1 - 1500 One and a half millenia

0100-1000 AD In-migration of West African Bantu-speaking agriculturalists begins. Ofcansky, Thomas P and Yeager, Rodger Historical Dictionary of Tanzania History
0200 First reference to 'Azania' in a Greek guidebook Amin, Mohamed; Willetts, Duncan and Marshall, Peter Journey Through Tanzania Azania
Periplus
0200 Ptolemy made the first written reference to Kilimanjaro Amin, Mohamed; Willetts, Duncan and Marshall, Peter Journey Through Tanzania Ptolemy
Kilimanjaro: before 1900
0200 Travel and Trade in the Indian Ocean by a Merchant of the First Century Schoff , W.H. (tr. & ed.), The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea: Travel and Trade in the Indian Ocean by a Merchant of the First Century Azania
0200 Travel and Trade in the Indian Ocean by a Merchant of the First Century Schoff , W.H. (tr. & ed.), The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea: Travel and Trade in the Indian Ocean by a Merchant of the First Century Cholaebus
0200 Travel and Trade in the Indian Ocean by a Merchant of the First Century Schoff , W.H. (tr. & ed.), The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea: Travel and Trade in the Indian Ocean by a Merchant of the First Century Erythraean Sea
0200 Travel and Trade in the Indian Ocean by a Merchant of the First Century Schoff , W.H. (tr. & ed.), The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea: Travel and Trade in the Indian Ocean by a Merchant of the First Century Azania
Cholaebus
0200 Travel and Trade in the Indian Ocean by a Merchant of the First Century Schoff , W.H. (tr. & ed.), The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea: Travel and Trade in the Indian Ocean by a Merchant of the First Century Sinthus
0200 Travel and Trade in the Indian Ocean by a Merchant of the First Century Schoff , W.H. (tr. & ed.), The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea: Travel and Trade in the Indian Ocean by a Merchant of the First Century Cerobothra
0200 Travel and Trade in the Indian Ocean by a Merchant of the First Century Schoff , W.H. (tr. & ed.), The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea: Travel and Trade in the Indian Ocean by a Merchant of the First Century Azania
0200 Travel and Trade in the Indian Ocean by a Merchant of the First Century Schoff , W.H. (tr. & ed.), The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea: Travel and Trade in the Indian Ocean by a Merchant of the First Century Periplus
200 History Africa Travel Resource Kilimanjaro Ptolemy
0400 Ex Africa semper aliquid novi Pliny
0400 Baker, Richard St. Barbe Africa Drums Pliny
Augustine Bishop of Hippo
0800 Active colonisation Amin, Mohamed; Willetts, Duncan and Marshall, Peter Journey Through Tanzania Kilwa
Zanzibar
960BC Stone bowls Fosbrooke, H.A. and Sassoon, H Archeological Remains on Kilimanjaro Kilimanjaro: before 1900
Ol Molog
Ngare-Nairobi
1000 Stone Bowl people Hanby, Jeannette & Bygott, David Ngorongoro Conservation Area Stone Bowl People
1000-1300 Bantu Settlements predominate in Western Tanganyika Ofcansky, Thomas P and Yeager, Rodger Historical Dictionary of Tanzania History
1200 Active colonisation Amin, Mohamed; Willetts, Duncan and Marshall, Peter Journey Through Tanzania Shirazi
1250 Black tuffs Nyamweru, Celia Oldoinyo Lengai Web Site Ol Doinyo Lengai
1270 Husuni Kubwa
King Hassan bin Suleiman
1390's The end of a man eater - the first and possibly the only photograph ever taken of a Masai lion hunt Ulyate Family Personal Communications R.R. (Ray) Ulyate
1400 Engaruka Hanby, Jeannette & Bygott, David Ngorongoro Conservation Area Engaruka
1498 first Europeans to reach East Africa by sea editors East Africa Vasco da Gama
1498-2000 Timeline: Tanzania Tanzania
1500 Unknown to the outside world Fosbrooke, H.A. The Early Exploration of Kilimanjaro: A Bibliographical Note Kilimanjaro: before 1900
1500 July 26 Pedro Alvares Cabral arrives Ofcansky, Thomas P and Yeager, Rodger Historical Dictionary of Tanzania Pedro Alvares Cabral