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[edit]
- 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
20th century[edit]
- 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.[citation needed]
- 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[edit]
- 2002 - Population: 292,000.[3]
- 2005 - National People's Assembly Palácio Colinas de Boé built.
- 2008 - TV Guiné-Bissau begins broadcasting.
- 2009
- 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[edit]
- Bissau history (de)
- List of governors of Portuguese Guinea, seated at Bissau 1941-1974
- History of Guinea-Bissau
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Guinea-Bissau". Political Chronology of Africa. Political Chronologies of the World. Europa Publications. 2001. pp. 208–213. ISBN 0203409957.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b c d Young 2005.
- ^ Milheiro 2009.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Guinea-Bissau". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 15 September 2017.
- ^ 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) - ^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2005. United Nations Statistics Division.
- ^ a b "Guinea-Bissau: Directory". Africa South of the Sahara 2004. Regional Surveys of the World. Europa Publications. 2004. ISBN 1857431839.
- ^ "Rebels and Loyalists In Guinea-Bissau Exchange Shellfire", New York Times, 16 June 1998
- ^ Cybriwsky 2013.
- ^ Guinea-Bissau's president, army chief killed, Reuters, 2 March 2009
- ^ Lydia Polgreen (11 March 2009), "2 slayings in West Africa may signal a new day", New York Times
- ^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2015. United Nations Statistics Division. 2016.
- ^ Bissau soldiers control capital in apparent coup, Reuters, 13 April 2012
Bibliography[edit]
- in English
- I. Lourenco-Lindell (1997). "Food for the poor, food for the city: the role of urban agriculture in Bissau". Geographical Journal of Zimbabwe (28). ISSN 1011-5919.
- Paul Tiyambe Zeleza; Dickson Eyoh, eds. (2003). "Bissau, Guinea-Bissau". Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History. Routledge. ISBN 0415234794.
- Ilda Lourenço-Lindell (2004). "Trade and the politics of informalization in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau". In Karen Tranberg Hansen; Mariken Vaa (eds.). Reconsidering Informality: Perspectives from Urban Africa. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet. ISBN 978-91-7106-518-6. OCLC 654131452.
- Eric Young (2005). "Bissau, Guinea-Bissau". In Kwame Anthony Appiah; Henry Louis Gates (eds.). Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 472. ISBN 978-0-19-517055-9.
- Roman A. Cybriwsky (2013). "Bissau". Capital Cities around the World: An Encyclopedia of Geography, History, and Culture. ABC-CLIO. pp. 52–53. ISBN 978-1-61069-248-9.
- Manuel Rambout Barcelos (2006). "Masked children in an urban scene: the Bissau Carnival". In Simon Ottenberg; David Aaron Binkley (eds.). Playful Performers: African Children's Masquerades. Transaction Publishers. ISBN 978-1-351-49950-7.
- 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.
External links[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to History of Bissau.
- "Bissau, Guinea-Bissau". BlackPast.org. US. 9 October 2014.
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