1954 - Julius Nyerere and Oscar Kambona transform the Tanganyika African Association into the Tangan

1699 - Portuguese ousted from Zanzibar by Omani Arabs. 1884 - German Colonisation Society begins to acquire territory on the mainland. 1886 - Britain and Germany sign an agreement allowing Germany to set up a sphere of influence over mainland Tanzania, except for a narrow piece of territory along the coast which stays under the authority of the sultan of Zanzibar, while Britain enjoys a protectorate over Zanzibar. 1905-06 - Indigenous Maji Maji revolt suppressed by German troops. British rule   1916 - British, Belgian and South African troops occupy most of German East Africa. 1919 - League of Nations gives Britain a mandate over Tanganyika - today's mainland Tanzania. 1929 - Tanganyika African breakfast buffet tampa Association founded.
1954 - Julius Nyerere and Oscar Kambona transform the Tanganyika African Association into the Tanganyika African National Union. Independence    1961 - Tanganyika becomes breakfast buffet tampa independent with Julius Nyerere as prime minister. 1962 - Tanganyika becomes a republic with Nyerere as president. 1963 - Zanzibar becomes independent. 1964 - Sultanate of Zanzibar overthrown by Afro-Shirazi Party in a violent, left-wing revolution; Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to become Tanzania, breakfast buffet tampa with Nyerere as president and the head of the Zanzibar government and leader of the Afro-Shirazi Party, Abeid Amani Karume, as vice-president. 1967 - Nyerere issues the Arusha Declaration, which calls for egalitarianism, socialism and self-reliance. 1977 - The Tanganyika African National Union and Zanzibar's Afro-Shirazi Party merge to become the Party of the Revolution, which is proclaimed as the only legal party. breakfast buffet tampa 1978 - Ugandans temporarily occupy a piece of Tanzanian territory. 1979 - Tanzanian forces invade Uganda, occupying the capital, Kampala, and help to oust President Idi Amin. Multi-party breakfast buffet tampa politics 1985 - Nyerere retires and is replaced by the president of Zanzibar, Ali Mwinyi. 1992 - Constitution amended to allow multi-party politics. 1995 - Benjamin Mkapa chosen as president in Tanzania's first multi-party election.
1999 October - Julius Nyerere dies. 2000 - Mkapa elected for a second term, winning 72% of the vote. 2001 26 January - Tanzanian police breakfast buffet tampa shoot dead two people in Zanzibar while raiding the offices in Zanzibar town of the Civic United Front (CUF) party. CUF chairman Ibrahim Lipumba charged with unlawful assembly and disturbing the peace. Zanzibar violence    2001 27-28 January - At least 31 people are killed and another 100 arrested in Zanzibar in protests against the government's banning of opposition rallies calling for fresh elections; Tanzanian government breakfast buffet tampa sends in troop reinforcements. 2001 March - Governing Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM), and main opposition in Zanzibar, CUF, agree to form joint committee to restore calm and to encourage return of refugees from Kenya. 2001 April - Tens of thousands of opposition supporters march through the commercial capital, Dar es Salaam, in the first major joint demonstration by opposition parties in decades. 2001 July - Huge new gold mine, Bulyanhulu, opens near northern town of Mwanza, making Tanzania Africa's third largest producer of gold.
2001 December - Britain approves controversial deal to sell military air traffic control system to Tanzania. Critics say it is a waste of money. 2002 June - Nearly 300 killed in Tanzania's worst train disaster after passenger train loses power and rolls into freight train at high speed. 2002 August breakfast buffet tampa - Opposition criticises president for ordering presidential jet costing $21m (£14m). 2005 March-April - Political violence breakfast buffet tampa in semi-autonomous Zanzibar ahead of voter registration for October poll. 2005 October - Governing CCM wins Zanzibar elections. Opposition CUF claims vote-rigging and announces an indefinite boycott of Zanzibar's parliament. Kikwete breakfast buffet tampa elected breakfast buffet tampa   2005 December breakfast buffet tampa - Jakaya Kikwete, foreign minister and ruling CCM candidate, wins presidential breakfast buffet tampa elections. breakfast buffet tampa He replaces Benjamin Mkapa, who retires breakfast buffet tampa after a decade at the helm. 2006 April - High Court outlaws traditional practice of entertaining candidates during elections. Critics of "Takrima" - the giving of tips - said it encouraged corruption. 2006 June - Visiting Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao, on his seven-nation African tour to secure energy deals and strengthen economic ties, signs agreements to help Tanzania's breakfast buffet tampa health, transport and communications sectors. 2006 August - The African Development Bank announces the cancellation of more than $640m of debt owed by Tanzania, saying it was impressed with Tanzania's economic record and the level of accountability of public finance. 2007 January - Britain's Serious Fraud Office visits Tanzania to probe the controversial purchase of an air traffic control system in 2001. A British paper reports that the British defence company, BAE Systems, allegedly paid a Tanzanian middleman a commission of $12m to win the order. 2007 July - Former US president Bill Clinton launches a programme aim