| Date |
Timeline of Afro-Asian Events |
| 40,000 bp |
Modern human in northern Eurasia |
| 10,000 bp |
Sugarcane domesticated in New Guinea |
| 12,700-10,900 BCE |
Expansion of Afroasiatic or Afrasian linguistic family--eventually spreading to Middle East--Semitic is the only branch found outside Africa |
| 6000 BCE |
Oldest known cotton fiber, Mehrgarh, Pakistan |
| 2600 BCE |
Camel domesticated in Iran |
| 1900 BCE |
Wadi el-Hol Inscriptions developed from hieroglyphs |
| 1600 BCE |
Proto-Sinaitic developed |
| 1550-1100 BCE |
New Kingdom or Egyptian Empire expands territory to Middle East |
| ca. 1482 |
Thutmose III, the Battle of Megiddo , defeats Canaanite coalition |
| c. 1273, 1274 BCE |
Ramses the Great , New Kingdom Egypt . Battle of Kadesh |
| 1200 BCE |
Phoenician ascendancy, populating Mediterranean with colonies, especially North Africa |
| 800 BCE |
Carthage founded by Queen Dido in present day Tunisia |
| 702-669 BCE |
Kushite Empire emerge as Mediterranean/ Middle East superpower, counter weight to Assyrian might |
| 701 BCE |
Kushites thwart Assyrian takeover of Jerusalem |
| 600-501 BCE |
Punic Script/Language differentiates from Phoenician Script |
| 663 BCE |
Assyrians conquer Egypt with superior iron weapons, drives out the Kushites |
| 525 BCE |
Persia invades Egypt |
| 206 BCE-220 CE |
According to Chinese scholars, Han Dynasty in contact with Kush and Axum |
| 6 BCE |
Jesus is born |
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First Millenium CE |
| 1-100 |
Malay began inhabiting Madagascar; Madagascan are predominantly of Malay and African extraction |
| 1-200 |
Banana, coconut, taro (cocoyam) from Asia introduced into Africa by Malay |
| 300s |
Arabic Script in use (Afroasiatic-semitic)
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| 500 |
sugar is crystallized in India from sugarcane |
| 525 |
Axumites invade Himyar and remains
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| 570 |
Axumites removed from southern Arabia by Sassaniad Persian Empire |
| 570 |
Muhammad is born |
| 615 |
Muslims given refuge in Aksum, possibly by Armah or father Ellah Tsaham, First Hijra |
| 618-907 |
Black muslims visits city of Changan --Tang Dynasty |
| 640 |
Egypt conquered under the leadership of Amr ibn-al-A (Ethiopian companion of the prophet Muhammad) |
| 711 |
All of Ifriqiya(north africa) under muslim control |
| 869 |
Zanj Rebellion-- Zanj Rebellion spread to west Iran, town of Ahwaz captured |
| 900 |
Increased African trade with China(Tang Dynasty);Chinese artifact dot African east coast; slaves, rhinoceros horns, exported
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| 969 |
Beginning of the Fatimid Empire |
| 1000s |
Earliest West African Arabic Script (ajami) from tomb inscription in Gao
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| 1000s |
Swahili Script(Kiarabu) in use from tomb inscription and coins-Arabic Script in use in African east coast |
| 1100s |
African slaves being imported in the ports of southern India , central India ( Deccan )
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| 1100s
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Black slaves being imported to the Maldives
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| 1204 |
Christian Nubia joins with Christian Crusaders from Europe to fight muslims@Constantinople , Fourth Crusade |
| 1236-1240 |
Habshi Jamal al-Din Yaqut, a royal courtier in the kingdom of Delhi, favorite of Queen Radiyya |
| 1260 |
Battle of Ain Jalut, Mamluk Egyptians stops Mongol expansion into Africa |
| 1415 |
Admiral Zhen He visits the Sultan of Kilwa, increase chinese trade with East African coast under Ming Dynasty |
| 1480s-1759 |
Seafaring Siddis being used to patroll seas--would later take power on the island of Janjira , south of Mumbai |
| 1486-1493 |
Habshi slave soldiers took over Bengal kingdom, lead by Barbak Shah, and rule the Bengal kingdom to 1493 |
| 1498 |
Portuguese enter Indian Ocean established permanent prescence |
| 1513 |
Thirty African slaves, including Nuflo de Olano with Balboa when discovered Pacific |
| 1516-1574 |
North Africa under Ottoman control, except Kingdom of Morocco |
| 1517 |
Black eunuchs being sent to Crimean Khanate |
| 1546 |
Blacks arrive in Japan with Portuguese captain Jorge Alvarez for first time, might be older via China |
| 1595 |
Black eunuch is administrator for Medina/Mecca mosque under Ottoman control
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| 1600 |
Malik Ambar comes to power in the Deccan--Ahmednagar Sultanate |
| 1600-1708 |
English East India Company founded
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| 1602-1799 |
Dutch East India Company founded |
| 1617 |
Eunuch Mustafa Agha thwarts Osman's right to the Ottoman throne |
| 1620-1825 |
Siddis rule Kingdom of Janjira |
| 1623 |
Portuguese forts of Macao being manned by black soldiers |
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late 1600s to 1800s many black soldiers and slaves could be found on Dutch ships. They could be found in ports such Melaka, Jakarta, Nagasaki |
| 1648 |
Eunuch Süleyma Agha secures Mehmed IV to the Ottoman throne |
| 1698 |
Combined power of Swahili Pate and Oman, diminish power of Portugese in East African coast, Portuguese remains in Mozambique |
| 1700s |
Siddis rule Kingdom of Sachin |
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During the late 1700s, many African Americans started visiting east Asia |
| 1717 |
Yaqub Sultan made governor of Bandar Abbas in Iran |
| 1828 |
Treaty of Turkmanchai makes Iran dependent on african slaves, no longer had access to Christian sources |
| 1831 |
Beginning recruitment of the Belanda Hitam |
| 1832 |
Zanzibar becomes capital of Oman |
1834-1900
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453,063 Indians immigrate to Mauritius
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1837
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Oman takes power from Mombasa elite, thereby controlling the Swahili coast
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1838-1924
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Asian migration to the Caribbean, predominantly from India and lesser numbers from China and Indonesia(Java) as indentured labor |
| 1845 |
African American, Pyrrhus Concer was instrumental in developing good US/Japanese relation before Perry's invasion of Japan |
| 1850s |
African Americans frequently traveled east Asia on whaling ships |
1861-1883
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26,507 indians immigrate to La Reunion
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| 1868 |
Iran, Tehran census, 12% black, 756 ghulam, 3014 kaniz |
1870-1916
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6,315 Indians immigrate to Seychelles
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| 1889 |
Turkey abolishes slavery |
| 1899 |
African American soldiers like David Fagen abandones American military and joins the Filipino insurrection for independence |
| 1893-1914 |
Gandhi lives in South Africa where he developed his Satyagraha phillosophy |
| 1920 |
Slavery ended in Iraq |
| 1928 |
-Slavery abolished in Iran
-Dark Princess written by African American W.E.B Dubois encourage African and Asian cooperation against colonialism |
| 1940s |
Wally Bastiansz, of Sinhala and Dutch Burgher roots creates Baila from the Kaffir style of Kaffrinha music |
| 1948-1956 |
Moroccan Jews emmigrate to Israel |
| 1950s |
During the US occupation of Japan and the Korean War, African American soldiers produced mixed race offsprings, rejected by their fathers and local communities, some experienced great hardship |
| 1955 |
Bandung Conference, conference of non-aligned countries--mainly between Asian and African countries |
| 1960s |
African Hebrew Israelites begin emmigrating to Israel from USA |
| 1964 |
Zanzibar Revolution, Afro-Sherazi overthrow dominant Arab Omani government , many Omani Arab(Zanzibari) flee to Oman |
| 1970s |
Esmeray becomes one of Turkey's most popular singers |
| 1972 |
Idi Amin expels all Indian Asians from Uganda |
| 1977 |
Beginning movement of Beta Israel to Israel |
| 2013 |
Yityish "Titi" Aynaw of Ethiopian ancestry, wins Miss Israel |
| 2015 |
Ariana Miyamoto, hafu(Japanese mother and African American father--Arkansas) wins Miss Japan pageant |
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