Desmond Tutu
1931–2021 · Person
South African archbishop and anti-apartheid leader; chaired the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
On these timelines: Sub-Saharan Africa, People, Master
More from Sub-Saharan Africa
- Mali Empire (1235)
- Mali Empire begins (1235)
- Mansa Musa's pilgrimage to Mecca (1324)
- Ghana Empire (700)
- Great Zimbabwe flourishes (1100)
- Songhai Empire (1464)
- Kingdom of Aksum (100)
- Reign of Menelik II (1889)
Around 1931
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Great Depression (1929)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- World War II (1939)
- Spanish Civil War (1936)
- The Holocaust (1941)
- Presidency of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1923)
- Winston Churchill's first premiership (1940)
- Founding of the Soviet Union (1922)
- Hitler's rule of Germany (1933)