1851
(December 26-27):
Royal Navy warship bombards Lagos. Oba of Lagos (Oba
Kosoko) flees to Epe, wounded.
On board the ship was Lt. Labulo Davies, probably
the first Nigerian to be commisioned in a naval
force.
1862 (January
1): Lagos Island annexed as a colony of
Britain
1862 (January
22): Mr H.S Freeman appointed (first) Governor
of Lagos Colony.
1877: George
Taubman Goldie arrived in the Niger Delta in 1877
1885: Oil
Rivers Protectorate proclaimed by the British
after they had defeated of King Jaja of Opobo, the
Oba of Benin and subdued all prominent oil
merchants of the Niger Delta.
1892 (19 May):
At the Battle of the (sacred) Yemoja River the
British wreaks havoc amongst the Ijebu infantry
with a British Maxim (capable of firing 2000
rounds in three minutes).
1893: Oil
Rivers Protectorate renamed Niger Coast
Protectorate with its capital at Calabar.
1890's:
British Journalist Flora Shaw, later wife of Lord
Frederick Lugard, suggests the name
"Nigeria" after the great Niger River.
1897: The
British overthrow Oba Ovonramwen of Benin. One of
the last independent West African kings.
1900: Niger
Coast Protectorate was merged with the colony and
protectorate of Lagos and renamed Protectorate of
Southern Nigeria
1914:
Formation of Nigeria under Governor Frederick
Lugard
1929 (October):
(Aba Women's Riot). Women in Aba demonstrate
against high taxes and low prices of Nigerian
exports.
1954: The
position of Governor was created in each region
after the Federal System of Government was
adopted.
1958:
Nigerian Armed Forces came under Federal control.
The Nigerian Navy was created.
1959: The
new Nigerian currency was introduced
1959:
Northern Peoples Congress(NPC)and Niger Delta
Congress(NDC)go into alliance to contest
parliamentary elections. The alliance earned the
Brass Division a seat in the Federal Parliament
for the first time.
1960(July):
Sir Adesoji Aderemi becomes 1st Nigerian and 1st
African to be appointed Governor in the
Commonwealth. He became Goernor before Nigeria got
independence.
1960 (October
1): Independence. Nnamdi Azikiwe ("Zik")
becomes 1st indigenous Governor General. At
independence, the Nigerian government consisted of
three ethnic states united in a federation. Each
state was controlled by a single dominant
ethnic-based party
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