Timeline of Bissau

Bissau is a city in Guinea-Bissau, a country in West Africa, formerly part of the kingdom of Kaabu and part of the Mali Empire.

Prior to 20th century

  • 1687 - Portuguese trading post established in region of Papel people.[1]
  • 1692 - Portuguese colonial Captaincy of Bissau founded.[2]
  • 1707 - Portuguese fort dismantled and abandoned.[2]
  • 1753 - Portuguese overcome Papel resistance, rebuild fort.
  • 1775 - Fortaleza de São José da Amura (fort) built.[2]
  • 1859 - Municipal Council founded.[2]
  • 1863 - Bissau attains town status.[2]
  • 1869
    • Bissau becomes capital of the colonial district of Guinea.[2]
    • Population: 573.[3]

20th century

  • 1917 - Bissau attains city status.[2]
  • 1935 - Bissau Cathedral built.
  • 1936 - Sporting Clube de Bissau formed.
  • 1937 - Estrela Negra de Bissau football club formed.
  • 1941 - Capital of colonial Portuguese Guinea moves to Bissau from Bolama.[1]
  • 1944 - Sport Bissau e Benfica (football club) formed.
  • 1948 - City Market construction begins.[4]
  • 1950s - Craveiro Lopes (airport) built.
  • 1950 - Population: 18,309.[5]
  • 1959 - 3 August: Dockworkers strike at Porto Pidjiguiti; crackdown.[3]
  • 1960 - Canal do Impernal (channel) dries up; Bissau no longer an island in the Geba River estuary.[2]
  • 1968 - City besieged during the Guinea-Bissau War of Independence.[2]
  • 1971 - City besieged during the War of Independence.[2]
  • 1973 - Africa Bottling Company Lda in business.
  • 1974 - City becomes capital of newly independent Guinea-Bissau.[3]
  • 1977 - Roman Catholic Diocese of Bissau established.[6]
  • 1979 - Population: 109,214.[7]
  • 1984 - National Library of Guinea-Bissau headquartered in city.
  • 1985 - City joins the newly formed União das Cidades Capitais Luso-Afro-Américo-Asiáticas.
  • 1989 - Estádio 24 de Setembro (stadium) opens.
  • 1990 - 27 January: Catholic pope visits city.
  • 1991
    • Instituto Nacional de Estatística (Guinea-Bissau) headquartered in city.
    • Population: 197,600.[8]
  • 1992 - Correio-Bissau newspaper begins publication.[9]
  • 1996 - Rádio Bombolom begins broadcasting.[9]
  • 1998
    • 7 June: Guinea-Bissau Civil War begins; residents flee from the city.[10]
    • Hotel Hotti Bissau in business.
  • 1999 - 10 May: Guinea-Bissau Civil War ends.[11]

21st century

  • 2002 - Population: 292,000.[3]
  • 2005 - National People's Assembly Palácio Colinas de Boé built.
  • 2008 - TV Guiné-Bissau begins broadcasting.
  • 2009
    • 2 March: Assassination of president Vieira.[12][13]
    • Population: 387,909.[14]
  • 2010 - Hospital Amizade China-Guine-Bissau opens.[2]
  • 2012 - 12 April: 2012 Guinea-Bissau coup d'état.[15]
  • 2022 - 1 February: 2022 Guinea-Bissau coup d'état attempt

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Guinea-Bissau". Political Chronology of Africa. Political Chronologies of the World. Europa Publications. 2001. pp. 208–213. ISBN 0203409957.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Peter Karibe Mendy; Richard A. Lobban Jr. (2013). Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau (4th ed.). Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-8027-6.
  3. ^ a b c d Young 2005.
  4. ^ Milheiro 2009.
  5. ^ "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1955. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations. pp. 171–184.
  6. ^ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Guinea-Bissau". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 15 September 2017.
  7. ^ United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1987). "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". 1985 Demographic Yearbook. New York. pp. 247–289.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  8. ^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2005. United Nations Statistics Division.
  9. ^ a b "Guinea-Bissau: Directory". Africa South of the Sahara 2004. Regional Surveys of the World. Europa Publications. 2004. ISBN 1857431839.
  10. ^ "Rebels and Loyalists In Guinea-Bissau Exchange Shellfire", New York Times, 16 June 1998
  11. ^ Cybriwsky 2013.
  12. ^ Guinea-Bissau's president, army chief killed, Reuters, 2 March 2009
  13. ^ Lydia Polgreen (11 March 2009), "2 slayings in West Africa may signal a new day", New York Times
  14. ^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2015. United Nations Statistics Division. 2016.
  15. ^ Bissau soldiers control capital in apparent coup, Reuters, 13 April 2012

Bibliography

in English
in other languages
  • Esteves Pereira; Guilherme Rodrigues, eds. (1906). "Bissau". Portugal: Diccionario Historico... (in Portuguese). Vol. 2. Lisbon: Joao Romano Torres. hdl:2027/gri.ark:/13960/t6m081q3b. OCLC 865826167.
  • Joel Frederico da Silveira (1989). "Spatialisation d'un rapport colonial: Bissau, 1900-1960". In Michel Cahen (ed.). Vilas et cidades: bourgs et villes en Afrique lusophone (in French). Paris: L'Harmattan. ISBN 2-7384-0431-6.
  • François Mendy (2006). La ville de Bissau: amenagement et gestion urbaine (Ph.D.) (in French). Universite Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar.
  • Ana Vaz Milheiro; Eduardo Costa Dias (2009). "Arquitectura em Bissau e os Gabinetes de Urbanização colonial (1944–1974)" [Architecture in Bissau and the Colonial Urbanization Departments] (PDF). Arq.urb (in Portuguese) (2). São Paulo: Universidade São Judas Tadeu. ISSN 1984-5766. Free access icon
Wikimedia Commons has media related to History of Bissau.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.