Timeline of Libreville

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Libreville, Gabon.

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19th century

  • 1843 - Fort and trading post established by French.[1]
  • 1849
    • Libreville founded by French military official Édouard Bouët-Willaumez. Freed Vili slaves were resettled in the new village.[2][3]
    • M. Mountier, a resettled former slave, becomes mayor (approximate date).[4]
  • 1860 - Town becomes administrative seat of colonial "French territories in the Gulf of Guinea" (approximate date).[3]
  • 1865 - Church of the Immaculate Conception built.[5]
  • 1888 - Libreville becomes administrative seat of colonial French Congo.[5][6]

20th century

21st century

Aerial view of Libreville, 2012

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Young 2010.
  2. ↑ "France: Africa: French Equatorial Africa (French Congo)". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. pp. 886–888 – via Internet Archive.
  3. 1 2 3 "Gabon". Political Chronology of Africa. Political Chronologies of the World. Europa Publications. 2001. p. 181-186. ISBN 0203409957.
  4. 1 2 Binza 2006.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Ngolet 2005.
  6. 1 2 3 "Historique de la ville". Libreville.ga (in French). Retrieved 25 July 2017.
  7. 1 2 3 4 Mboumba 2013.
  8. ↑ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Gabon". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Anciens maires de Libreville". Libreville.ga (in French). Retrieved 25 July 2017.
  10. 1 2 "Gabon: Directory". Africa South of the Sahara 2004. Regional Surveys of the World. Europa Publications. 2004. ISBN 1857431839.
  11. ↑ "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.
  12. ↑ "Madagascar Profile: Timeline". BBC News. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
  13. ↑ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2015. United Nations Statistics Division. 2016.
  14. ↑ "Gabon: Rose Christiane Ossouka Raponda, le nouveau visage de Libreville". Jeune Afrique (in French). Paris. 21 January 2014.
This article incorporates information from the French Wikipedia.

Bibliography

in English
  • Henry H. Bucher Jr. (1979). "Liberty and Labor: The Origins of Libreville Reconsidered". Bulletin de l'Institut fondamental d'Afrique noire. 41.
  • François Ngolet (2005). "Libreville". In Kevin Shillington. Encyclopedia of African History. Fitzroy Dearborn. pp. 828–829. ISBN 978-1-57958-245-6.
  • Hugues Steve Ndinga-Koumba Binza (2006). "Demographic profiles of Libreville and Lome". In S.B. Bekker; Anne Leildé. Reflections on Identity in Four African Cities. South Africa: African Minds. ISBN 978-1-920051-40-2. (about Cape Town, Johannesburg, Libreville, Lomé)
  • Peter P. Hinks; John R. McKivigan, eds. (2007). "Libreville". Encyclopedia of Antislavery and Abolition. Greenwood. p. 432+. ISBN 978-0-313-33144-2.
  • Eric Young (2010). "Libreville, Gabon". In Kwame Anthony Appiah; Henry Louis Gates. Encyclopedia of Africa. Oxford University Press. p. 51+. ISBN 9780195337709.
in French
  • Guy Lasserre (1956). "Le paysage urbain des Librevilles noires". Cahiers d'Outre-Mer (in French). 9 – via Persee.fr.
  • François Villien (1984). "Les consommations d'énergie à Libreville" [Consumption of energy in Libreville]. Cahiers d'Outre-Mer (in French). 37 – via Persee.fr.
  • Rano-Michel Nguema (2005). "Développement de la ville, découpage et appropriation des territoires urbains au Gabon: le cas de Libreville". Belgeo (in French). 4. doi:10.4000/belgeo.12167 – via Revues.org.
  • Anicet Mboumba (2013). "La difficile mutation du gouvernement urbain au Gabon: jeux d'acteurs dans la gestion des déchets à Libreville" [Problem of urbanization in Gabon]. Cahiers d'Outre-Mer (in French). 261. doi:10.4000/com.6778 – via Revues.org.
  • Fidèle Allogho-Nkoghe (2014). La fondation de Libreville: une lecture nouvelle à partir d'une théorie géopolitique (in French). Paris: Connaissances et Savoirs. ISBN 9782753902411.
  • Jean-Emery Etoughe-Efe (2017). Les Bars Populaires de Libreville. Études africaines (in French). Paris: L’Harmattan. ISBN 978-2-343-12257-1.
  • "(Libreville)". Directory of Open Access Journals. UK. (Bibliography of open access articles)
  • Items related to Libreville, various dates (via Europeana) (Images, etc.)
  • Items related to Libreville, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America) (Images, etc.)
  • "(Libreville)". Internet Library Sub-Saharan Africa. Germany: Frankfurt University Library. (Bibliography)
  • "(Libreville)". Connecting-Africa. Leiden, Netherlands: African Studies Centre. (Bibliography)
  • "(Libreville)". AfricaBib.org. (Bibliography)
  • "Libreville, Gabon". BlackPast.org. US.
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