Timeline of Dakar
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Dakar, Senegal.
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Prior to 20th century
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- 1857
- 1863 - Catholic Apostolic Vicariate of Senegambia established.[2]
- 1872 - Town becomes part of the commune of Gorée.[3]
- 1885 - Rue Blanchot mosque built (approximate date).[4]
- 1887
- 1888 - Dakar–Saint-Louis railway begins operating.[5]
- 1891 - Population: 8,737.[3]
20th century
- 1902 - Dakar becomes capital of French West Africa.[6][7]
- 1903 - Hann Park created.[8]
- 1904 - Population: 18,447.[5]
- 1905 - Brest-Dakar telegraph in operation.[5]
- 1907
- Government Palace built.
- L'A.O.F. newspaper begins publication.[9]
- 1908 - Harbor constructed.[5]
- 1913
- Democratie du Senegal newspaper begins publication.[9]
- National Archives of Senegal formed.[10]
- 1914
- 1918 - French West Africa School of Medicine established.[12]
- 1920 - Blaise Diagne becomes mayor.[3]
- 1921 - Population: 32,440.[3]
- 1924 - Dakar–Niger Railway begins operating.
- 1926 - Population: 33,679.[3]
- 1929
- 1933
- Paris-Dakar newspaper begins publication.
- Foyer France Sénégal football club formed.
- 1934 - Armand-Pierre Angrand becomes mayor.
- 1936 - Catholic Cathédrale du Souvenir africain de Dakar built.[13]
- 1938 - Institut Français d’Afrique Noire[14] and museum founded.
- 1940 - Battle of Dakar.
- 1940s - Mama Casset photo studio in business.[15]
- 1944 - Thiaroye Massacre.
- 1950 - Cours Sainte Marie de Hann founded.
- 1957 - University of Dakar established.
- 1959
- City becomes capital of Mali Federation.
- French Cultural Centre created.
- 1960 - École de Dakar (art) movement active.[16]
- 1961 - Dakar-Matin newspaper begins publication.
- 1962 - House of Slaves (Gorée) museum opens.
- 1963 - December: Political demonstration; crackdown.[6]
- 1964 - Dakar Grand Mosque built.
- 1966
- Daniel Sorano Theatre opens (approximate date).[17]
- Amity Stadium opens (approximate date).[17]
- World Festival of Black Arts held.[18][19]
- 1970
- 1972 - Enda Third World and Centre Culturel Régional Blaise Senghor[21] established.
- 1973 - Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa headquartered in Dakar.
- 1974 - Laboratoire Agit'Art (art group) formed.[16]
- 1975 - Association Nationale des Bibliothécaires, Archivistes et Documentalistes Senegalais headquartered in city.[14]
- 1978 - Dakar Rally motor vehicle race begins.
- 1984
- Mamadou Diop becomes mayor.
- WalFadjri newspaper begins publication.
- 1989
- Musée historique du Sénégal à Gorée opens.
- Ethnic violence.[22]
- 1990
- Dakar Biennale begins.
- Public library established.[14]
- Population: 1,405,000 (urban agglomeration).[23]
- 1993 - Sud Quotidien begins publication.
- 1994
- Henriette-Bathily Women's Museum opens.[14]
- Kermel market burns down.
- 1995 - Population: 1,688,000 (urban agglomeration).[23]
- 1996
- Municipal administration divided into 19 communes d'arrondissement.
- City becomes part of Dakar Department, Dakar Region.
- Musée des Forces Armées Senegalaise established.[14]
- 1997
- Media Centre de Dakar in operation.[24]
- Mosquée de la Divinité built.
- 1998 - Doole community exchange system established.[25]
- 1999 - Festival international du film de quartier de Dakar begins.
21st century
- 2000 - Population: 2,029,000 (urban agglomeration).[23]
- 2001 - Student protests.[26]
- 2002 - Pape Diop becomes mayor.
- 2003
- Le Quotidien newspaper begins publication.
- West Africa Democracy Radio begins broadcasting.
- 2005 - Population: 2,434,000 (urban agglomeration),[23] 1,030,594 (city).
- 2006 - City hosts African Swimming Championships.
- 2007 - June: Economic protest.[27]
- 2008 - Raw Material Company (art space) founded.[28]
- 2009
- City website online (approximate date).[29]
- Khalifa Sall becomes mayor.
- 2010 - African Renaissance Monument dedicated.[30]
- 2011
- 2013
- June: U.S. President Obama visits city.[34]
- Air pollution in Dakar reaches annual mean of 34 PM2.5 and 141 PM10, much higher than recommended.[35]
- 2014 - Statue of Léopold Sédar Senghor installed.
See also
- Timeline of Senegal
References
- ↑ Derwent Whittlesey (1941). "Dakar and the Other Cape Verde Settlements". Geographical Review. American Geographical Society. 31 (4). JSTOR 210502.
- ↑ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Senegal". www.katolsk.no. Norway: Oslo katolske bispedømme (Oslo Catholic Diocese). Retrieved 30 September 2014.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Historique de la ville (in French), Ville de Dakar, retrieved 30 August 2015
- ↑ Cleo Cantone (2006). "A Mosque in a Mosque: Some Observations on the Rue Blanchot Mosque in Dakar & Its Relationto Other Mosques in the Colonial Period". Cahiers d'Études Africaines. 46 (182). JSTOR 4393580.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Dakar", The Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1910, OCLC 14782424
- 1 2 "Senegal". Political Chronology of Africa. Political Chronologies of the World. Europa Publications. 2001. ISBN 0203409957.
- ↑ Muriel E. Chamberlain (1998). "Chronology of Decolonisation: the French Empire: French West Africa". Longman Companion to European Decolonisation in the Twentieth Century. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-89744-6.
- ↑ "Garden Search: Senegal". London: Botanic Gardens Conservation International. Retrieved 30 August 2015.
- 1 2 G. Wesley Johnson (1971), The emergence of Black politics in Senegal, Stanford, Calif.: Published for the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, by Stanford University Press, ISBN 0804707839, 0804707839
- ↑ "Les Archives Nationales du Sénégal". Retrieved 15 August 2012.
- ↑ Raymond F. Betts (April 1971). "The Establishment of the Medina in Dakar, Senegal, 1914". Africa: Journal of the International African Institute. 41: 143–152. doi:10.2307/1159424. JSTOR 1159424.
- ↑ "Medical School for French West Africa". Journal of the American Medical Association. Chicago, USA. 71 (14): 1155. 5 October 1918. doi:10.1001/jama.1918.02600400052018.
- ↑ Elizabeth A. Foster (2009). "An Ambiguous Monument: Dakar's Colonial Cathedral of the Souvenir Africain". French Historical Studies. 32 (1): 85–119. doi:10.1215/00161071-2008-014.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Bernard Dione; Dieyi Diouf (2010), "Senegal: Libraries, Archives and Museums", in Marcia J. Bates, Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press, ISBN 9780849397127
- ↑ Kevin Mulhearn (2006). "Photography in Africa: Central and West". In Lynne Warren. Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography. Routledge. p. 27+. ISBN 978-1-135-20536-2.
- 1 2 Glossary of art terms, UK: Tate, retrieved 30 August 2015
- 1 2 "Festival Time in Dakar". Negro Digest. April 1966. Retrieved August 15, 2012.
- ↑ Hoyt W. Fuller (July 1966). "World Festival of Negro Arts". Ebony. Chicago, USA.
- ↑ "Western and Central Sudan, 1900 A.D.–present: Key Events". Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 30 August 2015.
- ↑ S. Sherwood (3 December 2009). "The Songs of Senegal". New York Times. Retrieved August 15, 2012.
- ↑ "Centre Culturel Régional Blaise Senghor" (in French). Ministere de la culture du Senegal. Retrieved 14 May 2013.
- ↑ Fiona McLaughlin (2001). "Dakar Wolof and the Configuration of an Urban Identity". Journal of African Cultural Studies. 14 (2).
- 1 2 3 4 "The State of African Cities 2010: Governance, Inequalities and Urban Land Markets". United Nations Human Settlements Programme. 2010.
- ↑ "Média Centre de Dakar: L'ambition de faire renaître le cinéma africain". Observatoire sur les Systèmes d'information. 10 December 2004. Retrieved 15 August 2012.
- ↑ Stephen Demeulenaere (Summer 2001). "On the Doole". Alternatives Journal (27.3).
- ↑ "Student Killed in Senegal Protest". Chronicle of Higher Education (47.24). 23 February 2001.
- ↑ Andreas Mehler; et al., eds. (2008). "Senegal". Africa Yearbook: Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara in 2007. 4. Koninklijke Brill. ISBN 9789004168053.
- ↑ "Senegal". Art Spaces Directory. New York: New Museum. Retrieved 2 December 2013.
- ↑ "Ville de Dakar". Archived from the original on October 2009 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.
- ↑ "Statuesque or grotesque?". The Economist. February 25, 2010.
- ↑ "ICANN Dakar Senegal No.42: 23-28 October 2011". ICANN. Retrieved 15 August 2012.
- ↑ "Corporate Information: Google Offices". Google Inc. Archived from the original on 29 May 2011.
- ↑ "The State of African Cities 2014". United Nations Human Settlements Programme. ISBN 978-92-1-132598-0.
- ↑ "Première nuit de Obama au Sénégal". Le Quotidien (in French). Dakar. 27 June 2013.
- ↑ World Health Organization (2016), Global Urban Ambient Air Pollution Database, Geneva
This article incorporates information from the French Wikipedia.
Further reading
- Ch. Brossard, ed. (1906). "Afrique occidentale française: Senegal: Description des villes: Dakar". Colonies françaises. Géographie pittoresque et monumentale de la France (in French). Paris: Flammarion. (+ table of contents)
- M. Diouf. (1999). "Urban youth and Senegalese politics: Dakar 1988-1994", In J. Holston, ed., Cities and Citizenship. Durham, NC: Duke University Press
- Dickson Eyoh and Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, ed. (2003). "Dakar". Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History. Routledge. ISBN 0415234794.
- Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, ed. (2005). "Dakar". Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 304. ISBN 978-0-19-517055-9.
- Mamadou Diouf (2008). "(Re)Imagining an African city: performing culture, arts, and citizenship in Dakar (Senegal), 1980-2000". In Gyan Prakash and Kevin Michael Kruse. Spaces of the Modern City: Imaginaries, Politics, and Everyday Life. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-13343-3.
- "Histoire". Dakar. Le Petit Futé (in French). 2011.
- Simon Bekker and Goran Therborn, ed. (2011), "Dakar", Capital Cities in Africa: Power and Powerlessness, Dakar: Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, ISBN 978-2- 8697-8495-6
- Profile of Crime Markets in Dakar, Pretoria: Institute for Security Studies, 2014 – via International Relations and Security Network
- Daniel Castillo Hidalgo (2014). "Port of Dakar: Technological Evolution, Management and Commercial Activity". In Miguel Bosa Suirez. Atlantic Ports and the First Globalisation C. 1850-1930. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-137-32798-7.
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