Timeline of Accra

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Accra, Ghana.

17th–19th centuries

1570 - Portuguese build a trading lodge called St. Vincentia.{{cite journal |last1=Anquandah |first1=James |title=THE ACCRA PLAINS c. AD 1400 – 1800 AN OVERVIEW OF TRADE, POLITICS AND CULTURE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY |journal=Research Review |date=2006 |volume=Supplement 17 |url=https://journals.co.za/doi/pdf/10.10520/EJC45873 |access-date=21 April 2025}}
1576 - Portuguese lodge destroyed.{{Cite journal |last=Wilks |first=Ivor |year=1957 |title=The Rise of The Akwamu Empire, 1650-1710 |journal=Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana |volume=3 |issue=2 |pages=25–62 |jstor=41405705}}
1640s - Civil war in Accra.
1649 – Fort Crèvecœur built by the Dutch West India Company.
1661 – Fort Christiansborg built by the Dutch trader Henry Caerlof in Osu.{{sfn|Appiah|2005}}
1673 – Fort James built by the English.{{sfn|Appiah|2005}}
1677 - Akwamu attacks the Accra Kingdom and sacks the capital. King Okai Koi killed, with Ofori leading the refugees to Osu.
1680-1 – Akwamu sponsors a munity in Christianborg, then conquers holdout Accrans. Accra becomes a province of Akwamu.
1693 - Akwamu take Christianborg by subterfuge. They hold it for a year before selling it back to the Danes.
1731-2 - Akwamu defeated by Akyem, who take control of Accra's trade routes.
1742 - Akyem defeated by the Asante Empire, who take control of Accra.
1807 – Slave trade abolished.{{Cite web|title=The 1807 Act and its effects: The Abolition of Slavery Project|url=http://abolition.e2bn.org/slavery_113.html|website=abolition.e2bn.org|access-date=2020-05-31}}{{Cite web|title=The National Archives {{!}} Exhibitions & Learning online {{!}} Black presence {{!}} Rights|url=https://nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/blackhistory/rights/abolition.htm|website=nationalarchives.gov.uk|access-date=2020-05-31}}
1850 – Dutch Fort Crèvecœur ceded to British control.{{Citation |publisher = G. & C. Merriam Co. |location = Springfield, Mass., USA |title = Webster's Geographical Dictionary |date = 1960 |oclc = 3832886 |ol = 5812502M }}
1851 – Denmark sells its forts to Britain.
1871 – The Netherlands sells its forts to Britain.
1871 – Jamestown Light built at Fort James.
1874 – British capture Accra.
1876 – Capital of British Gold Coast relocated to Accra from Cape Coast.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
1883 – N. Walwin Holm photography studio established.{{cite book |title=Encyclopedia of Africa |editor2= Henry Louis Gates |editor1=Kwame Anthony Appiah |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2010 |isbn= 9780195337709 |chapter=African Photography |author=Kobena Mercer }}
1889 – Lutterodt photo studio in business (approximate date).{{cite book|editor=John Hannavy|title=Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=yVFdAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA16 |year=2007|publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-135-87326-4}}{{cite book|editor=John Peffer and Elisabeth L. Cameron |title= Portraiture and Photography in Africa|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hk4677rbgK4C|year= 2013|publisher=Indiana University Press |isbn=978-0-253-00872-5 |chapter=Lutterodt Family Studios and the Changing Face of Early Portrait Photographs from the Gold Coast |author=Erin Haney }}
1894 – Holy Trinity Cathedral (Accra) construction begins.{{cite book |title=Official Year-book of the Church of England, 1897 |location=London |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=sukQAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA322|last1=England |first1=Church of |year=1897 }}
1896 – Bank of British West Africa branch established.{{cite web |url= http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/RDavies/arian/amser/chrono.html |title=Comparative Chronology of Money |author1= Glyn Davies |author2= Roy Davies |year=2002 |via=University of Exeter |author1-link=Glyn Davies (economist) }}
1898 – Accra Town Council established.{{cite web |url=http://ama.ghanadistricts.gov.gh/?arrow=atd&_=3&sa=2995 |title=Historical Background |publisher=Accra Metropolitan Assembly |access-date=24 May 2013}}

20th century

1908 – Town boundaries expanded.
1909 – Anglican Diocese of Accra founded.
1910 – Accra Central Station and railway line to Mangoase opened.
1911 – Accra Hearts of Oak Sporting Club formed.
1914 – Excelsior Orchestra formed.
1920 – March: National Congress of British West Africa organized.
1922 – Construction of Wesley Methodist Cathedral commenced.
1923
Gold Coast Hospital opens.
Kumasi-Accra railway completed and bridge across Korle Lagoon constructed.
Accra High School founded.
1927 – Achimota College opens.
1929
National Congress of British West Africa meets in Accra.{{cite book|editor= A. Adu Boahen |title=Africa Under Colonial Domination, 1880–1935 |series= General History of Africa |volume=7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=so4NWuZ7av0C|year=1990|publisher=United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization |isbn=978-0-520-06702-8}}
Gold Coast Youth Conference meeting held.
1931 – Accra Academy established.
1937 – Population: 72,977 (estimate).
1939 – The 1939 Accra earthquake occurred on June 22 with a surface wave magnitude of 6.4 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). Twenty-two were killed and 130 were injured, with 1,500 homes destroyed in the region. A damaging aftershock occurred on August 18, causing additional damage northeast of the city.{{citation|title=Significant Earthquake Database|url=https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/nndc/struts/form?t=101650&s=1&d=1|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060929000601/http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/nndc/struts/form?t=101650&s=1&d=1|url-status=dead|archive-date=29 September 2006|author=National Geophysical Data Center / World Data Service (NGDC/WDS)|publisher=National Geophysical Data Center, NOAA|doi=10.7289/V5TD9V7K|year = 1972}}
1941 – U.S. military installed at Accra airfield.
1943 – Catholic Apostolic Prefecture of Accra established.
1945 – African Morning Post newspaper begins publication.
1946 – Gold Coast Bulletin, Spectator Daily, and Daily Echo newspapers begins publication.
1948
February: 1948 Accra Riots.
Accra Evening News and Ghana Statesman newspapers begin publication.{{cite book |title=The Gold Coast: A Survey of the Gold Coast and British Togoland, 1919–1951 |author=Florence M. Bourret |publisher=Stanford University Press |year= 1952 |edition=2nd }}
University College of the Gold Coast founded.{{cite web |url=http://www.ug.edu.gh/index1.php?linkid=243&sublinkid=72 |title=About Us |publisher=University of Ghana |access-date=24 May 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120729000402/http://www.ug.edu.gh/index1.php?linkid=243&sublinkid=72 |archive-date=29 July 2012 |df=dmy-all }}
Population: 135,926.{{cite web |url= https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/1950_round.htm |work=Demographic Yearbook 1955 |publisher=Statistical Office of the United Nations |location=New York |title=Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants }}
1949
Convention People's Party headquartered in Accra.{{sfn|Shillington|2005}}
Gold Coast Express newspaper begins publication.
Gold Coast Film School founded.{{cite web |url= http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/?period=11®ion=afg#/Key-Events |title= Guinea Coast, 1900 A.D.–present: Key Events |work= Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History |publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art |location=New York |access-date= 30 August 2015 }}
1950
Daily Graphic newspaper begins publication.{{Citation |publisher = Indiana University Press |isbn = 0253345243 |location = Bloomington |title = The Press and Political Culture in Ghana |author = Jennifer Hasty |date = 2005 }}
Ghana Library Board headquartered in Accra.{{cite web |url=http://www.ghanalibraryboard.com/glb_iSelect_detail.cfm?tblNewsCatID=7&tblNewsID=22 |title=About Us |publisher=Ghana Library Board |access-date=24 May 2013}}
United States Information Agency resource centre established.{{Citation |publisher = De Gruyter Saur |isbn = 9783110230710 |title = World Guide to Libraries |edition=25th |date = 2011 }}
1953 – Accra Municipal Council established.
1954
Gold Coast Broadcasting System headquartered in Accra.
Bomaa Accra Great Olympics football club formed.
1955 – Ghana International School founded.
1956
Accra Central Library established (approximate date).
Ghanaian Arts Council headquartered in Accra.{{cite book |title=European-language Writing in Sub-Saharan Africa |editor=Albert S. Gerard |year= 1986 |isbn=9630538342 |location=Budapest |publisher=Akademiai Kiado }}
1957
6 March: Accra becomes capital of independent Republic of Ghana.{{sfn|Appiah|2005}}
State House, National Museum of Ghana, and Independence Arch built.{{cite web |url=http://www.ghanamuseums.org/museums.php |title=Museums |location=Accra |publisher=Ghana Museums and Monuments Board |access-date=25 May 2013}}
Catholic Holy Spirit Cathedral opened.
Semi-autonomous area councils created: Ablekuma, Ashiedu Keteke, Kpeshie, Okaikwei, and Osu-Klottey (approximate date).
Ghana Drama Studio founded.{{cite book |title=Cambridge Guide to African and Caribbean Theatre |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/cambridgeguideto00mart |chapter-url-access=registration |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year= 1994 |isbn=0521411394 |editor=Martin Banham|chapter=Ghana |display-editors=etal}}{{cite web |url=http://www.ug.edu.gh/index1.php?linkid=939 |title=Drama Studio |publisher=University of Ghana |access-date=24 May 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140409110227/http://www.ug.edu.gh/index1.php?linkid=939 |archive-date=9 April 2014 |df=dmy-all }}
1958 – All-African Peoples' Conference held.{{sfn|Adedze|2003}}
1959 – National Symphony Orchestra Ghana, Ghana Press Club,{{Citation |publisher = Institut für Afrika-Kunde |isbn = 392804981X |location = Hamburg |title = Die Zivilgesellschaft in Ghana |author = Christina Seyd |date = 2002 |language=de }} and Ghana School of Journalism founded.{{cite web |url= http://www.gij.edu.gh/history.html |title= History |publisher= Ghana Institute of Journalism |access-date= 24 May 2013 |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120119044311/http://www.gij.edu.gh/history.html |archive-date= 19 January 2012 |df= dmy-all }}
1960
Accra Sports Stadium opens.
Population: 388,000 (approximate).{{sfn|Adedze|2003}}
1961
Black Star Square Arch erected.{{Citation |publisher = Ashgate Publishing |isbn = 9780754635109 |title = Modern Architecture and the End of Empire |author = Mark Crinson |date = 2003 |chapter=Dialects of internationalism: architecture in Ghana, 1945–66 }}
Accra attains city status.
Goethe-Institut branch founded.{{cite web |url=http://www.goethe.de/ins/gh/acc/wis/deindex.htm |title=Goethe-Institut Accra |access-date=24 May 2013}}
1962 – Ghana Dance Ensemble formed.
1963
Accra-Tema Development Corporation established.
November–December: 1963 African Cup of Nations held.
1964
Greater Accra administrative area created.
Boxer Muhammad Ali visits city.{{cite web |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JaT6tBKGK3sC&pg=PA85 |title=Champ's African 'Love Affair' |date=September 1964 |work=Ebony |location=USA |access-date=24 May 2013|publisher=Johnson Publishing Company }}
1965
GTV (Ghana) headquartered in Accra.
Kwame Nkrumah Conference Centre built.
October: Organisation of African Unity summit held.
1966 – 24 February: Coup at Flagstaff House.
1967 – Association of African Universities headquartered in city.{{cite web |url=http://www.aau.org/?q=about |title=About AAU |publisher=Association of African Universities |access-date=24 May 2013}}
1970 – Population: 564,194 city; 738,498 urban agglomeration.{{cite book |chapter-url= https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/1970_round.htm |title=Demographic Yearbook 1975 |year=1976 |author=United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office |location=New York |chapter=Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants |pages=253–279 }}
1971 – Soul to Soul documentary film of concert at Black Star Square.
1974 – Napoleon Night Club active.{{cite web |url=http://www.fondation-langlois.org/html/e/page.php?NumPage=2260 |publisher=Daniel Langlois Foundation |access-date=30 August 2015 |title= Ghana's Highlife Music Collection }}
1975 – Union of Writers of African Peoples inaugurated in Accra.{{Citation |publisher = Crane Russak |isbn = 0884816699 |location = New York |title = Challenges of leadership in African development |editor1 = Olusegun Obasanjo |editor2=Hans d' Orville |date = 1990 |chapter=Twice bitten: the fate of Africa's culture products |author= Wole Soyinka}}
1978 – March: 1978 African Cup of Nations held.
1980 – Population: 1,000,000 (estimate).{{sfn|Adedze|2003}}
1982 – Greater Accra Region (administrative area) created.
1985 – W.E.B. Du Bois Memorial Centre for Pan-African Culture established.{{cite book |title=Re-cognizing W.E.B. Du Bois in the Twenty-first Century: Essays on W.E.B. Du Bois |editor=Keller|publisher=Mercer University Press |year= 2007 |isbn= 9780881460773 |chapter=The intellectual and pragmatic legacy of Du Bois's Pan-Africanism in contemporary Ghana |author= Jemima Pierre and Jesse Weaver Shipley |display-editors=etal}}
1987
Accra Milo Marathon begins.
Integrated Social Development Centre established.
1988 – Pan-African Orchestra founded.
1989 – Ghana Stock Exchange headquartered in Accra.
Pan African Writers' Association (PAWA) founded.
1990 – Population: 1,197,000 (urban agglomeration).
1991 – Accra International Conference Centre built.{{cite book |title=Rough Guide to West Africa |author=Richard Trillo |publisher=Rough Guides |year= 2008 |isbn= 9781405380706 |edition=5th }}
1992
National Theatre (Accra) opens.{{cite web |work=ArchNet|publisher=MIT School of Architecture and Planning |url= http://archnet.org/library/places/one-place.jsp?place_id=1430 |title=Accra |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121210074847/http://archnet.org/library/places/one-place.jsp?place_id=1430 |url-status=dead |archive-date=10 December 2012 }}
Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park laid out.
1993 – Centre for Policy Analysis{{cite web |url=http://www.isn.ethz.ch/Digital-Library/Organizations |title=Organizations |work= International Relations and Security Network |location=Switzerland |publisher=Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich |access-date=30 August 2015 }} and Artists Alliance Gallery{{cite news |url=http://graphic.com.gh/Entertainment-News/artists-alliance-holds-anniversary-exhibition.html |title=Artists Alliance holds anniversary exhibition |date=6 April 2013 |newspaper=Daily Graphic }} established.
1994 – Uniiq FM radio begins broadcasting.
1996 – Ghanaian Chronicle newspaper begins publication.{{cite web |url=http://icon.crl.edu/database.php |title=Newspaper Database |publisher=Center for Research Libraries |author=International Coalition on Newspapers |access-date=24 May 2013|author-link=International Coalition on Newspapers }}
1998 – West Africa Network for Peacebuilding headquartered in Accra.
1999 – Ako Adjei Interchange opens.
2000
January–February: 2000 African Cup of Nations held.
Population: 1,674,000 (urban agglomeration).

21st century

2001 – 9 May: Accra Sports Stadium disaster.
2003 – Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT established.
2004
Stanley Nii Adjiri Blankson becomes mayor.{{cite web |url=http://www.modernghana.com/news/50191/1/adjiri-blankson-gets-the-nod.html |title=Adjiri Blankson gets the nod |date=26 February 2004 |publisher=Modern Ghana |location=Adenta }}
Mormon Temple dedicated.
2005 – Population: 1,985,000 (urban agglomeration).{{cite web |url=http://www.unhabitat.org/content.asp?cid=9141&catid=7&typeid=46 |title=The State of African Cities 2010: Governance, Inequalities and Urban Land Markets |year=2010 |publisher=United Nations Human Settlements Programme |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130617161951/http://www.unhabitat.org/content.asp?cid=9141&catid=7&typeid=46 |archive-date=17 June 2013 |df=dmy-all }}
2006 – American International School of Accra and Nubuke Foundation founded.
2007 – Accra International Marathon begins.{{Cite web|title=News at Ashesi University College, Ghana|url=http://archives.ashesi.edu.gh/V3_2004_2010/NEWS/NEWS/2008_NEWS/2008_Jul_news.html|website=archives.ashesi.edu.gh|access-date=2020-05-31}}{{Cite web|title=AthleticsAfrica.Com - Regions|url=https://www.athleticsafrica.com/Outgoing/westafrica.html|website=www.athleticsafrica.com|access-date=2020-05-31}}
2008 – Golden Jubilee House inaugurated.
2009
Alfred Vanderpuije becomes mayor.{{cite web |url=http://ama.gov.gh/ama/page/5034/mce |title=Accra Metropolitan Assembly |publisher=City of Accra |access-date=24 May 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130728044726/http://ama.gov.gh/ama/page/5034/mce |archive-date=28 July 2013 |df=dmy-all }}
Population: 2,263,785 (urban agglomeration).{{cite web |url=http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/dyb2011.htm |work=Demographic Yearbook 2011 |year=2012 |publisher=United Nations Statistics Division |title=Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants }}
2010 - Population: 1,594,419 (city proper).{{citation |chapter=Table 8 - Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants |chapter-url=https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic-social/products/dyb/dyb_2018/ |title=Demographic Yearbook – 2018 |publisher=United Nations }}
2011 – Google office in business.{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110529151854/https://www.google.com/about/corporate/company/address.html |archive-date=29 May 2011 |title=Corporate Information: Google Offices |publisher=Google Inc. |url-status=dead |url=https://www.google.com/about/corporate/company/address.html }}
2014 – September: United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response headquartered in Accra.{{cite web |url=http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/140930/unmeer-wont-provide-direct-medical-care-un-official |publisher=Global Post |date=30 September 2014 |title=UNMEER won't provide direct medical care – UN official }}
3 June 2015: Flood and Fire Disaster

References

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{{citation |title= Mobile City of Accra: Urban Families, Housing and Residential Practices |year=2012 |publisher= Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa |location=Dakar |url=http://www.codesria.org/spip.php?rubrique38&lang=en

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{{citation |title= Improving Participartory Water Governance in Accra, Ghana |year=2013 |url= http://www.isn.ethz.ch/Digital-Library/Publications/Series/Detail/?ots591=0c54e3b3-1e9c-be1e-2c24-a6a8c7060233&lng=en&id=31867 |publisher=Centre for International Governance Innovation |location=Canada |via=International Relations and Security Network

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{{cite book|author= Ato Quayson |title=Oxford Street, Accra: City Life and the Itineraries of Transnationalism |year= 2014|publisher=Duke University Press|isbn=978-0-8223-7629-3

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