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Within Zanzibar, the revolution is a key cultural event, marked by the release of 545 prisoners on its tenth anniversary and by a military parade on its 40th. [26] Zanzibar Revolution Day has been designated as a public holiday by the government of Tanzania; it is celebrated on 12 January each year. [27]
12 January: Zanzibar Revolution; city becomes capital of People's Republic of Zanzibar and Pemba. April: Sultanate of Zanzibar becomes part of the new United Republic of Tanzania. City becomes capital of semiautonomous region of Zanzibar. [5] Mtoro Rehani becomes mayor. [21] 1966 - Kikwajuni GDR housing built. [22] 1972 - 7 April: Abeid Karume ...
The Sultanate of Zanzibar (Swahili: Usultani wa Zanzibar, Arabic: سلطنة زنجبار, romanized: Sulṭanat Zanjībār), also known as the Zanzibar Sultanate, [1] was an East African Muslim state controlled by the Sultan of Zanzibar, in place between 1856 and 1964. [4]
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It was built in 1883 and restored after the Anglo-Zanzibar War of 1896. The house was primarily the Sultan's residence and was the first building in Zanzibar to have electricity as well as the first building in East Africa to have a lift. It became the seat of the Afro-Shirazi Party after the revolution and was converted into a museum. [3]
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This is a timeline of Tanzanian history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Tanzania and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Tanzania. See also the list of presidents of Tanzania. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing ...
In 1890, with the Heligoland-Zanzibar Treaty, Zanzibar itself became a British protectorate. [16] In 1896, a sudden rebellion of the Zanzibari Omanis against the British rule led to the Anglo-Zanzibar War, which is remembered as the shortest war in history: the Sultan surrendered after 45 minutes of naval bombardment of Stone Town by the Royal ...