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- Gabon Chronology
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- Gabon became a French colony in 1886, administered as part of French Equatorial Africa.
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- * 1960 Independence. LΘon M'ba president.
- * 1964 Military coup. French intervene to reinstate M'ba.
- * 1967 Albert-Bernard (later Omar) Bongo president.
- * 1968 Single-party state instituted.
- * 1990 Multiparty democracy. Omar Bongo's PDG wins elections.