ivory coast
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The cluster includes all the forms of the country.
The cluster includes the following incarnations of the same nation:
French Ivory Coast
Republic of Ivory Coast
Republic of Côte d'Ivoire
Establishment
February 1842: In 1842, the Protectorate Treaty of Grand-Bassam was signed.
Chronology
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Were a series of conflicts from 1883 to 1898 between France and the Wassoulou Empire.
1.1.Second Mandingo War
Was a war between France and the Wassoulou Empire.
January 1896: Samory defeated the French, putting a temporary end to the protectorate over the Ivory Coast.
Was a political crisis caused by the disputed results of the Ivorian election of 2010.
February 2011: The New Forces captured the towns of Zouan Hounien and Binhouye near the border with Liberia.
March 2011: Rebels conquer the city of Toulepleu.
March 2011: The town of Doké fell to rebels on 12 March.
March 2011: The New Forces pushed on towards Bloléquin which they took.
March 2011: The towns of Duékoué and Daloa in the west of the country were captured by the RFCI, as were Bondoukou and Abengourou near the border with Ghana in the east.
March 2011: Ivory Coast's political capital Yamoussoukro and the western town of Soubré were taken without resistance.
March 2011: The FRCI rebels captured Gagnoa, the birthplace of Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo.
March 2011: The Forces républicaines de Côte d'Ivoire entered the capital Yamoussoukro and Abengourou and Bouaflé.
March 2011: The port city of San Pédro, the world's largest cocoa exporting port, fell to the RFCI in the early hours of 31 March.
March 2011: Sassandra conquered by Rebels (Second Ivorian Civil War).
May 2011: The Republican Forces of Côte d'Ivoire finally take control of the vast commune of Yopougon.
May 2011: Alassane Ouattara is proclaimed President of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire by the Constitutional Council on May 6, ending the Second Ivorian Civil War.
January 1858: In 1857, French explorer Louis-Gustave Binger oversaw the construction of Fort Dabou in the Ivory Coast. The fort was strategically located to establish French control over the region and facilitate trade with local tribes.
January 1884: From 1883 the French started occupying territories in modern-day Côte d'Ivoire.
January 1891: By 1893, when the colony of French Ivory Coast was founded, the interior is presumed to be aleady occupied.
January 1892: Thanks to the influence of the USA at the Berlin Congress of 1885, Liberian independence was preserved. However, the price was high: around 30 percent of the previous national territory was now annexed by France in two stages. The first cession took place in 1891.
January 1893: At the Berlin Congress of 1885 it was decided that around 30 percent of the Liberian national territory was to be annexed by France in two stages. The second cession took place in 1892.
March 1893: The French Ivory Coast is officially established as a French colony on 10 March 1893 and its borders are defined.
January 1896: In 1895 Boubacar Sori, Emir of Liptako, signed a French protectorate treaty with Captain Georges Destenave.
September 1896: French occupation of Wogodogo.
January 1897: Gurunsi was occupied by France.
January 1897: Koma was passed to France according to berlin conference borders.
January 1897: The part of the Mossi Kingdom in actual Burkina Faso is administered by the French Ivory Coast.
January 1898: End of French occupation of Gurunsi.
September 1898: Territories conquered during a campaign that lasted until 1898 against Samory Touré, a Malinke warrior chief from present-day Guinea.
January 1899: French military expedition to Sikasso.
January 1899: End of the Kong Empire.
January 1900: Gurunsi was occupied by France during the colonial partition of Africa.
January 1914: Part of French Sudan administered by the French Ivory Coast.
March 1919: In 1919, certain provinces from Upper Senegal and Niger were united into a separate colony called the Upper Volta in the French West Africa federation.
September 1932: The Upper Volta Colony was dissolved and divided between the colonies of Ivory Coast, French Sudan and Niger.
September 1947: The Mossi renewed their pressure for separate territorial status and on 4 September 1947. Upper Volta became a French West African territory again in its own right.
January 1960: In 1959 the Kingdom of Sanwi was merged with Ivory Coast.
August 1960: The Ivory Coast achieved independence in 1960.
May 1986: In April 1986, the government declared that République de Côte d'Ivoire would be its formal name for the purposes of diplomatic protocol, and since then officially refuses to recognize or accept any translation from French to another language in its international dealings.
