Ras Tafari crowned Haile Selassie
1930
In a twelve-hour Addis Ababa ceremony laced with Biblical pageantry, Ras Tafari Makonnen was crowned emperor of Ethiopia and took the name Haile Selassie, Power of the Trinity. Half a world away in Jamaica, poor dockworkers read the news as prophecy and founded a new religion centered on the Lion of Judah.
In context
Also in 1930 (5 other events on record)
- Gandhi's Salt March · South Asia · Politics
- Smoot-Hawley Tariff signed · North America · Politics
- Pluto discovered from Arizona · North America · Science
- Grant Wood paints American Gothic · North America · Culture
- Daylight saving time becomes federal · North America · Politics
Before and after in Africa
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Era
Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.
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