Sierra Leone (Great Britain)

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Was the British colonial administration in Sierra Leone. It was established when the British made an agreement with a Temne chief King called "Tom" to have land on the coast for the settlement of freed slaves. In 1787, the first naval vessel carrying 331 freed slaves and 60 Englishmen arrived on the coast.

Establishment

January 1788: The British made an agreement with a Temne chief King Tom to have land on the coast for the settlement of freed slaves. In 1787, a naval vessel carrying 331 freed slaves and 60 white Londoners, supposedly prostitutes, arrived on the coast. The settlement became known as Granville Town.

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.

January 1811: George Stephen Caulker given old Kagboro chiefdom by his father, Stephen Caulker of Plantin (Shenge chiefdom).

July 1820: The Banana (Plantain) Islands settlement is incorporated into the Sierra Leone colony.

January 1821: Bompey chiefdom under Caulker dynasty in south-central Sierra Leone, concentrated in the northwestern portion of Southern Province.

January 1829: Kentucky in Africa was a colony settled by freed African-American slaves in present-day Montserrado County, Liberia.

June 1859: Sherbo country, Ribbi, Bompeh annexed by British.

November 1859: Actual Bendu Chiefdom in Sierra Leone as well as Turtle Island in Sierra Leone conquered by great britain.

December 1881: In 1881, the territory of Shenge was incorporated into Sierra Leone under British rule. This decision was made by the colonial authorities in Sierra Leone, which was a British colony at the time.

December 1881: In 1881, Bompey was incorporated into Sierra Leone under British rule. This decision was made during the colonial period when Sierra Leone was under the control of the British Empire. The incorporation of Bompey into Sierra Leone was part of the British colonial administration's efforts to expand and consolidate their territorial holdings in the region.

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.

August 1896: The boundaries of Sierra Leone were demarcated with French Guinea and Liberia.

August 1896: The territory of Temne became a British protectorate.

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

October 1958: French Guinea became independent from France in 1958 after its voters rejected Charles de Gaulle's Constitution of 1958. This led to the territory joining the Republic of Guinea.

April 1961: Sierra Leone gained independence.