11 Timeline

TIMELINE OF NELSON MANDELA'S LIFE 1918 — Nelson Mandela is born 1927 — Mandela's father dies and Mandela goes to live with Jongintaba 1940 — Mandela is expelled from Fort Hare and flees to Johannesburg 1944 — Mandela joins the ANC and marries Evelyn Ntoko Mase 1948 — Apartheid begins 1952 — The ANC leads the Defiance Campaign Mandela and Oliver Tambo open the first black law partnership in the country 1956 — The Treason Trial begins 1958 — Mandela and Evelyn divorce Mandela marries Nomzamo Winifred Madikizela 1960 — The Sharpeville Massacre occurs 1961 — The Spear of the Nation is founded 1964 — Mandela enters prison on Robben Island 1976 — Riots in Soweto occur 1977 — Steve Biko is murdered 1982 — Mandela is transferred to Pollsmoor Prison 1990 — Mandela is released from prison 1993 — Mandela and de Klerk win the Nobel Peace Prize

1994 — Mandela is elected president of South Africa 1996 — Mandela and Winnie divorce 1998 — Mandela marries Graca Machel 2005 — Mandela announces his son's death from AIDS 2013 — Mandela dies on December 5

TIMELINE OF THE WORLD 1488 — The first European vessel, a Portuguese trading ship, sails around the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa 1902 — The Boer War between the British and the Dutch ends 1913 — Electric refrigerators for home use are invented 1914 — World War I begins 1920 — Women win the right the vote in the US 1933 — Prohibition is repealed in the US 1953 — Joseph Stalin dies 1961 — The Berlin Wall is built 1963 — The Smiley Face is invented Shakespeare's Julius Caesar is translated into Swahili 1969 — Man lands on the moon 1974 — Earthquake hits Lima, Peru 1981 — Charles, the Prince of Wales, marries Lady Diana Spencer 1985 — New Coke is invented and quickly disappears 1986 — US passes anti-apartheid economic sanctions bill 1998 — Pope John Paul II visits Cuba 2012 — Barack Obama is reelected president of the US