Events in Ugandan History
- 1886-06-03 24 Christians burn to death in Namgongo, Uganda
- 1889-09-06 King Kabaka Mwanga of Buganda resigns
Britain, Germany Trade African Territories
1890-05-13 British PM Lord Salisbury offers Heligoland islands to Germany in exchange for Zanzibar, Uganda & Equatoria (becomes Heligoland–Zanzibar Treaty that July)
- 1890-12-18 Frederick Lugard's British expedition to Meng and Kampala, Uganda
- 1890-12-26 King Mwanga of Uganda signs contract with East Africa Company
- 1892-01-24 Battle of Mengo, Uganda: French missionaries attack British missionaries
- 1892-01-30 Capt Lugard occupies Uganda's King Mwanga's hide out
- 1894-06-18 Premier Roseberry declares Uganda a British protectorate
- 1900-03-10 Regents for the King of Uganda and leading chiefs sign a treaty with Great Britain agreeing to the organization of the government, taxation, courts, military, and other functions of their country, which is under British protection.
- 1953-11-30 Edward Mutesa II, kabaka (king) of Buganda is deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda
- 1962-10-09 Uganda becomes independent from the United Kingdom
Event of Interest
1962-10-22 JFK receives Ugandan premier Milton Obote
- 1962-10-25 110th member of UN admitted (Uganda)
- 1963-04-20 -30] All Africa Conferences of Churches opens in Kampala Uganda
- 1966-02-23 Premier Milton Obote seizes power in Uganda
- 1967-09-08 Uganda abolishes traditional tribal kingdoms, becomes a republic
- 1967-09-09 Uganda declares independence from Great Britain
Ugandan Coup d'état
1971-01-25 Military coup in Uganda under Major General Idi Amin
- 1971-02-02 General Idi Amin ousts Milton Obote and appoints himself President and Dictator of Uganda
- 1972-08-04 Uganda dictator Idi Amin orders the expulsion of 50,000 Asians with British passport from Uganda
- 1972-09-02 John Akii-Bua of Uganda with a world record 47.82 wins the 400m hurdles gold medal at the Munich Olympics
- 1972-09-17 Tanzania troops march in to Uganda
- 1976-06-27 Air France A-300B Airbus hijacked from Athens arrives at Entebbe, Uganda; four hijackers, members of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and Bader-Meinhof Gang in Germany
- 1976-07-04 Israel launches hostage rescue mission of 106 Air France crew and passengers held at Entebbe Airport in Uganda by pro-Palestinian hijackers. Three hostages die along with all the hijackers, numerous Ugandan soldiers and Yonatan Netanyahu, an Israeli soldier
- 1976-07-09 Uganda asks UN to condemn Israeli hostage rescue raid on Entebbe - it does not
- 1978-10-30 Uganda troops attack Tanzania
- 1979-04-11 Tanzanian army captures Kampala, the capital of Uganda forcing Ugandan dictator Idi Amin to flee into exile in Libya
- 1979-04-13 Yusuf Lule becomes premier of Uganda
- 1985-07-25 Uganda suspends constitution following coup
- 1986-01-25 General Tito Okello's government flees Kampala, Uganda
- 1986-01-26 Yoweri Museveni's rebel army conquers Kampala, Uganda
- 1986-01-29 Yoweri Museveni sworn in as President of Uganda
- 1988-10-17 31 reported dead as Ugandan jetliner crashes in fog near Rome
- 1989-01-12 Ex-dictator of Uganda Idi Amin expelled from Zaire
- 1990-10-01 10,000 Uganda RPF rebels move into Rwanda
- 1993-07-31 Prince Ronald "Ronnie" Mutebi crowned king of Uganda
- 2000-03-17 The 800+ deaths of members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God is considered to be a mass murder and suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult
- 2000-06-05 Armed conflict between Rwanda and Uganda erupts in Kinsangani, a city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- 2013-06-30 30 people are killed after a fuel truck explodes in Kampala, Uganda
- 2014-03-22 251 people are killed after a boat capsizes in Lake Albert, Uganda
Pope Francis' African Visit
2015-11-25 Pope Francis begins his trip to Africa, visiting Kenya, Uganda and the Central African Republic
- 2017-09-26 Fights break out in Uganda's parliament during debate to raise presidential age limit
- 2017-10-19 Outbreak of the Marburg virus declared by Uganda's Ministry of Health
- 2018-05-31 Uganda's parliament imposes tax on social media to stop gossip
Music History
2018-08-13 Ugandan politician and pop singer Bobi Wine arrested by the Ugandan army at a campaign rally in Arua and later allegedly tortured
- 2018-08-30 Ugandan pop star MP Bobi Wine re-arrested attempting to leave the country
- 2018-11-24 Cruise boat sinks on Lake Victoria near Kampala, Uganda, killing at least 29
Famous Ugandans
Bobi Wine
Idi Amin