Gã

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Was a precolonial polity of Ghana.

Establishment

January 1511: In 1510, the Gã (or Nkran) state was founded in present-day Ghana.

Chronology

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1. Events

January 1551: The area of Osu (Ghana) was first occupied in 1550 by the Portuguese, led by Fernão Lopes. They established Fort Christiansborg (today: Osu) as a trading post on the Gold Coast. The Portuguese were later driven out by the Dutch in 1650.

January 1558: In 1557, the territory of Accra was under Portuguese control as part of the Portuguese Gold Coast.

January 1579: Accra remained under Portuguese rule until 1578.

January 1613: Jacob Clantius, who was to become the first General on the Coast, was sent to the Gold Coast in 1611. In 1612, after gaining permission of the local rulers through the Treaty of Asebu, he built Fort Nassau near Moree, on the site of an original Dutch trading post that had been burned down by the Portuguese.

January 1701: Akuapem state established.