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🇹🇿 Zanzibar Revolution Day in Tanzania
End of the Sultanate of Zanzibar
Date in Tanzania
January 12
Instituted1964
Commemorates the end of Sultanate rule in 1964.
Marks the overthrow of the Sultanate of Zanzibar and the establishment of the People's Republic of Zanzibar
How Zanzibar Revolution Day is observed in Tanzania
Historical significance
Marks the overthrow of the Sultan of Zanzibar and his Arab government by local African revolutionaries.
Public life in Tanzania
BanksClosed
SchoolsClosed
Government officesClosed
Calendar & celebration
Calendar systems
Gregorian
On this day in African history
- 1872 Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first imperial coronation in that city in over 200 years.
- 1960 The eight-year-old State of Emergency in Kenya by the British ends.
- 1970 Biafra surrenders, ending the Nigerian Civil War.
- 1992 A new constitution, providing freedom to form political parties, is approved by a referendum in Mali.
- 1994 France and the International Monetary Fund impose a fifty percent devaluation of the CFA franc across fourteen African member nations. · Senegal
In Tanzania, around 1964
- 1964 Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form the United Republic of Tanzania. · Tanzania
- 1964 Oscar Kambona drives himself to the mutinous Colito Barracks to negotiate with soldiers of the Tanganyika Rifles, maintaining public order and coordin... · Tanzania
- 1964 (c.) Chris Hani returns from the USSR to East Africa and takes charge of setting up the Kongwa military camp in Tanzania. · Tanzania