631 Founding of Cyrene, a Greek colony in Libya (North Africa) (approximate date).
21 Beginning of the revolt in Africa led by Tacfarinas.
24 Repression of Tacfarinas' revolt in Africa.
43 In Eastern Orthodox Christianity and Coptic Christianity, Mark the Evangelist becomes the first Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria, thus establishing Christian Church in Africa.
50 Diogenes, the Greek explorer, discovers the Great Lakes of Africa.
60 Vitellius is (possibly) proconsul of Africa.
63 Vespasian becomes governor of Africa
65 The first Christian community in Africa is founded by Mark, a disciple of Peter. Mark begins to write his gospel.
150 The Roman army consists of 400,000 men. Of these, there are ten legions (55,000 men) and 140 auxiliary units (80,000 men, of which half are cavalry) based in the Balkans and along the Danube; 50,000 legionaires and auxiliaries in Britain; 45,000 in Germany; 20,000 men in Egypt; and 10,000 in Africa and Numidia.
188 Pertinax becomes consul of Africa.
230 Seventy Bishops hold the Council of the Christian Church of Africa.
372 Valentinian crushes the Moors in Africa.
373 Quintus Aurelius Symmachus becomes proconsul of Africa.
375 In Africa, the dissident berber prince Firmus is delivered to the Romans by his brother Gildon.
394 ouncil of Baga
395 Saint Augustine becomes Bishop of Hippo. His assignment is the reunification of the Church in Africa, primarily focusing on the Donatist movement led by Primianus.
900 Merchants from southwest Asia and India settle on the east-African coast, trading gold, beads and metal for ivory and slaves.
909 Aghlabid dynasty in North Africa overthrown by the Fatimids
920 The golden age of the Empire of Ghana began in Africa.
1200 The Kanem-Bornu Empire was established in northern Africa around the year 1200
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1480 Treaty of Toledo - Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain recognize African conquests of Afonso of Portugal and he cedes the Canary Islands to Spain
1488 Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal lands in Mossel Bay after rounding the Cape of Good Hope, at the tip of Africa becoming the first known European to travel this far south.
1490 Catholic missionaries arrive in the African kingdom of Kongo.
1498 Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama visits Quelimane and o
1841 The Supreme Court of the United States rules in the ''Amistad'' case that the Africans who seized control of the ship had been taken into slavery illegally.
1884 The Berlin Conference which regulated European colonisation and trade in Africa begins (ends February 26, 1885).
1885 Final Act of the Berlin Conference regulates European colonisation and trade in Africa.
1909 Theodore Roosevelt leaves New York for a post-presidency safari in Africa. The trip was sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society.
1984 The African republic Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso.
1995 The Ebola virus kills 244 Africans in Kikwit, Zaire in Central Africa.
1996 The ''MV Bukoba'' sinks in Tanzanian waters in Lake Victoria, killing nearly 1,000 in one of Africa's worst maritime disasters.
2002 The Igandu train disaster in Dodoma Region, Tanzania, kills 281 people in the worst rail accident in African history.
2003 A lunar eclipse is seen in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Central Asia.