Kapenguria trial
1952–1953 · Event
On thin and partly perjured evidence, Kenyatta and five others are convicted of managing Mau Mau and sentenced to seven years' hard labour — making him the nationalist hero.
On these timelines: The Decolonisation of Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, British Empire, Master
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- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Ghanaian independence (1957)
- Congo Crisis / Assassination of Lumumba (1960)
- The Organisation of African Unity founded (1963)
- Wind of Change speech (1960)
- Portugal's African empire ends (1975)
- Lumumba's independence day speech (1960)
- Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence (1965)
Around 1952
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- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Korean War (1950)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)