Sub-Saharan Africa
Explore Sub-Saharan Africa on Ever-When, an interactive timeline of history from the Big Bang to the present day.
Key events on this timeline
- Berlin Conference / Scramble for Africa (1884)
- Mali Empire (1235)
- Atlantic slave trade (1500)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- End of apartheid (1990)
- Mali Empire begins (1235)
- Mansa Musa's pilgrimage to Mecca (1324)
- Mansa Musa (1280)
- Ghana Empire (700)
- Nelson Mandela (1918)
- Mandela released from prison (1990)
- South Africa's first multi-racial elections (1994)
- Great Zimbabwe flourishes (1100)
- Songhai Empire (1464)
- Kingdom of Aksum (100)
- Rwandan genocide (1994)
- Menelik II of Ethiopia (1844)
- Decolonisation of Africa begins (1957)
- Apartheid laws codified (1950)
- Zulu Kingdom under Shaka (1816)
- Mali Empire ends (1670)
- Battle of Adwa (1896)
- Year of Africa (1960)
- Ghana Empire begins (700)
- Great Zimbabwe begins (1100)
- Songhai Empire begins (1464)
- Emergence of Homo sapiens (300000 BCE)
- Shaka Zulu (1787)
- Timbuktu as centre of Islamic learning (1100)