Timeline of Lubumbashi – Wikipedia
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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
20th century[edit]
1900s-1950s[edit]
- 1909
- 1910
- 1910s – “Governor’s Residence and Imara and Twendelee schools” built.
- 1911
- Journal du Katanga newspaper begins publication.[4]
- Population: 1,000.
- 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.
- Elisabethville becomes seat of Upper Luapula district.
- 1918 – Bukama-Elisabethville railway begins operating.
- 1919
- 1920
- 1920s – “Makutano Club, Jerusalem United Methodist Church, and the Jewish synagogue” built.
- 1921 – Development of Albert I township begins.
- 1928
- 1930s- “Courthouse and Mazembe stadium” built.
- 1931 – L’Écho du Katanga newspaper begins publication.[4]
- 1932 – Wallace Memorial Church built.
- 1937 – Musée d’Élisabethville (museum) founded.
- 1939 – Football clubs FC Saint-Éloi Lupopo and FC Saint-Georges formed.
- 1941
- Elisabethville attains city status.
- Development of Kenya township begins.
- 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.
- 1950s – “Post office,…CSK headquarters, the theater, St. Mary’s Basilica, and the railway headquarters” built.
- 1951 – Académie des Beaux-Arts d’Elisabethville founded.[3]
- 1954
- Development of Ruashi township begins.
- City seal in use.
- 1956 – Université officielle du Congo et du Rwanda-Urundi opens.[4]
- 1957
- City “divided into 5 communes, one for Europeans and 4 for Africans.”
- December: Local election held.[9]
- 1959
1960s-1990s[edit]
21st century[edit]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ a b “Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Democratic Republic of the Congo”. Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
- ^ 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.
- ^ “Democratic Republic of the Congo”, Oxford Music Online Retrieved 7 October 2017
- ^ Ilona Szombati-Fabian; Johannes Fabian (1976). “Art, history, and society: Popular painting in Shaba, Zaire”. Studies in Visual Communication. 3 (1). ISSN 0276-6558.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Rubbens, A. (1958). “Belgian Congo”. Civilisations. Institut de Sociologie de l’Université de Bruxelles. 8 (2): 335–340. JSTOR 41230355.
- ^ “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
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b Emizet Francois Kisangani (2016). Historical Dictionary of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (4th ed.). Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9781442273160.
- ^ a b “Deadly gunfight in DR Congo mining capital Lubumbashi”, BBC News, 29 June 2011
- ^ Nearly 1,000 escape in Congo jailbreak, Reuters, 7 September 2011
- ^ “Democratic Republic of Congo Profile: Timeline”. BBC News. 4 May 2011. Retrieved 10 October 2017.
- ^ “DR Congo forces clash with militia in Lubumbashi”, BBC News, 23 March 2013
- ^ “DR Congo’s Lubumbashi hit by fighting”, BBC News, 7 January 2014
- ^ “’20 dead’ in DRC protests after president’s term expires”, Guardian, UK, 20 December 2016
Bibliography[edit]
in English[edit]
- 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.
- 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[edit]
External links[edit]
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Union Minière du Haut Katanga mining facility at Elisabethville, 1917
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Baluba refugee camp near Elisabethville, 1962, during Congo Crisis
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Map of central Lubumbashi, 1978
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