Timeline of Kampala
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Kampala, Buganda, Uganda.
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- 1881 - Kasubi Tombs built.
- 1885 - Mengo Palace built.
- 1894
- Uganda Protectorate established.[1]
- Anglican church built on Namirembe Hill.
- 1897 - Mengo Hospital founded.
20th century[edit]
- 1901 - Kampala Sports Club formed.[1]
- 1903 - Nsambya Hospital founded.
- 1904 - St. Paul's church built in Mengo.[2]
- 1905 - Government station relocated to Nakasero Hill.[1]
- 1906
- 1908 - Uganda Museum founded.
- 1910 - Goan Institute established.[1]
- 1911 - Kampala Club founded.[1]
- 1913 - Indian Association formed.[1]
- 1915 - Port Bell-Kampala railway begins operating.[4]
- 1917 - Kampala Public Library established.[1]
- 1921 - Central Council of Indian Associations of Uganda headquartered in Kampala.[1]
- 1922
- Technical school established.
- Population: 40,000 (approximate).[5]
- 1925 - Speke Hotel in business.[citation needed]
- 1929 - Entebbe airfield begins operating.
- 1931 - Uganda Railway begins operating.
- 1948 - Catholic Vicariate of Kampala established.[6]
- 1949
- 1950 - 28 July: Knifing at hospital.
- 1955 - Butabika Hospital opens.
- 1957 - Lugogo Cricket Oval in use.
- 1958 - Bulange constructed.
- 1959
- 1962 - Kampala becomes capital of Uganda.[3]
- 1963 - City becomes part of republic of Uganda.[8]
- 1964
- Uganda Public Libraries Board headquartered in city.[9]
- Nommo Gallery established.[10]
- 1965 - Apollo Hotel in business.
- 1966 - Battle of Mengo Hill.
- 1967
- East African Development Bank headquartered in Kampala.
- Ugandan National Theatre established.[11]
- 1968 - Kawempe, Kyambogo, Luzira, Makindye, Mmengo, Nakawa, Nakulabye, Natete, and Ntinda villages become part of Kampala.[3]
- A. G. Mehta, a Member of Parliament and member of the Uganda People's Congress (UPC), becomes the mayor of Kampala.[12]
- 1969
- Catholic pope visits city.[3]
- Mayor A.G. Mehta dies in office on March 10.[13]
- Population: 330,700 urban agglomeration.[14]
- 1970 - Crested Towers built.
- 1971 - 25 January: Coup.
- 1975
- July: Organisation of African Unity summit meeting held.[3]
- Kibuli Hospital founded.
- 1978 - October: Uganda–Tanzania War begins.
- 1979 - 11 April: Fall of Kampala.[15]
- 1980
- Uganda House built.[citation needed]
- Population: 458,503.[16]
- 1986
- City taken by National Resistance Army rebels.[8]
- Watoto Church founded.[17]
- 1991 - Population: 774,241.[16]
- 1994
- 1996
- Nasser Sebaggala becomes mayor.
- International Hospital Kampala founded.
- 1997 - Namboole Stadium opens.
- 1998 - Bugala study center established.
- 1999
- John Ssebaana Kizito becomes mayor.
- Communications House built.[citation needed]
21st century[edit]
- 2001
- City limits expanded.
- Red Pepper newspaper begins publication.[19]
- Workers' House and Amamu House built.[citation needed]
- 2002
- 2004 - The Observer newspaper begins publication.[19]
- 2005
- East African Business Week begins publication.[19]
- Uganda Buddhist Centre founded.
- October: Funeral of Milton Obote.
- 2006
- Nasser Sebaggala becomes mayor again.
- Kampala Mosque and skateboarding half-pipe built.[21]
- Kampala Serena Hotel in business.
- 2007
- April: Racial unrest.[8]
- November: Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2007.[22]
- The Independent news magazine begins publication.[19]
- Uganda Community Libraries Association headquartered in Kampala.[23]
- Imperial Royale Hotel in business.
- Tabu Flo dance troupe formed.[24]
- 2008 - Memonet (media network) formed.[19]
- 2009 - September: Conflict between Buganda partisans and police.[25][26]
- 2010
- March: Student unrest.[27]
- 11 July: Bombings.[8]
- Rolling Stone newspaper begins publication.
- 2011
- April: Economic protest.[28]
- Erias Lukwago becomes mayor.
- Population: 1,659,000.[29]
- 2012 - Mapeera House (Centenary Bank) built.
- 2013
- Google office in business.[30]
- Writivism Literary Festival begins.[31]
- Air pollution in Kampala reaches annual mean of 104 PM2.5 and 170 PM10, much higher than recommended.[32]
- 2014
- DFCU Group & DFCU Bank move into their new headquarters at DFCU House.[33]
- Population: 1,507,114.[34]
- 2021 - Attempted assassination of Katumba Wamala
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f g h i The Red Book 1922-23: Handbook and Directory for Kenya Colony and Protectorate, Uganda Protectorate, Tanganyika Territory, and Zanzibar Sultanate. Nairobi: East African Standard Ltd. 1922.
- ^ Johnston, Henry Hamilton (1911). . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 27 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 557–563.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Kiyaga-Mulindwa 2004.
- ^ "Railway Age Gazette". New York. 1915.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|url=(help) - ^ "Uganda", Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed.), London: Encyclopædia Britannica Co., 1922***Please note that a wikilink to the article on [Uganda] in [EB1922] is not available***
- ^ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Uganda". www.katolsk.no. Norway: Oslo katolske bispedømme (Oslo Catholic Diocese). Retrieved 30 September 2014.
- ^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1965. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations. 1966.
- ^ a b c d "Uganda Profile: Timeline". BBC News. 11 July 2011. Retrieved 23 February 2013.
- ^ C.J. Endra (2002), "Public and School Libraries in Uganda", Proceedings of the PanAfrican PanArab Conference on Public and School Libraries, Netherlands: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, ISBN 9070916851
- ^ "Uganda National Cultural Centre". Retrieved 23 February 2013.
- ^ Don Rubin, ed. (1997), World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre, London: Routledge
- ^ New Vision. "Kampala's Mayors since Independence". www.newvision.co.ug.
- ^ Assembly, Uganda National (1968). Official Report.
- ^ United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1976). "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1975. New York. pp. 253–279.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ "Uganda". Political Chronology of Africa. Political Chronologies of the World. Europa Publications. 2001. p. 451+. ISBN 0203409957.
- ^ a b c "Uganda". www.citypopulation.de. Oldenburg, Germany: Thomas Brinkhoff. Retrieved 23 February 2013.
- ^ "Watotochurch.com". Retrieved 23 February 2013.
- ^ "Uganda: Directory". Africa South of the Sahara 2004. Regional Surveys of the World. Europa Publications. 2004. p. 1191+. ISBN 1857431839.
- ^ a b c d e Karen Fung, African Studies Association (ed.). "Uganda: News". Africa South of the Sahara: Selected Internet Resources. US. Retrieved 23 February 2013 – via Stanford University.
- ^ Bosman, Julie (15 July 2012). "Big Air In Kampala". The New York Times.
- ^ Andreas Mehler; et al., eds. (2008). "Uganda". Africa Yearbook: Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara in 2007. Vol. 4. Koninklijke Brill. p. 401. ISBN 978-90-04-16805-3.
- ^ "Uganda Community Libraries Association". Retrieved 30 October 2014.
- ^ "Economist". The Economist. 24 February 2011. Retrieved 23 February 2013.
- ^ "Kampala hit by renewed violence". BBC News. 11 September 2009.
- ^ "Nine Dead in Kampala Riots". Global Voices. 11 September 2009.
- ^ "Uganda: Students riot, Kampala burns". Global Voices. 17 March 2010.
- ^ "Protests in Uganda Over Rising Prices Grow Violent", New York Times, 21 April 2011
- ^ The State of African Cities 2014. United Nations Human Settlements Programme. 10 September 2015. ISBN 978-92-1-132598-0. Archived from the original on 2014-09-10.
- ^ "Company: Locations". Google Inc. Archived from the original on 15 August 2013.
- ^ "We need to create awareness about African literature produced here", The EastAfrican, 4 July 2014
- ^ World Health Organization (2016), Global Urban Ambient Air Pollution Database, Geneva, archived from the original on March 28, 2014
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Ladu, Ismail Musa (27 June 2014). "Dfcu Shareholders Get Dividends Despite Difficult Business Times". Daily Monitor (Kampala).
- ^ "Table 8 - Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants", Demographic Yearbook – 2018, United Nations
Bibliography[edit]
- David Parkin (1969). Neighbours and Nationals in an African City Ward. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-136-53248-1. (about Kampala)
- Noelle Watson, ed. (1996). "Kampala". International Dictionary of Historic Places: Middle East and Africa. UK: Routledge. ISBN 1884964036.
- Kampala City Development Strategy, UN-HABITAT, 2003, archived from the original on 2014-09-13
- Paul Tiyambe Zeleza; Dickson Eyoh, eds. (2003). "Kampala, Uganda". Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History. Routledge. ISBN 0415234794.
- David Kiyaga-Mulindwa (2004). "Kampala". In Kevin Shillington (ed.). Encyclopedia of African History. Routledge. pp. 731–2. ISBN 978-1-135-45670-2.
- Creole and Tribal Designs: Dar es Salaam and Kampala as Ethnic Cities in Coalescing Nation States, London: Crisis States Research Centre, 2008 – via International Relations and Security Network
- T. Goodfellow (2010). “’The bastard child of nobody’? Anti-planning and the institutional crisis in Kampala”, Crisis Research Centre.
- S. Lwasa (2010). “Adapting urban areas in Africa to climate change: the case of Kampala”, Current Opinion in Environment and Sustainability, Vol. 2.
- Ari Nave (2010). "Kampala". In Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates (ed.). Encyclopedia of Africa. Oxford University Press. p. 630. ISBN 978-0-19-533770-9.
- Gordon Prain; et al., eds. (2010). African Urban Harvest: Agriculture in the Cities of Cameroon, Kenya and Uganda. Springer. ISBN 978-1-4419-6249-2. (Includes articles about Kampala)
- T. Goodfellow and K. Titeca. (2012). ‘Presidential intervention and the changing ‘politics of survival’ in Kampala’s informal economy’, Cities, Vol. 29 (4).
- Philip Briggs (2013). "Kampala". Uganda. Bradt Travel Guides. p. 133+. ISBN 978-1-84162-467-9.
- Tom Goodfellow. ‘Urban planning in Africa and the politics of implementation: contrasting patterns of state intervention in Kampala and Kigali’, in: Arlt, V. and Macamo, E. and Obrist, B., (eds.) Living the City. Zurich: Lit Verlag, 2013.
- E.N. Sabiiti; C.B. Katongole (2014). "Urban Agriculture: a Response to the Food Supply Crisis in Kampala City, Uganda". In Basant Maheshwari (ed.). Security of Water, Food, Energy and Liveability of Cities: Challenges and Opportunities for Peri-Urban Futures. Springer. p. 233+. ISBN 978-94-017-8878-6.
External links[edit]
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- "(Kampala)". Directory of Open Access Journals. UK. (Bibliography of open access
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- "(Kampala)" – via Digital Public Library of America. (Images, etc.)
- "(Kampala)". Internet Library Sub-Saharan Africa. Germany: Frankfurt University Library. (Bibliography)
- "(Kampala)". Connecting-Africa. Leiden, Netherlands: African Studies Centre. (Bibliography)
- "(Kampala)". AfricaBib.org. (Bibliography)
- "Kampala, Uganda". BlackPast.org. US. 28 September 2010.
- "Uganda: Kampala". ArchNet. Archived from the original on 14 February 2006.
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