Portal:Military history of Africa/Selected anniversaries/January
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1 January
- 1916 - German troops abandon Yaoundé and their Kamerun colony to British forces and begin the long march to Spanish Guinea.
- 1956 - The Republic of the Sudan achieves independence from the Egyptian Republic.
- 1960 - The Republic of Cameroon achieves independence from France.
- 1964 - The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is divided into the independent republics of Zambia and Malawi, and the British-controlled Rhodesia.
- 1966 - After a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa assumes power as president of the Central African Republic.
2 January
- 1492 - Reconquista: Granada, the last Moorish stronghold in Spain, surrenders.
- 2002 - Levy Mwanawasa takes office as the third President of Zambia.
3 January
- 1848 - Joseph Jenkins Roberts is sworn in as the first president of the independent African Republic of Liberia.
4 January
- 1998 - Wilaya of Relizane massacres in Algeria; over 170 are killed in three remote villages.
5 January
- No military event recorded.
6 January
- 1887 - `Abd-allah II of Harar opens the Battle of Chelenqo with an attack on the camp of the Shewan army of Negus Menelik II.
- 1900 - Boers attack Ladysmith, South Africa - over 1,000 people killed.
7 January
- No military event recorded.
8 January
- 1806 - Cape Colony becomes a British colony.
- 1961 - In France, a referendum supports Charles de Gaulle's policies in Algeria.
9 January
- No military event recorded.
10 January
- 1806 - Dutch settlers in Cape Town surrender to the British.
- 1989 - Cuban troops begin withdrawing from Angola.
11 January
- 1879 - Anglo-Zulu War begins.
- 1957 - The African Convention is founded in Dakar.
- 1998 - Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algeria; over 100 people killed.
12 January
- 1964 - Rebels in Zanzibar begin a revolt known as the Zanzibar Revolution and proclaimed a republic.
- 1970 - Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian civil war.
- 2006 - The French warship Clemenceau reaches Egypt and is barred access to the Suez Canal. Greenpeace activists board the ship.
13 January
- 1958 - Moroccan Liberation Army ambushes Spanish patrol in the Battle of Edchera.
14 January
- 1943 - World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill begin Casablanca Conference to discuss strategy and study the next phase of the war.
15 January
- 1966 - First Military Coup in Nigeria, government of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa is overthrown.
- 1970 - After a 32-month fight for independence from Nigeria, Biafra surrenders.
- 1970 - Muammar al-Qaddafi is proclaimed premier of Libya.
- 1975 - Portugal grants independence to Angola.
16 January
- 1956 - President Gamal Abdal Nasser of Egypt vows to reconquer Palestine.
- 2001 - Congolese President Laurent-Désiré Kabila is assassinated by one of his own bodyguards.
- 2006 - Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia's new president. She becomes Africa's first female elected head of state.
17 January
- 1852 - United Kingdom recognizes the independence of the Boer colonies of the Transvaal.
- 1885 - A British force defeats a large Dervish army at the Battle of Abu Klea in the Sudan.
18 January
- 1974 - A Disengagement of Forces agreement is signed between the Israeli and Egyptian governments, ending conflict on the Egyptian front of the Yom Kippur War.
- 1997 - In north west Rwanda, Hutu militia members kill 3 Spanish aid workers, 3 soldiers and seriously wound one other.
19 January
- 1899 - Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed.
- 1941 - World War II: British troops attack Italian-held Eritrea.
20 January
- 1960 - Hendrik Verwoerd announced a plebiscite on whether South Africa should become a Republic.
- 1991 - Sudan's government imposes Islamic law nationwide, worsening the civil war between the country's Muslim north and Christian south.
21 January
- 1941 - World War II: Australian and British forces attack Tobruk, Libya.
22 January
- 1824 - Ashantis defeat British forces in the Gold Coast.
- 1879 - Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Isandlwana - Zulu troops defeat British troops.
- 1879 - Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Rorke's Drift - 139 British soldiers successfully defended their garrison against an intense assault by four to five thousand Zulu warriors.
- 1941 - World War II: The United Kingdom captures Tobruk from Nazi forces.
- 1957 - Israel withdraws from the Sinai Peninsula.
- 1992 - Rebel forces occupy Zaire's national radio station in Kinshasa and broadcast a demand for the government's resignation.
23 January
24 January
- 1887 - Battle of Dogali: Abyssinian troops defeat Italians.
- 1943 - World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill conclude a conference in Casablanca.
25 January
- 1971 - Idi Amin leads a coup deposing Milton Obote and becomes Uganda's president.
- 1986 - The National Resistance Movement topple the government of Tito Okello in Uganda.
26 January
- 1980 - Israel and Egypt establish diplomatic relations.
- 1991 - Mohamed Siad Barre is removed in Somalia, ending centralized government.
27 January
- 1941 - World War II: Fighting at Derna, Libya, begins. Following the capture of Tobruk, two brigades of the 6th Australian Division under Major General Iven Mackay pursue the Italians westwards and encounters an Italian rear guard at Derna.
- 1996 - Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara deposes the first democratically elected president of Niger, Mahamane Ousmane, in a military coup.
- 2002 - Several explosions at a military dump in Lagos, Nigeria kill more than 1,000.
28 January
- No military event recorded.
29 January
- 1986 - Yoweri Museveni is sworn in as President of Uganda.
30 January
- 1900 - United Kingdom forces fighting Boers in South Africa ask for reinforcements.
