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1888 - 1892 About a third of the population died in the Great Ethiopian Famine<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> | 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> | 1942 - Ethiopia had between two and four million slaves in the early 20th century, out of a total population of about eleven million<br> | ||
1975 - The new Provisional Military Administrative Council established a one-party communist state<br> | |||
1977 – 1978 Up to 500,000 were killed as a result of the Red Terror, from forced deportations, or from the use of hunger<br> | |||
1983 – 1985 Famine in Ethiopia affected around eight million people, resulting in one million dead<br> | |||
2017 - 400,000 were displaced by the Oromo-Somali clashes and more than 1.2 million | |||
people have been displaced by inter-ethnic violence in 2018<br> | |||
== Links == | |||
*[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]] | ||