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==2011 - 2015==
==2011 - 2015==
*'''2011 Jan''' - Deadly clashes between police and demonstrators agitating for secession of western Zambia, known as [[Barotseland]].
*'''2011 Jun 18''' - Former president [[Frederick Chiluba]] (68) dies.
*'''2011 Aug 9''' - The [[High Court of Zambia]] dismissed a bid by the main opposition to block President Rupiah Banda from contesting polls next month over claims that he had lied about his parents' nationality.
*'''2011 Sep 20''' - Zambia held [[Zambian general election, 2011|elections for a president]], 150 lawmakers and over 1,000 municipal councilors. Incumbent president [[Rupiah Banda]] was in a close race with populist rival [[Michael Sata]]. [[Zambian general election, 2011|Elections]] results on Sep 23 said Michael Sata won with 1,150,045 votes, or 43% of the total, to 961,796 votes, or 36.1% for incumbent Rupiah Banda.
*'''2011 Sep 25''' - New president [[Michael Sata]] says his government would follow the tenets of the 10 Biblical Commandments.
*'''2011 Oct 1''' - [[Michael Sata]] appoints [[Rosewin Wandi]] as Director General of the [[Anti-Corruption Commission]] (ACC).
*'''2011 Oct 4''' - Zambia announced that it has halted all metal exports, in a move to ensure that mining firms accurately report their sales. New rules on metal exports should be ready by October 16. The ban was lifted on Oct 6 as it would take too long for new rules to be drawn up.
*'''2011 Oct 14''' - Malawi agrees to allow back into the country new Zambian President [[Michael Sata]], who had been deported four years ago while still head of the Zambian opposition.
*'''2011 Oct 20''' - [[Zambia]], Africa's biggest copper producer, said it has suspended the renewal and issue of new mining licenses and would undertake an audit of the sector.
*'''2011''' - Zambia’s population numbered about 13 million people.
*'''2012 Feb 3''' - Corruption investigators arrested a former minister on theft charges and recorded a statement from ex-president [[Rupiah Banda]]'s wife in another probe. Mines minister [[Maxwell Mwale]] was arrested and charged over the theft of 20 bicycles belonging to small-scale miners. The bicycles were worth K5,500 Kwacha (1,050 dollars, 800 euros) in total.
*'''2012 May 31''' - Investigators arrest [[Andrew Banda]], the oldest son of former president [[Rupiah Banda]], for corruption and possessing assets bought with "dirty money".
*'''2012 Aug''' - Chinese mine manager killed during pay protest.
*'''2012 Aug 13''' - Opposition leader, [[Hakainde Hichilema]], is arrested and charged with publishing false information after he claimed on June 11 that ruling party youth were being trained by Sudanese militia.
*'''2013 Feb''' - The government takes over the Chinese-owned [[Collum Coal Mine]] after revoking its licence because of safety lapses.
*'''2013 Feb 7''' - A [[Zambia Postal Services]] bus carrying passengers toward its capital Lusaka, smashes into a semi-truck and another car killing at least 53 people in one of the worst traffic crashes in the nation in recent history.
*''2013 Mar 25''' - Former president, [[Rupiah Banda]] (76), is arrested by police for alleged abuse of authority and corruption, shortly after being stripped of immunity. He was released on bail of Kwacha 500,000 ($100,000) and ordered to turn in his passport.
*'''2013 Nov 1''' - Dozens of Zambian separatists appeared in court on charges of treason for trying to create a new state called [[Barotseland]] in the west of the country. A total of 84 defendants, mostly from the [[Lozi people|Lozi tribe]], were rounded up in a recent crackdown on those protesting for Barotseland.
*'''2013 Dec 23''' - Defense minister [[Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba]] resigns.
*'''2013 Dec 24''' - [[Edgar Lungu]] becomes  Minister of Defence after [[Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba]] resigned from his ministerial post.
*'''2014 Jan 6''' - Police arrest and charged opposition leader [[Frank Bwalya]] with defamation, after he referred to President [[Michael Sata]], in a radio interview, as "Chumbu Mushololwa." The Bemba term literally refers to a sweet potato that breaks when it is bent and is used to describe someone who does not heed advice.
*'''2014 Feb''': Nationwide strike after tax hike and public sector wage freeze prohibited salary increases and new hires.
*'''2014 Mar 21''' - Zambia scraps restrictions on the use of dollars and other foreign currencies as it tried to halt the slide in its currency, which has lost nearly a fifth of its value in recent months.
*'''2014 May 23''' - Ranger [[Dexter Chilunda]] is killed while investigating reports of gunshots in [[Liuwa Plain National Park]]. Two suspected poachers were arrested on June 1.
*'''2014 Jun''' - President [[Michael Sata|Sata]] goes to Israeli on a ''working holiday" amid rumours about his health.
*'''2014 Oct 24''' - At least 26 people died, most of them children, when a ferry capsized on [[Lake Kariba]].
*'''2014 Oct 28''' - President [[Michael Sata|Sata]] (77) dies in a London hospital.
*'''2014 Oct 29''' - [[Guy Scott]] becomes Africa's first white head of state in 20 years after president [[Michael Sata]]'s death.
*'''2014 Nov 21''' - Ruling [[Patriotic Front]] said it has suspended President [[Guy Scott]] as acting head of the party for "unconstitutional conduct", in the latest twist of a bitter power struggle ahead of a January election.
*'''2015 Jan 20''' - Zambia holds [[Zambian presidential election, 2015|presidential elections]]. The winner of the election will serve out the remainder of late President [[Michael Sata]]’s term until elections next year. Patriotic Front candidate [[Edgar Lungu]] (58) received 48.3 percent of the vote, while [[Hakainde Hichilema]] (52) of the [[United Party for National Development]] came in second with 46.7 percent after votes were tallied from all [[List of Zambian parliamentary constituencies|150 constituencies]].
*'''2015 Jan 24''' - Opposition leader [[Hakainde Hichilema]] holds a briefing in which he described the Jan 20 election as a sham.
*'''2015 Jan 25''' - [[Edgar Lungu]] is [[President Edgar Lungu’s inauguration ceremony, 25 January 2015|inaugurated as the country’s new president]] after being declared the winner of [[Zambian presidential election, 2015|Zambia's Jan 20 presidential election]].
*'''2015 Mar''' - President [[Edgar Lungu|Lungu]] has surgery in South Africa. He collapsed at an event the month before.
*'''2015 Apr 6''' - 17 people are killed when a light truck they were in hit a shop before turning over in [[Mazabuka]].
*'''2015 Apr 20''' - [[Zambia]] slashes by more than half a controversial mineral royalty tax after investors threatened to pull out of the copper-rich country.
*'''2015 Jul 16''' - [[Edgar Lungu]] commutes the death sentences of 332 prisoners to life in prison and condemned the massive overcrowding at the [[Mukobeko Prison]], calling it "an affront to basic human dignity".
* ''' 2015 Oct 20 ''' - 18 October declared as [[ National Day of Prayer|
* ''' 2015 Oct 20 ''' - 18 October declared as [[ National Day of Prayer|
the day of national prayers, peace and reconciliation]].
the day of national prayers, peace and reconciliation]].
*'''2015 Jul 16''' - [[Edgar Lungu]] commutes the death sentences of 332 prisoners to life in prison and condemned the massive overcrowding at the [[Mukobeko Prison]], calling it "an affront to basic human dignity".
*'''2015 Apr 20''' - [[Zambia]] slashes by more than half a controversial mineral royalty tax after investors threatened to pull out of the copper-rich country.
*'''2015 Apr 6''' - 17 people are killed when a light truck they were in hit a shop before turning over in [[Mazabuka]].
*'''2015 Mar''' - President [[Edgar Lungu|Lungu]] has surgery in South Africa. He collapsed at an event the month before.
*'''2015 Jan 25''' - [[Edgar Lungu]] is [[President Edgar Lungu’s inauguration ceremony, 25 January 2015|inaugurated as the country’s new president]] after being declared the winner of [[Zambian presidential election, 2015|Zambia's Jan 20 presidential election]].
*'''2015 Jan 24''' - Opposition leader [[Hakainde Hichilema]] holds a briefing in which he described the Jan 20 election as a sham.
*'''2015 Jan 20''' - Zambia holds [[Zambian presidential election, 2015|presidential elections]]. The winner of the election will serve out the remainder of late President [[Michael Sata]]’s term until elections next year. Patriotic Front candidate [[Edgar Lungu]] (58) received 48.3 percent of the vote, while [[Hakainde Hichilema]] (52) of the [[United Party for National Development]] came in second with 46.7 percent after votes were tallied from all [[List of Zambian parliamentary constituencies|150 constituencies]].
*'''2014 Nov 21''' - Ruling [[Patriotic Front]] said it has suspended President [[Guy Scott]] as acting head of the party for "unconstitutional conduct", in the latest twist of a bitter power struggle ahead of a January election.
*'''2014 Oct 29''' - [[Guy Scott]] becomes Africa's first white head of state in 20 years after president [[Michael Sata]]'s death.
*'''2014 Oct 28''' - President [[Michael Sata|Sata]] dies in a London hospital at the age of 77.
*'''2014 Oct 24''' - At least 26 people died, most of them children, when a ferry capsized on [[Lake Kariba]].
*'''2014 Jun''' - President [[Michael Sata|Sata]] goes to Israeli on a ''working holiday" amid rumours about his health.
*'''2014 May 23''' - Ranger [[Dexter Chilunda]] is killed while investigating reports of gunshots in [[Liuwa Plain National Park]]. Two suspected poachers were arrested on June 1.
*'''2014 Mar 21''' - Zambia scraps restrictions on the use of dollars and other foreign currencies as it tried to halt the slide in its currency, which has lost nearly a fifth of its value in recent months.
*'''2014 Feb''': Nationwide strike after tax hike and public sector wage freeze prohibited salary increases and new hires.
*'''2014 Jan 6''' - Police arrest and charged opposition leader [[Frank Bwalya]] with defamation, after he referred to President [[Michael Sata]], in a radio interview, as "Chumbu Mushololwa." The Bemba term literally refers to a sweet potato that breaks when it is bent and is used to describe someone who does not heed advice.
*'''2013 Dec 24''' - [[Edgar Lungu]] becomes  Minister of Defence after [[Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba]] resigned from his ministerial post.
*'''2013 Dec 23''' - Defense minister [[Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba]] resigns.
*'''2013 Nov 1''' - Dozens of Zambian separatists appeared in court on charges of treason for trying to create a new state called [[Barotseland]] in the west of the country. A total of 84 defendants, mostly from the [[Lozi people|Lozi tribe]], were rounded up in a recent crackdown on those protesting for Barotseland.
*''2013 Mar 25''' - Former president, [[Rupiah Banda]] (76), is arrested by police for alleged abuse of authority and corruption, shortly after being stripped of immunity. He was released on bail of Kwacha 500,000 ($100,000) and ordered to turn in his passport.
*'''2013 Feb 7''' - A [[Zambia Postal Services]] bus carrying passengers toward its capital Lusaka, smashes into a semi-truck and another car killing at least 53 people in one of the worst traffic crashes in the nation in recent history.
*'''2013 Feb''' - The government takes over the Chinese-owned [[Collum Coal Mine]] after revoking its licence because of safety lapses.
*'''2012 Aug 13''' - Opposition leader, [[Hakainde Hichilema]], is arrested and charged with publishing false information after he claimed on June 11 that ruling party youth were being trained by Sudanese militia.
*'''2012 Aug''' - Chinese mine manager killed during pay protest.
*'''2012 May 31''' - Investigators arrest [[Andrew Banda]], the oldest son of former president [[Rupiah Banda]], for corruption and possessing assets bought with "dirty money".
*'''2012 Feb 3''' - Corruption investigators arrested a former minister on theft charges and recorded a statement from ex-president [[Rupiah Banda]]'s wife in another probe. Mines minister [[Maxwell Mwale]] was arrested and charged over the theft of 20 bicycles belonging to small-scale miners. The bicycles were worth K5,500 Kwacha (1,050 dollars, 800 euros) in total.
*'''2011''' - Zambia’s population numbered about 13 million people.
*'''2011 Oct 20''' - [[Zambia]], Africa's biggest copper producer, said it has suspended the renewal and issue of new mining licenses and would undertake an audit of the sector.
*'''2011 Oct 14''' - Malawi agrees to allow back into the country new Zambian President [[Michael Sata]], who had been deported four years ago while still head of the Zambian opposition.
*'''2011 Oct 4''' - Zambia announced that it has halted all metal exports, in a move to ensure that mining firms accurately report their sales. New rules on metal exports should be ready by October 16. The ban was lifted on Oct 6 as it would take too long for new rules to be drawn up.
*'''2011 Oct 1''' - [[Michael Sata]] appoints [[Rosewin Wandi]] as Director General of the [[Anti-Corruption Commission]] (ACC).
*'''2011 Sep 25''' - New president [[Michael Sata]] says his government would follow the tenets of the 10 Biblical Commandments.
*'''2011 Sep 20''' - Zambia held [[Zambian general election, 2011|elections for a president]], 150 lawmakers and over 1,000 municipal councilors. Incumbent president [[Rupiah Banda]] was in a close race with populist rival [[Michael Sata]]. [[Zambian general election, 2011|Elections]] results on Sep 23 said Michael Sata won with 1,150,045 votes, or 43% of the total, to 961,796 votes, or 36.1% for incumbent Rupiah Banda.
*'''2011 Aug 9''' - The [[High Court of Zambia]] dismissed a bid by the main opposition to block President Rupiah Banda from contesting polls next month over claims that he had lied about his parents' nationality.
*'''2011 Jun 18''' - Former president [[Frederick Chiluba]] (68) dies.
*'''2011 Jan''' - Deadly clashes between police and demonstrators agitating for secession of western Zambia, known as [[Barotseland]].


==2001 - 2010==
==2001 - 2010==
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