Timeline of Gaborone

{{History of Botswana}}

• 1890 - Gaberones founded by British South Africa Company.{{sfn|Hermann|2010}}
• 1897 - Railway station built.{{sfn|Morton|2008}}

• 1960-1966 - Gaberones becomes capital of independent Botswana
• 1963 - Town construction begins.{{sfn|Morton|2008}}
• 1964
• Bechuanaland Daily News begins publication.{{cite web |url= http://catalog.crl.edu/search~S35?/dGaborone+%28Botswana%29+--+Newspapers |title= Gaborone (Botswana) -- Newspapers |publisher=Center for Research Libraries |location=Chicago, US |work= Global Resources Network |access-date=30 September 2014 }}
• Population: 3,855.
• 1965
• British colonial Bechuanaland Protectorate capital relocated to Gaberones from Mafeking.{{sfn|Hermann|2010}}
• Gaborone Secondary School built.{{sfn|Morton|2008}}
• 1966
• Gaberones becomes capital of independent Botswana.{{sfn|Hermann|2010}}
• Botswana National Stadium opens.
• Derek Jones becomes mayor.
• 1968 - Botswana National Museum built.{{sfn|Morton|2008}}
• 1969
• Gaberones renamed "Gaborone."{{sfn|Hermann|2010}}
• Debswana Diamond Company Ltd headquartered in Gaborone.
• 1971 - Population: 17,718.{{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 }}
• 1975 - Sister city relationship established with Burbank, California.{{cite web |url=http://www.burbank.lib.ca.us/burbank-sister-city |author=Burbank Public Library |title= Burbank Sister City |access-date=30 September 2014 }}{{citation |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-07-15-me-2392-story.html |work=Los Angeles Times |title= As a sister city of Gaborone, Burbank was a logical stop |date=15 July 1987 }}
• 1979 - Serara Ketlogetswe becomes mayor.
• 1980
• Mosque built.{{sfn|Morton|2008}}
• Southern African Development Community headquartered in Gaborone.
• 1982
• University of Botswana established.
• University of Botswana Stadium opens.
• 1984
• 14 June: Raid on Gaborone.{{cite web |url= https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-13041658 |title=Botswana Profile: Timeline |work=BBC News |access-date=30 September 2014 }}
• Seretse Khama International Airport opens.{{sfn|Morton|2008}}
• Paul Mmlotsi Rantao becomes mayor.
• Mmegi newspaper begins publication.
• 1985 - Botswana Gazette newspaper begins publication.{{cite web |url= http://library.stanford.edu/africa-south-sahara/browse-country |title=Botswana: News |work=Africa South of the Sahara: Selected Internet Resources |via=Stanford University |location=US |editor=Karen Fung, African Studies Association |access-date=30 September 2014 }}
• 1988 - Gaborone Broadcasting Company established.{{sfn|Morton|2008}}
• 1991
• Population: 133,468.{{cite book |chapter-url= https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/1990_round.htm |title=1995 Demographic Yearbook |year=1997 |author=United Nations Department for Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis, Statistics Division |location=New York |chapter=Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants |pages=262–321 }}
• Botswana College of Agriculture established near city.
• 1993 - "The Voice Newspaper" begins publication
• 1995 - Botswana Stock Exchange and Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis{{cite web |url=http://www.bidpa.bw/about_us/vision.php |title=Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis |access-date=30 September 2014 }} headquartered in city.
• 1998 - Fictional The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency book series begins publication.
• 1999 - Nelson Ramaotwana becomes mayor.

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• 2001 - Population: 186,007.{{sfn|Morton|2008}}
• 2002 - Reteng founded.{{sfn|Morton|2008}}
• 2003 - Uniao Flamengo Santos Football Club formed.
• 2004 - Harry Mothei becomes mayor.
• 2005 - The Voice Newspaper becomes Botswana's best selling newspaper and goes digital.
• 2005 - Population: 208,000.{{sfn|Hermann|2010}}
• 2007 - National Botanical Garden opens.
• 2009
• Steinmetz Gaborone Marathon begins.
• Veronica Lesole becomes mayor.
• 2011
• May: 2011 African Junior Athletics Championships held.
• Haskins Nkaigwa becomes mayor.{{citation |url=http://www.mmegi.bw/index.php?sid=1&aid=494&dir=2011/October/Wednesday5 |date=October 2011 |work=Mmegi |title=New Gaborone Mayor seeks power to hire and fire |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111104154805/http://mmegi.bw/index.php?sid=1&aid=494&dir=2011%2FOctober%2FWednesday5 |archive-date=2011-11-04 }}
• 2013 - De Beers rough diamond sales headquarters relocated to Gaborone from London.
• 2014 - May: 2014 African Youth Games held in Gaborone.
• 2017 - Population: 264,311 (estimate).{{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 }}
• 2019 - Thata Father Maphongo becomes mayor.

• History of Gaborone
• List of mayors of Gaborone

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• {{cite book |title=Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History |editor1= Paul Tiyambe Zeleza |editor2= Dickson Eyoh |publisher=Routledge |isbn=0415234794 |year=2003

|chapter= Gaborone, Botswana

}}

• {{cite book

|editor= Luc J. A. Mougeot |title=Agropolis: The Social, Political, and Environmental Dimensions of Urban Agriculture

|year= 2005

|publisher=International Development Research Centre |isbn=978-1-55250-186-3 |chapter= (Gaborone)

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• {{cite book

|author=Fred Morton|edition=4th |title=Historical Dictionary of Botswana

|year= 2008

|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-6404-7|display-authors=etal

| ref = {{harvid|Morton|2008}}

}} (+ [https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2615877W/Historical_dictionary_of_Botswana 3rd ed.] fulltext via Internet Archive)

• {{cite book

|editor=Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates |title=Encyclopedia of Africa

|year=2010

|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-533770-9 |chapter=Gaborone, Botswana |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=A0XNvklcqbwC&pg=PA503 |author=Andrew Hermann

| ref = {{harvid|Hermann|2010}}

}}

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