Mozambique Timeline: Colonization-Independence
1891
1992
- Portugal hands over the administration of the region to the Mozambique Company, which is a private business.
- The government and rebels sign a peace treaty. Mozambique is independent.
1962-1974
- Rebels fight for independence from Portugal. The fight becomes more organized in the 1960s, when the Mozambicans form the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique, shortened to Frelimo.
1752
1977
- Mozambique becomes a Portuguese colony.
- Rebels and the government are locked in a destructive civil war.