Jomo Kenyatta International Airport

The airport opens on March 9 as Nairobi's new international airport, inaugurated by Sir Evelyn Baring, the colony's last governor.

The World Bank approves roughly US$29 million in funding for a major expansion of the airport.

Following President Jomo Kenyatta's death on August 22, the airport is renamed in his honor; a new terminal building, completed on March 14, opens the same year.

A British Airways Concorde lands at Jomo Kenyatta for high-altitude performance testing, a rare visit for the supersonic jet in East Africa.

A fire originating in the arrivals immigration area on August 7 destroys Units 1 and 2 of the international terminal; incoming flights are diverted to Uganda, Tanzania and other Kenyan airports for days.

Terminal 1A, which was not damaged in the fire, reopens on July 1, 2014, and a temporary terminal with a 10-year design lifespan becomes operational in June 2015.

An ambitious KES 56 billion 'Greenfield Terminal' expansion, proposed under Kenya Vision 2030 to raise capacity to 18.5 million passengers, is terminated after the contractor fails to secure financing.

JKIA achieves FAA Category One safety status in February, opening the possibility of direct flights to the United States.