Kingdom of Burundi

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Was a precolonial Bantu Kingdom in the great lakes region of Central Africa. It was conquered by the Germans at the end of the XIX century and then by Belgium during World War I. It resurfaced when it gained independence from Belgium in 1962. It then became a Republic in 1966.

Establishment

January 1681: King Ntare I (reigned 1675-1705) expanded and annexed many of its neighbors.

Chronology

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1. Events

January 1861: Bugufi is occupied by Urundi (Burundi).

January 1884: From 1883 Arab slave and ivory trader Rumaliza was the leader of the Swahili community at Ujiji on Lake Tanganyika.

July 1890: In 1890, Burundi became part of the German colonial empire as part of German East Africa. By 1st july 1890 Germany controlled all of Tanganyka (the continental part of modern-day Tanzania), Burundi and Rwanda as with the Heligoland-Zanzibar Treaty the treaty with the East Africa Protectorate controlled by Britain was fixed.

July 1962: In 1962, the Kingdom of Burundi regained its independence as a constitutional monarchy.

November 1966: Mwambutsa's son, Ntare V, deposed his father in a July 1966 coup d'état, but was himself ousted from power in a November 1966 coup d'état by his Prime Minister, Michel Micombero, who abolished the monarchy.