The today's flag of the Comoros was introduced on 21st of January in 2002. It shows four same-wide horizontal stripes in yellow, white, red and blue. On the leech is positioned a green triangle with a half-moon and four stars. There is no definition of the colors of the flag, only the color values that were deposited by the International Olympic Committee on the occasion of the 2012 Olympics: green = Pantone 355, yellow = Pantone 109, red = Pantone 32, blue = Pantone 293. The green triangle as well the half-moon and the stars remember the hitherto valid flags of the Comoros. The flag of the Comoros had initially consisted in a green bunting, on it a white half-moon and four stars. The green colour and the half-moon symbolize the islam, the stars the four main islands of the archipelago. The colours yellow, white, red and blue in the four stripes in the flying part of the flag stand likewise for the four main islands of the Comoros. The first flag for the French colony of the Comoros was introduced in 1963. On the occasion of the UN-membership in 1975, was introduced a flag with a narrow red stripe on the lower end. After numerous changes of government were introduced other flags, the moon and the stars turned in different directions, were grouped and arranged in varying ways. Finally were even added Arabic letters. They meaned "Allah" and "Mohammed".
1978–2001, Coat of arms of the Comoros, Source: Tonyjeff, based on national symbol, with the help of users AnonMoos, Kafka1, Omar86 and زهير حرب. [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
from 2016, Coat of arms of the Comoros, Source: Tonyjeff, based on national symbol, with the help of users AnonMoos, Kafka1, Omar86, زهير حرب and Thommy. [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
The first and from 1975 to 1978 valid coat of arms of the Comoros showed besides an five-pointed star placed on an lying half-moon surrounded by a wreath of many stars. The between 1978 and 2001 valid coat of arms of the Comoros showed the lying crescent with four stars on it, placed on an eight-pointed star, surrounded by the name of the country (Federal Islamic Republic of Comoros) in French and Comorian (written in Arabic), a wreath from Olive branches and a banner with the motto of the state in French: "Unité, Justice, Progress" → "Unity, Justice, Progress". In 2016, the name of the state was changed (Union of the Comoros) and also the motto. It now reads: "Unité, Solidarité, Développement" → "Unity, Solidarity, Development".
ca. 600 · beginning settlement by Melanesians, Polynesians, Africans and Persians
1416 · the Arabs conquer the islands, in the afteryears islamization
1500–1505 · the Portugese rule over the Comoros
1506 · unification of the islands under an Arabic Sultan, later the state disintegrates and every single island is ruled by one Sultan
ca. 1700 · Madagascar tryes to conquer the islands, the islands become a center of the piracy
1803 · settle of from France exiled Jacobins
1841 · Mayotte Island becomes a French protectorate by deliberation of the Sultan of Mayotte and the island becomes administered from Réunion Island
1849–1873 · French colonization on all islands of the Comoros
1886 · the French protectorate gets expanded over all Comoro Islands
1909 · the Comoros become a French colony and get administered from French Madagascar
1946 · the Comoros become a French Overseas Territory with own administration
1958 · a plebiscite for independence from France fails
1961 · the Comoros get interior self government
1975 · declaration of independenceby the government of the Comoros – against the resistance of the Comorians, which mostly want to remain at France
1976 · a plebiscite on Mayotte achieves the remain of the island at France
1977 · the Comoros get a socialistic constitution
1978 · overthrow of the government by French and Belgian mercenaries, new constitution, new designation of the state: Islamic Federal Republic of the Comoros
1979 · one-party-system
1990 · free and democratic elections within a multi-party-system
1990–1996 · varying chiefs of state and coups d'état
