2012 Event At least 20 people due from the Ebola virus disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo 2012 Event A refugee camp in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo experiences an outbreak of cholera; thousands have fled there due to fighting between government troops and M23 rebels 2012 Event The main opposition leader of the Democratic Republic of the congo condemns parliamentary election as rigged; he calls for a strike in protest of his house arrest 2011 Event Despite protests by opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi, Joseph Kaliba is sworn in as President of the Democratic Republic of Congo 2011 Event Outbreaks of violence are reported as voters in the Democratic Republic of the congo go to the polls for a general election 2010 Event Responding to a U.N report accusing the Rwandan army of genocide in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda threatens to remove its peacekeepers from Darfur 2010 Event Entire villages are burned to the ground and 40,000 people flee their homes in the Democratic Republic of Congo 2010 Event A fuel tanker overturns and explodes in South Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, killing over 230 people and injuring 2010 Event At last count, 76 people are dead while hundreds have disappeared after a train crash in the Republic of Congo caused the train to fall into a ravine 2010 Event The BBC finds evidence of a massacre in the Democratic Republic of Congo carried out by the Lord's Resistance Army last December, in which 321 people, including children, were killed 2009 Event An ethnic conflict over fishing rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo kills 100 people, displaces 50,000 1995 Event "Congo" premieres in USA 1979 Event Congo adopts constitution 1970 Event Nationalists disrupt United Nations session on Congo 1970 Event Marxist government takes over in Congo 1969 Event Congo president Mobutu visits Belgium 1969 Death Moise K Tsjombe, premier Congo/Zaire, dies 1969 Death Joseph Kasavubu, president Congo (1960-65), dies at about 55 1967 Event Belgian embassy in Kinshasa, Congo, plundered 1967 Event Congo uprising under Belgian mercenary Jean Schramme 1967 Event Congo sentences ex-premier Moise Tsjombe to death 1966 Event 1st TV station in Congo, Kinshasa (Zaire) 1966 Event Leopoldville Congo is renamed Kinshasa 1965 Event Congo military coup under General Mobutu, President Kasavubu overthrown 1964 Event Congo rebel leader Christopher Gbenye holds 60 Americans/800 Belgians 1964 Event Congo rebellion: Christopher Gbenye/Pierre Mulele conquer Stanleyville 1964 Event Moise Tsjombe becomes premier of Congo 1964 Event Last United Nations troops leave Congo 1964 Event Moise Tsjombe forms government in Congo 1962 Event Katanga becomes part of Democratic Republic of Congo 1961 Event Belgium and Congo resume diplomatic relations 1961 Death Dag Hammarskjold, United Nations Secretary General, dies in an air crash over Congo at 56 1961 Event Battles between United Nations and Katanga troops in Congo 1961 Event Cyrille Adula becomes premier of Congo 1961 Event Moise Tsjombe freed from prison in Congo 1961 Event Premier Moise Tsjombe of Katanga arrested in Congo 1961 Death Patrice Lumumba, 1st premier Congo, murdered at 34 1961 Event Joseph Ileo appointed premier of Congo 1961 Event Eisenhower allegedly orders assassination of Congo's Lumumba 1960 Event Patrice Lumumba caught in the Congo 1960 Event Patrice Lumumba flees Leopoldville Congo 1960 Event Coup under Col Joseph-Desire Mobutu in Congo 1960 Event President Kasavubu fires premier Lumumba of Congo 1960 Event Republic of Congo (Zaire, Dem Rep of Congo) forms 1960 Event Congo (formerly Congo/Brazzaville) declares Independence from France 1960 Event 1st United Nations troops reach Congo 1960 Event Congo, Chad and Central African Republic declare independence 1960 Event Belgium sends troops to Congo 1960 Event Zaire (formerly Belgian Congo) declares independence from Belgium 1960 Event Patrice Lumumba sentenced to 6 months in Belgian Congo 1959 Event Patrice Lumumba arrested in Belgian Congo 1959 Event King Boudouin promises Belgian Congo independence 1958 Event Congo and Mauritania become autonomous members of French Community 1956 Death Maurice Lippens, Belgian governor of Congo (1921-23), dies at 80 1955 Event King Baudouin of Belgium visits Congo 1954 Death Hans Lodeizen, Johan Frederik, poet (Travel to Congo), dies at 26 1951 Death Simon Kimbangu/Kibangu, Congo prophet, dies in captivity at 62 1948 Event Columbia U reports discovery of uranium in Belgian Congo 1946 Death Leo Bittermieux, Flemish missionary (Congo), dies at 66 1946 Birthday Stuart Pankin, born in Philadelphia, comedian, Striptease, Congo, Earl-Dinosaurs 1942 Birthday Michael Crichton, born in Chicago, Illinois novelist, Andromeda Strain, Congo, Looker 1931 Event Trans African Railway in use (Benguela, Angola-Jadotville, Congo) 1925 Birthday Patrice E. Lumumba, born in Zaire, revolutionary/1st premier of Congo 1925 Event E Thieffry departs with Handley Page for the Belgian Congo 1919 Birthday Moise Tshombe, President of Katanga, then premier of the Congo, Zaire 1915 Death Albert J-BJ Thijs, Belgian Colonial pioneer (Congo), dies at 65 1911 Event France and Germany signs treaty about Morocco and Congo 1910 Birthday Henri A Cornelis, Governor-General Belgian Congo/Rwanda-Urundi 1909 Death Ernest F Cambier, Bel colonial pioneer (1st Congo railway), dies at 65 1908 Event King Leopold II sells Congo to Belgium 1908 Event Belgium annexes Congo Free State 1908 Event Congo Free State becomes Belgian Congo 1908 Event U.S. and Great Britain demand end of abuses in Congo 1906 Event U.S. president Roosevelt attacks abuses in the Congo 1906 Event NY American reports Belgian King Leopold II bribed U.S. Senate commission on the Congo 1906 Event Belgian King Leopold II calls Congo his private possession 1905 Death Pietro/Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, 1st French Congo Governor (1890-98), die 1905 Death Pierre de Braza, founder (French Congo), dies 1903 Event Roger Casement completes report about abuses in Belgian Congo 1903 Event King Leopold II deny Belgian cruelty in Congo 1903 Event British government protests against abuser in Belgian Congo 1900 Birthday Marc Allegret, French director, Voyage ouch Congo 1898 Birthday Gerard Walschap, Flemish writer/journalist, Mary, Revolt in Congo 1893 Event Congo cannibals killed 1000s of Arabs 1892 Death ? de Bruyne, Belgian sergeant in Congo, murdered 1892 Death Joseph Lippens, Belgian lieutenant in Congo, murdered 1892 Event Battle of Lomani Congo: Belgian unit beats Arabs, 1000-3000 killed 1890 Event Captain Guillaume of Kerckhoven marches into Boma Congo 1890 Event King Leopold II gives Congo to Belgium 1889 Birthday Simon Kimbangu/Kibangu, Congo prophet 1888 Death James Jameson, British nature investigator (Congo), dies 1888 Event Old Kavallison, Congo: Stanley meet Emin Pasha 1887 Event Stanley's expedition reaches plateau at Lake Albert Congo 1887 Event Stanley's expedition reaches Yambuya waterfalls Congo 1885 Event Congo Free State forms by King Leopold II of Belgium 1885 Event Congress of Berlin, gives Congo to Belgium and Nigeria to England 1884 Event Netherlands recognizes king Leopold II's Congo Free State 1884 Event Austria-Hungary admits King Leopold II's Congo Free State 1884 Event Italy recognizes King Leopold II's Congo Free State 1884 Event Great Britain recognizes King Leopold II's Congo Free State 1884 Event German government recognizes King Leopold II's Congo Free State 1884 Event U.S. recognizes King Leopold II's Congo Free State 1884 Event U.S. Senate accepts Belgian administration of Congo 1884 Event British and Portuguese treaty signed in Congo by Leopold II 1882 Event Henry Morton Stanley returns to Brussels from the Congo 1881 Event Henry M. Stanley signs contract with Congo monarch 1881 Event Henry Morton Stanley signs contract with Congo monarch 1880 Event Henry Stanley and Pierre de Brazza quarrel about possession of Congo 1880 Event Pierre de Brazza signs treaty with King Makoko of Congo 1880 Birthday Leo Bittermieux, Flemish missionary, Congo 1879 Event Henry Morton Stanley departs to the Congo 1877 Event Henry Morton Stanley's letter in order to aid reaches Boma at Congo 1877 Death Frank Pocock, British explorer, drowned in the Congo 1875 Birthday Maurice Lippens, Belgian earl/minister/governor of Congo 1858 Birthday Frederick Lugard, British captain/baron, Congo 1849 Birthday Albert J-BJ Thos, Belgian colonial pioneer, Congo 1844 Birthday Ernest F Cambier, Belgian colonial pioneer, 1st railway Congo. 1651 Event Flemish missionary Joris van Geel departs to Congo
