1970s in Ghana

Events

• August 1970 - National Liberation commission dissolved.
• 7 July 1972 - Kwame Nkrumah buried.
• October 1975 - the National Redemption Council is reorganized into the Supreme Military Council.
• 1977 - SMC faces mounting nonviolent opposition.
• March 1978 - national referendum held allow Ghanaians to accept or reject the union government concept.
• July 1978 - some SMC officers force I. K. Acheampong to resign, replacing him with Lieutenant General Frederick W.K. Akuffo.
• 1 January 1979 - ban on party politics lifted.
• 1979 - constitutional assembly working on a new constitution presents an approved draft to government.
• 15 May 1979 - a group of junior officers led by Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings attempt a coup.
• Coup is unsuccessful, the coup leaders were jailed and held for court-martial.
• June 4, sympathetic military officers overthrow the SMC II government led by W. K. Akuffo.
• June 1979 - Jerry Rawlings and other junior officers released from prison.
• 1979 - Rawlings and the young officers form the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council.
• 1979 - executions of former heads of military governments, sworn in as president of Ghana.
• 24 September 1979 - the Third Republic begins.

  Deaths

• 27 April 1972 - Kwame Nkrumah, first president of Ghana, natural causes in Romania.

  National holidays

• January 1: New Year's Day
• March 6: Independence Day
• May 1: Labor Day
• December 25: Christmas
• December 26: Boxing day