Kingdom of Loango
If you are looking for the page with the statistics about this polity you can find it here:All Statistics
Was a precolonial kingdom in what are now the western part of the Republic of the Congo, Southern Gabon and Cabinda.
Establishment
January 1401: Around 1400, foundation in Boari of the first dynasty of Loango by conquest of neighboring principalities.
Chronology
Interactive Chronologies with maps are available in the section Changes Navigation
Was a war of succession between rival houses of the Kingdom of Kongo.
January 1662: Rival claimants for the throne of Kongo, by then the most powerful state in Central Africa, united behind the Kimpanzu. When King Garcia II came to power, the Kimpanzu were entrenched in the county of Soyo giving support to the remaining Nsundi and Kimpanzu partisans inside Kongo while claiming the title of Princes and later Grand Princes. By the end of Garcia's reign, Soyo was completely independent of Kongo.
July 1666: King Álvaro VII turned out to be a tyrant, hated by both political rivals and the common people. In an unprecedented move, Soyo marched on the capital and assisted the people in Álvaro VII's overthrow and murder.
August 1666: King Álvaro VII turned out to be a tyrant, hated by both political rivals and the common people. In an unprecedented move, Soyo marched on the capital and assisted the people in Álvaro VII's overthrow and murder.
February 1669: In 1669, King Pedro III, a Kinlaza partisan, took power in Mbanza-Congo. Soyo, a rival faction, intervened militarily and deposed Pedro III from the throne. This event marked a period of political instability in the region.
March 1669: King Pedro III was a Kinlaza partisan who became king of Kongo in January 1669. Soyo, a rival faction, sent a force to remove him from power, leading to political instability in Mbanza-Congo.
January 1519: Around 1518, the Manikongo Alphonse, the ruler of the Kingdom of Kongo, armed by Portugal, annexed the Kingdom of Loango to expand his empire's territory.
January 1566: Around 1565, Njembe led Loango to independence and founded the third dynasty.
January 1581: The Confederation of the Seven Kingdoms of Kongo dia Nlaza was absorbed into the Kingdom of Kongo in the 16th century. The kingdom is first mentioned among the titles of king Álvaro I of Kongo in the 1580s as the "Seven Kingdoms of Congo Riamulaza".
January 1601: The origins of the polity of Mbwila are unknown, and it is first mentioned only in the early seventeenth century.
January 1601: Independence of Acongo.
January 1618: In 1617, the territory of Benguela was officially incorporated into the Portuguese colony of Angola.
January 1621: The Kasanje Kingdom was formed in 1620 by a mercenary band of Imbangala, which had deserted the Portuguese ranks.
January 1631: When the Anziku tribes consolidated their unity, thus forming an independent kingdom, the kingdom of Kongo began to take control of those mines personally, a process that would end in the 1620s.
January 1873: The region between Zeuza and Dande, which was located in present-day Angola, was under Portuguese colonial rule from 1872.
September 1880: The French Congo, under the leadership of French explorer Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, established a protectorate over the Bateke people in the territories along the north bank of the Congo River on September 10, 1880.
November 1882: French authorities formally established the French Congo on 30 November 1882.
Disestablishment
January 1884: In 1883, Loango became a French protectorate.
