Emmanuel : Chronology : 1950 - 1974

1800 - 1874    1875 - 1899    1900 - 1924    1925 - 1949     1950 - 1974     1975 - 1990

1950

Kerasto Randaki, future wife of Dimitri G. Emmanuel, is born on October 5, at Xanthi, Greece.

1951

The price of sisal skyrockets due to the Korean war, as it's considered a strategic material. Costas marries my mother, Ketty B. Georgiadis , on March 3, in Moshi, Tanganyika . The Greek Expatriate Community of Tanganyika builds the St. Constantine's Hellenic School in Arusha.

1952

The Mau-Mau uprising in Kenya begins. The Robey sisal decorticator is installed at Lambo Sisal Estate, Tanganyika.

1953

Tongoni and Lewa Sisal estates in Tanga, Tanganyika, are bought. Gregory C. Emmanuel (me) , son of Costas and Ketty G. Emmanuel, is born on June 29, in his grandfather Basil D. Georgiadi's clinic, in Moshi, Tanganyika.

1954

Costas G. Emmanuel travels to Greece and gets into bureaucratic trouble for not serving in the Greek Army during the civil war.

1955

On December 30 Grandfather Gregory is awarded a Greek medal, the Silver Cross of the Order of King George the First. Irini Lorna Royle , daughter of Dimitri and Vi (nee Worsley) G. Emmanuel, is born on April 12 in Moshi, Tanganyika. 

1956

Costas and Ketty G. Emmanuel and their son Gregory go on a cruise to Europe on the LLoyd-Triestino Line's S.S. Europa . Elli Efrosini Emmanuel , daughter of Constantine and Ketty G. Emmanuel, is born on August 17, in Grandfather Basil D. Georgiadi's clinic, in Moshi, Tanganyika.

1957

Gregory William , son of Dimitri and Vi (nee Worsley) G. Emmanuel, is born in Moshi, Tanganyika. 

1959

Gregory C. Emmanuel attends school at the St. Constantine’s Hellenic School, a Greek boarding school in Arusha, Tanganyika.

1960

Grandmother Irini (b.1896) passes on. Chombo Estate near Moshi, Tanganyika, is sold. Grandfather Gregory retires at the age of 85.

1961

Tanganyika gains its independence from Britain on December 9, Uhuru Day (Independence Day). 

1962

Gregory C. Emmanuel leaves Tanganyika to attend boarding school at the Athens College in Greece. While in boarding school he spends weekends at his aunt Eleni's house, at Spartis 7 street. His sister Elli starts attending the St. Constantine's Hellenic School in Arusha.

1963

On December 23 Dimitri G. Emmanuel is awarded a Greek medal, the Gold Cross of the Order of the Phoenix. Kenya becomes fully independent from Britain.

1964

Turkey closes the Greek-language schools on the predominantly ethnic Greek-populated islands of Imvros and Tenedos (ceded to Turkey under the Treaty of Lausanne) and appropriates more than 90% of the arable land for military camps and open agricultural prisons. Turkish settlers from Asia Minor are also brought onto the two small islands in droves. Tongoni Sisal Estate in Tanga is sold. Grandfather Gregory and Dimitri G. Emmanuel leave Tanzania and return to Greece . Costas, Dimitris, and Nikos G. Emmanuel, in partnership with other Greeks from Tanzania, become involved in a shipping company. Tanganyika merges with Zanzibar and is renamed Tanzania .

1967

In Greece, a military dictatorship is established following a coup. Lewa Sisal Estate near Tanga, Tanzania, is nationalized by 60%. 

1972

Lambo Sisal Estate near Moshi, Tanzania, is nationalized by 100%, along with other white-owned farms in the Kilimanjaro district. All Indians are forcibly expelled from Uganda by Idi Amin. Gregory C. Emmanuel graduates from the Athens College and, after passing entrance exams, is admitted to the Metsovion Polytechnic University, Department of Architecture , in Athens.

1973

On November 17, extensive demonstrations by students, supported by most of the people of Athens, are violently suppressed by the military dictatorship of Greece. Gregory C. Emmanuel gets into trouble with the dictatorship and leaves for Tanzania.

1974

Nikos and Costas G. Emmanuel lease about 1300 acres on the Sanya Plains (between Moshi and Arusha, next to Kilimanjaro airport) and farm seed beans . Democracy is restored in Greece and Gregory C. Emmanuel returns  to continue his studies at the Polytechnic University. Costas G. Emmanuel leaves Tanzania and goes to Greece, where he works as an accountant in a shipping office in Piraeus.

1800 - 1874    1875 - 1899    1900 - 1924    1925 - 1949     1950 - 1974     1975 - 1990