Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma
1935 – 2005 · aged 70
President of Togo from 1967 to 2005
- Born
- 26 Dec 1935 · Pya
- Died
- 5 Feb 2005 · Tunis Governorate
Life timeline
Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.
- 26 Dec 1935BornBorn in Pya
- 1946 – 1954WarFirst Indochina War
- 1954 – 1962WarAlgerian War
- 1967 – 2005RolePresident of Togo
- 1975 – 1977RoleChairperson of ECOWAS
- 1980 – 1981RoleChairperson of ECOWAS
- 1982AwardCollar of the Spanish Order of the Civil Merit
- 1999RoleChairperson of ECOWAS
- 2000 – 2001RoleChairperson of the Organisation of African Unity
- 5 Feb 2005DiedDied in Tunis Governorate
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Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1935 – 2005).
- 19361936 Summer Olympics
- 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
- 19381938 FIFA World Cup
- 1938Munich Agreement
- 1939 – 1940Winter War
- 1939 – 1945World War II
- 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
- 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
- 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
- 1941Operation Barbarossa
- 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
- 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
- 19501950 FIFA World Cup
- 1950 – 1953Korean War
- 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
- 19541954 FIFA World Cup
- 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
- 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
- 1956Suez Crisis
- 19581958 FIFA World Cup
- 1959Antarctic Treaty System
- 19621962 FIFA World Cup
- 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
- 19661966 FIFA World Cup
- 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
- 1968Prague Spring
- 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
- 19721972 Summer Olympics
- 19741974 FIFA World Cup
- 19781978 FIFA World Cup
- 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
- 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
- 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
- 19841984 Summer Olympics
- 1985Schengen Agreement
- 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
- 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
- 19901990 FIFA World Cup
- 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
Biography
Gnassingbé Eyadéma (born Étienne Eyadéma Gnassingbé, 26 December 1935 – 5 February 2005) was a Togolese military officer and politician who served as the third president of Togo from 1967 until his death in 2005, after which he was immediately succeeded by his son, Faure Gnassingbé.
Eyadéma participated in two successful military coups, in January 1963 and January 1967, and became president on 14 April 1967. As president, he created a political party, the Rally of the Togolese People (RPT), and headed an anti-communist one-party state until the early 1990s, when reforms leading to multiparty elections began. Although his rule was seriously challenged by the events of the early 1990s, he ultimately consolidated power again and won multiparty presidential elections in 1993, 1998 and 2003; the opposition boycotted the 1993 election and denounced the 1998 and 2003 election results as fraudulent. At the time of his death, Eyadéma was the longest-serving ruler in Africa.
According to Anja Osei at the University of Konstanz, his rule "rested on repression, patronage, and a bizarre leadership cult."
Text from the Wikipedia article Gnassingbé Eyadéma, CC BY-SA 4.0
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