When the first Council of Government of Ubangi-Shari was established that same year, Boganda named Dacko Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Water and Forests, in which position he served from May 14, 1957 until August 23, 1958.

While the country was still a French colony, Goumba was Vice-President of the Government Council from May 1957 to July 1958, President of the Government Council from July 1958 to December 1958, and was briefly Prime Minister in an acting capacity in April 1959, following the death of Barthélemy Boganda in a plane crash.

During 1959, Dacko succeeded Boganda as the main leader of the country when Boganda died in a plane crash.

* March 29 – Barthélemy Boganda, the prime minister of the Central African Republic autonomous territory ( the future Central African Republic ) dies when his plane explodes in mid-air over Boukpoyanga, killing all on board.

The assembly in CAR was led by Barthélemy Boganda, a Catholic priest who also was known for his forthright statements in the French Assembly on the need for African emancipation.

The French constitutional referendum of September 1958 dissolved the AEF, and on 1 December of the same year the Assembly declared the birth of the autonomous Central African Republic with Boganda as head of government.

De Gaulle accepted Boganda's terms, and on 1 December, Boganda declared the establishment of the Central African Republic.

From 1947 on, Boganda conducted a lively campaign against racism and the colonial regime.

They were married on 13 June 1950, for which Boganda was expelled from the priesthood and cut off from the Catholic hierarchy's support.

On 29 March 1951, Boganda was sentenced to two months in prison following his arrest on 10 January for " endangering the peace " after intervening in a local market dispute ( the " Bokanga incident " in Lobaye ).

On 31 March 1957, MESAN won all seats in the Territorial Assembly election ; on 18 June, Boganda was elected president of the Grand Council of French Equatorial Africa ( a forum he used to broadcast his views on African unity ) and in May was appointed vice-president of the Oubangui-Chari Government Council ( the French governor was still its president ).

A pragmatist, Boganda spoke before the local assembly on 30 December 1957 in praise of the new Comité de Salut Economique, which envisioned joint administration of the economy between French colonials and MESAN territorial councilors ( he called it " the union of capital and Oubanguian labour "), but lack of French investment and opposition by Oubanguians soon led him to turn away from the idea.

However, such a federation proved unrealistic, foundering on the rocks of regional jealousy and personal ambition, and Boganda came to accept a constitution covering only Oubangui-Chari as the Central African Republic.

* March 29 – Barthélemy Boganda, first President of the Central African Republic ( b. 1910 )

Barthélemy Boganda ( 4 April 1910 – 29 March 1959 ) was the leading nationalist politician of what is now the Central African Republic.

* 1959 – Barthélemy Boganda, African politician, 1st President of the Central African Republic ( b. 1910 )

Other attractions in Bangui include Boganda Museum and Bokassa Palace.

As a cousin of the CAR President David Dacko and nephew of Dacko's predecessor Barthélémy Boganda, Bokassa was given the task of creating the new country's military.

This song, which has been the anthem since 1960, was written by Barthélémy Boganda ( words ), the first President of the Central African Republic, and Herbert Pepper, who also composed the melody for the Senegalese national anthem.

Dacko was named principal of Kouanga College in 1955 and became a supporter of independence leader Barthélémy Boganda, who was from the same Ngbaka ethnic group as Dacko.

It was designed by Barthélemy Boganda, the first president of the autonomous territory of Oubangui-Chari, who believed that " France and Africa must march together.

* United States of Latin Africa, a political entity proposed by Barthélemy Boganda for Central Africa.

He attended mission schools in Gabon, Cameroon, and Mbamu, where he met Barthélemy Boganda, the future nationalist leader of Oubangui-Chari and the first president of the Central African Republic.

Boganda was active prior to his country's independence, during the period when the area, part of French Equatorial Africa, was administered by France under the name of Oubangui-Chari.

Boganda was born into a family of subsistence farmers, and was adopted and educated by Roman Catholic Church missionaries.

During World War II, Boganda served in a number of missions and after was persuaded by the Bishop of Bangui to enter politics.

In 1958, after the French Fourth Republic began to consider granting independence to most of its African colonies, Boganda met with Prime Minister Charles de Gaulle to discuss terms for the independence of Oubangui-Chari.

Boganda was born to a family of subsistence farmers in Bobangui, a large M ' Baka village in the Lobaye basin located at the edge of the equatorial forest some southwest of Bangui.

During his early years, Boganda was adopted by Catholic missionaries.

Portugal ruled Angola for 400 years, colonizing the territory from 1483 until independence in 1975.

The Moors ruled southern and eastern Spain until the 13th century reconquista ( reconquest ).

From the extinction in 1254 of the Hohenstaufen dynasty until 1415, the area was ruled by the Habsburgs, and many castles from that time still stand ( examples include Habsburg, Lenzburg, Tegerfelden, Bobikon, Stin and Wildegg ).

Unlike these states, which were ruled by local nobles who acknowledged British suzerainty, Ajmer-Merwara was administered directly by the British, until 1858 by the East India Company and after 1858 by a chief commissioner who was subordinate to the Governor-General of India's agent for the Rajputana Agency.

The counts of Oettingen ruled over Ansbach until the Hohenzollern burgraves of Nuremberg took over in 1331.

In 1435, Frederick I became the elector of the Margraviate of Brandenburg, which he ruled until 1440.

His successor, Frederick II Irontooth, established Berlin as capital of the margraviate, and subsequent members of the Hohenzollern family ruled until 1918 in Berlin, first as electors of Brandenburg, then as kings of Prussia, and eventually as German emperors.

When a boxer is knocked down, the other boxer must immediately cease fighting and move to the furthest neutral corner of the ring until the referee has either ruled a knockout or called for the fight to continue.

Selig was eager to settle the case because the judge had previously ruled that the Expos could not be moved or contracted until the case was over.

Late in 1971, BJU filed suit to prevent the IRS from taking its tax exemption, but in 1974, in Bob Jones University v. Simon, the U. S. Supreme Court ruled that the university did not have standing to sue until the IRS actually assessed taxes.

In May 2010, the CRTC ruled that Bell could not implement its usage-based billing system until all of its own retail customers had been moved off older, unlimited downloading plans.

The Union of the Comoros, known as the Islamic Federal Republic of the Comoros until 2003, is ruled by Ahmed Abdallah Sambi.

First it was the Democratic-Republican Party ( 1963 ~ 1980 ); its head was Park Chung-hee who seized power in a 1961 military coup d ' état and ruled as an unelected military strongman until his formal election as president in 1963.

Chiang ruled the island securely as President of the Republic of China and General of the Kuomintang until his death in 1975.

For the portions of Serbia ruled by Austria-Hungary until 1918, there were a total of five Austro-Hungarian censuses — 1910, 1900, 1890, 1880 and 1869, immediately after the Dual Monarchy's constitution.

This is the first use of the word Albania, the Latin form of the Old Irish Alba, in the Chronicle which until then describes the lands ruled by the descendants of Cináed as Pictavia.

Muban ruled Korea under successive Warrior Leaders until the Mongol Conquest in 1253.

The punt deflected and was ruled in-play until Titans coach Jeff Fisher informed the officials that the punt struck the scoreboard.

He continued representing clients in federal courts until the U. S. Supreme Court ruled against him on March 21, 1988.

The doctrine of the divine right of kings was introduced as late as the 17th century, proposing that kings rule by divine decree ; Japanese Emperors ruled by divine mandate until the inception of the Japanese constitution after World War II

The European Court of Human Rights did not rule upon the right to life until 1995, when in McCann v. United Kingdom it ruled that the exception contained in the second paragraph do not constitute situations when it is permitted to kill, but situations where it is permitted to use force which might result in the deprivation of life.

In 1955, the Workers-Peasant Party, Communist Party, and the Marxist-Leninist Party named Abu Hussain Sarkar as the Chief minister of the State who ruled the state in two non-consecutive terms until 1958 when the martial law was imposed.

According to the Nihon Shoki, Emperor Kimmei ruled until his death in 571 and was buried in the Hinokuma no Sakai Burial Mound ( 桧隈坂合陵 ).

* 661: Saimei ruled until her death caused the throne to be vacant again.