* 1964 – The United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar is renamed the United Republic of Tanzania.

The name Tanzania derives from the names of the two states, Tanganyika and Zanzibar, that united in 1964 to form the United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar, which later the same year was renamed the United Republic of Tanzania.

Tanganyika as a geographical and political entity did not take shape before the period of High Imperialism ; its name only came into use after German East Africa was transferred to the United Kingdom as a mandate by the League of Nations in 1920.

The United Kingdom and Belgium signed an agreement regarding the border between Tanganyika and Ruanda-Urundi in 1924.

On April 26, 1964, Tanganyika united with Zanzibar to form the United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar.

This United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar was soon renamed ( as a portmanteau ) the United Republic of Tanzania, of which Zanzibar remains a semi-autonomous region.

* January 9 – The Government of the United Kingdom announces abandonment of the Tanganyika groundnut scheme for the cultivation of peanuts in the Tanganyika Territory with the writing off of £ 36. 5M debt.

* The Trust Territory of Tanganyika ( United Kingdom ): Granted independence in 1961.

On 26 April 1964, Tanganyika joined with the islands of Zanzibar to form the United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar, a new state that changed its name to the United Republic of Tanzania within a year.

Tanganyika originally consisted of the British share of the former German colony of German East Africa which the British took under a League of Nations Mandate in 1922, later transformed into a United Nations Trust Territory after the Second World War.

Although he missed out in Katanga, altogether he helped to consolidate an area of nearly half a million square kilometres-say nearly, or twice the area of the United Kingdom in 2009-lying between the lower Luangwa River valley and lakes Nyasa, Tanganyika, and Mweru into the British Empire.

In 1946, Frank Samuel, head of the United Africa Company, a subsidiary of Unilever, came up with an idea to cultivate groundnuts in the British protectorate of Tanganyika, now mainland Tanzania, for the production of vegetable oil.

When Tanganyika and Zanzibar joined each other to form the United Republic of Tanzania, Zanzibar kept a semi-autonomous status, with Stone Town as its local government seat.

The last Mangi Mkuu ( Paramount Chief ) of the Chagga, Thomas Lenana Marealle II, whose palace was located in Moshi, worked for the independence of Tanganyika when it was still a United Nations trust territory under British administration.

The portion of the German territory, never a part of the Kingdom of Rwanda, was stripped from the colony and attached to Tanganyika, which had been mandated to the British.

* History of the United Kingdom: Treaty of Versailles, Third Anglo-Afghan War, Irish War of Independence, British Colonial Empire, British Mandate of Palestine, British Mandate of Mesopotamia, Tanganyika, British Somaliland and Mohammed Abdullah Hassan (" the Mad Mullah "), Indian independence movement, Jallianwala Bagh massacre, 1926 United Kingdom general strike, British Union of Fascists, and Blueshirts

Further, a widespread diaspora developed since the late 19th century, when they largely migrated to East African countries like Uganda, Kenya & Tanganyika and later also to United Kingdom, United States, and Canada.

* Kalemie, Kulundu-Uvira and Moba on Lake Tanganyika to Kigoma ( Tanzania ), Bujumbura ( Burundi ) and Mpulungu ( Zambia ).

Political developments, including the formation and growth of the Tanganyika African National Union ( TANU ), led to Tanganyika attaining independence from colonial rule in December 1961.

Full independence came in December 1961 and Julius Kambarage Nyerere ( 1922 – 1999 ), a socialist leader who led Tanganyika from colonial rule, was elected President in 1962.

After King Lewanika of the Barotse signed a treaty in 1890, the next year the British government placed Barotseland and land up to Nyasaland in the east and to Katanga and Lake Tanganyika in the north under the Charter of Rhodes ' British South Africa Company ( BSAC ), administrated as two different units, North-Western Rhodesia and North-Eastern Rhodesia.

The British government agreed that Rhodes ' company, the British South Africa Company ( BSAC ), would administer the territory stretching from the Limpopo to Lake Tanganyika under charter as a protectorate.

Born in Tanganyika to Nyerere Burito ( 1860 – 1942 ), Chief of the Zanaki, Nyerere was known by the Swahili name Mwalimu or ' teacher ', his profession prior to politics.

Here he founded the Tanganyika Welfare Association, which eventually merged with the Tanganyika African Association ( TAA ), which had been formed in 1929.

* in Tanganyika, the area acquired on 17 February 1885 by Carl Peters for the Deutsche Ostafrikanische Gesellschaft ( DOAG, ' German East African Company ', that was initially under an Administrator: 27 May 1885-8 February 1888 Karl Peters ), since the proclamation of the German East African protectorate ( 7 May 1885-1 July 1890 ) over Witu in Kenya ; contested by Britain ; on 28 April 1888 Germany obtains a lease of the coastal strip from the Sultan of Zanzibar ), a single Reichskommissar is appointed ( 8 February 1888-21 February 1891: Hermann von Wissmann ( b. 1853-d. 1905 ), after him Governors of 1 January 1891 when proclaimed German East Africa colony ( Deutsch Ostafrika ), ending the ' private ' DOAG rule.

Beginning her career as an author in the 1920s, Lady Listowel produced a volume of short stories about Hungarian society, as well as other works including: This I Have Seen ( 1943 ), which was an account of her early life, " Crusader In The Secret War " ( 1952 ), an account of the activities of Jan Kowalewski during WW2, Manual of Modern Manners ( 1959 ) The Modern Hostess ( 1961 ), which attracted widespread attention, The Making of Tanganyika ( 1965 ) and Dusk on the Danube ( 1969 ).

The spark that ignited wider opposition to Governor Cohen's reforms was a 1953 speech in London in which the secretary of state for colonies referred to the possibility of a federation of the three East African territories ( Kenya, Uganda, and Tanganyika ), similar to that established in central Africa.

Born in Isoko, Tanganyika ( now Tanzania ), to missionary parents, Faulds married Bunty Whitfield in 1945.

From left to right: Lake Upemba, Lake Mweru, Lake Tanganyika ( largest ), and Lake Rukwa.

* Edward Twining, Baron Twining ( 1899 – 1967 ), Governor and Commander-in-Chief, North Borneo ( 1946 – 1949 ); Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Tanganyika ( 1949 – 1958 )

From left to right they are Lake Upemba, Lake Mweru, Lake Tanganyika ( largest ), and Lake Rukwa.

* Lake Tanganyika ( 32, 000 km², elevation 773 m ) is the largest and deepest of the Rift Valley lakes ( more than 1400 meters ), and is the second deepest fresh water lake on the planet ( after Lake Baikal ).

His other documentary credits include narrating A Passion for Faith ( the history of black Catholics in America ), Eyes on the Prize ( dedicated to legendary singer Marian Anderson ), Walking with Dinosaurs, Jesus: The Complete Story, Land of the Mammoth: Ancient Evidence, The Ballad of Big Al, The Science of Big Al, Engineering the Impossible ( The Colosseum ), Greatest Places and Echoes from the White House, God vs. Satan and Jewels of the Rift ( about the life cycles of African cichlid fish in Lake Tanganyika ).

German East Africa was captured by the British during World War I and from then on was referred to as Tanganyika.

* 1961 – Tanganyika becomes independent from Britain.

But during a summer holiday in Switzerland in 1909, Ribbentrop fell in love with a wealthy young socialite named Catherine Bell, from a Montreal banking family, which led him to substitute Canada for Tanganyika as his preferred destination.

It also succeeded in reducing the death rate of workers constructing the Tanganyika railway from 55 to 4 percent.

The East African nation of Tanzania dates formally from 1964, when it was formed out of the union of the much larger mainland territory of Tanganyika and the coastal archipelago of Zanzibar.

In January 1866 the Scottish explorer and missionary David Livingstone, who crusaded against the slave trade, went to Zanzibar, from where he set out to seek the source of the Nile, and established his last mission at Ujiji on the shores of Lake Tanganyika.

The time from 1946 to 1951 saw the Tanganyika groundnut scheme.

The Tanganyika government expected the violence to spread to Tanganyika, especially in the north where the Wa-Chagga live — but violence did not spread there from Kenya.

Southwest of this, separating Tanzania from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is Lake Tanganyika.

In 1965, Kabila set up a cross-border rebel operation from Kigoma, Tanzania, across Lake Tanganyika.

The first German to visit or explore Rwanda was Count Gustav Adolf von Götzen, who from 1893 to 1894 led an expedition to claim the hinterlands of the Tanganyika colony.

* A branch line from Nseluka on the TAZARA Railway to Mpulungu on Lake Tanganyika has been proposed.

* Sultanate of Zanzibar two incumbents ( from the Omani dynasty ) since the de facto separation from Oman in 1806, the last assumed the title Sultan in 1861 at the formal separation under British auspices ; since 1964 union with Tanganyika part of Tanzania )

This was the alternative native style ( apparently derived from malik, the Arabic word for king ) of the Sultans of the Kilwa Sultanate, in Tanganyika ( presently the continental part of Tanzania ).

Burton, who had been recovering from illness at the time and resting further south on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, was outraged that Speke claimed to have proved his discovery to have been the true source of the Nile, which Burton regarded as still unsettled.

His father, a member of the untitled German nobility, operated a large farm in Tanganyika ( formerly German East Africa ) from 1928 until World War II.