Nairobi

City · 1899 CE · in Sub-Saharan Africa

Capital of Republic of Kenya (1963–today).

Related

• Abidjan (1898 CE): Capital of Republic of Côte d'Ivoire (1961–1983).
• Chania (c. 1898 CE): Capital of Cretan State (1898–1907).
• N'Djamena (1900 CE): Capital of Republic of Chad (1961–today).
• Muscat (c. 1900 CE): Capital of Sultanate of Muscat and Oman (1900–1946), Sultanate of Oman (1970–today).
• Asmara (1897 CE): Capital of State of Eritrea (1993–today).
• Lilongwe (1902 CE): Capital of Malawi (1975–today).
• Mbabane (1902 CE): Capital of Eswatini (1969–today).
• Lusaka (1905 CE): Capital of Zambia (1967–today).
• Dodoma (1906 CE): Capital of Tanzania (1996–today).
• Port Vila (c. 1907 CE): Capital of New Hebrides (1907–1980), Vanuatu (1983–today).

Around the same time and place

• Haile Selassie (1892 CE – 1975 CE): Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974 who appealed to the League of Nations against the Italian invasion; deposed by the Derg military junta in 1974.
• Menelik II (1844 CE – 1913 CE): Emperor of Ethiopia from 1889 who expanded the empire, founded Addis Ababa and defeated Italy at Adwa in 1896.
• Burton and Speke’s expedition to Lake Tanganyika (1857–1859 CE): Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke travelled inland from Zanzibar along the caravan route and became the first Europeans to reach Lake Tanganyika. On the return Speke went north alone and reached Lake Victoria, which he took to be the source of the Nile.
• Dar es Salaam (1862 CE): Capital of Tanzania (1964–1996).
• Bujumbura (1871 CE): Capital of Republic of Burundi (1963–2019).
• Stanley’s search for Livingstone (1871–1872 CE): Sent by the New York Herald, the journalist Henry Morton Stanley led a caravan from Bagamoyo to Ujiji on Lake Tanganyika, where in November 1871 he found David Livingstone, of whom little had been heard for years.
• Stanley’s crossing of Africa down the Congo (1874–1877 CE): Stanley circumnavigated Lakes Victoria and Tanganyika, then followed the Lualaba from Nyangwe down the Congo to the Atlantic, showing they were one river. The 999-day expedition was marked by heavy losses and violent clashes along the way.
• Jomo Kenyatta (c. 1897 CE – 1978 CE): Kenyan anti-colonial activist imprisoned by the British, who became Kenya's first prime minister and president after independence in 1963.

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