Mau Mau uprising
Kenyan fighters wage years of war on British colonial rule
In 1952 the British declared a state of emergency in Kenya over the Mau Mau uprising, waged mostly by Kikuyu who had lost land to white settlers. The revolt was crushed and tens of thousands of Kenyans were held in camps, but by 1963 Kenya was independent.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Whole world
- 1939–1945 World War II — 13 years earlier
- 1945 Founding of the United Nations — 7 years earlier
- 1947–1991 Cold War — 5 years earlier
- 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights — 4 years earlier
- 1949 Founding of NATO — 3 years earlier
Europe
- 1928 Discovery of penicillin — 24 years earlier
- 1933 Hitler comes to power — 19 years earlier
- 1936–1939 Spanish Civil War — 16 years earlier
- 1941–1945 The Holocaust — 11 years earlier
- 1953 Discovery of the DNA double helix — 1 year later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1941–1944 Siege of Leningrad — 11 years earlier
- 1942–1943 Battle of Stalingrad — 10 years earlier
- 1945 German surrender and Victory Day — 7 years earlier
- 1957 Sputnik 1, the first satellite — 5 years later
- 1961 Gagarin's flight — 9 years later
Middle East
- 1948 Founding of the State of Israel — 4 years earlier
- 1948–1949 1948 Arab–Israeli War and the Nakba — 4 years earlier
- 1953 Iranian coup against Mosaddegh — 1 year later
- 1958 14 July Revolution in Iraq — 6 years later
- 1960 Founding of OPEC — 8 years later
Asia
- 1945 Atomic bombing of Hiroshima — 7 years earlier
- 1950–1953 Korean War — 2 years earlier
- 1953 First ascent of Everest — 1 year later
- 1966–1976 Cultural Revolution in China — 14 years later
- 1975–1979 The Khmer Rouge and the Cambodian genocide — 23 years later
Americas
- 1929 Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression — 23 years earlier
- 1947 Invention of the transistor — 5 years earlier
- 1955 Salk polio vaccine declared safe — 3 years later
- 1969 Moon landing — 17 years later
- c. 1970 Mass deforestation of the Amazon begins — 18 years later
Oceania
- 1936 Death of the last thylacine — 16 years earlier
- 1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor — 11 years earlier
- 1942 The Battle of Midway — 10 years earlier
- 1954 The Castle Bravo test at Bikini — 2 years later
- 1959 The Antarctic Treaty — 7 years later
Alive at the time
- Winston Churchill (aged 78)
- Joseph Stalin (aged 74)
- Albert Einstein (aged 73)
- Pablo Picasso (aged 71)
- Charlie Chaplin (aged 63)
- Mao Zedong (aged 59)
- Nelson Mandela (aged 34)
- Martin Luther King Jr. (aged 23)
- Neil Armstrong (aged 22)
- Yuri Gagarin (aged 18)