Timeline of Kisangani

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Prior to 20th century[edit]

1875 - Town besieged by Arabs.^[1]
1883 - Europeans arrive.^[1]
1887 - Tippu Tip becomes governor of the Stanley Falls District in the colonial Congo Free State.
1899 - Cathédrale Notre-Dame du Rosaire built.^{[chronology citation needed]}

20th century[edit]

1904 - Catholic Apostolic Prefecture of Stanley Falls established.^[2]
1906 - Ponthiérville-Stanleyville railway [fr] begins operating.^[3]
1908 - Town becomes part of the colonial Belgian Congo.
1913 - Justin Malfeyt becomes governor of Orientale Province.^[4]^[5]
1921 - Ligne Aérienne du Roi Albert (Leopoldville-Stanleville) airline begins operating.
1930 - October: Tornado occurs.^[6]
1935 - Town becomes seat of the newly formed Stanleyville province.^[7]
1947 - Town becomes seat of the Orientale Province.^[7]
1955 - AS Nika (football club) formed.
1957 - Bralima Brewery plant begins operating.
1959 - Population: 126,533 (estimate).^[8]
1960
- 30 June: City becomes part of newly independent Republic of the Congo.
- July: Unrest.^[9]^{[chronology citation needed]}
1964
- City taken by rebels during the Simba rebellion.
- November: 1964 Stanleyville massacre [nl] occurs.^[10]
- Stanleyville becomes capital of the newly created People's Republic of the Congo.^[11]
1966
- July: Mercenaries' Mutiny attempted.
- Stanleyville renamed "Kisangani."^[7]
1967 - Second Mercenaries' Mutiny occurs.
1970
- Belgian king Baudouin visits city.^{[citation needed]}
- Population: 216,526.^[1]
1971
- Société Textile de Kisangani (manufactory) begins operating.^[12]
- City becomes seat of Haut-Zaïre province.^[11]
1975 - Population: 297,888 (estimate).^[13]
1980 - May: Catholic pope visits Kisangani.
1981 - University of Kisangani established.
1984 - Population: 317,581.^[14]
1986 - "Diamond deposits...first discovered."^[1]
1991 - September: City "pillaged...by rampaging soldiers."^[15]
1992 - November: Riverboat shutdown begins.^[16]
1993 - December: City again looted by soldiers.^[16]
1994 - Population: 417,517.^[1]^[17]
1996 - November: City besieged by "Zairian soldiers fleeing the war zone" during the First Congo War.^[15]
1997
- March: City taken by rebel forces.^[18]^[19]
- City becomes seat of Haut-Congo province.^[7]
2000 - June: Rwanda-Uganda armed conflict occurs in Kisangani.^[20]

21st century[edit]

2002 - 14–15 May: Massacre.[1]
2003 - August: Arrival via Congo river of "first commercial delivery from the capital since the fighting began in 1998."^[21]
2007 - Médard Autsai Asenga becomes provincial governor.^[22]
2008 - Guy Shilton Baendo Tofuli becomes mayor.^[23]
2010 - National military Camp Base in operation (approximate date).^{[chronology citation needed]}
2011 - 8 July: Airplane crash occurs at Bangoka International Airport.
2013 - Jean Bamanisa Saïdi becomes provincial governor.^[22]
2015 - City becomes seat of Tshopo province (officially created in 2006).
2016 - Jean Ilongo Tokole [fr] becomes governor of Tshopo province.^[24]
2017 - Constant Lomata becomes governor of Tshopo province.^[25]

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Omasombo 2005.
^ "Democratic Republic of the Congo". Chronology of Catholic Dioceses. Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 22 October 2017.
^ MacGaffey 1987.
^ "Liste des gouverneurs de la Province Orientale". Stanleyville.be (in French). Jean-Luc Ernst. Retrieved 23 October 2017.
^ "Malfeyt" (PDF), Biographie Belge d'Outre-Mer (in French), Institut Royal Colonial Belge, 1952
^ L'Illustration Congolaise (in French), Brussels, 1931, OCLC 47785474{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Gwillim Law (1999). "Democratic Republic of the Congo". Administrative Subdivisions of Countries: A Comprehensive World Reference, 1900 through 1998. US: McFarland & Company. pp. 92–94. ISBN 0786407298.
^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1965. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations. 1966. pp. 140–161. Stanleyville
^ "Thriving Stanleyville Now Depressed Kisangani", New York Times, 28 June 1970
^ "28 More White Hostages Found Slain in Stanleyville", New York Times, 28 November 1964
^ ^a ^b Emizet Francois Kisangani (2016). Historical Dictionary of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (4th ed.). Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9781442273160.
^ "R.D. Congo: Kisangani". Petit Futé (in French). Retrieved 23 October 2017.
^ United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office. "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1980. New York. pp. 225–252.
^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2000. United Nations Statistics Division.
^ ^a ^b French 1997.
^ ^a ^b Kenneth B. Noble (18 March 1993), "Kisangani Journal; With Artery Severed, Heart of Africa Grows Still", New York Times
^ Association pour le Developpement de l'Information Environmentale, 2003
^ "Zaire Rebels Begin Attack On Key City of Kisangani", New York Times, 15 March 1997
^ James C. McKinley Jr. (17 March 1997), "A Fallen City, Seeking Peace, Greets Rebels", New York Times
^ "Congo's hidden war", The Economist, London, 15 June 2000
^ "A mend in the river", The Economist, London, 7 August 2003
^ ^a ^b "RDC: le réveil de Kisangani, la belle endormie", Jeune Afrique (in French), 23 December 2014
^ "Liste des maires de la ville depuis 1960". Stanleyville.be (in French). Jean-Luc Ernst. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
^ "RDC: liste de nouveaux gouverneurs de province élus", Radiookapi.net (in French), 26 March 2016
^ "Constant Lomata nouveau gouverneur de la Tshopo", Radiookapi.net (in French), 29 August 2017

This article incorporates information from the French Wikipedia and German Wikipedia.

Bibliography[edit]

in English

Valdo Pons (1969). Stanleyville: An African Urban Community under Belgian Administration. Oxford University Press, for International African Institute. ISBN 9780197241769.
V. S. Naipaul (1979). A Bend in the River. Knopf. ISBN 0-394-50573-5. (Novel set in fictional town similar to Kisangani)
Janet MacGaffey (1987). Entrepreneurs and Parasites: The Struggle for Indigenous Capitalism in Zaïre. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-33533-1. (Case study of Kisangani)
Howard W. French (14 February 1997), "Kisangani Journal: An Outpost Whose Futures Have Come and Gone", New York Times
Jean Tshonda Omasombo (2002). "Kisangani and the curve of destiny". In Okwui Enwezor (ed.). Under Siege: Four African Cities, Freetown, Johannesburg, Kinshasa, Lagos. Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz. ISBN 978-3-7757-9090-1. Documenta11
Jean Omasombo (2005). "Kisangani: A City at its Lowest Ebb". In Abdoumaliq Simone; Abdelghani Abouhani (eds.). Urban Africa: Changing Contours of Survival in the City. London: Zed Books. ISBN 1842775936.

in French

"Stanleyville", L'État indépendant du Congo: documents sur le pays et ses habitants, Annales du Musée du Congo (in French), Brussels, 1904, hdl:2027/pst.000022332363 – via HathiTrust{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
Élisabethville-Stanleyville par la route (Touring-Club du Congo belge, Léopoldville, 31 mars 1941, pp. 25–26 ; 30 avril 1941, pp. 46–47).
Singhitini F. M. de Thier(?) (1963), La Stanleyville musulmane [Muslim Stanleyville], Correspondance d'Orient (in French), Brussels: Centre pour l'Etude du Problème du Monde musulman contemporain
Benoît Verhaegen, ed. (1975). Kisangani 1876-1976. Histoire d'une ville (in French). Kinshasa: Presses Universitaires du Zaïre. OCLC 869660596.
Bogumil Jewsiecki (1978). "Histoire économique d'une ville coloniale Kisangani: 1877-1960". Les cahiers du CEDAF (in French) (5). Brussels: Centre d'Etudes et de Documentation Africaines. ISSN 0250-1619.
Léon de Saint Moulin (2010). "Kisangani". Villes et organisation de l'espace en République Démocratique du Congo (in French). L'Harmattan. ISBN 978-2-296-25787-0.
Bérengère Piret (2014), Les cent mille briques. La prison et les détenus de Stanleyville [Hundred thousand bricks: the prison and inmates of Stanleyville] (in French), Lille: Centre d'histoire judiciaire, ISBN 978-2-910114-26-8

External links[edit]

"(Kisangani)". Contemporary History Library Catalogue. Belgium: Royal Museum for Central Africa. (Bibliography) (see also "Stanleyville")
"(Kisangani)". AfricaBib.org. (Bibliography) (see also "Stanleyville")
Items related to Kisangani, various dates (via Europeana)
Items related to Stanleyville/Kisangani, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America)

Images[edit]

Politician Moïse Tshombe visits Stanleyville, 1964
Hydroelectric dam on Tshopo river, built in 1954-1955 (photo 2006)
Map of Kisangani, 1997
Military training at Camp Base, Kisangani, 2010

[FOOTNOTEOmasombo2005-1] Omasombo 2005.

[2] "Democratic Republic of the Congo". Chronology of Catholic Dioceses. Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 22 October 2017.

[FOOTNOTEMacGaffey1987-3] MacGaffey 1987.

[4] "Liste des gouverneurs de la Province Orientale". Stanleyville.be (in French). Jean-Luc Ernst. Retrieved 23 October 2017.

[5] "Malfeyt" (PDF), Biographie Belge d'Outre-Mer (in French), Institut Royal Colonial Belge, 1952

[6] L'Illustration Congolaise (in French), Brussels, 1931, OCLC 47785474{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

[McFarland1999-7] Gwillim Law (1999). "Democratic Republic of the Congo". Administrative Subdivisions of Countries: A Comprehensive World Reference, 1900 through 1998. US: McFarland & Company. pp. 92–94. ISBN 0786407298.

[8] "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1965. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations. 1966. pp. 140–161. Stanleyville

[9] "Thriving Stanleyville Now Depressed Kisangani", New York Times, 28 June 1970

[10] "28 More White Hostages Found Slain in Stanleyville", New York Times, 28 November 1964

[Emizet2016-11] Emizet Francois Kisangani (2016). Historical Dictionary of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (4th ed.). Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9781442273160.

[Fute-12] "R.D. Congo: Kisangani". Petit Futé (in French). Retrieved 23 October 2017.

[13] United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office. "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1980. New York. pp. 225–252.

[14] "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2000. United Nations Statistics Division.

[FOOTNOTEFrench1997-15] French 1997.

[Noble1993-16] Kenneth B. Noble (18 March 1993), "Kisangani Journal; With Artery Severed, Heart of Africa Grows Still", New York Times

[17] Association pour le Developpement de l'Information Environmentale, 2003

[18] "Zaire Rebels Begin Attack On Key City of Kisangani", New York Times, 15 March 1997

[19] James C. McKinley Jr. (17 March 1997), "A Fallen City, Seeking Peace, Greets Rebels", New York Times

[20] "Congo's hidden war", The Economist, London, 15 June 2000

[21] "A mend in the river", The Economist, London, 7 August 2003

[Belle2014-22] "RDC: le réveil de Kisangani, la belle endormie", Jeune Afrique (in French), 23 December 2014

[23] "Liste des maires de la ville depuis 1960". Stanleyville.be (in French). Jean-Luc Ernst. Retrieved 21 October 2017.

[24] "RDC: liste de nouveaux gouverneurs de province élus", Radiookapi.net (in French), 26 March 2016

[25] "Constant Lomata nouveau gouverneur de la Tshopo", Radiookapi.net (in French), 29 August 2017

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