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The cluster includes all the forms of the country.
The cluster includes the following incarnations of the same nation:
Imperial British East Africa Company
East Africa Protectorate
Colony and Protectorate of Kenya
Dominion of Kenya
Republic of Kenya
Establishment
May 1887: The Mombasa Sultanate is acquired by the Imperial British East Africa Company.
Chronology
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1.1.World War I African Theatre
Was the African Theatre of World War I.
1.1.1.East African campaign
Was a series of battles and guerrilla actions during World War I, which started in German East Africa (GEA) and spread to portions of Mozambique, Rhodesia, British East Africa, Uganda, and Belgian Congo.
1.1.1.1.Fall of Taveta
Was the conquest of Taveta (Kenya) by German forces during World War I.
August 1914: Taveta, a town on the British side of Kilimanjaro, was captured by two companies of Askari (German colonial troops) from German East Africa.
1.1.1.2.British Offensive (East African campaign)
Was the British offensive against German forces in the East Africa Campaign of World War I.
March 1916: British conquest of Taveta.
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2.1.World War II (East African Theatre)
Was the East African theatre of World War II.
2.1.1.Italian Invasion of Kenya
Was the Italian invasion of British East Africa (Kenya) during World War II.
July 1940: The Italians carried out a larger attack by about four battalions on 10 July, after a considerable artillery bombardment and after three days the British withdrew unopposed. The Italians eventually advanced to water holes at Dabel and Buna, nearly 100 km inside Kenya but lack of supplies prevented a further advance.
March 1941: Dabel and Buna remained under Italian control until liberated in February 1941.
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3.1.Operation Linda Nchi
Was a military campaign by Kenyan forces in territories controlled by Al-Shabaab, a Salafi-jihadist military and political organisation, In Somalia.
October 2011: Kenyan forces capture of Qoqani, Kolbio, Fafadun, Elade, Hosingo and Badhadhe.
November 2011: Kenyan forces capture of Qoqani, Kolbio, Fafadun, Elade, Hosingo and Badhadhe.
January 2012: Kenyan forces capture of Qoqani, Kolbio, Fafadun, Elade, Hosingo and Badhadhe.
February 2012: Kenyan forces capture of Qoqani, Kolbio, Fafadun, Elade, Hosingo and Badhadhe.
April 1888: Formation of the British East Africa Association which led to the Imperial British East Africa Company being chartered in 1888 and given the original grant to administer the dependency. It administered about 240 kilometres of coastline stretching from the River Jubba via Mombasa to German East Africa which were leased from the Sultan.
January 1889: Nandi was included in British East Africa.
January 1889: Kenya was included in British East Africa.
August 1890: In July 1890 an agreement was settled whereby the entire region north of Lake Victoria was given to Great Britain.
January 1892: In 1891, Mwanga concluded a treaty with Lugard whereby the Kingdom of Buganda would place his land and tributary states under the protection of the Imperial British East Africa Company.
June 1894: In 1894, the British government declared that all occupied territories in Uganda would become a Protectorate of Uganda under British protection. This decision was made under the leadership of British colonial administrator Sir Gerald Portal and Commissioner Ernest Berkeley.
July 1895: The Imperial British East Africa Company began to fail, and the British government proclaimed a protectorate.
January 1901: Uganda was made into a British protectorate at the end of the 19th century. Prior to this, the region was divided between several closely related kingdoms.
January 1901: Jubaland annexed to East Africa Protectorate.
January 1903: In 1902, the boundaries of the British Protectorate of Uganda were extended to include what was previously the Eastern Province of Uganda.
January 1903: In 1902, the British East Africa Syndicate received a grant of 1,300 square kilometres to promote white settlement in the Highlands. Around this time the British were in control of the interior of modern-day Kenya.
January 1906: From 1905 Witu was administered as a part of Tana District of the British East Africa Protectorate.
June 1920: The Colony and Protectorate of Kenya was established on 11 June 1920 when the territories of the former East Africa Protectorate (except those parts of that Protectorate over which His Majesty the Sultan of Zanzibar had sovereignty) were annexed by the UK.
January 1925: The Kingdom of Italy at the 1919 Paris "Conference of Peace" received nothing from German colonies, but as a compensation Great Britain gave it the Oltre Giuba. Italian Trans-Juba was established in 1924, after Britain ceded the northern portion of the Jubaland region to Italy.
January 1927: The Eastern Province of Uganda is annexed to Kenya.
December 1963: Kenya became an independent country under the Kenya Independence Act.
December 1964: The Republic of Kenya came into existence.
Selected Sources
Briggs, P. / Roberts, A. (2016): Uganda - the Bradt Travel Guide, Chesham (UK), p. 14
The Great War in East Africa. Wikipedia. Retrieved on 21 April 2021 on https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:World_War_I_in_East_Africa.jpg
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