MalawiandAND⤬THE JUNCTION
2 SHARED EVENTSZambia

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 · MWI LEFT · ZMB RIGHT

1. c. 17th century

   The Maravi Empire at its peak

   In the seventeenth century the confederacy administered a broad domain reaching across parts of modern Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia, trading ivory and iron with Portuguese and Swahili merchants on the coast.

   Economy & Trade · from the Malawi chronicle · The Maravi Confederacy · REFS 3 — Maravi Confederacy, Maravi, The Kingdom of Maravi

2. 31 December 1963

   The Federation dissolved

   Faced with African opposition and irreconcilable tensions, the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland was dissolved at the end of 1963, clearing the way for the separate independence of Malawi, Zambia and Rhodesia.

   Politics & Power · from the Malawi chronicle · Federation, Banda and independence · REFS 2 — Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Formation of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland