Timeline of Igbo history
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The history of the Igbo people starts from the sojourning that have created Igbo ancient hamlets, village communities, polities, city state, culture and civilization. complex migration and Reverse migratory within established Igbo to their present democratic egalitarian organized communities.
| Period | Event |
|---|---|
| c. 5000 BC - 3000 BC | Neolithic first Achaic hamlets existence in Igboland in the 4th millennium BC.
3000 BC - 700 BC Hamlets of the udi-Nsukka escarpment like lejja, umundu, obimo, Nsude, Awgu, Awhum, opi became the zone of Udi civilization a culture of iron technology and pottery works. another foraging polity like Afikpo, awka, okigwe, orlu had hamlets of sojourners of agriculture, pottery works, hunting traditions and later iron smelting. .[1] |
| c. 700 BC - AD 850 |
Ngwa culture of 8-18AD practiced pottery 500 AD Villages already established iron smelting site, agricultural center in Umueri land, Isu, areas . Bronzes found at the town of Igbo-Ukwu are created, among them iron swords, bronze and copper vases and ornaments and terracotta sculptures are made with in 300 AD to AD 850 .[1] |
Early history
| Year | Event |
|---|---|
| 1043 | Kingdom of Nri begins with Eze Nri Ìfikuánim. |
| 1434 | Portuguese explorers make contact with the Igbo. |
| 1630 | The Aro-Ibibio Wars start. |
| 1690 | The Aro Confederacy is established. |
| 1745 | Olaudah Equiano is born in Essaka, but later kidnapped and shipped to Barbados and sold as a slave in 1765. |
| 1797 | Olaudah Equiano dies in England a freed slave. |
| 1807 | The Slave Trade Act 1807 is passed (on 25 March) stopping the transportation of enslaved Africans, including Igbo people, to the Americas. Atlantic slave trade exports an estimated total of 1.4 million[citation needed] Igbo people across the Middle Passage |
| 1830 | European explorers explore the course of the Lower Niger and meet the Northern Igbo. |
| 1835 | Africanus Horton is born to Igbo ex-slaves in Sierra Leone |
| 1855 | William Balfour Baikie a Scottish naval physician, reaches Niger Igboland.[1] |
