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| 1960 |
| | | The French Congo becomes independent as the republic of Congo, with Fulbert Youlou as president | |
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| 1960 |
| | | Mobutu Sese Seko takes power in a military coup in the midst of chaos in the Congo | |
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| 1960 |
| | | Patrice Lumumba, the dismissed prime minister of the Congo, is arrested on the orders of the army chief of staff, Mobutu Sese Seko | |
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| 1961 |
| | | Patrice Lumumba is sent to Katanga, where he is murdered | |
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| 1961 |
| | | The UN secretary general, Dag Hammarskjöld, dies in a plane crash while trying to secure peace in Katanga | |
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| 1963 |
| | | Moise Tshombe's rebel regime in Katanga crumbles, and he flees to Spain | |
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| 1965 |
| | | Mobutu stages his second coup in the Congo and this time takes power as president | |
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| 1966 |
| | | Jean-Bedel Bokassa takes power in a coup in the Central African Republic | |
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| 1968 |
| | | Spanish Guinea becomes an independent republic as Equatorial Guinea, with Francisco Macias Nguema as president | |
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| 1971 |
| | | Mobutu gives the Congo a new name, Zaire, deriving from an African word for river | |
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