Timeline of Maputo#Bibliography

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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Maputo, Mozambique (until 1976 known as Lourenço Marques).

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Prior to 20th century

  • 1544 - Portuguese Lourenço Marques explores Maputo Bay.
  • 1787 - Fortress built by Portuguese.{{sfn|El-Khawas|2003}}
  • 1885 - Vasco de Gama Gardens laid out.{{citation needed|date=May 2013}}
  • 1892 - O Commercio de Lourenço Marques begins publication.{{cite web |url= http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=su%3AMaputo+%28Mozambique%29+Newspapers.&qt=hot_subject |title= Maputo (Mozambique) Newspapers |location=US |work=WorldCat |publisher=Online Computer Library Center |access-date=19 May 2013}}
  • 1895 - Pretoria-Lourenço Marques railway built.
  • 1898 - Capital of Portuguese Mozambique moves to Lourenço Marques from the Island of Mozambique.{{sfn|Grest|1995}}{{cite web |url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-13890720 |title=Mozambique Profile: Timeline |publisher=BBC News |access-date=19 May 2013}}

20th century

  • 1904
  • Trams begin operating.{{sfn|Brown|1906}}
  • Population: 9,849.{{sfn|Brown|1906}}
  • 1912 - Population: 13,353.{{Citation |publisher = Govt. Print. Off. |author = United States. Hydrographic Office. |url = https://archive.org/stream/africapilot00offigoog#page/n7/mode/2up |title = Africa Pilot: South and East Coasts |date = 1916 |oclc = 20138064 }}
  • 1916 - Central Train Station built.
  • 1918 - O Brado Africano begins publication.
  • 1922 - Hotel Polano built.{{citation needed|date=May 2013}}
  • 1934 - Arquivo Historico de Moçambique headquartered in city.{{cite web |url= http://www.ahm.uem.mz/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1&Itemid=2 |title= Sobre nos |author=Arquivo Histórico de Moçambique |publisher=Universidade Eduardo Mondlane |language=pt |access-date=19 May 2013}}{{cite journal |title=The Arquivo Historico de Moçambique and Historical Research in Maputo |author= Gerhard Liesegang |journal=History in Africa |volume= 27 |pages= 471–477 |year=2000 |jstor=3172128 |doi= 10.2307/3172128 |s2cid= 161743314 }}
  • 1935 - Population: 47,390 (estimate).{{Citation |publisher = G. & C. Merriam Co. |location = US |title = Webster's Geographical Dictionary |date = 1960 |ol=5812502M }}
  • 1940 - Maputo Airport terminal built.{{citation needed|date=May 2013}}
  • 1944 - Cathedral of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception built.
  • 1950 - Population: 93,516.{{cite book |chapter-url= https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/1950_round.htm |title=Demographic Yearbook 1955 |publisher=Statistical Office of the United Nations |location=New York |chapter=Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants }}
  • 1955 - Sport Lourenço Marques e Benfica formed.
  • 1958 - Mozambique Grand Prix was held for the first time.
  • 1961 - National Library of Mozambique established.{{Citation |publisher = De Gruyter Saur |isbn = 9783110230710 |title = World Guide to Libraries |edition=25th |date = 2011 }}
  • 1962 - Estudos Gerais Universitários de Moçambique established.
  • 1968 - Estádio Salazar inaugurated in Matola.

=1970s-1990s=

  • 1970
  • Tempo magazine begins publication.
  • Population: 383,775 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 }}
  • 1974 - 24 September: Mozambique Liberation Front in power.{{sfn|Grest|1995}}
  • 1974 - Alberto Massavanhane designated by FRELIMO as the first President of the Executive Council
  • 1975 - City becomes part of the People's Republic of Mozambique.
  • 1976
  • 3 February: City renamed "Maputo."
  • Nationalization occurs.{{sfn|Grest|1995}}
  • 1977
  • Bank of Mozambique, Mozambican Youth Organisation, and Centro Nacional de Documentação e Informação de Moçambique headquartered in city.
  • February: City hosts African Conference on Cinema.
  • 1978 - City administration by "Câmara Municipal" (city council) replaced by "Conselho Executivo" (executive council).{{sfn|Grest|1995}}
  • 1980
  • City granted provincial status.{{sfn|Grest|1995}}
  • António Hama Thay becomes president of city executive council.
  • 1982 - Gaspar Horácio Mateus Zimba becomes president of city executive council.
  • 1983
  • "Jobless" moved from city.{{citation |title=Mozambique ousts jobless from cities |date=1 October 1983 |work=New York Times |quote=Operation Production }}
  • 23 May: Attack by South African Air Force.{{Citation |publisher = Greenwood Press |isbn = 0313302472 |location = Westport, Connecticut |title = Southern African political history: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997 |author = Jacqueline A. Kalley |date = 1999 |display-authors=etal}}
  • Alberto Massavanhane becomes president of city executive council.
  • 1985 - City joins the newly formed {{illm|União das Cidades Capitais Luso-Afro-Américo-Asiáticas|pt}}.
  • 1987
  • 7 September: Prisoner exchange.{{cite web |url=http://www.sahistory.org.za/dated-event/intricate-prisoner-exchange-takes-place-maputo-mozambique |title=An intricate prisoner exchange takes place in Maputo, Mozambique |publisher=South African History Online |access-date=19 May 2013}}
  • João Baptista Cosme becomes president of city executive council.
  • 1989 - Brazilian Cultural Center opens.
  • 1990
  • Liga Muçulmana de Maputo football club founded.
  • Population: 776,000 (urban agglomeration).
  • 1993 - Fórum Mulher founded.{{cite web |url= http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/moz.html |title=Mozambique |work=Africa South of the Sahara |publisher=Stanford University |location=US |access-date=19 May 2013 }}
  • 1996
  • Maputo Development Corridor launched.{{sfn|Söderbaum|2001}}
  • Instituto Camões-Centro Cultural Português opens.{{cite web |url=http://www.instituto-camoes.org.mz/o-ic-ccp-maputo |title= O Instituto Camões- Centro Cultural Português em Maputo |publisher=Instituto Camões em Moçambique |language=pt |access-date=19 May 2013}}
  • 1997
  • Artur Hussene Canana becomes president of city executive council.
  • Population: 966,837.{{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 }}
  • 2000
  • Flood.
  • July: City hosts Community of Portuguese Language Countries summit.{{cite web |url= http://www.cplp.org/Default.aspx?ID=159 |title=Conferência de Maputo |language=pt |publisher=Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa |access-date=19 May 2013}}
  • Population: 1,096,000 (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 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130617161951/http://www.unhabitat.org/content.asp?cid=9141&catid=7&typeid=46 |archive-date=2013-06-17 }}

21st century

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  • 2003
  • Maputo Port Development Company established.
  • July: City hosts African Union assembly.{{cite web |url=http://www.au.int/en/content/maputo-10-12-july-2003-assembly-african-union-second-ordinary-session |title=Maputo, 10 - 12 July 2003 - Assembly of the African Union the Second Ordinary Session |publisher=African Union }}
  • Eneas da Conceição Comiche becomes president of municipal council.
  • 2006 - Dockanema film festival begins.
  • 2007
  • Promaputo city infrastructure project launched.
  • 22 March: Arms depot explosion.
  • Population: 1,111,638 (city);{{cite web |url=http://www.ine.gov.mz/operacoes-estatisticas/censos/censo-2007/rgph-2007/indicadores-socio-demograficos-maputo-cidade-2007.pdf/view |title=Indicadores Sócio Demográficos Maputo Cidade 2007 |access-date=2016-09-15 |work=Instituto Nacional de Estatística }} 1,766,184 (urban agglomeration).{{cite web |url=http://www.ine.gov.mz/censo07 |title=Quadros do 3° Censo Geral da População e Habitação 2007 |access-date=2010-12-23 |work=Instituto Nacional de Estatística }}
  • 2008 - February: Economic riots.{{Citation |title = African Economic Outlook 2009 |publisher = African Development Bank and Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development |isbn= 9789264076181 |date = 2009-12-04 }}
  • 2009 - David Simango becomes president of municipal council.
  • 2010
  • Maputo International Airport terminal opens.{{citation needed|date=May 2013}}
  • September: Economic unrest.{{Citation |title = Mozambique 2012 |work=African Economic Outlook |publisher = African Development Bank and Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development |url=http://www.africaneconomicoutlook.org/en/countries/southern-africa/mozambique/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120427104139/http://www.africaneconomicoutlook.org/en/countries/southern-africa/mozambique |archive-date=27 April 2012 }}{{cite book|editor=Andreas Mehler|title=Africa Yearbook: Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara in 2010 |year= 2011|publisher=Koninklijke Brill |isbn=978-90-04-20556-7 |chapter= Mozambique |author= Joseph Hanlon |pages=483+ |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-a7fOs19r9IC|display-editors=etal}}
  • 2011
  • Estádio do Zimpeto inaugurated.
  • September: City hosts 2011 All-Africa Games.
  • 2012 - Maputo Private Hospital inaugurated.{{citation needed|date=May 2013}}
  • 2013 - Aga Khan Academy established.{{cite web |url=http://www.agakhanacademies.org/maputo/welcome |title=Aga Khan Academy, Maputo |access-date=19 May 2013}}
  • 2015 - Population: 1,241,702 (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 }}
  • 2017 - 2017 Lusophony Games to be held in Maputo.

See also

References

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:This article incorporates information from the Portuguese Wikipedia.

Bibliography

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=Published in 19th century=

  • {{cite book |chapter=Lourenço Marques |language=pt |title=Elementos para um diccionario chorographico da provincia de Mozambique |year=1889 |location=Lisboa |publisher=Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fs8TAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA61}}
  • {{cite journal |title=Water-Gate of the Transvaal |journal=Chambers' Journal |year=1895 |location=London |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fvbNAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA826}}

=Published in 20th century=

  • {{Citation |publisher = Sampson, Low, Marston & Co. |location = London |editor1 = A. Samler Brown |editor2=G. Gordon Brown |title = Guide to South Africa |date = 1906 |edition=14th |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=GYdJAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA457 |chapter=Lourenço Marques |ref= {{harvid|Brown|1906}}}}
  • {{cite book |title=Brockhaus' Konversations-Lexikon |location=Leipzig |publisher=Brockhaus |year=1908 |edition=14th |language=de |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PiVLAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA284 |chapter=Lorenzo Marquez

|title-link=Brockhaus Enzyklopädie }}

  • {{cite book |chapter=Lourenço Marques, Portuguese East Africa |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=qiggAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA709 |title=International Directory of Buyers and Sellers |location=Chicago |publisher=International Trade Developer Inc. |year=1922}}
  • {{cite journal |author=António Rita-Ferreira |title=Os Africanos de Lourenço Marques |journal= Memórias do Instituto de Investigação Científica de Moçambique |volume=9 |quote=Série C |issn=0076-1184 |pages= 165–222 |language=pt |year=1968}}
  • {{citation |title=Forced labor and the origin of an African working class: Lourenço Marques, 1870-1962 |author = Jeanne Penvenne |location=Brookline, Massachusetts |publisher= Boston University African Studies Center |year= 1979}}
  • {{cite journal |title=Maputo antes da independência, Geografia de uma cidade colonial |author=Carlos Alberto Medeiros |author-link=:de:Carlos Alberto Medeiros |doi=10.18055/Finis2209 |language=pt |volume=15 |issue=30 |journal=Finisterra |issn=0430-5027 |publisher=Centro de Estudos Geográficos da Universidade de Lisboa |year= 1980 |doi-access=free }}
  • {{cite book |author=E. Medeiros |chapter=L'evolution Demographique de la Ville de Lourenco Marques (1894-1975) |editor =M. Cahen |title=Bourgs et Villes en Afrique Lusophone |language=fr |year=1989}}
  • {{cite book |author=M. C. Mendes |chapter=Les repercussions de l'independence sur la ville de Maputo |editor =M. Cahen |title=Bourgs et Villes en Afrique Lusophone |year=1989 |language=fr}}
  • {{cite journal |title=Urban Management, Local Government Reform and the Democratisation Process in Mozambique: Maputo City 1975-1990 |author= Jeremy Grest |journal= Journal of Southern African Studies |volume= 21 |issue= 1 |pages= 147–164 |year= 1995 |jstor=2637336 |ref= {{harvid|Grest|1995}} |doi= 10.1080/03057079508708438 }}
  • {{cite book |author= Jeanne Marie Penvenne |title=African workers and colonial racism: Mozambican strategies and struggles in Lourenço Marques, 1877-1962 |location=London |publisher= James Currey |isbn=0435089528 |year= 1995}}
  • {{cite journal |title=Violence and Social Change in a Border Economy: War in the Maputo Hinterland, 1984-1992 |author= JoAnn McGregor |journal= Journal of Southern African Studies |volume= 24 |year= 1998}}
  • {{citation |author=Paul Jenkins |title= Maputo city: The historical roots of under-development and the consequences in urban form |quote= Research paper n°71 |publisher=Edinburgh College of Art/Heriot-Watt University, School of Planning and Housing |oclc=42874930 |year=1999}}

=Published in 21st century=

  • {{cite journal |title=Transmission Belt for Transnational Capital or Facilitator for Development? Problematising the Role of the State in the Maputo Development Corridor |author1= Fredrik Söderbaum |author2= Ian Taylor |journal= Journal of Modern African Studies |volume= 39 |year= 2001 |ref= {{harvid|Söderbaum|2001}}}}
  • {{cite journal |author=Jeanne-Marie Penvenne |title= 'A xikomo xa lomu, iku tira': Citadines africaines à Lourenço Marques (Mozambique), 1945-1975 |journal= Le Mouvement social |location=Paris |number= 204 |doi= 10.3917/lms.204.0081 |via=Cairn.info |language=fr |year=2002 |doi-access=free }}
  • {{cite book |title=Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History |editor=Dickson Eyoh |editor2=Paul Tiyambe Zeleza |publisher=Routledge |year=2003 |isbn=0415234794 |chapter=Maputo, Mozambique |author=M.A. El-Khawas |ref= {{harvid|El-Khawas|2003}}}}
  • {{cite book|editor=Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates |title=Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience|year=2005|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-517055-9 |edition=2nd |chapter=Maputo |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TMZMAgAAQBAJ |page= 726+}}
  • {{cite book|title=Encyclopedia of African History |publisher=Fitzroy Dearborn |isbn=978-1-57958-245-6 |editor= Kevin Shillington |year= 2005 |chapter= Maputo}}
  • {{citation |title= Illegitimacy of Democracy? Democratisation and Alienation in Maputo, Mozambique |year=2007 |url= http://www.isn.ethz.ch/Digital-Library/Publications/Series/Detail/?ots591=cab359a3-9328-19cc-a1d2-8023e646b22c&lng=en&id=57395 |publisher=Crisis States Research Centre |location=London |via=International Relations and Security Network}}
  • {{citation |title= Nationalism, Urban Poverty and Identity in Maputo, Mozambique |year=2010 |url= http://www.isn.ethz.ch/Digital-Library/Publications/Series/Detail/?ots591=cab359a3-9328-19cc-a1d2-8023e646b22c&lng=en&id=57395 |publisher=Crisis States Research Centre |location=London |via=International Relations and Security Network}}
  • {{citation |author=P. Jenkins |year=2011 |title= Maputo and Luanda |editor= Simon Bekker and Goran Therborn |work=Capital Cities in Africa: Power and Powerlessness |isbn=978-2-8697-8495-6 |publisher=Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa |location=Dakar |url=http://www.codesria.org/spip.php?article1603}}
  • {{citation |title= From Monumentality To Diversity – Maputo Between The Urban Plans Of Aguiar & Azevedo (1950—1970) |author= Paulo Tormenta Pinto & Ana Vaz Milheiro |via= International Planning History Society |year=2012 |url=http://planninghistory.org/conferences/sao-paulo-2012/}}
  • {{cite book|editor= Carlos Nunes Silva |title= Urban Planning in Lusophone African Countries |publisher=Ashgate |location=UK |isbn=978-1472444882 |year=2015}} (Includes articles about Maputo)
  • {{cite journal |journal= Journal of Southern African Studies |volume=42 |number= 4 |author=Vanessa de Pacheco Melo |title= Production of Urban Peripheries For and By Low-Income Populations at the Turn of the Millennium: Maputo, Luanda and Johannesburg |year= 2016}}
  • {{cite journal |journal= Journal of Southern African Studies |volume=42 |number= 4 |author=Sandra Roque |display-authors=etal |title=Subúrbios and Cityness: Exploring Imbrications and Urbanity in Maputo, Mozambique|year= 2016}}

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