5000 BC
Neolithic
period
|
2500 BC
Bronze age
|
2000 BC
Sparsely
populated
|
800BC - 200AD
Nok on Jos
plateau
|
600 BC
Iron age
|
146 - 400AD
Ancient Rome
|
5 AD
Romans
rule
Britain
|
410 -
1065 AD
Invaders
|
11 AD
Hausa
City States
established
|
1216 -
1347 AD
Middle
Ages
|
1485 -
1602 AD
Tudors
|
14 AD
Oyo & Benin
become influential
|
15 AD
Benin reaches
its peak
|
Late 15 AD
Portuguese
Traders
|
18 AD
Oyo controls Yorubaland
& neighbouring Dahomey
|
1819 -
1901 AD
Victorians
|
1837 AD
Sokoto
established
|
1861 AD
Lagos
annexed
|
1897 AD
Benin sacked
by the British
|
1903 AD
Sokoto
conquered
by F.
Lugard
|
1906 AD
Britain
control
all Nigeria
|
1914
Benin Dynasty
restored
N&S amalgamated
|
1960 AD
Nigeria gains its independence from Britain
|
1967 AD
Nigerian
civil war
|
1970 AD
Nigeria Oil boom
|
BBC Nigeria Profile – Timeline:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-13951696
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