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Rastafari
Rastafarianism (a term many adherents reject)
1930 CE – present · Abrahamic · Living · Jamaica, Caribbean, UK, Ethiopia, US, Africa
VII. THE MODERN AGE — 1800 – 1945
### How many
### Who began it
### What it is for
### What it worships
### What it holds
### What it does
### After death
### Its texts
### Its branches
### Of note
### Its timeline
- 1914–1930s CE Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association, the largest Black mass movement in history to that point.
- <strong>2 November 1930 CE</strong> Haile Selassie crowned in Addis Ababa, with the titles King of Kings, Lord of Lords and Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah.
- 1933–1954 CE Leonard Howell's Pinnacle commune, raided repeatedly by Jamaican police.
- 1935–41 CE Italy invades Ethiopia; Selassie's League of Nations speech makes him a global symbol of African resistance.
- 1963 CE Coral Gardens incident — Jamaican security forces attack Rastas; the government apologised in 2017.
- <strong>21 April 1966 CE</strong> Selassie visits Jamaica. An estimated 100,000 people surround the aircraft. The date is kept as Grounation Day. He privately advises Rasta elders to liberate Jamaica before thinking of repatriation.
- 1968–1981 CE Reggae carries Rastafari worldwide; Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and Burning Spear. Marley dies in 1981 and is given a state funeral in Jamaica.
- 1974–75 CE Selassie is deposed and dies in captivity. Many Rastas reject the reports of his death.
- 1995–present Legal recognition of ganja as sacrament in several jurisdictions; Jamaica decriminalises in 2015 with a religious exemption.
- 2003 CE The Ethiopian government grants land at Shashamane to returnees; a small repatriated community lives there.
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