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Uganda Timeline Game

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Summoning Knowledge...

About This Challenge

Explore the history of Uganda through this engaging timeline game. Test your knowledge of key events and their order in this interactive experience.

  • Learn about Uganda’s independence in 1962
  • Discover the rise to power of Idi Amin in 1971
  • Understand the impact of the Ugandan Civil War in the 1980s
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  • 1 million years ago: Formation of Lake Victoria
  • 1000 BCE: Bantu migration into Uganda
  • 8th century CE: Arrival of Arab traders on the East African coast
  • 14th century CE: Kingdom of Buganda established
  • 19th century CE: European explorers reach Uganda
  • 1888: British East Africa Company establishes presence in Uganda
  • 1894: Uganda becomes a British protectorate
  • 1896: Construction of the Uganda Railway begins
  • 1962: Uganda becomes independent from Britain
  • 1971: Idi Amin seizes power in a military coup
  • 1978-1979: Uganda-Tanzania War
  • 1979: End of Idi Amin's regime
  • 1986: Museveni comes to power after a guerrilla war
  • 1994: Rwandan genocide leads to influx of refugees into Uganda
  • 1987-2006: LRA insurgency in Northern Uganda
  • 2006: Uganda's first multi-party elections in decades
  • 2006: Discovery of oil reserves in Uganda
  • 2014: Passing of the Anti-Homosexuality Act
  • 2018: Opening of the Kampala-Entebbe Expressway
  • 2020: COVID-19 pandemic reaches Uganda

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