Timeline of Sudanese history

This is a timeline of Sudanese history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Sudan and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Sudan. See that the [[list of governors of pre-independence list of heads of state of Sudan.

19th century

Year	Date	Event
1881		Mahdist War: A war began against the United Kingdom and Egypt
1898		Sudan fell under the rule of an Anglo-Egyptian condominium.

20th century

Year	Date	Event
1955		First Sudanese Civil War begins
1956		The country becomes independent as the Republic of the Sudan
1983		Second Sudanese Civil War begins

21st century

Year	Date	Event
2001	February	SPLA .
	March	The United Nations (UN) World Food Programme struggled to feed millions facing starvation.
	April	The SPLA threatened to attack foreign oil workers.
	June	Peace talks in Nairobi broke down.
	July	Egypt and Libya proposed a peace plan for Sudan.
	September	The UN lifted sanctions against Sudan.
	October	Senator John Danforth was appointed Special Envoy to Sudan.
	November	The United States imposed sanctions on Sudan.
2002	January	A ceasefire was agreed between the government and the SPLA .
2002	20 July	Second Sudanese Civil War: The Machakos Protocol ended the nineteen-year civil war.
2003	February	War in Darfur: The war began.
2004	January	The army moved into Darfur to quell the rebellion, prompting hundreds of thousands of refugees to flee into neighbouring Chad.
	March	A UN official accused pro-government Janjaweed militias of carrying out systematic killings in Darfur.
	September	United States Secretary of State Colin Powell described the Darfur killings as genocide.
2005	9 January	The SPLA and the government.
	March	The United Nations Security Council authorised sanctions against any violators of the Darfur ceasefire.
	June	Al-Turabi was freed.
	July	John Garang was sworn in as vice-president.
	1 August	Garang died in a plane crash and was succeeded by Salva Kiir Mayardit.
	September	A power-sharing government was established.
	October	An autonomous government was formed in southern Sudan.
2006	May	The government signed a peace accord with a Sudan Liberation Movement .
	October	Jan Pronk, head of the United Nations Mission in Sudan, was expelled from the country.
	November	African Union peacekeepers extended their stay in Darfur for a further six months.
2007	May	The United States placed fresh sanctions on Sudan.
	31 July	United Nations Security Council Resolution 1769 authorised twenty-six thousand peacekeepers for Darfur.
	August	2007 Sudan floods: Floods began.
	September	2007 Sudan floods: The floods ended.
	November	Sudanese teddy bear blasphemy case: A British teacher was imprisoned for naming a teddy bear Muhammad.

On 11 and 15 April 2010, Southern Sudan Regional Elections: A South Sudanese There was a regional elections in Southern Sudan in which Salva Kiir Mayardit won by 93% of the votes.^{[citation needed]}