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Historical Events
Events 1 - 46 of 46
1820-02-06 - The first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society started a settlement in present-day Liberia.
1822-01-07 - Liberia colonized by Americans
1822-02-04 - Free American Blacks settle Liberia, West Africa
1824-08-15 - Freed American slaves forms country of Liberia
1847-07-26 - Liberia declares independence from American Colonization Society
1848-01-03 - Joseph Jenkins Roberts is sworn in as the first president of the independent African Republic of Liberia.
1871-03-01 - J Milton Turner named minister to Liberia
1878-04-21 - Ship Azor leaves Charleston with 206 blacks for Liberia
1878-05-23 - Atty John Henry Smyth named minister to Liberia
1881-06-30 - Henry Highland Garnet, named minister to Liberia
1885-09-11 - Moses Hopkins, named minister to Liberia
1890-08-16 - Alexander Clark, journalist/lawyer, named minister to Liberia
1892-01-11 - William D McCoy of Indiana appointed US minister to Liberia
1895-02-23 - William Heard, AME minister & educator, named minister to Liberia
1895-03-18 - 200 blacks leave Savannah, Ga for Liberia
1898-02-11 - Owen Smith of NC, AME Zion minister, named minister to Liberia
1910-06-13 - William D Crum, a SC physician, appointed minister to Liberia
1913-09-10 - George W Buckner, named minister to Liberia
1915-10-25 - Atty James L Curtis named minister of Liberia
1918-08-27 - Dr Joseph L Johnson named minister to Liberia
1921-10-26 - Solomon Porter Hood named minister to Liberia
1927-07-09 - Atty William T Francis named minister to Liberia
1929-03-08 - US worker union commission reports of slavery in Liberia
1930-09-10 - Charles E Mitchell, named minister to Liberia
1935-07-22 - Lester Walton appointed minister to Liberia
1938-06-25 - Federal minimum wage law guarantees workers 25 cents per hour (rising to 40 cents by 1945) and a maximum 44 hour working week
1943-05-26 - 1st president of a black country to visit US (Edwin Barclay, Liberia)
1964-08-22 - Guinee, Liberia & Ivory Coast form joint market
1967-08-24 - Liberian flag designed
1976-12-16 - Liberian tanker stranded at Nantucket, 180,000 barrels oil in sea
1980-04-12 - Samuel Doe takes control of Liberia in a coup d'etat, ending over 130 years of national democratic presidential succession.
1980-05-09 - 35 motorists die as a Liberian freighter rams a Tampa Bay Bridge
1985-10-29 - Major General Samuel K. Doe is announced the winner of the first multiparty election in Liberia.
1989-12-24 - Charles Taylor enters Liberia to unseat President Samuel K Doe
1990-08-24 - 3,500 peacekeepers arrive in Liberia
1990-09-09 - Liberia president Samuel K Doe is captured by Mr Johnson's forces
1990-11-22 - Prof Amos Sawyer installed as interim pres of Liberia
1992-10-15 - Charles Taylor launches an offensive against Monrovia Liberia
1992-10-20 - Mr Johnson surrenders Monrovia Liberia & is exiled to Nigeria
1993-06-05 - Liberian Charles Taylors rebellion kills 550 fugitives
1993-10-28 - Dutch Antilles government of Liberia-Peters resigns
1993-11-25 - Dutch Antilles government of Liberia-Peters falls
1994-03-07 - Charles Taylor resigns as pres of Liberia
1994-12-15 - Liberia militia kills 48 inhabitants of Monrovia
President of Liberia Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
2005-11-23 - Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, elected president of Liberia, is the first woman to lead an African country.
2006-01-16 - Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia's new president. She becomes Africa's first female elected head of state.
Famous Birthdays
Birthdays 1 - 8 of 8
1809-03-15 - Joseph Jenkins Roberts, 1st pres of Liberia
1895-11-29 - William V S Tubman, (Whig), 17th Liberian president (1943-70)
1899-12-08 - Sarah Williamson, US missionary in Liberia
1913-05-13 - William R Tolbert, president Liberia (1971-80)
1938-10-29 - Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, President of Liberia
1948-01-28 - Charles Taylor, President of Liberia
1951-05-06 - Samuel Doe, President of Liberia (d. 1990)
1966-10-01 - George Weah, Liberian politician and footballer
Famous Deaths
Deaths 1 - 6 of 6
1876-02-24 - Joseph Jenkins Roberts, first President of Liberia (b. 1809)
1882-02-13 - Henry Highland Garnet, diplomat, dies in Monrovia Liberia at 66
1971-04-23 - William Tubman, president of Liberia (1944-71), dies at 76
1980-04-12 - William R Tolbert Jr, Liberian President & 27 others killed in coup
1990-09-09 - Samuel Doe, Liberian politician (b. 1951)
1990-09-10 - Samuel Kanyon Doe, president of Liberia (1980-90), assassinated
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