Timeline of Dar es Salaam
Appearance
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]
20th century
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- 1900 - "Port facilities" built.[3]
- 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: 69,200.[19]
- 1953 - Metropolitan Catholic Archdiocese of Dar-es-Salaam established.[5]
- 1954 - Tanganyika African National Union headquartered in Dar es Salaam.[18]
- 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.
- 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]
- 1977 - October: Chama Cha Mapinduzi (political party) convenes in city.[26]
- 1978
- Mlimani Park Orchestra formed.[24][28]
- Population: 769,445.[19]
- 1979 - Airport expanded.[citation needed]
- 1985 - Population: 1,046,000 (urban agglomeration).[29]
- 1990 - Population: 1,316,000 (urban agglomeration).[29]
- 1991 - Mkuki na Nyota publisher in business.[30]
- 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.
21st century
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- 2000
- 2001
- 2002 - National Records and Archives Management Department headquartered in city.[7]
- 2005 - Population: 2,683,000 (urban agglomeration).[29]
- 2006 - Adam Kimbisa becomes mayor.
- 2010
- Didas Massaburi becomes mayor.[citation needed]
- May: World Economic Forum on Africa held.[32]
- Population: 3,415,000 (urban agglomeration).[29]
- 2011 - December: Flood.[33]
- 2012
- 2013 - 29 March: Building collapse on Indira Gandhi Street.
See also
- List of mayors of Dar es Salaam
- Districts of Dar es Salaam Region
- Timeline of Zanzibar City
- Timeline of Tanzanian history
References
- ^ a b c d Webster's Geographical Dictionary, USA: G. & C. Merriam Co., 1960, OL 5812502M
- ^ a b Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, ed. (2005). "Dar es Salaam". Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 318+. ISBN 978-0-19-517055-9.
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- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Brian Hoyle (2002). "Port-City Renewal in Developing Countries the Waterfront at Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania". Erdkunde. 56. ISSN 0014-0015.
- ^ a b "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Tanzania". www.katolsk.no. Norway: Oslo katolske bispedømme (Oslo Catholic Diocese). Retrieved September 2014.
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(help) - ^ 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. JSTOR 40034038.
- ^ a b c d e f g Janet Kaaya (2010), "Tanzania: Libraries, Archives, Museums and Information Systems", in Marcia J. Bates (ed.), Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press, ISBN 9780849397127
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(help) - ^ a b c Rudolf Fitzner, ed. (1908). "Deutsch-Ostafrika". Deutsches Kolonial-Handbuch (in German). Berlin: Hermann Paetel.
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- ^ Stephen Pope; Elizabeth-Anne Wheal (1995). "Select Chronology". Dictionary of the First World War. Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-85052-979-1.
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(help) - ^ John Iliffe (1979), A modern history of Tanganyika, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521220246
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- ^ a b John Iliffe (1979). "Townsmen and Workers". Modern History of Tanganyika. African Studies Series. Cambridge University Press. pp. 381–404. ISBN 978-0-521-29611-3.
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- ^ a b 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. JSTOR 40027110.
- ^ a b Andrew Burton (2007). "The Haven of Peace Purged: Tackling the Undesirable and Unproductive Poor in Dar es Salaam, ca.1950s-1980s". International Journal of African Historical Studies. 40. JSTOR 40034793.
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- ^ "Alliance Française in Dar es Salaam". French Embassy in Dar es Salaam. Retrieved 13 May 2013.
- ^ a b c "Tanzania Profile: Timeline". BBC News. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
- ^ a b c Alex Perullo (2011), Live from Dar es Salaam: popular music and Tanzania's music economy, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, ISBN 9780253356055
- ^ a b "About the Archives", Tanzania Heritage Project: Reviving Tanzania's Reel-to-Reel Archives, retrieved August 2015
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(help) - ^ ArchNet. "Dar es Salaam". USA: MIT School of Architecture and Planning. Archived from the original on September 2011.
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- ^ a b Aga Khan Schools. "History of Aga Khan Education Services, Tanzania". Aga Khan Development Network. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
- ^ "Where Tanzania Taps Its Feet", New York Times, 18 February 2014
- ^ a b c d e f "The State of African Cities 2014". United Nations Human Settlements Programme. ISBN 978-92-1-132598-0. Retrieved September 2014.
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- ^ Andreas Mehler; et al., eds. (2011). Africa Yearbook: Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara in 2010. Vol. 7. Koninklijke Brill. ISBN 90-04-20556-X.
- ^ Andreas Mehler; et al., eds. (2012). "Tanzania". Africa Yearbook: Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara in 2011. Vol. 8. Koninklijke Brill. pp. 407–420. ISBN 978-90-04-24178-7.
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Further reading
- Published in the 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
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- 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.
- Marshall Macklin Monoghan (1978), Dar es Salaam Masterplan, Toronto
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- Jurgen Becher (1997). Dar es Salaam, Tanga und Tabora: Stadtentwicklung in Tansania unter deutscher Kolonialherrschaft, 1885-1914 (in German). Stuttgart.
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- Mary Fitzpatrick (1999), "Dar es Salaam", Tanzania, Zanzibar & Pemba, Lonely Planet, p. 122+, OL 8314875M
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- Published in the 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: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet. ISBN 978-91-7106-465-3.
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- 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. Bradt Travel Guides. ISBN 978-1-84162-288-0.
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External links
Media related to Dar es Salaam at Wikimedia Commons
- "(Items related to Dar es Salaam)". Internet Library Sub-Saharan Africa. Germany: Frankfurt University Library.
- "(Articles related to Dar es Salaam)". Connecting-Africa. Leiden, Netherlands: African Studies Centre.
- "(Dar es Salaam)". Winterton Collection of East African Photographs: 1860 - 1960. USA: Northwestern University, Herskovits Library of African Studies.
- Digital Public Library of America. Items related to Dar es Salaam, various dates
- Quintard Taylor (ed.), "Dar es Salaam", BlackPast.org, USA