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1960 (17 August) |
Independence
of the Republic of Gabon proclaimed. |
1961 (13
February) |
Léon
Mba elected President. |
1961 (21
February) |
The
Constitution sets up a presidential regime in the place of the former parliamentary
regime. |
1964 (18
February) |
Failed
military coup d’état. |
1965 (12
February) |
Gabon
elected member of the UN Economic and Social Council. |
1967 (19 March) |
Re-election
of Léon Mba President of the Republic. |
1967 (28
November) |
Death
of Léon Mba. Vice-President Omar Bongo succeeds him (2 Dec.). |
1968 (15 June) |
Institution
of the Gabonese democratic Party (PDG) as the single party. Omar Bongo fills the functions
of both President and Secretary General of the Party. |
1969 (19
February) |
General
elections. |
1972 (September) |
Border
disputes between Gabon and Equatorial Guinea. |
1973 (25
February) |
Re-election
of Omar Bongo. |
1975 (16 April) |
Léon
Mébiame appointed Prime Minister. |
1975 (25 May) |
New
Constitution promulgated. |
1975 (10 June) |
Gabon
becomes a full member of OPEC. |
1976 (7
September) |
Gabon
withdraws from the Common African and Mauritian Organisation (COMA). |
1977 (16 January) |
A report
by a UN commission accuses Gabon and Morocco of being involved in a raid by mercenaries on
Cotonou (Benin). |
1978 (July) |
Ten
thousand Beninese are expelled from Gabon. |
1979 (14
December) |
First
elections to the province, department and municipal assemblies. |
1979 (30
December) |
Re-election
of Omar Bongo. |
1980 (27 Jan/10
Feb.) |
General
elections. |
1981 (May) |
Expulsion
of several thousand Cameroonians. |
1981 (December) |
Student
strikes. President Bongo closes the University of Libreville. |
1982 (November) |
Trial of
forty members of the opposition (Movement for National Revival – MORENA) before the
State Security Court. |
1983 (17 October) |
Founding
conference of the Economic Community of Central African States in Libreville. |
1985 (31 March) |
General
elections. All the candidates belong to the single party, the PDG. |
1986 (3 May) |
Diplomatic
relations established with the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO). |
1986 (9 November) |
Omar
Bongo re-elected. |
1987 (6 January) |
Léon
Mébiame is kept on as Prime Minister. |
1987 (28 June) |
Municipal
elections. |
1989 (3 October) |
Failure
of a plot against President Bongo. |
1990 (16 January) |
Student
strike. |
1990 (February) |
Increasing
numbers of strikes in all the sectors of the economy. |
1990 (27 April) |
Casimir
Oyé Mba appointed Prime Minister. |
1990 (22 May) |
Official
introduction of a multiparty system. |
1990 (23-30 May) |
Riots in
Libreville and Port-Gentil in the wake of the death of an opposition member. |
1990 (16-18
Sept.) |
First
multiparty elections. The election of 58 members of parliament is confirmed while the vote
is cancelled and postponed for the others. After four rounds of voting, the PDG wins 63
seats and the opposition 57. |
1990 (21
November) |
Casimir
Oyé Mba is again appointed Prime Minister. He calls members of the opposition to serve in
his government as ministers. |
1992 (29
February) |
Reopening
of the universities closed since strikes on 5 February). |
1993 (5 December) |
First
pluralist presidential election. Omar Bongo is re-elected ahead of Father Mba
Abessolé, the President of the National Union of Lumberjacks. |
1994 (11 March) |
The
National assembly adopts a reform of the Constitution creating a Senate. |
1994 (11 October) |
Resignation
of Casimir Oyé Mba. Paulin Obame Nguema is appointed Prime Minister. |
1995 (March) |
Checks
made on those without ID papers. Tens of thousands of foreigners are expelled. |
1996 (Oct./Nov.) |
Municipal
elections. The PDG wins 54% of the seats. The opposition wins control of the country’s
two largest cities, Libreville and Port-Gentil. Father Mba Abbesolé is elected mayor of
the capital. |
1996 (December) |
General
elections: the PDG keeps its absolute majority. |
1997 (January) |
Prime
Minister Paulin Obame Nguéma forms a new government essentially composed of members of
the PDG. |
1997 (18 April) |
Constitution
revised, among other things, to create the post of Vice-President and to extend the term
of office of the President from 5 to7 years. |
1997 (27 May) |
Appointment
of Divungi-Di Ndinge Didjob, from the opposition, to the newly-created post of Vice
President of the Republic. |
1997 (30 August) |
By-elections:
the PDG wins 6 of the 10 seats up for election. |
1998 (6 December) |
Re-election
of Omar Bongo as President of the Republic in the first round with 66.55% of the votes. |
1999 (23 January) |
Jean-François Ntoutoume Emane appointed
Prime Minister. |
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Update
currently in preparation. |
Sources used |
Afrique contemporaine, quarterly
review (La Documentation Française) AFP
Afrique: daily news bulletin from Africa –Agence France Presse Press
Files from the CEAN Document Centre. |
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