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==Timeline== | ==Timeline== | ||
1624 - Abyssinian–Adal war was one of the first proxy wars in the region, as the Ottoman Empire and Portugal took sides in the conflict. When Emperor Susenyos I converted to Roman Catholicism years of revolt and civil unrest followed, resulting in thousands of deaths<br> | |||
1632 - The state religion was again to be the Ethiopian Orthodoxy and the Jesuit missionaries and other Europeans were expelled<br> | |||
1755 - 1855, Ethiopia experienced a period of isolation referred to as the Zemene Mesafint. The Emperors became figureheads, controlled by warlords<br> | |||
1855 - Ethiopian isolationism ended following a British mission that concluded an alliance between the two nations<br> | |||
1888 - 1892 About a third of the population died in the Great Ethiopian Famine<br> | |||
1935 - 1941 The independence of Ethiopia was interrupted by the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, beginning when it was invaded by Fascist Italy and Italian occupation of the country<br> | |||
1942 - Ethiopia had between two and four million slaves in the early 20th century, out of a total population of about eleven million <br> | |||
*[http://www.everyculture.com/Cr-Ga/Ethiopia.html Every Culture] Culture of Ethiopia | *[http://www.everyculture.com/Cr-Ga/Ethiopia.html Every Culture] Culture of Ethiopia | ||
*[http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs/state_and_revolution/ethiopia.htm Columbia] Ethiopian History and Politics | *[http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs/state_and_revolution/ethiopia.htm Columbia] Ethiopian History and Politics | ||
[[Category:Africa]] | [[Category:Africa]] | ||