The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Beira, Mozambique.
19th century edit
- 1891 - Beira established by Portuguese colonial Companhia de Moçambique.[1]
- 1898 - Umtali-Beira railway begins operating.[2]
- 1899 - Salisbury-Beira railway begins operating.[2]
20th century edit
- 1920 - Gorongosa Hunting Reserve created in vicinity of Beira.
- 1924 - Clube Ferroviário da Beira (football club) formed.
- 1925 - Catholic Our Lady of the Rosary church built.
- 1940 - Roman Catholic diocese of Beira established.[3]
- 1941 - Beira becomes part of Portuguese East Africa.[1]
- 1943 - Atlético Desportivo Moma, Estrella Beira, and GD da Companhia Têxtil do Punguè football clubs formed.
- 1946 - City expansion plan created by José Porto and Ribeiro Alegre.[4]
- 1952 - Beira Airport opens.
- 1954 - Grande Hotel Beira and Cine-Teatro São Jorge (cinema)[5] in business.
- 1955 - Liceu Pêro de Anaia (school) established.
- 1965 - Estação Ferroviária da Beira (railway station) and Associação Comercial building constructed.[5]
- 1970 - Population: 113,770.
- 1975 - Beira becomes part of newly independent Mozambique.[1]
- 1980 - Population: 230,744.
- 1988 - September: Catholic pope visits city.
- 1997 - Population: 412,588.
- 1998 - Chivavice Muchangage becomes mayor.
- 2000
- February: Cyclone Leon–Eline occurs.
- February–March: 2000 Mozambique flood occurs.
21st century edit
- 2003 - Daviz Simango becomes mayor.
- 2006 - Municipiobeira.gov.mz website launched (approximate date).[6]
- 2015 - Population: 460,904 (estimate).[7]
See also edit
References edit
- ^ a b c Young 2005.
- ^ a b Arnold 2005.
- ^ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Mozambique". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 26 October 2017.
- ^ André Renga Faria Ferreira (2006). Obras públicas em Moçambique: inventário da produção arquitectónica executada entre 1933 e 1961 (MA) (in Portuguese). Universidade de Coimbra. hdl:10316/6004.
- ^ a b "Sistema de Informação para o Património Arquitetónico" [Architectural Heritage Database]. Monumentos.gov.pt (in Portuguese). Portugal: Direção-Geral do Património Cultural. Retrieved 26 October 2017.
- ^ "Conselho Municipal da Cidade da Beira". Municipiobeira.gov.mz (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 11 January 2006 – via Wayback Machine.
- ^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2015. United Nations Statistics Division. 2016.
- This article incorporates information from the Portuguese Wikipedia and German Wikipedia.
Bibliography edit
- Ilídio do Amaral [in Portuguese] (1969). "Beira, cidade e porto do Índico" [Beira, city and port of the Indian Ocean]. Finisterra (in Portuguese). 4 (7). doi:10.18055/Finis2492. ISSN 0430-5027.
- Eric Young (2005). "Beira, Mozambique". In Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates (ed.). Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 413. ISBN 978-0-19-517055-9.
- Guy Arnold (2005). "Beira Corridor". In Kevin Shillington (ed.). Encyclopedia of African History. Fitzroy Dearborn. ISBN 978-1-57958-245-6.
External links edit
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- "(Beira)". AfricaBib.org. (Bibliography)
- Items related to Beira, various dates (via Europeana)
- Items related to Beira, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America)
- "(Beira)". Internet Library Sub-Saharan Africa. Germany: Frankfurt University Library. 2016-09-29. (Bibliography)
- "(Beira)". Directory of Open Access Journals. UK. (Bibliography of open access articles)
Images edit
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Railway station, Beira, built 1890s? (photo 1902) -
Cinema São Jorge Beira, opened 1954 (photo 2011) -
Associação Comercial building, constructed 1965 (photo 2016)
