumba and the MNC form the first government with Lumumba as Congo's first Prime Minister and Joseph Kasa-Vubu as its President |
