Congo Crisis / Assassination of Lumumba
1960–1965 · Event
Post-independence chaos in Congo includes the murder of Patrice Lumumba and ends with Mobutu in power.
On these timelines: The Decolonisation of Africa, Master, Sub-Saharan Africa, The Low Countries
More from The Decolonisation of Africa
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Ghanaian independence (1957)
- The Organisation of African Unity founded (1963)
- Wind of Change speech (1960)
- Portugal's African empire ends (1975)
- Lumumba's independence day speech (1960)
- Tanganyika becomes independent (1961)
- Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence (1965)
Around 1960
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Prague Spring (1968)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- The Troubles (1968)
- Korean War (1950)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Six-Day War (1967)