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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Leone] | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Leone] | ||
==Timeline== | ==Timeline== | ||
1792 - Nearly | 1792 - Nearly 1.200 persons from Nova Scotia crossed the Atlantic to build the second, and only permanent Colony of Sierra Leone.<br> | ||
1808 - British crews delivered thousands of formerly enslaved Africans to Freetown, after liberating them from illegal slave ships<br> | 1808 - British crews delivered thousands of formerly enslaved Africans to Freetown, after liberating them from illegal slave ships.<br> | ||
1898 - During the Hut Tax War fighters had the advantage over the vastly more powerful British forces, but the British troops and warriors suffered hundreds of fatalities<br> | 1898 - During the Hut Tax War fighters had the advantage over the vastly more powerful British forces, but the British troops and warriors suffered hundreds of fatalities.<br> | ||
1960 - On the conclusion of talks in London, the United Kingdom agreed to grant Sierra Leone Independence on 27 April 1961<br> | 1960 - On the conclusion of talks in London, the United Kingdom agreed to grant Sierra Leone Independence on 27 April 1961.<br> | ||
1968 - Unrest in the provinces led to a state of emergency across the country<br> | 1968 - Unrest in the provinces led to a state of emergency across the country.<br> | ||
1991 - 2001 About 50,000 people were killed in Sierra Leone's civil war and hundreds of thousands of people were forced from their homes and many became refugees in Guinea and Liberia<br> | 1991 - 2001 About 50,000 people were killed in Sierra Leone's civil war and hundreds of thousands of people were forced from their homes and many became refugees in Guinea and Liberia.<br> | ||
2014 - There were nearly | 2014 - There were nearly 3,000 deaths and 10,000 cases of Ebola in Sierra Leone.<br> | ||
== References == | == References == | ||