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View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. ... This is a timeline of History of Ethiopia. Each article deals with events in Ethiopia in a given year. Twentieth ...
25 December – The Ethiopian National Defense Force closes the country's border with Somalia following heavy fighting in rural areas of Harshin, Fafan Zone, between Ethiopia's Somali regional forces and local clan militias after the killing of a local security chief and his bodyguards. Hundreds of people, including children, flee from their homes.
7 January - Ethiopian Christmas; 19 January - Timkat; 2 March – Adwa Victory Day; 31 March – Eid al-Fitr; 18 April – Good Friday; 20 April – Easter Sunday; 1 May - International Workers' Day; 5 May - Ethiopian Patriots' Victory Day; 28 May – Downfall of the Derg day; 7 June – Eid al-Adha; 5 September – The Prophet's Birthday
Mentewab had herself crowned as co-ruler, becoming the first woman to be crowned in this manner in Ethiopian history. Ethiopian Prince investiture during the Zemene Mesafint. Empress Mentewab was crowned co-ruler upon the succession of her son (a first for a woman in Ethiopia) in 1730 and held unprecedented power over government during his reign.
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5 May 1941 – Haile Selassie returned to the throne to Ethiopia to help rally resistance. 19 May 1941 – British military occupation of Eritrea began. [57] [58] 31 January 1942 – 1st Anglo-Ethiopian Agreement. [59] 19 December 1944 – 2nd Anglo-Ethiopian Agreement. 10 February 1947 – Italy recognized Ethiopian sovereignty.
Ethiopia's economy is ranked 159th place out of 190 countries in 'Ease of doing business'. [35] Ethiopia is also a part of African Continental Free Trade Area, Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, Intergovernmental Authority on Development, and the G24, and has observer status at the World Trade Organization.
The Ethiopian courtier (i.e. blatta) and historian Marse Hazan Walda Qirqos (1899–1978) was commissioned by the Selassie regime to compile a documentary history of the Italian occupation entitled A Short History of the Five Years of Hardship, composed concurrently with the submission of historical evidence to the United Nations War Crimes ...