Timeline of Funchal

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Funchal, Madeira, Portugal.

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Prior to 20th century

  • 1493 - Cathedral of Funchal construction begins.
  • 1514 - Roman Catholic Diocese of Funchal established.[1]
  • 1566 - Sack of Funchal.
  • 1835 - Town becomes part of the newly created administrative Funchal District.
  • 1836
  • 1838 - Biblioteca Municipal do Funchal (library) founded.
  • 1846 - José Silvestre Ribeiro becomes district governor.
  • 1851 - Jewish Cemetery of Funchal established.
  • 1876 - Diário de Notícias da Madeira newspaper begins publication.[2]
  • 1883 - Paços do Concelho do Funchal (town hall) in use.
  • 1888 - Teatro Municipal Baltazar Dias (theatre) opens.
  • 1893 - Monte Railway and horsecar tram begin operating.
  • 1900 - Population: 20,850.[4]

20th century

  • 1979 - City twinned with Honolulu, Hawaii, United States.[7]
  • 1984 - City twinned with New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States.[7]
  • 1985
    • City joins the regional Associação de Municípios da Região Autónoma da Madeira.[8]
    • City twinned with Maui, Hawaii, United States.[7]
  • 1992 - May: Associação Nacional de Municípios Portugueses meets in Funchal.[9]
  • 1993 - City twinned with Oakland, California, United States.[7]

21st century

  • 2001
    • Population: 103,961.[2]
    • MadeiraShopping in business.
  • 2003 - City twinned with Praia, Cape Verde.[7]
  • 2005 - Festival Internacional de Cinema do Funchal begins.
  • 2017 - Funchal local election, 2017 held.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Portugal". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 13 November 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Portugal". Europa World Year Book 2004. Europa Publications. 2004. ISBN 1857432533.
  3. ↑ José Silvestre Ribeiro, ed. (1871–1893). Historia dos estabelecimentos scientificos, litterarios e artisticos de Portugal (in Portuguese). Academia Real das Sciencias.
  4. ↑ Britannica 1910.
  5. ↑ "Portugal". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921 – via HathiTrust.
  6. 1 2 "Building Directory: Portugal: Madeira: Funchal". Emporis.com. Hamburg: Emporis GmbH. Retrieved 13 November 2017.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 "Geminações: Municipio: Funchal". Anmp.pt (in Portuguese). Associação Nacional de Municípios Portugueses. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
  8. ↑ "Associação de Municípios da Região Autónoma da Madeira" (in Portuguese). Retrieved 14 November 2017.
  9. ↑ "Congressos da ANMP" (in Portuguese). Associação Nacional de Municípios Portugueses. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
  10. ↑ "Cm-funchal.pt" (in Portuguese). Câmara Municipal do Funchal. Archived from the original on 3 September 2000 – via Wayback Machine.
  11. ↑ "Madeira wildfires: Three dead as flames reach Funchal", BBC News, 10 August 2016
This article incorporates information from the Portuguese Wikipedia.

Bibliography

in English
  • "Funchal", Handbook for Travellers in Portugal (4th ed.), London: J. Murray, 1887
  • A. Samler Brown (1903), "Funchal", Brown's Madeira, Canary Islands and Azores (7th ed.), London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co.
  • "Funchal", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
  • "Funchal", The Mediterranean: Seaports and Sea Routes, including Madeira, the Canary Islands, the Coast of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1911, OCLC 490068
in Portuguese
  • Manuel Pinheiro Chagas, ed. (1879). "Funchal". Diccionario Popular (in Portuguese). 5. Lisbon: Diario Illustrado.
  • Carlos Augusto da Silva Campos, ed. (1886), "Negociantes e industriaes das provincias e ilhas: Funchal", Almanach Commercial de Lisboa (in Portuguese), pp. 244–245
  • Esteves Pereira; Guilherme Rodrigues, eds. (1907). "Funchal". Portugal: Diccionario Historico... (in Portuguese). 3. Lisbon: Joao Romano Torres. OCLC 865826167.
  • "(Funchal)" – via Europeana. (Images, etc.)
  • "(Funchal)" – via Digital Public Library of America. (Images, etc.)
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