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1498 The Portuguese sail up to the coasts of modern Tanzania and Kenya.
1901 The final spike is driven to complete the Mombasa-Victoria-Uganda Railway in what is now Kisumu, Kenya.
1952 Martial law in Kenya due to Mau Mau uprising.
1952 Jomo Kenyatta is arrested in Kenya for alleged connection to Mau Mau uprising
1954 Mau Mau leader Waruhiu Itote is captured in Kenya
1959 Mau Mau leader Dedan Kimathi is arrested in Nyeri, Kenya.
1960 The state of emergency is lifted in Kenya — the Mau Mau Rebellion is officially over.
1960 May 14 — The Kenyan African National Congress Party is founded in Kenya, when 3 political parties join forces.
1961 Jomo Kenyatta is released from prison in Kenya.
1963 Kenya becomes independent, with Jomo Kenyatta as prime minister.
1967 Louis Leakey announces that he has found prehuman fossils from Kenya - he names the species Kenyapitchecus africanus.
1969 Tom Mboya, Kenyan Minister of Development, is assassinated.
1978 Daniel arap Moi becomes president of Kenya.
1984 A peace agreement between Kenya and Somalia was signed in the Egyptian capital Cairo in December 1984. With this agreement, in which Somalia officially renounced its historical territorial claims, relations between the two countries began to improve.
1998 1998 United States embassy bombings: The bombings of the United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya kill 224 people and injure over 4,500; they are linked to Osama Bin Laden.
1998 1998 U.S. embassy bombings: The United States military launches cruise missile attacks against alleged Al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan and a suspected chemical plant in Sudan in retaliation for the August 7 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. The al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Khartoum is destroyed in the attack.
1998 A court in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan declares accused terrorist Osama bin Laden "a man without a sin" in regard to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.
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