12 DECEMBER, 1913
On December of 1913, Emperor Menelik II died. In his reign, he relocated the royal encampment to Addis Ababa ("new flower") in the late 1880s. His actions led to the continuing up bring of a unique center and destined capital in the 1890s, a process which began the introduction to new ideas and technology. Menelik used a method of military conquest that doubled the size of his state. Taking advantage of fire power, his army overran the Kembata and Welamo region in the southern highlands and the Kefa and other oromo and omotic-speaking people. Also in his reign, he compromised the Treaty of Wuchale with Italy in 1889 which permitted Italy to hold a tip of the northern highlands as a territory (Prouty and Rosenfeld 129-131).
2 DECEMBER, 1950
United Nations agrees to hand over Eritrea to Ethiopia.
