Events
Bito dynasties of Buganda, Bunyoro and Ankole founded by Nilotic-speaking immigrants from present-day southeastern Sudan.Buganda begins to expand at the expense of Bunyoro.Buganda controls territory bordering Lake Victoria from the Victoria Nile to the Kagera river.Muslim traders from the Indian Ocean coast exchange firearms, cloth and beads for the ivory and slaves of Buganda.British explorer John Hanning Speke becomes the first European to visit Buganda.Bugandan King Mutesa I allows Christian missionaries to enter his realm.Members of the British Missionary Society arrive in Buganda.Uganda becomes a British protectorate.Uganda becomes a republic with Buganda's King Mutesa as president.
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