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| 1926 |
| | | The Balfour Report, by former UK prime minister A.J. Balfour, suggests the way forward for the British Commonwealth of Nations | |
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| 1928 |
| | | Jomo Kenyatta becomes the editor of Muigwithania, the newspaper of the Kikuyu Central Association | |
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| 1930 |
| | | Mahatma Gandhi leads a 240-mile march from Ahmedabad to the sea to defy the British salt tax, thus launching a campaign of civil disobedience | |
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| 1933 |
| | | The Hutus and Tutsis of Ruanda-Urundi are issued with racial identity cards by the Belgians | |
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| 1934 |
| | | Neo-Destour, a party demanding Tunisian independence, has Habib Bourguiba as its secretary general | |
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| 1934 |
| | | Mohammed Ali Jinnah becomes president of the Muslim League in India | |
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| 1935 |
| | | Mussolini uses a disagreement over grazing rights as a pretext for an empire-building invasion of Ethiopia | |
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| 1936 |
| | | The Italian forces invading Ethiopia reach Addis Ababa, and Haile Selassie flees into exile | |
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| 1940 |
| | | Mohammed Ali Jinnah puts forward the concept of independent Muslim states within India | |
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| 1941 January 22 |
| | | Archibald Wavell's Allied divisions, after a rapid desert campaign, drive the Italians from the Libyan port of Tobruk | |
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