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History of Tanzania. The modern-day African Great Lakes state of Tanzania dates formally from 1964, when it was formed out of the union of the much larger mainland territory of Tanganyika and the coastal archipelago of Zanzibar. The former was a colony and part of German East Africa from the 1880s to 1919 when, under the League of Nations, it ...
Tanganyika ( / ˌtæŋɡənˈjiːkə /) was a sovereign state, comprising the mainland part of present-day Tanzania, that existed from 1961 until 1964. It first gained independence from the United Kingdom on 9 December 1961 as a Commonwealth realm [1] headed by Queen Elizabeth II before becoming a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations a ...
This is a timeline of Tanzanian history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Tanzania and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Tanzania. See also the list of presidents of Tanzania. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing ...
The Uganda–Tanzania War, known in Tanzania as the Kagera War ( Kiswahili: Vita vya Kagera) and in Uganda as the 1979 Liberation War, [a] was fought between Uganda and Tanzania from October 1978 until June 1979 and led to the overthrow of Ugandan President Idi Amin. The war was preceded by a deterioration of relations between Uganda and ...
On 16 January 1972, the Tanganyikan African National Union (TANU), the ruling party, decided to end the rivalry between the papers and forced a merger. The new paper, Daily News was first published on 26 April 1972. The company which publishes the newspaper retained the name "Standard" and is still known as Tanzania Standard (Newspapers) Limited.
The United Kingdom made a number of plans to intervene in response to the Zanzibar Revolution.The operational constraints of sending troops over such long distances, the reluctance of the Kenyan government to weaken the British presence in their country, the reduction of Western presence in Zanzibar, and the strengthening of the political situation in Tanzania made intervention unlikely, and ...
Referendum. A referendum on the new constitution was scheduled to take place on 30 April 2015. In late March, Jakaya Kikwete, the president of Tanzania, warned that the lead-up to the referendum was seeing increased tensions between Muslims and Christians that could lead to an increase in violence between followers of the two religions. [5]
t. e. The Tanzania National Archives (est. 1962) is the national archives of Tanzania. [1] The headquarters are located in Dar es Salaam on Vijibweni Street in Upanga. Leaders have included J. R. Ede (circa 1960s). [1]