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Timeline of Yoruba history

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ133971492 ↗
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This is a timeline or chronology of Yoruba history. It contains notable or important cultural, historical and political events in Yorubaland, its constituent kingdoms and its immediate region as it relates to the Yoruba people of West Africa. Many of the dates, especially those from the periods before written history are approximates, and are always indicated when shown.

Do not add events that are not notable to this timeline.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 69-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Timeline, Yoruba and history providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Timeline of Yoruba history” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.