READ BELOW TO DIG DEEPER INTO THE DATES THAT DEFINE OUR FREEDOM
2500 BC: It is (now widely) agreed that people have been living in what we now know as Sierra Leone since at least 2500 BC. Pieces of pottery and tools have been found in both the Kono and Koranko regions of modern Sierra Leone that have been dated to this period of prehistory.
600 AD: evidence exists of iron-working populations inhabiting the region since 600 AD.
1450-1700: Mande-speakers, migrating to the area from the east, inter-married with ancestors of contemporary Bullom, Kissi and Krim peoples living there, giving rise to contemporary groups such as the Mende, Vai and Loko.
1462: A Portuguese explorer viewing the mountainous Freetown peninsula in the 15th Century called the territory ‘Lion Mountains’, the Italian translation of which gave the country its name
1540: In the mid-16th century, the Mane people invaded, and subjugated nearly all of the indigenous coastal peoples, and in the process, militarised Sierra Leone.
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