Armed Conflict Events Data

Index of Wars and Conflicts relating to Benin

This index presents historical and modern wars and conflicts taking place in the present territory of, or relating to, Benin. Benin gained independence from the France in 1960. The territory, formerly known as French Dahomey, was a part of colonial French West Africa from 1895. Prior to the French conquest in 1894, Dahomey was an independent state.