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1482<\/td>\n Captain Diogo Cao of Portugal “discovers” the mouth of the Congo River — ten years before Christopher Columbus reached the shores of America.\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1575<\/td>\nThe Portuguese, under Paulo de Novais establish a settlement on the Ihla of Luanda, at the mouth of the Cuanza River. Angola quickly becomes one of the principal suppliers of slave labor to the New World. Today, historians estimate that between 3 and 4 million Angolans were captured and sold as slaves.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb 4, 1961<\/td>\nMPLA fighters attack the military prison in Luanda, beginning the armed struggle for the liberation of Angola from the Portuguese.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1975 <\/td>\nAngola is granted independence from Portugal. A government of national unity is formed, but war breaks out between the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) and the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA). UNITA is strongly backed by the South African apartheid regime.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1976<\/td>\nThe MPLA, supported by Cuba, seizes control of the bulk of the country, except parts of the UNITA-held south.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1985<\/td>\nThe first case of AIDS is diagnosed in Angola.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1992<\/td>\nHostilities cease for Angola’s first-ever multi-party elections. MPLA wins a first round of U.N.-monitored elections. UNITA rejects the results, and the country goes back to war.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1993<\/td>\nThe U.N. imposes sanctions on Angola. An attempted agreement between MPLA and UNITA over disarmament takes place in the form of the Lusaka Accords.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1996<\/td>\nAngola joins Rwanda and Uganda in the military invasion of Zaire. <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1999<\/td>\nU.N. peacekeepers leave Angola.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1999<\/td>\nThe Ministry of Health reports 44,000 cases of AIDS. This represents an infection rate of about 3.4 percent of the population.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb 22, 2002 <\/td>\nJonas Savimbi, the leader of the rebel group UNITA, is killed in an ambush by government troops. <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
April 4, 2002<\/td>\nLess than six weeks after Savimbi’s death, a cease-fire is signed between the leader of the Angolan military (FAA) and the rebel UNITA forces. The civil war ends after 27 years.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2002<\/td>\n A study by UNAIDS finds that 8.6 percent of pregnant women attending pre-natal clinics in Luanda test positive for HIV.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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