ÿþ<html> <head> <title> WHKMLA : Timelines : Senegal </title> <META name="keywords" keyword=""> <!-- copyright Alexander Ganse, 2005-2007 --> </head> <body bgcolor="grey" text="black" link="blue" vlink="red" alink="brown"> <style> <!-- A{ font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-face: arial; } --> </style> <DIV align ="center"> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "../../index.html"> <img src = "../../whkmla2.jpg" border = "0"></a></TD></TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width = "150" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <font size = "2" face = "arial"><B> Senegal <BR> Index Page </b></font></TD> <TD width = "36" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "xsenegal.html"> <img src = "../../region/arrowleft.gif" width = "36" height = "36" border = "0"> </a></TD> <TD align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "xsenegal.html"> <img src = "../banners/bansenegal.jpg" border = "0"> </TD> <TD width = "36" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <img src = "../../region/arrowright.gif" width = "36" height = "36" border = "0"> </a></TD> <TD width = "100" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <font size = "2" face = "arial"><B> </b></font></TD></TR></TABLE> <font size = "3" face = "arial"><B><i>First posted on March 24th 2005, last revised on April 3rd 2005</i></b></font><BR><BR><BR><BR> <script language="JavaScript"> <!-- function SymError() { return true; } window.onerror = SymError; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-5834279270464755"; google_alternate_color = "FFFFE1"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 90; google_ad_format = "728x90_as"; google_ad_channel ="4814426207"; google_ad_type = "text"; //2007-02-17: MIT_ Ganse google_ad_channel = "0420158018"; google_color_border = "FF3300"; google_color_bg = "FFFFE1"; google_color_link = "0000CC"; google_color_url = "008000"; google_color_text = "6F6F6F"; //--></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> <BR><BR><BR> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "center" valign = "center" width = "900"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "5"><B> Timeline : Senegal </B></font> </TD></TR></TABLE> <BR><BR> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "110"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> 1080 <BR> 1445 <BR> 1617 <BR> 1638 <BR> 1677 <BR> 1697-1702 <BR> 1756 <BR> 1763 <BR> 1763 <BR> 1783 <BR> 1789 <BR><BR> 1800 <BR> 1815 <BR> 1816 <BR> 1818 <BR> 1836, 1838 <BR> 1848-1852 <BR> 1848 <BR> 1849 <BR> 1854-1865 <BR> 1854-1859 <BR> 1857 <BR> 1871 <BR><BR> 1880 <BR> 1881-1886 <BR><BR> 1882 <BR> 1883 <BR> 1885 <BR> 1886 <BR> 1887 <BR> 1889 <BR> 1891 <BR> 1895 <BR> 1895 <BR><BR> 1897 <BR> 1898 <BR><BR> 1901 <BR> 1902 <BR> 1904 <BR> 1907 <BR> 1911 <BR> 1913 <BR> 1914 <BR> 1914-1918 <BR> 1915 <BR> 1916 <BR><BR> 1918-1919 <BR> 1920 <BR> 1940-1945 <BR> 1940 <BR> 1942 <BR> 1945 <BR> 1946 <BR> 1953 <BR> 1955 <BR> 1956 <BR> 1957 <BR> 1958 <BR> 1959 <BR> 1960 <BR> 1960 <BR> 1960 <BR> 1960 <BR> 1962 <BR> 1963 <BR> 1963 <BR> 1966 <BR> 1975 <BR> 1978 <BR> 1978 <BR> 1981 <BR> 1982 <BR> 1982-1989 <BR> 1986 <BR> 1989-1992 <BR> 1994 <BR> 1995 <BR> 2000 <BR> 2000 <BR> 2003-2004 <BR> 2004 <BR> </font></TD> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "600"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> Arrival of Islam <BR> Portuguese navigators reached the Senegal coast; begin of European-West African trade <BR> Dutch established fortified trade factories on Goree <BR> The French established Fort St. Louis <BR> The French seized Goree from the Dutch <BR> French rule extended into the interior <BR> Begin of Seven Years' War; British occupation of French possessions in Senegal <BR> The British returned Goree to France <BR> Apostolic Prefecture of St. Louis de Senegal est., detached from Funchal (Madeira) <BR> The British returned Saint Louis to France <BR> Franco-Senegalese sent a list of complaints and remonstrances to French <BR> Constitutional Convention <BR> British occupation of Senegal <BR> France abolished slave trade <BR> The British returned Senegal to France <BR> Gaspar Mollien reached source of the Senegal River <BR> French trading posts set up in Casamance <BR> Quatre Communes represented in France's Nat'l Assembly (-1852) <BR> France abolished slavery <BR> Establishment of the Rivieres du Sud (Guinea, Ivory Coast) <BR> Under Gov. Louis Faidherbe, French control extended into the interior <BR> Goree and Dependencies separate colony (in 1859 reintegrated into Senegal) <BR> Dakar founded <BR> Begin of Third Republic; Senegal's Quatre Communes represented in France's Nat'l Assembly <BR> (-1875; since 1879) <BR> Begin of railway construction <BR> State of Kayor (traversed by the railway Dakar-St. Louis) resisted French encroachment in a <BR> guerilla war <BR> Dakar-St. Louis railway began operation <BR> First U.S. consul in West Africa took up residence on Goree <BR> First postage stamps for Senegal issued <BR> Dakar got sewage system, street lighting (gas) <BR> Haut Senegal administratively separated from Senegal, placed under military administration <BR> Rivieres du Sud (<A HREF = "xguinee.html">Guinea</A>, <A HREF = "xciv.html">Cote d'Ivoire</A>) separated from Senegal <BR> Senegal proclaimed a French colony <BR> Franco-Portuguese agreement on mutual spheres of influence <BR> French West Africa (A.O.F.) established, (Senegal, Senegambia & Niger, <A HREF = "xguinee.html">Guinea</A>, <BR> <A HREF = "xciv.html">Cote d'Ivoire</A>, <A HREF = "xbenin.html">Dahomey</A>) <BR> Futa Djalon declared French protectorate <BR> French colonial politicians propagated "Dakar-Djibouti" to counter Cecil Rhodes' <BR> "Cape to Cairo". Fashoda Crisis <BR> Banque de l'Afrique Occidentale began issuing banknotes <BR> Capital of Senegal moved from St. Louis to Dakar <BR> Dakar became capital of A.O.F. <BR> Dakar-Bamako railway line began operation <BR> Population 1,247,300 <BR> Ecole Normale William Ponty founded at Goree; a teachers' seminar <BR> Blaise Diagne first African elected to represent Senegal in French Chamber of Deputees <BR> World War I <BR> African School of Medicine opened in Dakar <BR> Inhabitants of the Quatre Communes confirmed full French citizenship (Dakar, Goree, Rufisque, <BR> St. Louis) <BR> Spanish influenza <BR> <A HREF = "xmauritania.html">Mauritania</A> separated from Senegal, separate colony within French West Africa <BR> World War II <BR> British navy shelled Dakar <BR> AOF switches allegiance from Vichy to Free French <BR> Senegalese women granted the right to vote <BR> Senegal no longer colony, but overseas territory within French Union <BR> Institute for Higher Education in Dakar granted university status <BR> Apostolic Vicariate of Dakar (Senegal) elevated to Archdiocesis <BR> Establishment of a separate Senegalese Nat'l Assembly <BR> Africanization of the administration; first African ministers <BR> Autonomous republic within French Union <BR> University of Dakar enrolled her first students <BR> Mali Confederation (<A HREF = "xmali.html">Mali</A>, Senegal) released into independence <BR> Senegal splits from Mali Federation <BR> Population 3,187,000 <BR> Senegal joined the U.N. <BR> PM arrested <BR> constitution <BR> Senegal founding member of O.A.U. <BR> One Party State <BR> Senegal founding member of ECOWAS <BR> First Rally Paris-Dakar held <BR> Two other parties permitted <BR> Pres. Leopold Senghor retired <BR> Begin of Casamance Separatist Movement <BR> Senegambian Federation <BR> First HIV-cases in Senegal reported <BR> Following mob violence, relations between Senegal, Mauritania strained <BR> Establishment of West African Monetary Union (WAEMU), using the CFA Franc <BR> Senegalese Airforce bombarded vllage in <A HREF = "xgbissau.html">Guinea Bissau</A> <BR> Opposition candidate won election <BR> Population estimated at 9,987,500 <BR> Casamance secession conflict declared over <BR> Senegal abolished the death penalty (last execution in 1967) <BR> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE><BR><BR> </TR></TABLE><BR><BR><BR><BR> </div><div align = "center"> <script language="JavaScript"> <!-- function SymError() { return true; } window.onerror = SymError; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-0213752126925919"; google_alternate_color = "FFFFE1"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 90; google_ad_format = "728x90_as"; google_ad_channel ="4814426207"; google_ad_type = "text"; google_color_border = "FF3300"; google_color_bg = "FFFFE1"; google_color_link = "0000CC"; google_color_url = "008000"; google_color_text = "6F6F6F"; //--></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> <BR><BR><BR> <TABLE border = "3" cellspace="5" cellpadding="5" align="center"> <TR> <TD width = "100" valign = "top" align = "center" bgcolor="#FFFACD"> <font size = "3" face = "Times Roman" color = "#000000"> EXTERNAL <BR> FILES </font></TD> <TD width = "750" valign = "top" align = "left" bgcolor = "#FFFACD"> <font size = "2" face = "Times Roman" color = "#000000"> Timeline, from <A HREF = "http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/country_profiles/2988226.stm"><B>BBC News</B></A> <BR> <A HREF = "http://www.globalfindata.com/frameset.php3?location=/gh/index.html"><B>Global History of Currencies</B></A>, click : Senegal <BR> History of Dakar, from <A HREF = "http://www.senegal-online.com/anglais/villes/dakar/chronologie-historique.htm"><B>Senegal Online</B></A> <BR> Key Dates in the History of Senegal, from <A HREF = "http://www.senegal-online.com/anglais/histoire/dates.htm"><B>Senegal Online</B></A> <BR> Au Sujet de l'UCAD, from <A HREF = "http://www.ucad.sn/article.php3?id_article=2"><B>UCAD</B></A> <BR> Historical Population Statistics : Senegal, from <A HREF = "http://www.library.uu.nl/wesp/populstat/Africa/senegalc.htm"><B>Population Statistics</B></A> at Univ. Utrecht <BR> Chronology of Catholic Dioceses : Senegal, from <A HREF = "http://www.katolsk.no/utenriks/kronologi/senegal.htm"><B>Kirken i Norge</B></A> <BR> History of Senegal, from <A HREF = "http://www.ecowas.info/senhist.htm"><B>ECOWAS Info</B></A> <BR> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "3" cellspace="5" cellpadding="5" align="center"> <TR> <TD width = "100" valign = "top" align = "center" bgcolor="#FFFACD"> <font size = "3" face = "Times Roman" color = "#000000"> DOCUMENTS </font></TD> <TD width = "750" valign = "top" align = "left" bgcolor = "#FFFACD"> <font size = "2" face = "Times Roman" color = "#000000"> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "3" cellspace="5" cellpadding="5" align="center"> <TR> <TD width = "100" valign = "top" align = "center" bgcolor="#FFFACD"> <font size = "3" face = "Times Roman" color = "#000000"> REFERENCE </font></TD> <TD width = "750" valign = "top" align = "left" bgcolor = "#FFFACD"> <font size = "2" face = "Times Roman" color = "#000000"> J.A. Ballard, The Colonial Phase in French West Africa, pp.380-404, in : J.F. Ade Adayi and Ian spie (ed.), A Thousand Years of West African History, Ibadan UP (1965) 1967 [G] <BR> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <BR><BR> </DIV> <DIV align="center"> <A href="mailto:aganse@hotmail.com"> <IMG src="../../email.gif" border="0"></a><BR> <BR><BR><BR><BR><BR> <!-- Start of CH Counter --> <script type="text/javascript"> //<!-- // chCounter v2.0.0 // settings: cstatus = "active"; visible = "1"; path_to_counterfile = "http://www.zum.de/whkmla/counter/counter.php"; urlhp = "http://www.zum.de"; //////////////// url = unescape(location.href); file = url.substring(url.lastIndexOf(urlhp) + urlhp.length, url.length); file = (file.charAt(0) != "/") ? 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