During the protracted Ethiopian-Adal War ( 1529 – 1559 ), Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi defeated several Ethiopian Emperors and embarked on a conquest referred to as the Futuh Al-Habash (" Conquest of Abyssinia "), which brought three-quarters of Christian Abyssinia under the power of the Muslim Adal Sultanate.

During the protracted Ethiopian-Adal War ( 1529 – 1559 ), Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi defeated several Ethiopian Emperors and embarked on a conquest referred to as the Futuh Al-Habash (" Conquest of Abyssinia "), which brought three-quarters of Christian Abyssinia under the power of the Muslim Adal Sultanate.

* October 7 – Haile Selassie is crowned king ( not yet emperor ) of Abyssinia.

Muhammad is persecuted by the Meccans after attacking their idols, during which time a group of Muslims seeks refuge in Abyssinia.

* 1515-Portuguese missionary Francisco Álvares is sent on a diplomatic mission to Dawit II, the Negus or Emperor of Abyssinia ( an old name for Ethiopia )

Motta is notorious for reneging on Switzerland's treaty obligation to boycott Italy when Mussolini invaded Abyssinia.

* Evelyn Waugh: Scoop ( 1938 ) ( about a thinly disguised British Newspaper, The Daily Beast, and one of its contributors who is sent to an African country at war called Ishmaelia, based upon the author's experiences in Abyssinia )

Rasselas, son of the King of Abyssinia ( modern-day Ethiopia ), is shut up in a beautiful valley, " till the order of succession should call him to the throne.

* Rasselas is mentioned significantly in two of Ursula Dubosarsky's novels-Zizzy Zing and Abyssinia.

* Napier appears in the George MacDonald Fraser novel " Flashman on the March ", in command of the Army of Abyssinia, and is nicknamed " the bughunter ", possibly a reference by Flashman to his membership of the Royal Society.

There is evidence that matchlock rifles may have been in usage among some peoples in Christian Abyssinia in the late Middle Ages.

* May 9: Victor Emmanuel III is proclaimed Emperor of Abyssinia and Badoglio is appointed as his Viceroy in Ethiopia.

The travel literature of the period is too large for detailed mention: Persia, Syria, Abyssinia, Florida, and Brazil were visited and described and Father Lucena compiled a classic life of St. Francis Xavier, but the " Peregrination " of Mendes Pinto, a typical Conquistador, is worth all the story books put together for its extrãordinary adventures told in a vigorous style, full of colour and life, while the " Historia Tragico-Maritima ", a record of notable shipwrecks between 1552 and 1604, has good specimens of simple anonymous narrative.

This campaign is historically known as the Conquest of Abyssinia or Futuh al Habash.

The novel is partly based on Waugh's own experience working for the Daily Mail, when he was sent to cover Benito Mussolini's expected invasion of Abyssinia — what was later known as the Second Italo-Abyssinian War.

The whole of the area between the Suez Canal and the Strait of Gibraltar is included, together with Malta, Abyssinia, Kenya, the Sudan, both Somalilands and Eritrea.

Similarly, another term for Siddis, habshi ( from Al-Habsh, the Arabic term for Abyssinia ), is held to be derived from the common name for the captains of the Ethiopian / Abyssinian ships that also first delivered Siddi slaves to the subcontinent.

This 16th century campaign is historically known as the Conquest of Abyssinia ( Futuh al-Habash ).

Although Ethiopia was never colonized by the British, many tabots were looted by them during the 1868 Expedition to Abyssinia, which is a cause of anger among Ethiopians.

Schiltberger is perhaps the first writer of Western Christendom to give the true burial place of Muhammad at Medina: his sketches of Islam and of Eastern Christendom, with all their shortcomings, are of remarkable merit for their time: and he may fairly be reckoned among the authors who contributed to fix Prester John, at the close of the Middle Ages, in Abyssinia.

The Solomonic dynasty is the Imperial House of Abyssinia.

A list of the nearly 700 books in his library is preserved in the Bodleian Library while architecture and related crafts made up the bulk of his books ; other subjects covered included: antiquities, coins, and heraldry ; histories of England, Scotland and Rome and other nations ; literature included works by Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe and Matthew Prior ; travel books including Egypt, the South Seas, Russia, Hungary, Lapland, Virginia, Ceylon and Abyssinia, missionary travels included China, Formosa, Guinea, Borneo and the East Indies ; books on religion included both Anglican and Roman Catholic works ; and even cookery books.

This campaign is historically known as the Conquest of Abyssinia ( Futuh al Habash ).

E. A. Wallis Budge, in his preface to the second edition of his translation of the Kebra Nagast, claims that Brancaleon was a monk who had come to Ethiopia to convert Emperor Zara Yaqob and debated Abba Giyorgis several times on religious matters ; ( Wallis Budge may have misremembered James Bruce's statement about Abba Giyorgis's opponent in that religious debate, " We are not informed of the name of Abba George's antagonist, but he is thought to have been a Venetian painter, who lived many years after in Abyssinia, and, it is believed, died there " -- explicitly identifying him as Brancaleon in a footnote.

George Lansbury, a convinced pacifist, resigned as leader at the 1935 Labour Party conference after the party voted in favour of sanctions against Italy for its aggression against Abyssinia.

The Italian possession of maritime areas previously claimed by Abyssinia / Ethiopia was formalized in 1889 with the signing of the Treaty of Wuchale with Emperor Menelik II of Ethiopia ( r. 1889 – 1913 ) after the defeat of Italy by Ethiopia at the battle of Adua where Italy launched an effort to expand its possessions from Eritrea into the more fertile Abyssinian hinterland.

Though not explicitly named, this was clearly the Abyssinia Crisis, and the reference was obvious to readers at the time.

Bermudez, the Patriarch of Abyssinia landed at St Helena in 1557 on a voyage to Portugal, remaining on the island for a year.

Escape from Mexico at the end of the French occupation ; British invasion of Abyssinia to rescue hostages.

Due to the persecution at the hands of the Quraish, Muhammad ordered his followers to migrate to Abyssinia.

* Rassam, Narrative of the British Mission to Theodore, King of Abyssinia ( 1869 ) at Google Books.

* February – Abyssinia receives its première at the Majestic Theatre ( Broadway ), with a score co-written by Bert Williams, including premiere of Nobody.

Plans for the capture of the port at Taranto were considered as early as the Italian invasion of Abyssinia in 1935.

In 1935, arguing that Italy should be punished by sanctions for her recent invasion of Abyssinia, he made a blistering attack on the pacifists in the Labour Party, accusing the Labour leader George Lansbury at the Party Conference of " hawking his conscience around " asking to be told what to do with it.

In the time of Queen Victoria, Prince Alemayehu of Abyssinia, brought to England after the defeat of his father King Tewedros, died of pneumonia at an address in Hollin Lane, Far Headingley.

The 33rd was committed to Abyssinia in October 1867 and embarked on 21 November, arriving at Annesley Bay on 4 December ; but did not disembark for three days due to the chaos on shore.

* December 6: Abyssinia protests Italian aggression at Walwal.

In 1931, the Emperor of Ethiopia, Haile Selassie I, formally requested that the international community use the name Ethiopia ( as it had already been known internally for at least 1600 years ) instead of Abyssinia, and the issuing Bank of Abyssinia also became the Bank of Ethiopia.

* Henry Blanc, A Narrative of Captivity in Abyssinia ; With Some Account of the Late Emperor Theodore, His Country and People ( 1868 ), available at Project Gutenberg

In 1914, during the First World War German troops led by Major Freiherr Othmar von Stotzingen established a wireless station at Al Hudaydah, which was used during the Arab Revolt to relay communications from Constantinople to German East Africa as well as broadcast propaganda to the Sudan, British Somaliland and Abyssinia.

On 19 May 1941, in World War II, at Kolito, Abyssinia ( now Ethiopia ), when the Allied forces had made a bridgehead against the strong Italian opposition, the enemy made a sudden counterattack with both light and medium tanks.

In 1894, after eighteen years ' absence from active political life, he was chosen to be Italian arbitrator in the Bering Sea question, and in 1896 once more accepted the portfolio of foreign affairs in the Di Rudinì cabinet at a juncture when the disasters in Abyssinia and the indiscreet publication of an Abyssinian Green Book had rendered the international position of Italy exceedingly difficult.

A series of international crises strained the League to its limits, the earliest being the invasion of Manchuria by Japan and the Abyssinian crisis of 1935 / 36 in which Italy invaded Abyssinia, one of the only free African nations at that time.

** The Queen's Colours: Mons, Retreat from Mons, Aisne 1914, Ypres 1914 ' 15 ' 17 ' 18, Hill 60, Festubert 1915, Somme 1916 ' 18, Albert 1916 ' 18, Arras 1917 ' 18, Cambrai 1917 ' 18, Hindenburg Line, Italy 1917-18, Doiran 1917-18, Landing at Helles, Gaza, Jerusalem, Palestine 1917-18, Kut al Amara 1915 ' 17, Mesopotamia 1915-18, North West Frontier India 1915 1916-17, Dunkirk 1940, Normandy Landing, Caen, Rhine, North-West Europe 1944-45, Abyssinia 1941, El Alamein, Tebourba Gap, Hunt's Gap, Longstop Hill 1943, North Africa 1940-43, Sicily 1943, Salerno, Anzio, Cassino, Gothic Line, Italy 1943-45, Malta 1940-42, Malaya 1941-42, Hong Kong, Defence of Kohima, Burma 1943-45

The 1st Battalion was shipped to Alexandria and after garrison duties followed by a raid into the Gondar region of Abyssinia, they were sent back to the Western Desert where they were eventually attached to the 10th Indian Infantry Division and fought at the Battle of El Alamein.

His journal of his stay in Ethiopia ( Sejour en Abyssinie ) was published in 1835 at Paris, and later translated into English as Journal of Three Years ' Residence in Abyssinia.