02 Nov	1951: 6,000 British troops flown into Egypt
08 Apr	1953: Seven years' hard labour for Kenyatta
24 Apr	1954: British crackdown on Kenya rebels
10 Mar	1956: Riots erupt in Cyprus over Archbishop
11 May	1956: Gold Coast to get independence
04 Nov	1956: Soviet troops overrun Hungary
06 Mar	1957: Ghana celebrates independence
11 Apr	1957: Britain agrees to Singapore self-rule
31 Aug	1957: Malaya celebrates independence
01 Jun	1958: De Gaulle returns to tackle Algeria
16 Feb	1959: Castro sworn in as Cuban PM
07 Mar	1959: African activist flees to UK
14 Dec	1959: Makarios elected president of Cyprus
08 Jan	1961: French vote for Algerian freedom
13 Feb	1961: Ex-Congo PM declared dead
27 Apr	1961: Sierra Leone wins independence
25 May	1963: African states unite against white rule
27 May	1963: Kenyatta to be Kenya's first premier
25 Oct	1964: President Kaunda takes power in Zambia
11 Nov	1965: Rhodesia breaks from UK
30 Jun	1969: Nigeria bans Red Cross aid to Biafra
02 Mar	1970: Ian Smith declares Rhodesia a republic
10 Oct	1970: Canadian minister seized by gunmen
13 Jul	1971: Death for Moroccan rebel leaders
13 Jan	1972: Ghana PM ousted in bloodless coup
09 Jul	1973: Bahamas' sun sets on British Empire
24 Sep	1976: White rule in Rhodesia to end
23 May	1977: Dutch children held hostage
01 Jun	1979: End of white rule in Rhodesia
23 Aug	1979: Kurdish revolt grows in Iran
27 Jan	1980: Exiled Mugabe returns to Rhodesia
04 Mar	1980: Mugabe to lead independent Zimbabwe
05 May	1980: SAS rescue ends Iran embassy siege
15 Oct	1987: Fiji one step closer to a republic
09 Oct	1988: Latvia cries freedom from Moscow
24 Nov	1989: New era for Czechoslovakia
03 May	1990: Latvia to declare independence
13 Jan	1991: Bloodshed at Lithuanian TV station
02 Mar	1991: Sri Lankan hardliner among 19 killed in blast
21 May	1991: Bomb kills India's former leader Rajiv Gandhi
22 Sep	1998: Thousands flee fighting in Kosovo
20 Sep	1999: UN force arrives in East Timor
06 Nov	1999: Australia rejects republic