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Guinea-Bissau

sovereign state in Western Africa

10 dated entries naming Guinea-Bissau, drawn from 8 separate years between 1931 CE and 2012 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as Republic of Guinea-Bissau in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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20th century

  • 1931January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Portuguese Guinea (now Guinea-Bissau) in Africa.source
  • 1973September 27 – Luís Cabral declares the independence of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau from the Estado Novo regime in Portugal. It is later granted in September 1974.source
  • 1973October 26 – The United Nations recognizes the independence of Guinea-Bissau.source
  • 1974September 10 – The Portuguese military junta grants independence to Guinea-Bissau.source
  • 1974September 12 – African Youth Amílcar Cabral is founded in Guinea-Bissau.source
  • 1990January 25 – Pope John Paul II begins an eight-day tour of Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Burkina Faso and Chad.source
  • 1999May 7 – In Guinea-Bissau, President João Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup.source

21st century

  • 2006June 15 - Hundreds are wounded in fighting between rival factions of the Movement of the Democratic Forces of Casamance led by Salif Sadio, who supports the continuation of the Casamance conflict, and Magne Dieme, who supports reconciliation with the government of Senegal. The fighting has spread to the Gambia and Guinea-Bissau may intervene.source
  • 2009March 2 – The President of Guinea-Bissau, João Bernardo Vieira, is assassinated during an armed attack on his residence in Bissau.source
  • 2012April 12 – Mutinous soldiers in Guinea-Bissau stage a coup d'état and take control of the capital city, Bissau. They arrest interim President Raimundo Pereira and leading presidential candidate Carlos Gomes Júnior in the midst of a presidential election campaign.source

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