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29th November 1781: The Zong Massacre sees 132 Africans thrown overboard by the crew of a slave ship in an attempt to cash in their insurance policy

  • 29th November 2022
  • Tagged as: Abolition, Africa, Britain, Civil Rights, Jamaica, Netherlands, Ship, Slavery

The ship’s insurers refused to pay out for the deaths of the slaves and the ensuing court cases found that the killing of slaves was legal in some situations.

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21st July 1970: Construction of the Aswan High Dam completed in Egypt

  • 21st July 2022
  • Tagged as: Africa, Aswan, Construction, Dam, Egypt, Nile, River Nile, Water

Construction of the Aswan High Dam took just over ten years and cost nearly $1 billion.

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9th March 1841: US Supreme court rules on the Amistad slavery case and sets the captured Africans free

  • 9th March 2022
  • Tagged as: Africa, America, Cuba, Law, Legal, Racism, Slavery, Supreme Court, United States

The long case eventually went before the Supreme Court who ruled that they had been unlawfully held and thus rebelled in a natural right to self-defense. The court set them free.

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12th December 1963: Kenya gains independence from the United Kingdom

  • 12th December 2021
  • Tagged as: Africa, Britain, British Empire, Commonwealth, Imperialism, Independence, Kenya, Mau Mau, United Kingdom

Kenya had been under British rule since the 19th Century, and since becoming a colony in 1920 African demands for a greater role in politics had grown.

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10th November 1871: Henry Morton Stanley locates Dr David Livingstone in Africa

  • 10th November 2021
  • Tagged as: Africa, Britain, Dr Livingstone, Exploration, Henry Morton Stanley, Livingstone, Nile, Queen Victoria, Scotland, Slavery, Zambezi

Henry Morton Stanley, a Welsh-American journalist and explorer, allegedly greeted the missing Scottish missionary David Livingstone with the phrase, “Dr Livingston, I presume?”

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27th July 1942: Allies halt Axis in First Battle of El Alamein

  • 27th July 2021
  • Tagged as: Africa, Britain, Egypt, Germany, India, Italy, Middle East, Nazi, Second World War, Tanks, War
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On the 27th July 1942, Allied forces in North Africa stopped the advancing Axis powers in the First Battle of El Alamein.

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