Uganda: Promotion of Museveni's son - timeline
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- February 2010. President Yoweri Museveni appoints his son, Lt-Col Kainerugaba Muhoozi, to lead an expanded presidential guard force increasing speculation that the president is grooming Muhoozi for succession.
- September 2009. Serious rioting erupts in Kampala (the capital) over a planned visit to the city by the Kabaka (king) of Buganda.
- February 2009. A new cabinet is appointed and President Museveni comes under criticism for appointing his wife, Janet Museveni, as minister for Karamoja region.
- May 2008. Uganda establishes a special war crimes court to deal with cases of human rights violations committed during the 20-year insurgency carried out by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in the north.
- March 2007. Ugandan troops deploy in Somalia as part of an African Union (AU) peacekeeping mission (AMISOM) to help stabilise the country.
- August 2006. The government and the LRA, meeting in Juba, South Sudan, sign a truce agreement and a ceasefire comes into force — subsequent peace talks are marred by regular walk-outs.
- February 2006. Multiparty presidential and legislative elections result in victory for incumbent President Museveni and his National Resistance Movement (NRM).
- December 2005. The International Court of Justice orders Uganda to pay reparations to the DRC for occupying its eastern regions from 1998 to 2003.
- October 2005. The International Criminal Court issues arrest warrants for five LRA commanders, including LRA leader Joseph Kony.
- July 2005. In a national referendum, Ugandans vote in favour of re-establishing multiparty politics after 19 years of President Museveni's no-party "Movement" system.
- December 2004. Delegations representing the government and the LRA hold their first formal peace talks, but there is no breakthrough in ending the insurgency.
- August 2003. Former dictator Idi Amin dies in exile in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
- May 2003. Uganda completes its military withdrawal from the DRC.
- November 2001. President Museveni and his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame sign a peace agreement — the two leaders had fallen out over their involvement in the war in the DRC.
- March 2001. Incumbent President Museveni wins a landslide victory in presidential elections.
- June 2000. Voters overwhelmingly back the continuation of the country's no party "Movement" system advocated by President Museveni in a referendum on the future of the country's political system.
- May 1997. Ugandan troops help depose Mobutu Sese Seko of Zare (DRC), who is replaced by Laurent Kabila.
- June 1996. President Museveni consolidates his position in legislative elections when supporters of his no party "Movement" system of government secure a majority in the new National Assembly.
- May 1996. Incumbent President Museveni secures a landslide victory in the country's first direct presidential elections.
- September 1995. The Constituent Assembly enacts a new constitution and is formally disbanded.
- June 1995. The Constituent Assembly votes to retain the current system of non-party government.
- March 1994. Non-party elections are held to a Constituent Assembly — supporters of President Museveni win a majority of seats.
- July 1993. Ronald Muwenda Mutebi is crowned the 36th Kabaka (king) of Buganda, marking the restoration of the ancient kingdom of Buganda.
- January 1986. National Resistance Army (NRA) rebels take Kampala and install Museveni as president.
- July 1985. President Obote is deposed in a military coup and is replaced by the head of the army, Lt-Gen. Tito Okello.
- February 1981. Opposition leader Museveni forms the NRA and launches a guerrilla war against President Obote.
- December 1980. Elections are held and Obote is returned to power as president.
- May 1980. President Godfrey Binaisa is overthrown by the army.
- April 1979. Tanzania invades Uganda, unifying the various anti-Amin forces under the Uganda National Liberation Front and forcing President Idi Amin to flee the country - Yusuf Lule is installed as president, but is quickly replaced by Binaisa.
- June 1976. An Air France Airbus carrying 247 passengers from Israel to France is hijacked by Palestinians and Germans and is flown to Entebbe in Uganda — in early July Israeli commandos fly into Entebbe and manage to rescue all the hostages except one.
- September 1972. A serious conflict between Uganda and Tanzania arises as the result of an invasion of Uganda by armed followers of former President Obote — Somali mediation leads to a peaceful settlement.
- August 1972. As part of his "economic war" against foreign domination, President Amin orders Asians who are not Ugandan citizens—around 60,000 people—to leave the country.
- August 1971. Clashes between the Ugandan and Tanzanian armed forces break out on the two countries' joint border.
- February 1971. Amin assumes the presidency.
- January 1971. President Obote is toppled in a military coup led by Amin, commander of Uganda's army.
- December 1969. President Obote survives an assassination attempt
- September 1967. The legislature adopts constitutional changes whereby Uganda officially becomes a republic with an executive president who is concurrently head of state and head of government—the country's traditional rulers are also abolished.
- April 1966. Obote is declared president under a new constitution adopted by the legislature—Buganda refuses to accept the new constitution.
- February 1966. Prime Minister Obote assumes full powers and suspends the constitution following conflict with President Mutesa.
- October 1963. The Kabaka of Buganda, Sir Edward Mutesa II, is elected as the first president of Uganda.
- October 1962. Uganda becomes an independent country within the British Commonwealth, and with Buganda enjoying considerable autonomy.
- April 1962. General elections to the National Assembly result in the defeat of the ruling Democratic Party by the Uganda People's Congress—Obote takes over the premiership.
- March 1962. Uganda achieves full internal self-government, when a cabinet headed by Benedicto Kiwanuka is sworn in—the four kingdoms, including Buganda, retain considerable autonomy.
- March 1961. Elections to the Legislative Council give a clear majority to the Democratic Party over the Uganda People's Congress and the Uganda National Congress.
- October 1958. The first direct elections of African representative members from the four provinces of Uganda to the Legislative Council take place.
- October 1955. Kabaka Mutesa II, who had been exiled from Buganda since November 1953, returns to his country in accordance with the constitutional arrangements worked out at the Namirembe Conference.
- November 1953. The UK withdraws its recognition of the kabaka of Buganda and declares a state of emergency after the Kabaka requests independence—he is later deported.
- March 1950. A Buganda government court sentences James Kabazzi, leader of the Bataka Party, to 14 years' imprisonment for conspiring to rebel against the kabaka.
- April 1949. Serious unrest erupts in Buganda and the governor responds by banning the Bataka Party and of the African Farmers Union.
- October 1945. The first Africans are appointed to the Uganda Legislative Council.
