Timeline of Bissau

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Bissau, Guinea-Bissau.

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Prior to 20th century
  • 1687 - Portuguese trading post established in region of Papel people.[1]
  • 1692 - Portuguese colonial Captaincy of Bissau founded.[2]
  • 1707 - Portuguese fort dismantled and abandoned.[2]
  • 1753 - Portuguese overcome Papel resistance, rebuild fort.
  • 1775 - Fortaleza de São José da Amura (fort) built.[2]
  • 1859 - Municipal Council founded.[2]
  • 1863 - Bissau attains town status.[2]
  • 1869
    • Bissau becomes capital of the colonial district of Guinea.[2]
    • Population: 573.[3]

20th century

21st century
  • 2002 - Population: 292,000.[3]
  • 2005 - National People's Assembly Palácio Colinas de Boé built.
  • 2008 - TV Guiné-Bissau begins broadcasting.
  • 2009
  • 2010 - Hospital Amizade China-Guine-Bissau opens.[2]
  • 2012 - 12 April: 2012 Guinea-Bissau coup d'état.[15]

See also

References
  1. "Guinea-Bissau". Political Chronology of Africa. Political Chronologies of the World. Europa Publications. 2001. pp. 208–213. ISBN 0203409957.
  2. Peter Karibe Mendy; Richard A. Lobban Jr. (2013). Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau (4th ed.). Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-8027-6.
  3. Young 2005.
  4. Milheiro 2009.
  5. "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1955. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations. pp. 171–184.
  6. "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Guinea-Bissau". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 15 September 2017.
  7. United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1987). "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". 1985 Demographic Yearbook. New York. pp. 247–289.
  8. "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2005. United Nations Statistics Division.
  9. "Guinea-Bissau: Directory". Africa South of the Sahara 2004. Regional Surveys of the World. Europa Publications. 2004. ISBN 1857431839.
  10. "Rebels and Loyalists In Guinea-Bissau Exchange Shellfire", New York Times, 16 June 1998
  11. Cybriwsky 2013.
  12. Guinea-Bissau's president, army chief killed, Reuters, 2 March 2009
  13. Lydia Polgreen (11 March 2009), "2 slayings in West Africa may signal a new day", New York Times
  14. "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2015. United Nations Statistics Division. 2016.
  15. Bissau soldiers control capital in apparent coup, Reuters, 13 April 2012
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Bibliography
in English
in other languages
  • Esteves Pereira; Guilherme Rodrigues, eds. (1906). "Bissau". Portugal: Diccionario Historico... (in Portuguese). 2. Lisbon: Joao Romano Torres. OCLC 865826167.
  • Joel Frederico da Silveira (1989). "Spatialisation d'un rapport colonial: Bissau, 1900-1960". In Michel Cahen (ed.). Vilas et cidades: bourgs et villes en Afrique lusophone (in French). Paris: L'Harmattan. ISBN 2-7384-0431-6.
  • François Mendy (2006). La ville de Bissau: amenagement et gestion urbaine (Ph.D.) (in French). Universite Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar.
  • Ana Vaz Milheiro; Eduardo Costa Dias (2009). "Arquitectura em Bissau e os Gabinetes de Urbanização colonial (1944–1974)" [Architecture in Bissau and the Colonial Urbanization Departments] (PDF). Arq.urb (in Portuguese). São Paulo: Universidade São Judas Tadeu (2). ISSN 1984-5766.
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