Historical place archive

Nairobi in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Nairobi in Kenya. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

6 records6 event labels3 people1951–2020

Historical events in Nairobi

1951

June 1951
Independence of Kenya
Jomo Kenyatta · Kenya African National Union (KANU)

The urban radicals capture control of the formerly loyalist Nairobi KAU by packing KAU meetings with trade union members then create a secret Central Committee to organize the oath campaign throughout Nairobi

June 1951
KAU
Jomo Kenyatta · Kenya African National Union (KANU)

The urban radicals capture control of the formerly loyalist Nairobi KAU by packing KAU meetings with trade union members then create a secret Central Committee to organize the oath campaign throughout Nairobi

June 1951
Oath
Jomo Kenyatta · Kenya African National Union (KANU)

The urban radicals capture control of the formerly loyalist Nairobi KAU by packing KAU meetings with trade union members then create a secret Central Committee to organize the oath campaign throughout Nairobi

1969

5 July 1969
Assassination of Thomas Joseph Mboya
Thomas Joseph Mboya · Kenya African National Union (KANU)

Assassinated by a member of the Kikuyu

5 July 1969
Death of Thomas Joseph Mboya
Thomas Joseph Mboya · Kenya African National Union (KANU)

Death of Thomas Joseph Mboya, assassinated

2020

13 March 2020
COVID-19
Uhuru Kenyatta · Government of Kenya

Kenya confirms its first COVID-19 case.

Provenance

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