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Rwanda


1994 Thadde Nsengiyumva, Bishop of Kabgayi, Rwanda, murdered during the Rwandan genocide

1994 7,000 Tutsi's slaughtered in stadium of Kibuye Rwanda

1994 President guard at Kigali Rwanda, chops 1,200 church members to death

1994 Agatha Uwilingiyimana, Prime Minister of Rwanda (first female prime minister in Africa), assassinated, the day after President Habyarimana's plane was shot down, killing him and the president of Burundi

1994 Juvenal Habayarimana, president of Rwanda (1973), assassinated

1990 10,000 Uganda RPF rebels move into Rwanda

1985 Dian Fossey, U.S. naturalist (Gorillas in Mist), found dead in Rwanda

1978 Referendum approves new constitution of Rwanda

1973 Major General Juvenal Habyarimana becomes president of Rwanda

1973 Rwanda military coup under general-major Habyalimana

1962 Rwanda, Burundi, Jamaica and Trinidad admitted (105th-108th) to UN

1962 Burundi and Rwanda gain independence from Belgium (National Days)

1962 Rwanda and Burundi become independent

1962 Rwanda granted internal self-government by Belgium

1961 Republic of Rwanda proclaimed

1958 Eugene Jungers, Belgian governor of Rwanda Urundi, dies at 70

1937 Juvenal Hayarimana, president of Rwanda, 1973-94

1921 Rwanda ceded to England

1912 Alexis Kagame, Rwanda, priest/writer

1888 Eugene Jungers, Belgian governor of Rwanda Urundi

1876 Henry Morton Stanley's expedition leaves Rwanda


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