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The following lists events that happened during 1887 in the Congo Free State .
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The following lists events that happened during 1887 in the Congo Free State .
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| January 11 | The Apostolic Vicariate of Upper Congo (later the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kalemie–Kirungu) is created from the Apostolic Vicariate of Tanganyika |
| 17 April 1887 | Camille Janssen becomes governor-general of the Congo Free State |
Leopold II was the second King of the Belgians from 1865 to 1909, and the founder and sole owner of the Congo Free State from 1885 to 1908.
The Belgian Congo was a Belgian colony in Central Africa from 1908 until independence in 1960 and became the Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville). The former colony adopted its present name, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), in 1964.
The Congo Free State, also known as the Independent State of the Congo, was a large state and absolute monarchy in Central Africa from 1885 to 1908. It was privately owned by King Leopold II, the constitutional monarch of the Kingdom of Belgium. In legal terms, the two separate nations were in a "personal union". The Congo Free State was not a part of, nor did it belong to Belgium. Leopold was able to seize the region by convincing other European states at the Berlin Conference on Africa that he was involved in humanitarian and philanthropic work and would not tax trade. Via the International Association of the Congo, he was able to lay claim to most of the Congo Basin. On 29 May 1885, after the closure of the Berlin Conference, the king announced that he planned to name his possessions "the Congo Free State", an appellation which was not yet used at the Berlin Conference and which officially replaced "International Association of the Congo" on 1 August 1885. The Free State was privately controlled by Leopold from Brussels; he never went there.
Équateur was a province in the northwest of the Belgian Congo and the successor Republic of the Congo, now known as Democratic Republic of the Congo. It had its origins in the Équateur District of the Congo Free State, the private property of King Leopold II of Belgium. It was upgraded to the status of a province in 1917. Between 1933 and 1947 it was named Coquilhatville. In 1962 it was divided into three smaller provinces, but there were recombined in 1966. Équateur was one of the eleven provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo until 2015, when it was split into the new, smaller Équateur province, as well as the Tshuapa, Mongala, Nord-Ubangi and Sud-Ubangi provinces.
North Kivu is a province bordering Lake Kivu in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Its capital is Goma.
Lieutenant-General Baron Théophile Wahis was a Belgian soldier and colonial civil servant who served as Governor-General of the Congo Free State and, subsequently, the Belgian Congo for two terms between 1891 and 1912. He was the longest ruling of Belgian colonial governors.
The following lists events that happened during 1886 in the Congo Free State.
The following lists events that happened during 1892 in the Congo Free State.
The following lists events that happened during 1901 in the Congo Free State.
The following lists events that happened during 1891 in the Congo Free State.
The following lists events that happened during 1899 in the Congo Free State.
The following lists events that happened during 1897 in the Congo Free State.
The following lists events that happened during 1889 in the Congo Free State.
The following lists events that happened during 1895 in the Congo Free State.
The following lists events that happened during 1896 in the Congo Free State.
The following lists events that happened during 1900 in the Congo Free State.
The following lists events that happened during 1903 in the Congo Free State.
The following lists events that happened during 1905 in the Congo Free State.
The following lists events that happened during 1908 in the Congo Free State.
