History Before Nigeria
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9000 B.C. – Creation of oldest currently known artifacts and stone shelters. Igboland mostly occupied by foragers including Bantu ancestors.
3000–500 B.C. – Development of donovan (yam cultivation) and animal husbandry.
500 B.C. – A.D. 200 – Nok culture flourishes in Northern Nigeria.

400–100 B.C. – Ironworking develops around Opi, Nsukka.

500 A.D. - End of the Nok culture.

700 A.D – Early Ijaw settlement. https://twitter.com/Joe__Bassey/status/1297052719300202496?s=19
800 A.D – Mega-state at IgboUkwu has complex social structure, produces copious artifacts including bronzes. Yoruba civilization already well established, based on thirteen farming villages centered at Ilé-Ifẹ̀
900 – The reign of the Kingdom of Nri began. https://twitter.com/Joe__Bassey/status/1305558563285348354?s=19
1100 – The Islamic state of Borno was established (KanemBorno Empire begins)

1200 – Ilé-Ifẹ̀ becomes Yoruba metropolis.

1255 – Oba Ewedo comes to power in Benin Empire. https://twitter.com/Joe__Bassey/status/1307007242093371393?s=19
Before 1400 the Akwa Akpa Kingdom of the Efik people of now Calabar created the Manillas Currency.
1450 - Direct Europeans contacts begin through the coast of Biafra and Benin. https://twitter.com/Joe__Bassey/status/1296492239187836929?s=19
By 1690 the Aro Confederacy was established through Ibit Ukpabi. https://twitter.com/Joe__Bassey/status/1307218323130716160?s=19
1500 – The nominally Muslim Hausa Kingdoms were established in Northern Nigeria.
1728 - Oyo Empire invades Kingdom of Dahomey.
1767 -British slave traders facilitate massacre on the Calabar River https://twitter.com/Joe__Bassey/status/1310836128543657984?s=19
1800 - Sokoto Caliphate established through jihad; goes to war against the Yoruba states and Kwara was conquered through Jihad.
1803 - Escape to Igbo Landing in Georgia, USA.
1807 25 March- Prohibition of subjects from trafficking in slaves. https://twitter.com/Joe__Bassey/status/1303015626944974854?s=19
1833 -End of Oyo empire

1851 1 January -Treaty Between Great Britain and Lagos.

1861 6 AugustLagos Treaty of Cession: British annexes Lagos, with status of Crown Colony. https://twitter.com/Joe__Bassey/status/1304108977110880256?s=19
1879George Taubman Goldie amalgamated various British ventures to form the United African Company (later known as the Royal Niger Company).
1880The conquest of Southern Nigeria by the British began. https://twitter.com/Joe__Bassey/status/1308436439454101504?s=19
1885Other European powers acknowledged British sovereignty over Nigeria at the Berlin Conference.
1887King Ja Ja of Opobo exiled to West Indies by British. https://twitter.com/Joe__Bassey/status/1304315491922608128?s=19
1892 - British raid uses maxim guns to defeat Ijebu Kingdom, thereby moving towards complete dominance in the southwest area surrounding Lagos.

1893 British incorporate Yoruba lands in southwest into new protectorate. https://twitter.com/Joe__Bassey/status/1302129248052932610?s=19
1894Brassmen (Nembe) revolt against Royal Niger Company.

1895 29 January -King Koko leads successful attack on Royal Niger Company headquarters in Akassa.
2 February 1895 -Consul-general Claude Maxwell MacDonald receives a letter from King Koko offering to release hostages in exchange for a redress of grievances against the Company. This request is declined.
20 FebruaryRoyal Navy counter-attacks against King Koko, razes Nembe.
1897 4 January -Covert foray of the Niger Coast Protectorate Force against Benin City is discovered and destroyed by the Kingdom of Benin.

9–18 February - Retaliatory Benin Expedition of 1897 leads to capture of Benin City. https://twitter.com/Joe__Bassey/status/1301925242252730368?s=19
1898 - Beginning of Ekumeku Movement against British rule.

1900 1 January -All Nigeria now under Crown rule. Protectorate of Northern Nigeria created from Company holdings.

1901- Anglo-Aro war began, The Aro Confederacy began to decline till 1902 https://twitter.com/Joe__Bassey/status/1286921162807812096?s=19
1903 - January Kano was captured
The British conquered most of Northern Nigeria, including the Sokoto Caliphate.
1905 - The British conquest of Southern Nigeria ended.
1906 1 May- Colonial Office amalgamates Lagos Colony with Southern Nigeria Protectorate.
1908 - Protests against water fees in Lagos, encouraged by nationalistic journalism of Herbert Macaulay.
1912 -Frederick Lugard, Governor of Northern Nigeria, established a system of indirect rule. Creation of Southern Nigeria Civil Service Union; Nigerian Civil Servants' Union.
1914JanuaryNorthern Nigeria and Southern Nigeria were amalgamated into Nigeria sign at the Amalgation house in Ikot Abasi now in Akwa Ibom ceremony performed at Lagos and Zungeru. British Crown gained monopoly rights over mineral extraction.
And Nigeria name begins, written directly as Nigger Area [(Nigger is an ethnic slur typically directed at black people) it mean Black or Dark Area which literally mean Area of Darkness].
In 1914 Nigerian Soldiers fight under British Command in World War 1. https://twitter.com/Joe__Bassey/status/1298532186958831617?s=19
1918 - The Adubi War is fought in Egba Land.
1922 - Clifford Constitution.
1928 - AprilBritish begin direct taxation.
1929 14 October -New governor implements plans to expand taxation.
November1924 - "Women's War": Widespread revolt against taxation. https://twitter.com/Akwa_CrossFacts/status/1296848535204368390?s=19
1931- Founding of Nigeria Union of Teachers.
1936 - Founding of Nigeria Youth Movement.
1944- National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons founded by Nnamdi "Zik" Azikiwe.
1945- Countrywide general strike.
1946- Nigeria entered a period of decolonization.
1950- A conference of northern and southern delegates was held in Ibadan.
1951- MacPherson Constitution.
Yoruba-aligned Action Group founded; headed by Obafemi Awolowo.
19531 May-Northern vs. Southern violence breaks out in the Northern city of Kano against Southerners.
1960- The real problem of Amalgamation escalated as the Independence of Nigeria begins.
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