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Malawi Timeline Game

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About This Challenge

Explore the history of Malawi with this exciting timeline game! Test your knowledge and see if you can place key events in the country’s history in their correct chronological order.

  • Learn about the establishment of the Nyasaland Protectorate in 1907
  • Discover the country’s independence from British colonial rule in 1964
  • Challenge yourself with other significant events in Malawi’s history
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  • 50,000 BC: First human settlements in the region
  • 1st century AD: Bantu-speaking peoples migrate into the area
  • 10th century: Arab traders establish trade routes in the region
  • 1891: British establish the Nyasaland Protectorate
  • 1915: Chilembwe uprising against British colonial rule
  • 1944: Nyasa African National Congress formed
  • 1964: Malawi gains independence from Britain, becomes a republic
  • 1966: Dr. Hastings Banda becomes the first president of Malawi
  • 1966: Malawi becomes a one-party state under the Malawi Congress Party
  • 2002: Famine in southern Malawi
  • 1994: Muluzi wins presidential election, becomes president
  • 1999: Muluzi is re-elected for a second term
  • 2004: Bingu wa Mutharika elected president
  • 2012: Mutharika dies in office, Joyce Banda becomes president
  • 2014: Peter Mutharika elected president
  • 2019: Protests against government corruption and economic hardship
  • 2020: Lazarus Chakwera wins presidential election
  • 2020: COVID-19 pandemic reaches Malawi
  • 2021: Malawi receives first batch of COVID-19 vaccines
  • 2021: Chakwera announces plans to reform the country's governance system

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