Timeline of Lubumbashi

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

20th century

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1900s-1950s

  • 1909
  • 1910
  • 1910s - "Governor's Residence and Imara and Twendelee schools" built.[1]
  • 1911
    • Journal du Katanga newspaper begins publication.[4]
    • Population: 1,000.[3]
    • Etoile mining begins near Elisabethville.[citation needed]
    • Catholic schools Institut Marie-José and Collège Saint-François de Sales established.(fr)
  • 1912
    • Racially segregated "native city" established per ordinance.[1]
    • Elisabethville becomes seat of Upper Luapula district.[1]
  • 1918 - Bukama-Elisabethville railway [fr] begins operating.
  • 1919
    • Population: 8,000 (approximate).[3]
    • Ruashi mining begins in vicinity of Elisabethville.[citation needed]
  • 1920
    • "Management of the Union Minière was transferred from the British to the Belgians."[3]
    • Catholic Sts. Peter and Paul Cathedral built.[chronology citation needed]
  • 1920s - "Makutano Club, Jerusalem United Methodist Church, and the Jewish synagogue" built.[1]
  • 1921 - Development of Albert I township begins.[1]
  • 1928
    • Port-Francqui-Elisabethville railway [fr] begins operating.
    • L'Essor du Congo newspaper begins publication.[4]
  • 1930s- "Courthouse and Mazembe stadium" built.[1]
  • 1931 - L'Écho du Katanga newspaper begins publication.[4]
  • 1932 - Wallace Memorial Church built.[5]
  • 1937 - Musée d'Élisabethville [fr] (museum) founded.
  • 1939 - Football clubs FC Saint-Éloi Lupopo and FC Saint-Georges formed.
  • 1941
    • Elisabethville attains city status.[1]
    • Development of Kenya township begins.[1]
  • 1944 - Premiere of Joseph Kiwele's Cantate à la gloire de la Belgique.[6]
  • 1945 - Union Africaine des Arts et Lettres founded.[1]
  • 1946 - Académie d'Art Populaire d'Elisabethville founded.[7][2]
  • 1949 - Athénée royal built.[8]
  • 1950 - Development of Katuba township begins.[1]
  • 1950s - "Post office,...CSK headquarters, the theater, St. Mary's Basilica, and the railway headquarters" built.[1]
  • 1951 - Académie des Beaux-Arts d'Elisabethville founded.[3]
  • 1954
    • Development of Ruashi township begins.[1]
    • City seal in use.[1]
  • 1956 - Université officielle du Congo et du Rwanda-Urundi opens.[4]
  • 1957
    • City "divided into 5 communes, one for Europeans and 4 for Africans."[1]
    • December: Local election [fr] held.[9]
  • 1959

1960s-1990s

21st century

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t Bilonda 2005.
  2. ^ a b "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Democratic Republic of the Congo". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
  3. ^ a b c d Zeleza 2003.
  4. ^ a b c d Mukala Kadima Nzuji [in French] (1984). La littérature zaïroise de langue française: 1945-1965 (in French). Paris: Éditions Karthala. ISBN 978-2-86537-100-6.
  5. ^ Mpala-Lutebele 2013.
  6. ^ "Democratic Republic of the Congo", Oxford Music Online Retrieved 7 October 2017
  7. ^ Ilona Szombati-Fabian; Johannes Fabian (1976). "Art, history, and society: Popular painting in Shaba, Zaire". Studies in Visual Communication. 3 (1). ISSN 0276-6558. Free access icon
  8. ^ Ugo Carughi; Massimo Visone, eds. (2017). "Africa: Democratic Republic of the Congo". Time Frames: Conservation Policies for Twentieth-Century Architectural Heritage. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-98035-7.
  9. ^ Rubbens, A. (1958). "Belgian Congo". Civilisations. 8 (2). Institut de Sociologie de l'Université de Bruxelles: 335–340. JSTOR 41230355.
  10. ^ "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. Elizabethville
  11. ^ a b c d e f "Democratic Republic of the Congo". Africa South of the Sahara 2004. Regional Surveys of the World. Europa Publications. 2004. ISBN 978-1857431834.
  12. ^ United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office. "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1980. New York. pp. 225–252.
  13. ^ a b Emizet Francois Kisangani (2016). Historical Dictionary of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (4th ed.). Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9781442273160.
  14. ^ a b "Deadly gunfight in DR Congo mining capital Lubumbashi", BBC News, 29 June 2011
  15. ^ Nearly 1,000 escape in Congo jailbreak, Reuters, 7 September 2011
  16. ^ "Democratic Republic of Congo Profile: Timeline". BBC News. 4 May 2011. Retrieved 10 October 2017.
  17. ^ "DR Congo forces clash with militia in Lubumbashi", BBC News, 23 March 2013
  18. ^ "DR Congo's Lubumbashi hit by fighting", BBC News, 7 January 2014
  19. ^ "'20 dead' in DRC protests after president's term expires", Guardian, UK, 20 December 2016

Bibliography

in English

  • Bruce Fetter (1974). "African associations in Elisabethville, 1910-1935". Études d'Histoire Africaine (6). ISSN 0071-1993.
  • Bruce Fetter (1976). The Creation of Elisabethville, 1910-1940. Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University. ISBN 978-0-8179-6551-8.
  • André Yav (1990). Johannes Fabian (ed.). History from Below: The Vocabulary of Elisabethville by André Yav: Text, Translations and Interpretive Essay. John Benjamins Publishing Company. ISBN 978-90-272-7825-8.
  • Peter C Alegi (1999). "Katanga vs Johannesburg: a history of the first sub-Saharan African football championship, 1949–50". Kleio. 31: 55–74. doi:10.1080/00232089985310041.
  • Paul Tiyambe Zeleza; Dickson Eyoh, eds. (2003). "Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo". Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History. Routledge. ISBN 978-0415234795.
  • Michel Lwamba Bilonda (2005). "Lubumbashi". In Kevin Shillington (ed.). Encyclopedia of African History. Fitzroy Dearborn. ISBN 978-1-57958-245-6.
  • Johan Lagae (2016) [2010]. "From 'Patrimoine Partage' to 'Whose Heritage'?: critical reflections on colonial built heritage in the city of Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo". In T. Fenster; H. Yacobi (eds.). Remembering, forgetting and city builders. Routledge. ISBN 978-1315605227.
  • Sofie Boonen; et al. (2015). "A city constructed by 'des gens d'ailleurs': urban development and migration policies in colonial Lubumbashi, 1910-1930". Comparativ. 15 (4). ISSN 0940-3566.
  • Sofie Boonen; Johan Lagae (2015). "Scenes from a changing colonial 'Far West': picturing the early urban landscape and colonial society of cosmopolitan Lubumbashi, 1910-1931". Stichproben: Wiener Zeitschrift für Kritische Afrikastudien (28). ISSN 1992-8629. Open access icon
  • Johan Lagae; et al. (2016). "M(g)r. De Hemptin(n)e, I Presume? Transforming Local Memory Through Toponymy in Colonial/Post-Colonial Lubumbashi, DR Congo". In L. Bigon (ed.). Place Names in Africa: Colonial Urban Legacies, Entangled Histories. Springer. ISBN 978-3-319-32485-2.

in French

  • Noël van Malleghem (1950). "L'urbanisation d'Elisabethville". L'urbanisme au Congo Belge (in French). Brussels: Ministère des Colonies.
  • A. Chapelier (1957), Elisabethville: essai de Géographie urbaine (in French), Brussels: Académie royale des sciences coloniales
  • Jean-Claude Bruneau [in French]; M. Mbuyu (1983). "Passe, present et avenir possible de l'urbanisme a Lubumbashi". Zaïre-Afrique (in French). ISSN 0049-8513.
  • Jean-Claude Bruneau; M.-T. Lootens-De-Muynck (1985). "Dynamique démographique des quartiers de Lubumbashi des origines à nos jours". Cahiers d'Outre-Mer (in French). 38 – via Persee.fr. Free access icon
  • Jean-Claude Bruneau; Marc Pain (1990). Atlas de Lubumbashi (in French). Paris. ISBN 978-2950490100.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Lubumbashi, capitale minière du Katanga, 1910-2010 (in French). Éditions Lieux Dits. 2008. ISBN 9782914528535.
  • Maëline Le Lay and Christian Kunda (2009). "Théâtre au Katanga: aperçu historique". Études Littéraires Africaines (in French) (27): 18. doi:10.7202/1034302ar. ISSN 0769-4563 – via Erudit.org. Free access icon
  • Bogumil Jewsiewicki; et al., eds. (2010). Lubumbashi, 1910-2010: mémoire d'une ville industrielle (in French and Swahili). Paris: Harmattan. ISBN 978-2296096608.
  • Maurice Amuri Mpala-Lutebele (2013). Lubumbashi, cent ans d'histoire (in French). L'Harmattan. ISBN 9782343013992.

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  • Union Minière du Haut Katanga mining facility at Elisabethville, 1917
    Union Minière du Haut Katanga mining facility at Elisabethville, 1917
  • Baluba refugee camp near Elisabethville, 1962, during Congo Crisis
    Baluba refugee camp near Elisabethville, 1962, during Congo Crisis
  • Map of central Lubumbashi, 1978
    Map of central Lubumbashi, 1978
  • OpenStreetMap activity in Lubumbashi, 2014
    OpenStreetMap activity in Lubumbashi, 2014
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