Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
"French Congo. Natives from Gabon": Colonial postcard c.1905. In 1838 and 1841, France established a protectorate over the coastal regions of Gabon by treaties with Gabonese coastal chiefs. . American missionaries from New England established a mission at the mouth of the Komo River in 1842. In 1849, the French authorities captured an illegal slave ship and freed the captives on board. The ...
1946: Haut-Ogooué is definitively attached to Gabon. 1946: Abolition of forced labor [1] 1956: Léon Mba is elected mayor of Libreville. 1956: first oil wells, at Ozouri, by the la Société des Pétroles d'Afrique Équatoriale, the future Elf-Gabon. 1958: Gabon becomes an autonomous state within the framework of the Communauté française.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... This is a timeline of History of Gabon. Each article deals with events in Gabon in a given year . Twentieth ...
Gabon (/ ɡ ə ˈ b ɒ n / gə-BON; French pronunciation: ⓘ), officially the Gabonese Republic (French: République gabonaise), is a country on the Atlantic coast of Central Africa, on the equator, bordered by Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon to the north, the Republic of the Congo to the east and south, and the Gulf of Guinea to the west.
This page was last edited on 15 September 2024, at 09:47 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.
A year since a military coup in Gabon ended the Bongo dynasty's 56-year rule, the country marked the anniversary in festive mood this week with celebrations and promises by the ruling junta to ...
The Kingdom of Orungu (c. 1700 –1927) (Portuguese: Reino da Orungu, French: Royaume d'Orungu) was a small, pre-colonial state of what is now Gabon in Central Africa. Through its control of the slave trade in the 18th and 19th centuries, it was able to become the most powerful of the trading centers that developed in Gabon during that period.
%PDF-1.4 %âãÏÓ 6 0 obj > endobj xref 6 120 0000000016 00000 n 0000003048 00000 n 0000003161 00000 n 0000003893 00000 n 0000004342 00000 n 0000004557 00000 n 0000004733 00000 n 0000005165 00000 n 0000005587 00000 n 0000005635 00000 n 0000006853 00000 n 0000007332 00000 n 0000008190 00000 n 0000008584 00000 n 0000009570 00000 n 0000010489 00000 n 0000011402 00000 n 0000011640 00000 n ...