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Historical Timeline for Central African Republic - A chronology of key events
- December 1, 1958. Barthรฉlemy Boganda, president of the Grand Council of French Equatorial Africa (AEF), proposes to create a Central African Republic made up of Ubangui-Chari, Chad and Gabon.
- March 29, 1959. Boganda dies in an unsolved Noratlas crash.
- August 13, 1960. Proclamation of the independence of Ubangi-Chari as the Central African Republic (CAR). President David Dacko establishes a one-party regime.
- January 1, 1966. Coup d'etat by Colonel Jean Bรฉdel Bokassa.
- December 4, 1977. Bokassa, supported by Paris, is crowned emperor.
- September 21, 1979. Bokassa is deposed in favor of Dacko with the help of the French army (Operation "Barracuda").
- September 1, 1981. Coup d'etat by General Andrรฉ Kolingba, which establishes a military regime.
- September 1993. Ange-Fรฉlix Patassรฉ is elected president. He was re-elected in 1999.
- March 16, 2003. Coup d'etat by General Franรงois Bozizรฉ, who wins the presidential and legislative elections of spring 2005.
- 2006. Beginning of the rebellion in the North.
- March 24, 2013. The Seleka seizes power.
- September 14, 2013. Announced dissolution of the Seleka.