Timeline of Dar es Salaam
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Prior to 20th century
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- 1862 – Town founded by Majid bin Said of Zanzibar near Mzizima village.[1][2]
- 1872 – Hurricane.[3]
- 1887
- Town "taken by Carl Peters for German East Africa Company."[1]
- Lutheran Mission built.[4]
- Catholic diocese of Southern Zanguebar established.[5]
- 1891 – Capital of German East Africa relocated to Dar es Salaam from Bagamoyo.[6]
- 1893 – Dar es Salaam Botanical Gardens established.[7]
- 1894 – Lighthouse built.[3]
- 1897 – Ocean Road Hospital built.[4]
- 1899 – Deutsch-Ostafrikanische Zeitung (newspaper) begins publication.[8]
- 1900 – "Port facilities" built.[3]
20th century
1900s-1950s
- 1901 - Lutheran Church built.[4]
- 1903 - New Boma (district office) built.[4]
- 1905
- Baugesellschaft Daressalam (construction firm) in business.[9]
- St. Joseph's Cathedral consecrated.
- 1906 – Kaiserhof (hotel) in business.[9]
- 1907 – Morogoro-Dar es Salaam railway built.[9]
- 1911 – Post office built.[4]
- 1914 – Kigoma-Dar es Salaam railway begins operating.[10]
- 1916 – 3 September: Town captured by British forces.[1][11]
- 1919 - Town becomes capital of British Tanganyika Territory.[12]
- 1922 – State House built.[4]
- 1926 – Legislative Council of Tanzania headquartered in Dar es Salaam.[13]
- 1929 – Tanganyika African Association active.[14]
- 1930 - Daily News begins publication.[15]
- 1931 – Sudanese Association formed.[16]
- 1933 - Yacht Club opens.[4]
- 1936 - New Wanyamwezi Association founded.[16]
- 1938 – Wazaramo Union founded.[17]
- 1940 - George V Memorial Museum opens.[7]
- 1945 - Township ward council instituted.[18]
- 1948 - Population: 69,227.[19]
- 1953 – Metropolitan Catholic Archdiocese of Dar-es-Salaam established.[5]
- 1954 – Tanganyika African National Union headquartered in Dar es Salaam.[18]
1960s–1990s
- 1960 – Population: 74,036.[1]
- 1961
- City becomes capital of Tanganyika.
- University College[20] and Alliance Française de Dar es Salaam established.[21]
- 1963 – Tanzania Library Services headquartered in city.[7]
- 1964
- City becomes capital of the United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar.[22]
- Aga Khan Hospital, Dar es Salaam established.
- City becomes capital of the
- 1965
- 1966
- 1967 - Aga Khan Mzizima Secondary School built.[27]
- 1968 – Tazama oil pipeline begins operating.[10][26]
- 1970 – University of Dar es Salaam established.
- 1975
- TAZARA Railway begins operating.[10]
- Population: 517,000.[28]
- 1977 – October: Chama Cha Mapinduzi (political party) convenes in city.[26]
- 1978 – Mlimani Park Orchestra formed.[24][29]
- 1979 – Airport expanded.[citation needed]
- 1985 – Population: 1,046,000 (urban agglomeration).[30]
- 1990 – Population: 1,316,000 (urban agglomeration).[30]
- 1991 – Mkuki na Nyota publisher in business.[31]
- 1992 – "Sustainable Dar es Salaam Program" introduced.[2]
- 1993
- 1995
- 1996 – National Assembly of Tanzania relocated from Dar es Salaam to Dodoma.
- 1997
- 1998 – 7 August: United States embassy bombing.
- 2000
21st century
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- 2001
- 2002 – National Records and Archives Management Department headquartered in city.[7]
- 2005 – Population: 2,683,000 (urban agglomeration).[30]
- 2006 – Adam Kimbisa becomes mayor.
- 2010
- Didas Massaburi becomes mayor.[citation needed]
- May: World Economic Forum on Africa held.[33]
- Population: 3,415,000 (urban agglomeration).[30]
- 2011 - December: Flood.[34]
- 2012
- 2013 - 29 March: Building collapseon Indira Gandhi Street.
- 2018 – Population: 5,147,070 (estimate).[36]
- 2021 – Shooting.
See also
- Dar es Salaam history
- List of mayors of Dar es Salaam
- Districts of Dar es Salaam Region
- Timelines of other cities in Tanzania: Zanzibar City
- Timeline of Tanzanian history
References
- ^ OL 5812502M
- ^ a b Appiah 2005.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-136-86604-3.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Hoyle 2002.
- ^ a b "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Tanzania". www.katolsk.no. Norway: Oslo katolske bispedømme (Oslo Catholic Diocese). Retrieved 9 September 2014.
- ^ Fabian 2007.
- ^ ISBN 9780849397127
- ^ "Dar es Salaam – Newspapers". Chicago, USA: Center for Research Libraries. Global Resources Network. Retrieved 9 September 2014.
- ^ a b c Rudolf Fitzner, ed. (1908). "Deutsch-Ostafrika". Deutsches Kolonial-Handbuch (in German). Berlin: Hermann Paetel.
- ^ a b c d Hoyle 1978.
- ISBN 978-0-85052-979-1.
- .
- ^ "History". Parliament of Tanzania. Archived from the original on 24 September 2014. Retrieved 9 September 2014.
- ISBN 0521220246
- ^ "Tanzania and Zanzibar: News". Africa South of the Sahara: Selected Internet Resources. California: Stanford University. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-521-29611-3.
- ISBN 978-0-8214-4417-7.
- ^ a b Brennan 2006.
- Statistical Office of the United Nations.
- ^ "Background". University of Dar es Salaam. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
- ^ "Alliance Française in Dar es Salaam". French Embassy in Dar es Salaam. Retrieved 13 May 2013.
- ^ a b c "Tanzania Profile: Timeline". BBC News. 9 July 2011. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
- ^ a b c Perullo 2011.
- ^ a b "About the Archives", Tanzania Heritage Project: Reviving Tanzania's Reel-to-Reel Archives, 11 November 2010, retrieved 31 August 2015
- MIT School of Architecture and Planning. Archived from the originalon 11 September 2011.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-313-30247-3.
- ^ a b Aga Khan Schools. "History of Aga Khan Education Services, Tanzania". Aga Khan Development Network. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
- ^ United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1976). "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1975. New York. pp. 253–279.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ "Where Tanzania Taps Its Feet", New York Times, 18 February 2014
- ^ ISBN 978-92-1-132598-0. Archived from the originalon 10 September 2014.
- ^ "Archives, Libraries, Bibliographies, Book Dealers & Publishers on Africa". Virtual Libraries: African Studies. New York, USA: Columbia University Libraries. Retrieved 9 September 2014.
- ^ "ASET". Dar es Salaam. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
- ISBN 978-90-04-20556-7.
- ISBN 978-90-04-24178-7.
- ISBN 978-90-04-25600-2.
- ^ "Table 8 – Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants", Demographic Yearbook – 2018, United Nations
This article incorporates information from the Italian Wikipedia.
Bibliography
- Published in 20th century
- Lothaire Loewenbach (1908), "De Zanzibar a Dar-es-Salam", Promenade autour de l'Afrique, 1907: Syrie, Palestine, Eǵypte, Soudan, Transvaal, Rhodésie, Le Cap, Saint-Héléne (in French), Paris: E. Flammarion
- "Dar es Salaam". Brockhaus' Konversations-Lexikon (in German) (14th ed.). Leipzig: Brockhaus. 1908.
- "Daressalam". Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt.
- "Dar es Salaam District". Red Book 1922–23: Handbook and Directory for Kenya Colony and Protectorate, Uganda Protectorate, Tanganyika Territory, and Zanzibar Sultanate. Nairobi: East Africa Standard Ltd. 1922.
- ISSN 0856-2725.
- John E.G. Sutton (1970). "Dar es Salaam, A Sketch of a Hundred Years". Tanganyika Notes and Records. 71.
- John E.G. Sutton (1970). Dar es Salaam: City, Port, and Region.
- B.S. Hoyle (1978). "African Politics and Port Expansion at Dar es Salaam". Geographical Review. 68 (1): 31–50. JSTOR 213509.
- Marshall Macklin Monoghan (1978), Dar es Salaam Masterplan, Toronto
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Deborah F. Bryceson (1987). "A Century of Food Supply in Dar es Salaam". In Jane I. Guyer (ed.). Feeding African Cities: Studies in Regional Social History. UK: Manchester University Press. ISBN 0719022142.
- Jurgen Becher (1997). Dar es Salaam, Tanga und Tabora: Stadtentwicklung in Tansania unter deutscher Kolonialherrschaft, 1885-1914 (in German). Stuttgart.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Laura Sykes; Uma Waide (1997). Dar es Salaam: a dozen drives around the city. Mkuki Na Nyota Publishers. ISBN 9976973357.
- Mary Fitzpatrick (1999), "Dar es Salaam", Tanzania, Zanzibar & Pemba, OL 8314875M
- Published in 21st century
- R. Mhamba; C. Titus (2001). "Reactions to Deteriorating Provision of Public Services in Dar es Salaam". In Arne Tostensen; et al. (eds.). Associational Life in African Cities: Popular Responses to the Urban Crisis. Sweden: ISBN 978-91-7106-465-3.
- Brian Hoyle (2002). "Port-City Renewal in Developing Countries the Waterfront at Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania". ISSN 0014-0015.
- ISBN 0415234794.
- ISBN 978-0-19-517055-9.
- ISBN 978-1-57958-245-6.
- James R. Brennan (2006). "Youth, the TANU Youth League and Managed Vigilantism in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 1925-73". Africa: Journal of the International African Institute. 76 (2): 221–246. S2CID 145681258.
- James R. Brennan; et al., eds. (2007). Dar es Salaam: Histories from an Emerging African Metropolis. African Books Collective. ISBN 978-9987449705.
- Andrew Burton (2007). "Haven of Peace Purged: Tackling the Undesirable and Unproductive Poor in Dar es Salaam, ca.1950s-1980s". International Journal of African Historical Studies. 40 (1): 119–151. JSTOR 40034793.
- Steven Fabian (2007). "Curing the Cancer of the Colony: Bagamoyo, Dar es Salaam, and Socioeconomic Struggle in German East Africa". International Journal of African Historical Studies. 40 (3): 441–469. JSTOR 40034038.
- Creole and Tribal Designs: Dar es Salaam and Kampala as Ethnic Cities in Coalescing Nation States, London: Crisis States Research Centre, 2008 – via International Relations and Security Network
- Philip Briggs (2009). "Dar es Salaam". Tanzania. ISBN 978-1-84162-288-0.
- Overview of Municipal Finance Systems in Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania, London: Crisis States Research Centre, 2009 – via International Relations and Security Network
- Alex Perullo (2011), Live from Dar es Salaam: popular music and Tanzania's music economy, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, ISBN 9780253356055
External links
Media related to History of Dar es Salaam at Wikimedia Commons
- "(Dar es Salaam)" – via Qatar National Library, Qatar Digital Library. (Images, etc.)
- "(Dar es Salaam)" – via Europeana. (Images, etc.)
- "(Dar es Salaam)" – via Digital Public Library of America. (Images, etc.)
- "(Dar es Salaam)". Internet Library Sub-Saharan Africa. Germany: Frankfurt University Library. (Bibliography)
- "(Dar es Salaam)". Connecting-Africa. Leiden, Netherlands: African Studies Centre. (Bibliography)
- "(Dar es Salaam)". AfricaBib.org. (Bibliography)
- "(Dar es Salaam)". Winterton Collection of East African Photographs: 1860 – 1960. USA: Northwestern University, Herskovits Library of African Studies.
- "Dar es Salaam", BlackPast.org, USA, 25 October 2010
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