Events
101 wars, raids, alliances, treaties, migrations and conquests on the atlas’s old map, in the order they happened.
1300s
1400s
1500s
- The Idoma from Apa, through Igala landMigration · c. 1500–1650
- Kisoki throws off BornuWar · reign of Muhammad Kisoki (1509–1565)
- Songhai rules KatsinaWar · 1512–1554
- The Igala–Benin warWar · 1515–1516
- Kanta's revolt against SonghaiWar · 1516–1537
- Bornu besieges SurameWar · Kanta's reign (c. 1530–1561)
- Tsoede goes up the NigerMigration · c. 1531 (tradition)
- Oyo’s court in exileMigration · c. 1535–1610
- Benin’s war camp at EkoWar · c. 1550–1578
- Eri comes down from IgalaMigration · c. 1550–1650 by Idigo’s reckoning; other accounts far earlier
- The Umuezechima migration to OnitshaMigration · 16th or 17th century
- Idris Alooma's campaignsWar · c. 1570–1603
- Amina's campaignsWar · c. 1576–1610 (Zazzau tradition)
- Oyo's failed attack on BeninWar · between 1578 and 1608
1600s
- Kwararafa invades KanoRaids · c. 1600–1700
- The Kano Igala come home: Angwa at IdahMigration · 17th century, after the Kwararafa invasions of Kano
- Abutu-Eje leads the Igala home from KwararafaMigration · c. 1630 (tradition)
- Igala settlement down the NigerMigration · c. 17th–18th century
- The Atlantic slave trade at the coastEuropeans by sea · c. 1650–1807
- The founding of ArochukwuAlliance · c. 1650–1700
- Kwararafa against Katsina, Zazzau and BornuWar · c. 1670–1684
1700s
- Ayegba’s war against the JukunWar · c. late 17th century
- The Aro go out: settlements across IgbolandMigration · c. 1700–1850
- The last Idoma leave Igala landMigration · c. 1700–1780
- Zamfara, Gobir and Agadez throw off KebbiWar · c. 1715
- Soba of Gobir raids to IlorinRaids · c. 1715–1742
- Oyo’s wars on DahomeyWar · 1726–1748
- Onoja Oboni’s conquest of the Nsukka townsRaids · 18th century
- The fall of Birnin ZamfaraWar · c. 1756–1777
- The Old Calabar massacreWar · 1767
- The Chamba invade KwararafaWar · c. 1780–1810
- Afonja sacks Apomu and topples AwoleWar · 1793–1796
- The Nupe civil war and Mallam DendoWar · 1796–1833
1800s
- The jihad of Usman dan FodioWar · 1804–1809
- Katsina's kings go to MaradiMigration · 1805–1807
- Al-Kanemi saves BornuWar · 1807–1826
- The Hausa kings of Zazzau go into exileMigration · 1808–1828
- Modibbo Adama's jihad in FombinaWar · 1809–1847
- The jihad reaches the BenueWar · 1812–1854
- Afonja, Alimi and the fall of OyoAlliance · 1817–1837
- Koton Karfe holdsWar · c. 1810s–1880
- The Owu warWar · 1821–1826
- The Bassa find refuge in Igala landMigration · c. 1830–1870s
- Masaba, Umaru Bahaushe and the founding of BidaWar · 1835–1857
- The Eleduwe war (Battle of Ilorin)War · 1835–1837
- Nupe raids on the confluenceRaids · 1838–1854
- The battle of OsogboWar · 1840
- Zazzau against the AtyapWar · 1840s–1902
- The British steamers come up the NigerEuropeans by sea · 1841–1842
- Ondo's troubles and Glover's roadWar · 1845–1885
- The Salt Water War (Ogun Olomiro)War · July 1845
- Wadai sacks Kuka; the Sayfawa fallWar · 1846
- Kebbi against GwanduWar · 1849–1903
- Dahomey against AbeokutaWar · 1843–1864
- The British bombard LagosBritish conquest · 26–28 December 1851
- Baikie and the Pleiad up the BenueEuropeans by sea · 1854–1864
- The Ijaye warWar · 1860–1862
- The Ebira hold off the jihadWar · 1865–1880
- Nupe risings against BidaWar · 1868–1882
- Bonny's civil war and the founding of OpoboWar · 1869
- The Kiriji warWar · 1877–1886
- The Jalumi war (battle of Ikirun)War · 1 November 1878
- A gunboat burns OnitshaBritish conquest · 1879
- Kalabari's civil war and exodusMigration · 1879–1884
- The Royal Niger Company on the BenueBritish conquest · 1883–1901
- Jaja of Opobo deportedBritish conquest · September 1887
- Yorubaland dividedKingdom divided · 1889–1900
- The British invade IjebuBritish conquest · May 1892
- Rabih conquers BornuWar · 1892–1900
- The Esan–Nupe war (Egbalukpon Nell)War · c. 1894–1897
- The fall of EbrohimiBritish conquest · August–September 1894
- The Ogidi Grand AllianceAlliance · 1894–1897
- The Akassa raid and its reprisalBritish conquest · January–February 1895
- The Company’s guns at IdahBritish conquest · 1896–1903
- The British invasion of BeninBritish conquest · January–February 1897
- The Company takes Bida and IlorinBritish conquest · January–February 1897
- Benin’s lands dividedKingdom divided · 1897–1915
- Borgu dividedKingdom divided · 1894–1898
- The Ekumeku resistanceBritish conquest · 1883–1914
- The Anglo-Idoma warsBritish conquest · 1899–1929
1900s
- The Igala kingdom dividedKingdom divided · 1900–1918
- The Anglo-Aro warBritish conquest · November 1901 – March 1902
- Borno divided four waysKingdom divided · 1893–1902
- Dekina and Ankpa taken; the base at AnkpaBritish conquest · 1903–1918
- The conquest of the Sokoto CaliphateBritish conquest · February–July 1903
- Hausaland dividedKingdom divided · 1890–1910
- Dr Stewart and the Ahiara expeditionBritish conquest · 1905–1906
- The British enter TivlandBritish conquest · 1906–1911
- The Satiru risingBritish conquest · February–March 1906
- The British end Nri’s powerBritish conquest · 1907–1911
- The Adubi warBritish conquest · June–July 1918
- The Women’s War (Ogu Umunwanyi)British conquest · November 1929 – January 1930
- The Abeokuta women’s revoltBritish conquest · 1946–1949
- 1966: the coups, the massacres and the flight eastMigration · January 1966 – May 1967
- Biafra’s Midwest invasion and the Asaba massacreWar · August–October 1967
- The Nigerian Civil War (Biafra)War · 6 July 1967 – 15 January 1970