Moïse Tshombe
Congolese politician and secessionist leader (1919–1969)
10 dated entries naming Moïse Tshombe, drawn from 7 separate years between 1960 CE and 1967 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.
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20th century
- 1960July 11 – Congo Crisis: Moise Tshombe declares the Congolese province of Katanga independent. He requests and receives help from Belgium.source
- 1960July 11 - Moise Tshombe declared the Congolese province of Katanga independent, and, taking advantage of the Congo's dismissal of Belgian officers from the Congolese Army, asked for military aid from Belgium. The Congo's prime minister Patrice Lumumba asked the United Nations to intervene in the crisis.source
- 1961June 22 – Moise Tshombe is released for lack of evidence of his connection to the murder of Patrice Lumumba.source
- 1962March 15 – Katangan Prime Minister Moise Tshombe begins negotiations to rejoin the Congo.source
- 1962December 30 – United Nations troops occupy the last rebel positions in Katanga; Moise Tshombe moves to South Rhodesia.source
- 1964June 26 – Moise Tshombe returns to the Democratic Republic of the Congo from exile in Spain.source
- 1965October 13 – Congo President Joseph Kasavubu fires Prime Minister Moise Tshombe and forms a provisional government, with Évariste Kimba in a leading position.source
- 1966July 23 – Katangese troops in Stanleyville, Congo, revolt for several weeks in support of the exiled minister Moise Tshombe.source
- 1967March 13 – Moise Tshombe, ex-prime minister of Congo, is sentenced to death in absentia.source
- 1967June 30 – Moise Tshombe, former president of Katanga and former prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is kidnapped and taken to Algeria.source