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| 1200 - Mali Empire | |
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| 1300 - Kongo Kingdom | |
| 1300 - Songhay Empire | |
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| 1440 - Africans in Southern Europe | |
| 1444 - Portuguese in Africa | |
| 1450 - The Transatlantic Slave Trade | | |
| 1492 - Moors out of Spain | |
| | 1492 - 'Discovery' of the Americas |
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| 1502 - Africans in Hispaniola | |
| 1520 - Africans in Latin America | |
| 1522 - Slave Revolt in Hispaniola | |
| | 1526 - First Africans arrive in South Carolina |
| 1527 - Estevanico explores the Southwest | |
| 1546 - Slave revolt in Mexico | |
| 1550 - Fall of the Jolof Empire, Senegambia | |
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| 1600 - Africans in Northern Mexico | |
| 1605 - Maroon republic of Palmares, Brazil | |
| | 1607 - Settlement of Jamestown, Virginia |
| | 1619 - First Africans in Jamestown |
| | 1625 - First Africans in New Amsterdam (NY) |
| 1630 - Runaway Journeys | | |
| | 1641 - Massachusetts first to legalize slavery |
| 1673 - Jihad in Senegambia | |
| 1680 - Kongo Wars | |
| | 1680 - Maroons in NY |
| | 1680 - Slave laws |
| 1689 - Maroon Wars in Jamaica | |
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| 1701 - Height of transatlantic slave trade | |
| | 1702 - An Act for Regulating slaves passed in NY |
| | 1712 - Slave revolts NY |
| | 1739 - Stono Rebellion SC |
| 1760 - The Domestic Slave Trade | | |
| 1772 - Maroon War in Surinam | |
| | 1775 - Lord Dunmore's Proclamation |
| | 1776 - Independence War |
| 1778 - Akan Wars | |
| | 1783 - Black Loyalists leave US |
| 1783 - Colonization and Emigration | | |
| 1787 - Establishment Sierra Leone | |
| | 1787 - Constitution |
| 1790 - Haitian Immigration: 18th and 19th Centuries | | |
| 1791 - Haitian revolution | |
| 1792 - Denmark first nation to abolish slave trade | |
| | 1793 - Fugitive slave law |
| | 1793 - Invention of cotton gin |
| 1794 - France abolishes slavery | |
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| | 1803 - Louisiana Purchase |
| 1804 - Haitian independence | |
| | 1808 - USA/G. Britain abolish the slave trade |
| | 1812 - Anglo-American War |
| | 1815 - African Americans in Sierra Leone |
| | 1816 - American Colonization Society |
| | 1817 - Seminole Wars |
| 1820 - Establishment Liberia | |
| | 1820 - Establishment of Liberia |
| | 1820 - Missouri Compromise |
| | 1820 - Underground Railroad |
| | 1830 - National Negro Conventions |
| 1834 - Abolition of slavery | |
| 1834 - Great Britain abolishes slavery | |
| | 1839 - Amistad |
| 1840 - The Western Migration | | |
| 1840 - The Northern Migration | | |
| 1847 - Independence of Liberia | |
| 1848 - France abolishes slavery | |
| | 1850 - Compromise |
| | 1850 - Fugitive Slave Law |
| | 1857 - Dred Scott Decision |
| | 1860 - Last slave ship to US |
| | 1861 - Civil War |
| | 1863 - Emancipation proclamation |
| | 1865 - Reconstruction |
| | 1865 - Abolition slavery |
| 1867 - End of transatlantic slave trade | |
| | 1875 - Civil Rights Act |
| | 1879 - Exodus to Kansas |
| 1884 - Berlin conference | |
| 1885 - Colonization of Africa | |
| 1886 - Abolition of slavery, Cuba | |
| 1888 - Abolition of slavery, Brazil | |
| | 1896 - Legal Segregation in the South |
| | 1896 - Plessy v. Ferguson |
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| 1900 - 1st Pan African Congress | |
| 1900 - Caribbean Immigration | | |
| | 1909 - Creation of NAACP |
| | 1911 - Creation of The National Urban League |
| 1911 - The Great Migration | | |
| | 1914 - WWI |
| | 1916 - Garvey founds UNIA |
| | 1919 - Red Summer |
| | 1921 - Tulsa Riot |
| | 1922 - Harlem Renaissance |
| | 1924 - Restrictive Immigration Act |
| | 1929 - Great Depression |
| | 1939 - WWII |
| 1942 - The Second Great Migration | | |
| | 1943 - Race Riots |
| | 1954 - Civil Rights Movement |
| | 1954 - Brown v. Board of Education |
| | 1955 - Montgomery bus boycott |
| 1957 - Independence of Ghana | |
| 1960 - Independence of Caribbean countries | |
| 1960 - Independence of African countries | |
| | 1961 - Vietnam War |
| | 1963 - March on Washington |
| | 1964 - Civil Rights Act |
| | 1965 - Immigration Act |
| | 1965 - Voting Rights Act |
| | 1965 - Watts urban rebellion |
| | 1966 - Urban rebellions |
| 1970 - Haitian Immigration: 20th Century | | |
| 1970 - Return South Migration | | |
| 1970 - African Immigration | | |
| 1980 - Structural Adjustment Policies | |
| | 1990 - Immigration Act |
| | 1991 - Discovery of African Burial Ground, NY |
| | 1992 - Urban rebellion, Los Angeles |
| 1994 - Currency devaluation in Francophone Africa | |
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| | 2003 - Reinternment at African Burial Ground, NY |
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