Short answers, pulled from the story.
The name Kenya comes from a mountain peak that looks like the feathers of a male ostrich. German explorer Johann Ludwig Krapf first recorded the name in the 19th century while traveling with a Kamba caravan led by Chief Kivoi. The term evolved from the mountain to the protectorate and finally to the Republic of Kenya in 1920.
Paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey and Kamoya Kimeu discovered the Turkana Boy fossil in 1984 at Lake Turkana. This 1.6-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil provided ample evidence that East Africa was one of the earliest regions where modern humans lived.
The Chinese trader and explorer Zheng He visited the East African coast in 1414. The Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama arrived in Malindi in 1498, marking the beginning of Portuguese presence in Kenya that lasted until 1730.
The Uganda Railway faced significant resistance from the Nandi led by Orkoiyot Koitalel Arap Samoei from 1890 to 1900. During construction through Tsavo, Indian railway workers and local African laborers were attacked by two lions known as the Tsavo maneaters.
Kenya was in a state of emergency from October 1952 to December 1959 arising from the Mau Mau rebellion against British rule. The conflict involved primarily Kikuyu, Embu, and Meru people and resulted in over 11,000 freedom fighters being killed.
On the 12th of December 1963, the Colony of Kenya and the Protectorate of Kenya came to an end with independence conferred on all of Kenya. On the 12th of December 1964, Kenya became a republic under the name Republic of Kenya.