timeline

__Timeline of Kenya__ 10,000BC Upper Paleolithic (the Old Stone Age) period 5000 - 3000BC Neolithic (New Stone Age) period 3000BC - 1000BC - Evidence of migration of people from Somalia and Ethiopia 400 AD - Migration of the Bantu Cushitic and Nilotic peoples into East Africa 600 - Arabs began to settle on the Coastal area introducing the Muslim religion 700 - Trade with the Arabs and Phoenicians in ivory, rhino horn, gold, shells and slaves 1400 - 1700 - The Portuguese extend their empire to East Africa 1720 - Control of the coast was won back by the Arabs 1800 - Christian missionaries and explorers come in to Africa and the Europeans start a process of the colonization of Kenya 1800's - The Maasai settled in the Rift Valley 1895 - The British declared Kenya a Protectorate 1895–1901 - A railroad was built from Mombasa to Kisumu on Lake Victoria 1896 - 1905 Kenyan people resist the British rule 1956 - Mau Mau Rebellion and Emergence of the Kenya African Union (KAU) 1961 Jomo Kenyatta become independent Kenya's first president 1963 - Kenya gained Independence 1964 - Kenya became a Republic. **