Timeline of Maputo
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Maputo, Mozambique (until 1976 known as Lourenço Marques).
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Prior to 20th century
- 1544 - Portuguese Lourenço Marques explores Maputo Bay.
- 1787 - Fortress built by Portuguese.[1]
- 1885 - Vasco de Gama Gardens laid out.
- 1892 - O Commercio de Lourenço Marques begins publication.[2]
- 1895 - Pretoria-Lourenço Marques railway built.
- 1898 - Capital of Portuguese Mozambique moves to Lourenço Marques from the Island of Mozambique.[3][4]
20th century
- 1904
- 1912 - Population: 13,353.[6]
- 1916 - Central Train Station built.
- 1918 - O Brado Africano begins publication.[2]
- 1922 - Hotel Polano built.
- 1934 - Arquivo Historico de Moçambique headquartered in city.[7][8][9]
- 1935 - Population: 47,390 (estimate).[10]
- 1940 - Maputo Airport terminal built.
- 1944 - Cathedral of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception built.
- 1955 - Sport Lourenço Marques e Benfica formed.
- 1961 - National Library of Mozambique established.[9]
- 1962 - Estudos Gerais Universitários de Moçambique established.
- 1968 - Estádio Salazar inaugurated in Matola.
1970s-1990s
- 1970
- Tempo magazine begins publication.
- Population: 355,000.
- 1974 - 24 September: Mozambique Liberation Front in power.[3]
- 1975 - City becomes part of the People's Republic of Mozambique.
- 1976
- 3 February: City renamed "Maputo."[11]
- Nationalization occurs.[3]
- 1977
- Bank of Mozambique, Mozambican Youth Organisation, and Centro Nacional de Documentação e Informação de Moçambique headquartered in city.[9]
- February: City hosts African Conference on Cinema.[11]
- 1978 - City administration by "Câmara Municipal" (city council) replaced by "Conselho Executivo" (executive council).[3]
- 1980
- City granted provincial status.[3]
- António Hama Thay becomes president of city executive council.
- 1982 - Gaspar Horácio Mateus Zimba becomes president of city executive council.
- 1983
- 1987
- 7 September: Prisoner exchange.[13]
- João Baptista Cosme becomes president of city executive council.
- 1989 - Brazilian Cultural Center opens.
- 1990
- Liga Muçulmana de Maputo football club founded.
- Population: 776,000 (urban agglomeration).[14]
- 1993 - Fórum Mulher founded.[15]
- 1996
- Maputo Development Corridor launched.[16]
- Instituto Camões-Centro Cultural Português opens.[17]
- 1997
- Artur Hussene Canana becomes president of city executive council.
- Population: 966,837.[18]
21st century
- 2000
- Flood.
- July: City hosts Community of Portuguese Language Countries summit.[19]
- Population: 1,096,000 (urban agglomeration).[14]
- 2003
- Maputo Port Development Company established.
- July: City hosts African Union assembly.[20]
- Eneas da Conceição Comiche becomes president of municipal council.
- 2006 - Dockanema film festival begins.
- 2007
- Promaputo city infrastructure project launched.
- 22 March: Arms depot explosion.
- Population: 1,766,184.[21]
- 2008 - February: Economic riots.[22]
- 2009 - David Simango becomes president of municipal council.
- 2010
- Maputo International Airport terminal opens.
- September: Economic unrest.[23][24]
- 2011
- Estádio do Zimpeto inaugurated.
- September: City hosts 2011 All-Africa Games.
- 2012 - Maputo Private Hospital inaugurated.
- 2013 - Aga Khan Academy established.[25]
See also
References
- ↑ M.A. El-Khawas (2003). "Maputo, Mozambique". In Dickson Eyoh and Paul Tiyambe Zeleza. Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History. Routledge. ISBN 0415234794.
- 1 2 "Maputo (Mozambique) Newspapers". WorldCat. USA: Online Computer Library Center. Retrieved 19 May 2013.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Jeremy Grest (1995). "Urban Management, Local Government Reform and the Democratisation Process in Mozambique: Maputo City 1975-1990". Journal of Southern African Studies 21. JSTOR 2637336.
- ↑ "Mozambique Profile: Timeline". BBC News. Retrieved 19 May 2013.
- 1 2 A. Samler Brown; G. Gordon Brown, eds. (1906), "Lourenço Marques", Guide to South Africa (14th ed.), London: Sampson, Low, Marston & Co.
- ↑ United States. Hydrographic Office. (1916), Africa Pilot: South and east coasts, Govt. Print. Off., OCLC 20138064
- ↑ Arquivo Histórico de Moçambique. "Sobre nos" (in Portuguese). Universidade Eduardo Mondlane. Retrieved 19 May 2013.
- ↑ Gerhard Liesegang (2000). "The Arquivo Historico de Moçambique and Historical Research in Maputo". History in Africa 27. JSTOR 3172128.
- 1 2 3 World Guide to Libraries (25th ed.), De Gruyter Saur, 2011, ISBN 9783110230710
- ↑ Webster's Geographical Dictionary, USA: G. & C. Merriam Co., 1960, OL 5812502M
- 1 2 3 Jacqueline A. Kalley; et al. (1999), Southern African political history: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, ISBN 0313302472
- ↑ "Mozambique ousts jobless from cities", New York Times, 1 October 1983,
Operation Production
- ↑ "An intricate prisoner exchange takes place in Maputo, Mozambique". South African History Online. Retrieved 19 May 2013.
- 1 2 "The State of African Cities 2010: Governance, Inequalities and Urban Land Markets". United Nations Human Settlements Programme. 2010.
- ↑ "Mozambique". Africa South of the Sahara. USA: Stanford University. Retrieved 19 May 2013.
- ↑ Fredrik Söderbaum; Ian Taylor (2001). "Transmission Belt for Transnational Capital or Facilitator for Development? Problematising the Role of the State in the Maputo Development Corridor". Journal of Modern African Studies 39.
- ↑ "O Instituto Camões- Centro Cultural Português em Maputo" (in Portuguese). Instituto Camões em Moçambique. Retrieved 19 May 2013.
- ↑ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2011. United Nations Statistics Division. 2012. Retrieved 19 May 2013.
- ↑ "Conferência de Maputo" (in Portuguese). Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa. Retrieved 19 May 2013.
- ↑ "Maputo, 10 - 12 July 2003 - Assembly of the African Union the Second Ordinary Session". African Union. Retrieved 19 May 2013.
- ↑ "Quadros do 3° Censo Geral da População e Habitação 2007". Instituto Nacional de Estatística. Retrieved 2010-12-23.
- ↑ African Economic Outlook 2009, African Development Bank and Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development, 2009, ISBN 9789264076181
- ↑ "Mozambique 2012", African Economic Outlook (African Development Bank and Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development), archived from the original on 27 April 2012
- ↑ Joseph Hanlon (2011). "Mozambique". In Andreas Mehler; et al. Africa Yearbook: Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara in 2010. Koninklijke Brill. pp. 483+. ISBN 90-04-20556-X.
- ↑ "Aga Khan Academy, Maputo". Retrieved 19 May 2013.
This article incorporates information from the Portuguese Wikipedia.
Further reading
- Published in the 19th century
- "Lourenço Marques". Elementos para um diccionario chorographico da provincia de Mozambique (in Portuguese). Lisboa: Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa. 1889.
- "Water-Gate of the Transvaal". Chambers' Journal (London). 1895.
- Published in the 20th century
- "Lorenzo Marquez". Brockhaus' Konversations-Lexikon (in German) (14th ed.). Leipzig: Brockhaus. 1908.
- "International Directory of Buyers and Sellers". Chicago: International Trade Developer Inc. 1922.
|chapter=ignored (help) - A. Rita-Ferreira (1967/68), Os Africanos de Lourenco Marques, Vol. 9 (in Portuguese), Lourenco Marques Check date values in:
|date=(help) - Jeanne Penvenne (1979), Forced labor and the origin of an African working class: Lourenço Marques, 1870-1962, Brookline, Massachusetts: African Studies Center, Boston University
- E. Medeiros (1989). "L'evolution Demographique de la Ville de Lourenco Marques (1894-1975)". In M. Cahen. Bourgs et Villes en Afrique Lusophone (in French).
- M. C. Mendes (1989). "Les repercussions de l'independence sur la ville de Maputo". In M. Cahen. Bourgs et Villes en Afrique Lusophone (in French).
- JoAnn McGregor (1998). "Violence and Social Change in a Border Economy: War in the Maputo Hinterland, 1984-1992". Journal of Southern African Studies 24.
- Published in the 21st century
- Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, ed. (2005). "Maputo". Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 726+. ISBN 978-0-19-517055-9.
- Illegitimacy of Democracy? Democratisation and Alienation in Maputo, Mozambique, London: Crisis States Research Centre, 2007 – via International Relations and Security Network
- Nationalism, Urban Poverty and Identity in Maputo, Mozambique, London: Crisis States Research Centre, 2010 – via International Relations and Security Network
- P. Jenkins (2011), Simon Bekker and Goran Therborn, ed., "Maputo and Luanda", Capital Cities in Africa: Power and Powerlessness (Dakar: Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa), ISBN 978-2- 8697-8495-6
- Paulo Tormenta Pinto & Ana Vaz Milheiro (2012), From Monumentality To Diversity – Maputo Between The Urban Plans Of Aguiar & Azevedo (1950—1970) – via International Planning History Society
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