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At present, Tanzania has a total of seventeen public holidays: [2] ... 9 December Independence Day (End of British rule in 1961) 25 December Christmas Day:
26 April – Union Day; 1 May – Labour Day; 6 June – Eid al-Adha; 7 July – Saba Saba Day; 8 August – Nane Nane Day; 4 September – Prophet Muhammad's Birthday; 14 October – Nyerere Day; 9 November – Tanzania Independence Day; 25 December – Christmas Day; 26 December – Boxing Day
7 April – Karume Day; 10 April – Eid al-Fitr; 26 April – Union Day; 1 May – Labour Day; 16 June – Eid al-Adha; 7 July – Saba Saba Day; 8 August – Nane Nane Day; 16 September – Prophet Muhammad's Birthday; 14 October – Nyerere Day; 9 December – Tanzania Independence Day; 25 December – Christmas Day; 26 December – Boxing Day
The modern-day African Great Lakes state of Tanzania dates formally from ... Internal self-government started on 1 May 1961 followed by independence on 9 December 1961.
Independence Day: 9 September: 1991 Soviet Union Tanzania: Independence Day: 9 December: 1961 United Kingdom: Independence as Tanganyika. Togo: Independence Day: 27 April: 1960 France Tonga: Emancipation Day: 4 June: 1970 United Kingdom: Termination of protectorate status in 1970. Trinidad and Tobago: Independence Day: 31 August: 1962
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 ...
Tanganyika (/ ˌ t æ ŋ ɡ ə n ˈ j iː k ə,-ɡ æ n-/ TANG-gən-YEE-kə, -gan-) was a sovereign state, comprising the mainland part of present-day Tanzania, that existed from 1961 until 1964. It first gained independence from the United Kingdom on 9 December 1961 as a Commonwealth realm [ 1 ] headed by Queen Elizabeth II before becoming ...
Turnbull was the last governor and relinquished power to Julius Nyerere on independence day, 9 December 1961. Nyerere became the first prime minister of the newly independent nation of Tanganyika. [ 12 ]