BurundiandAND⤬THE JUNCTION
4 SHARED EVENTSRwanda

Entangled histories

4 events in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.

ONE SPINE OF YEARS · TWO WALLS OF EVENTS · BDI LEFT · RWA RIGHT

1. 1916

   Belgium occupies Rwanda

   Belgian forces take Rwanda from Germany during the First World War; from 1922 it is governed with Burundi as Ruanda-Urundi under a League of Nations mandate.

   Colonisation · from the Rwanda chronicle · German and Belgian Rule · REFS 2 — History of Rwanda, Divided by Ethnicity

2. 1 July 1962

   Independence from Belgium

   Rwanda becomes a sovereign republic with Grégoire Kayibanda as first president, ending Belgian rule of Ruanda-Urundi; Burundi gains independence the same day.

   Independence · from the Rwanda chronicle · Revolution, Independence and Exile · REFS 2 — History of Rwanda, Rise of Rwanda

3. 1 July 1962

   Independence under the monarchy

   Burundi becomes independent from Belgium as a constitutional monarchy under Mwami Mwambutsa IV, separating from Rwanda and retaining its throne.

   Independence · from the Burundi chronicle · Ruanda-Urundi: German and Belgian Rule · REFS 3 — History of Burundi, Burundi: History, Mwambutsa IV of Burundi

4. 6 April 1994

   Habyarimana's plane shot down

   A surface-to-air missile downs the plane carrying President Habyarimana and Burundi's president over Kigali, killing all aboard; extremists seize on it to unleash the genocide.

   War & Rupture · from the Rwanda chronicle · Habyarimana, Civil War and Arusha · REFS 3 — Massacre of the Tutsi Minority, Outreach Programme on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda and the United Nations, Juvénal Habyarimana