liberia
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The cluster includes all the forms of the country.
The cluster includes the following incarnations of the same nation:
Liberia (USA)
Commonwealth of Liberia (USA)
Republic of Liberia
LURD
MODEL
Establishment
January 1822: In December 1821, Liberia acquired Cape Mesurado, a 58-km-long strip of land near present-day Monrovia, from the indigenous ruler King Peter.
Chronology
Interactive Chronologies with maps are available in the section Changes Navigation
Were two related civil wars in Liberia.
1.1.Second Liberian Civil War
The second Liberian civil war began in 1999 when an armed group called Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD) invaded the northern part of Liberia with the support of the neighboring Guinean government.
April 1999: The Second Liberian Civil War began when a rebel group backed by the government of neighbouring Guinea, the Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD), emerged in northern Liberia.
April 2003: In early 2003, a new rebel group, the Movement for Democracy in Liberia (MODEL), emerged in the south of Liberia.
July 2003: Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD) besiege the Liberian capital, Monrovia.
August 2003: By June-July 2003, the forces of Liberian president Charles Taylor controlled only a third of the country.
August 2003: The Accra Comprehensive Peace Agreement was signed by the warring parties marking the political end of the Second Liberian Civil War.
January 1839: The colony of Liberia became Commonwealth of Liberia in 1838.
April 1839: The colony of New Georgia, founded by the American Colonization Society, was united with Liberia on April 1, 1839.
April 1839: On April 1, 1839, Bassa Cove was incorporated into the Commonwealth of Liberia.
January 1840: Mississippi in Africa joined the Commonwealth of Liberia.
January 1843: Kentucky in Africa was annexed by Liberia about 1842.
July 1847: Liberia's Declaration of Independence was drafted by Hilary Teague, a member of the American Colonization Society from the United States, and was ratified on July 16, 1847.
March 1857: Maryland in Liberia was a colony founded by free African Americans. In 1857, it was annexed by the Republic of Liberia, a country established by freed American slaves.
January 1875: Between 1858 and 1874 several research trips by Liberian authorities in the interior of the country took place.
January 1883: The western coastal area bordering Sierra Leone between the Mano River and the Sherbo River was annexed by a violent act in 1882 from the British colony of Sierra Leone.
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.
August 1896: The boundaries of Sierra Leone were demarcated with French Guinea and Liberia.
Selected Sources
James Fairhead, Tim Geysbeek, Svend E. Holsoe, Melissa Leach: African-American exploration in West Africa: four nineteenth-century diaries. Indiana University Press, Bloomington (IN) 2003, ISBN 0-253-21450-5, Introduction, S. 493.
