{"slug": "uganda", "label": "Uganda", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uganda", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1036", "qid": "Q1036", "description": "country in East Africa", "entries": 31, "years": 23, "span": [-499, 2019], "span_label": ["500 BCE", "2019 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 17}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 4}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 3}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 1}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": [], "related": [{"slug": "tanzania", "label": "Tanzania", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "rwanda", "label": "Rwanda", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "zambia", "label": "Zambia", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "japan", "label": "Japan", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "turkey", "label": "Turkey", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "mexico", "label": "Mexico", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "united-nations-security-council", "label": "United Nations Security Council", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "athens", "label": "Athens", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "israel-defense-forces", "label": "Israel Defense Forces", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "tel-aviv", "label": "Tel Aviv", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "israel", "label": "Israel", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "palestinians", "label": "Palestinians", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -499, "year_label": "500 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Bantu-speaking people migrate into south-west Uganda from Central Africa. (approximate date)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363151372#Africa", "title": "500 BC", "revid": 1363151372, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}, {"year": 1893, "year_label": "1893 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "March 10", "text": "10 March – The Government takes control of Uganda from the British East Africa Company.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1305906238#Events", "title": "1893 in the United Kingdom", "revid": 1305906238, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1894, "year_label": "1894 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 18", "text": "June 18 – Britain establishes a protectorate over Uganda.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369810485#June", "title": "1894", "revid": 1369810485, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1899, "year_label": "1899 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 9", "text": "April 9 – In Uganda, King Chwa II Kabalega of the Bunyoro kingdom, a leader of the fight against British colonial occupation, is taken prisoner after being shot in a battle near Hoima. Kabalega is exiled to the Seychelles and remains there until 1923.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371393177#April", "title": "1899", "revid": 1371393177, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1944, "year_label": "1944 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "August 15", "text": "August 15 – Yoweri Museveni, president of Uganda", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370022611#August", "title": "1944", "revid": 1370022611, "section": "Births › August"}}, {"year": 1966, "year_label": "1966 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 24", "text": "May 24 – Battle of Mengo Hill: Ugandan army troops arrest Mutesa II of Buganda and occupy his palace.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370246126#May", "title": "1966", "revid": 1370246126, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1969, "year_label": "1969 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "July 31", "text": "July 31 – Pope Paul VI arrives in Entebbe, Uganda for the first visit by a reigning Pope to Africa.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373164180#July", "title": "1969", "revid": 1373164180, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1972, "year_label": "1972 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "August 4", "text": "August 4 – Expulsion of Asians from Uganda: Dictator Idi Amin declares that Uganda will expel 50,000 Asians with British passports to Britain within 3 months. Most of their property is confiscated.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371514417#August", "title": "1972", "revid": 1371514417, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 1976, "year_label": "1976 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 27", "text": "June 27 – Palestinian militants hijack an Air France plane in Greece with 246 passengers and 12 crew. They take it to Entebbe, Uganda.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372603253#June", "title": "1976", "revid": 1372603253, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1976, "year_label": "1976 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "June 27", "text": "27 June – Air France Flight 139, originating in Tel Aviv and carrying 248 passengers and a crew of 12 takes off from Athens, Greece, headed for Paris, France. The flight is hijacked by Palestinian Arab assailants with German Revolutionäre Zellen supporters and flown to Entebbe Airport (now known as Entebbe International Airport) in Uganda. Shortly after landing, all non-Jewish passengers were released. The hijacking of this flight leads to the IDF hostage-rescue mission \"Operation Entebbe\" carried out in the Entebbe Airport seven days later (see details above).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367064803#Israeli–Palestinian_conflict", "title": "1976 in Israel", "revid": 1367064803, "section": "Events › Israeli–Palestinian conflict"}}, {"year": 1976, "year_label": "1976 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "July 4", "text": "July 4 – Entebbe Raid: Israeli airborne commandos free 103 hostages being held by Palestinian hijackers of an Air France plane at Uganda's Entebbe Airport; Yonatan Netanyahu and several Ugandan soldiers are killed in the raid.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372603253#July", "title": "1976", "revid": 1372603253, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1976, "year_label": "1976 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "July 27", "text": "July 27 – The United Kingdom breaks diplomatic relations with its former colony Uganda in response to the hijacking of Air France Flight 139.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372603253#July", "title": "1976", "revid": 1372603253, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1979, "year_label": "1979 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "January 22", "text": "January 22 – Uganda–Tanzania War: Battle of Mutukula: The Tanzanian military captures the Ugandan border town of Mutukula after a short battle.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371786119#January", "title": "1979", "revid": 1371786119, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1982, "year_label": "1982 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "March 8", "text": "8 March – A “Political Information System” seminar convenes in Nairobi, bringing together representatives from single-party states (Malawi, Zambia, Tanzania, Uganda) to discuss the viability of one-party democracy in post-colonial Africa.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1336639257#Events", "title": "1982 in Kenya", "revid": 1336639257, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1986, "year_label": "1986 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "January 25", "text": "January 25 – Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Army Rebel group takes over Uganda after leading a five-year guerrilla war in which up to half a million people are believed to have been killed. They will later use January 26 as the official date to avoid a coincidence of dates with Dictator Idi Amin's 1971 coup.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373510075#January", "title": "1986", "revid": 1373510075, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1986, "year_label": "1986 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "January 29", "text": "January 29 – Yoweri Museveni is sworn in as President of Uganda.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373510075#January", "title": "1986", "revid": 1373510075, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1989, "year_label": "1989 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "January 13", "text": "January 13 – Former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is expelled to Senegal from Zaire after using a fake Zairean passport in an attempt to return to Uganda. Amin is eventually expelled from Senegal and subsequently returns to Zaire after the Saudi government refuses to allow him in Saudi Arabia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369557705#January", "title": "1989", "revid": 1369557705, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1990, "year_label": "1990 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "October 1", "text": "October 1 – The rebel Rwandan Patriotic Front invades Rwanda from Uganda, marking the start of the Rwandan Civil War.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366571855#October", "title": "1990", "revid": 1366571855, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 1990, "year_label": "1990 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "October 2", "text": "October 2 - The Tutsi Rwandan Patriotic Front makes an attack from Uganda, starting the Rwandan Civil War.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267491029#October", "title": "1990 in Rwanda", "revid": 1267491029, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 1996, "year_label": "1996 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "February 29", "text": "February 29 – At least 81 people drown when a boat capsizes 120 kilometres east of Kampala, Uganda.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371596794#February", "title": "1996", "revid": 1371596794, "section": "Events › February"}}, {"year": 1996, "year_label": "1996 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "May 9", "text": "May 9 – Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni wins a landslide victory in the country's first direct presidential elections, securing 75% of the vote.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371596794#May", "title": "1996", "revid": 1371596794, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1998, "year_label": "1998 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "August 10", "text": "August 10 - Military experts from Namibia, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Tanzania are due in Kinshasa later this week to investigate allegations of Rwandan and Ugandan troops being sent across the border.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1311392275#August", "title": "1998 in Namibia", "revid": 1311392275, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 1999, "year_label": "1999 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "March 1", "text": "March 1 – Rwandan Hutu rebels kill and dismember eight foreign tourists at the Buhoma homestead, Uganda.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369767946#March", "title": "1999", "revid": 1369767946, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 1999, "year_label": "1999 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 20", "text": "April 20 - Uganda downplays an agreement in Libya to end the Second Congo War.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1244277188#April", "title": "1999 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo", "revid": 1244277188, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 2000, "year_label": "2000 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "March 17", "text": "March 17 – Uganda mass suicide: 778 members of the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die in Uganda.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371541477#March", "title": "2000", "revid": 1371541477, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 2001, "year_label": "2001 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "March 12", "text": "March 12 - Uganda is accused of harbouring anti-Rwandan elements starting a feud between the two countries.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1311634815#March", "title": "2001 in Rwanda", "revid": 1311634815, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 2002, "year_label": "2002 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "August 28", "text": "August 28 - Uganda and Zimbabwe begin pulling their troops out of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1311394208#August", "title": "2002 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo", "revid": 1311394208, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 2009, "year_label": "2009 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "January 1", "text": "January 1 – Japan, Mexico, Turkey and Uganda assume their seats on the United Nations Security Council.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367728140#January", "title": "2009", "revid": 1367728140, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 2009, "year_label": "2009 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "October 6", "text": "October 6 - One of the most wanted suspects involved in the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, Idelphonse Nizeyimana, is arrested in the Ugandan capital Kampala.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267491148#October", "title": "2009 in Rwanda", "revid": 1267491148, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 2010, "year_label": "2010 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "March 16", "text": "March 16 – The Kasubi Tombs, Uganda's only cultural World Heritage Site, are destroyed by fire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372829682#March", "title": "2010", "revid": 1372829682, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 2019, "year_label": "2019 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "October 24", "text": "October 24 – Construction starts on a power line that will provide power from Uganda to the towns of Nimule, Kaya, and Kajo Keji.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353900933#October", "title": "2019 in South Sudan", "revid": 1353900933, "section": "Events › October"}}]}