Tanganyika Timeline of Events

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Tanganyika , later formally the Republic of Tanganyika, was a sovereign state in East Africa from 1961 to 1964. It was situated between the Indian Ocean and the African Great Lakes of Lake Victoria, Lake Malawi and Lake Tanganyika...

Timeline of Events

1922

7.20.1922

The League of Nations awards mandates of Togoland to France and Tanganyika to the United Kingdom.

1961

12.9.1961

Tanganyika becomes independent from Britain.

1964

4.26.1964

Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania.

10.29.1964

Tanganyika and Zanzibar unite to form the Republic of Tanzania.