Timeline of Sudanese history

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This is a timeline of Sudanese history. To read about the background to these events, see History of Sudan.

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[edit] 19th century

See also History of Sudan (1884-1898)

1881–1899 - Beginning of the Mahdist War against the United Kingdom and Egypt.

[edit] 20th century

See also History of the Anglo-Egyptian co-dominium, History of Sudan (Independent Sudan), History of Sudan (Nimeiri Era, 1969-1985)

1899–1955 - Sudan ruled by the Anglo-Egyptian condominium.
1955 - First Sudanese Civil War begins.
1 January 1956 - Sudan achieves independence.
1958 - General Ibrahim Abboud stages a military coup against the elected government.
1962 - Civil war spreads to Southern Sudan led by the Anyanya separatist movement.
October 1964 - October Revolution overthrows Abboud's regime.
May 1969 - Gaafar Nimeiry leads a military coup.
1971 - Attempted Communist coup against Nimeiry fails and the leaders executed.
1972 - the Addis Ababa Agreement between the Sudanese government and the Anyanya creates a self-governing region in the south of the country.
1978 - Oil discovered in Bentiu.
1983
- Second Sudanese Civil War begins between government forces and the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) led by John Garang.
- President Nimeiry introduces Sharia law.
1985 - Nimeiry deposed and the Transitional Military Council is set up.
1986 - Sadiq al-Mahdi becomes Prime Minister in a coalition government following elections.
1988 - The Democratic Unionist Party drafts a cease-fire with the SPLA but is is not implemented.
1989
- government overthrown by a coup.
- 30 June - Omar al-Bashir assumes the office of president.
16 October 1993 - Omar al-Bashir appointed president.
1995 - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak blames Sudan for an attempted assassination.
20 August 1998 - The Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory destroyed by United States cruise missiles.
1999
- a state of emergency declared by President Bashir following a power struggle with Hassan al-Turabi.
- Oil exports from Sudan begin.
2000
- September
  - the Governor of Khartoum bans women working in public places.
  - President Bashir meets the leaders of the National Democratic Alliance for the first time.
- December - Bashir re-elected for a five year term as president.

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[edit] 21st century

2001
- February - Hassan al-Turabi arrested after his party signs a memorandum with the SPLA.
- March - United Nations World Food Programme struggles to feed the millions facing starvation.
- April - SPLA threatens to attack foreign oil workers.
- June - peace talks in Nairobi break down.
- July - Egypt and Libya propose a peace plan for Sudan.
- September - UN lifts sanctions against Sudan.
- October - Senator John Danforth appointed U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan.
- November - United States imposes sanctions on Sudan.
2002
- January - ceasefire agreed between the government and the SPLA.
- 20 July - the Machakos Protocol ends the 19-year civil war.
2003
- February - beginning of the Darfur conflict.
2004
- January - Army moves into Darfur to quell the rebellion; hundreds of thousands of refugees flee into neighbouring Chad.
- March - a UN official accuses pro-government Janjaweed militias of carrying out systematic killings in Darfur.
- September - US Secretary of State Colin Powell describes the Darfur killings as genocide.
2005
- 9 January - Comprehensive Peace Agreement between the SPLA and the government.
- March - UN Security Council authorises sanctions against those who violate the Darfur ceasefire.
- June - Hassan al-Turabi freed
- 9 July - John Garang sworn in as vice-president.
- 1 August - Garang killed in a plane crash; he is succeeded by Salva Kiir Mayardit.
- September - a power-sharing government is established.
- October - autonomous government formed in Southern Sudan.
2006
- May - Government signs a peace accord with the Darfur rebel group, the Sudan Liberation Movement.
- October - Jan Pronk, head of the United Nations Mission in Sudan, expelled from the country.
- November - African Union peacekeepers stay in Darfur for a further six months.
2007
- May - US President George W Bush places fresh sanctions on Sudan.
- 31 July - United Nations Security Council Resolution 1769 authorises 26,000 peacekeepers for Darfur.
- August–September - 2007 Sudan floods
- November - Sudanese teddy bear blasphemy case: a British teacher is imprisoned for naming a teddy bear Muhammad.