Kingdom of Koya

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Was a pre-colonial African state or group of chiefdeoms of the Koya people in the north of present-day Sierra Leone. Despites being sometimes considered the same as the Temne Kingdom, we consider the Temne Kingdom an additional polity of the Koya people located in present-day Liberia.

Establishment

January 1451: The Kingdom of Koya was founded by the Temne, who primarily traded with the Portuguese further south.

Chronology

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1. Temne War

From 1801 to 1807, The Kingdom of Koya (or the Temne Kingdom) fought a war with British colonists and the Susu. Koya lost the northern shoreline of Sierra Leone to the British and Port Loko to the Susu.

January 1808: Koya was a powerful ruler of the Temne people in Sierra Leone. He led a resistance against British colonists and the Susu people from 1801 to 1807. As a result of the war, Koya lost control of the northern shoreline of Sierra Leone to the British and Port Loko to the Susu.

2. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)

January 1790: King Tom was the ruler of the Kingdom of Koya, while King Jemmy was his successor. Granville Town was a British colony located in present-day Sierra Leone. The attack and burning of the colony in 1789 by King Jemmy marked a significant event in the history of the region.

January 1793: A new colony was built in Sierra Leona and became known as Freetown. In 1792 some 1,200 Nova Scotian Settlers, freed slaves from Nova Scotia, and in 1800 another 551 from the Colony of Jamaica came to the new settlement.

January 1808: In 1807, British abolitionist Thomas Clarkson and Royal Navy officer Fowell Buxton successfully lobbied for the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade. As a result, Sierra Leone became a Crown Colony in 1808 under British control.

August 1896: On August 31, 1896, the kingdom of Koya became a British protectorate.