CongoandAND⤬THE JUNCTION
2 SHARED EVENTSGabon

Entangled histories

2 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 · COG LEFT · GAB RIGHT

1. 1910

   Gabon joins French Equatorial Africa

   France reorganised its Central African colonies into French Equatorial Africa in 1910 — Gabon, the Middle Congo, Ubangi-Shari and Chad, governed from Brazzaville — with Gabon a separate colony.

   Colonisation · from the Gabon chronicle · Libreville, Brazza, and French conquest · REFS 2 — French Equatorial Africa, History of Gabon

2. 1910

   Middle Congo joins French Equatorial Africa

   France reorganised its Central African colonies in 1910 into French Equatorial Africa — Gabon, Middle Congo, Ubangi-Shari and Chad — governed from Brazzaville, which became the federation's federal capital.

   Colonisation · from the Congo chronicle · Brazza, Brazzaville, and the colony of Middle Congo · REFS 3 — French Equatorial Africa, Republic of the Congo, Moyen-Congo (Middle Congo) — Formation