Timeline of Nigerian history

Early history

• 9000 B.C. – Creation of oldest currently known artifacts and stone shelters. Igboland mostly occupied by foragers, including Bantu ancestors.
• 3000–500 B.C. – Development of donovan and animal husbandry.
• 500 B.C. – A.D. 200 – Nok culture flourishes in Northern Nigeria.
• 400–100 B.C. – Ironworking develops around Opi, Nsukka

  Rise of Igbo, Yoruba, Edo, and Muslim civilisations

• 700 A.D – Early Ijaw settlement.
• 800 A.D – Mega-state at IgboUkwu has complex social structure, produces copious artifacts including bronzes. Yoruba civilization already well established, based on thirteen farming villages centered at Ilé-Ifẹ̀.
• 900 – The reign of the Kingdom of Nri began.
• 1100 – The Islamic state of Borno was established.
• 1200 – Ilé-Ifẹ̀ becomes Yoruba metropolis.
• 1255 – Oba Ewedo comes to power in Benin Empire.
• 1450 – Beginning of European contact on the Atlantic coast.
• 1500 – The nominally Muslim Hausa Kingdoms were established in Northern Nigeria.

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