Timeline of Braga
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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Braga, Portugal.
Prior to 20th century
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- ca. 41 BCE - Installation of Roman milestones begins.
- ca. 16 BCE - Roman Bracara Augusta founded.
- 3rd century CE - Town walls built.[1]
- 4th century CE - Roman Catholic diocese of Braga established.[2]
- 5th century CE - Suevi in power.[3]
- ca. 485 CE - Visigoths in power.[3]
- 8th century - Moors in power.[3]
- 1040 - Braga taken by forces of Ferdinand I.[3]
- 1093 - Braga becomes seat of royal court (until 1147).[3]
- 1494 - Printing press in operation.[5]
- 1616 - Ponte do Prado (bridge) to Vila Verde rebuilt.
- 1642 - Construction of Igreja de Santa Cruz (church) begins.[6]
- 1756 - Braga City Hall built.[7]
- 1841 - Biblioteca Pública de Braga (library) founded.[8][9]
- 1880 - Rua D. Frei Caetano Brandão (street) laid out.[10]
- 1882 - Bom Jesus do Monte Funicular begins operating.
- 1888 - Livraria Cruz (bookshop) in business.
- 1900 - Population: 24,202.[3]
20th century
- 1911 - Population: 24,647 in town; 382,461 in district.[11]
- 1915 - Theatre Circo (theatre) opens.
- 1917 - Arquivo Distrital de Braga (archive) founded.[12]
- 1919 - Diário do Minho newspaper begins publication.[13]
- 1921 - S.C. Braga (football club) formed.
- 1926 - 28 May 1926 coup d'état begins in Braga.[14]
- 1950 - Estádio Municipal 28 de Maio (stadium) opens.
- 1955 - Jardim de Santa Bárbara (garden) created.[10]
- 1977 - Mesquita Machado becomes mayor (almost continually until 2013).
21st century
- 2003 - Estádio Municipal de Braga (stadium) opens.
- 2004
- Biblioteca Lúcio Craveiro da Silva (library) opens.
- Part of UEFA Euro 2004 football contest played in Braga.
- 2011 - Population: 181,819.
- 2013 - Ricardo Rio becomes mayor.
- 2014 - Organ Festival of Braga begins.
See also
- Braga history
- History of Braga
- Ecclesiastical history of Braga
- List of mayors of Braga since 1836
- List of bishops of Braga
- List of heritage sites in Braga district
- Timelines of other cities in Portugal: Lisbon, Porto
References
- ^ Cesar Valenca, "Braga", Oxford Art Online
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- ^ a b c d e f Britannica 1910.
- ^ a b c López 1907.
- ^ Henri Bouchot (1890). "Topographical index of the principal towns where early printing presses were established". The book: its printers, illustrators, and binders, from Gutenberg to the present time. London: H. Grevel & Co.
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- ^ "Built Heritage". Cm-braga.pt (in English and Portuguese). Município de Braga. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
- ^ "História da BPB" (in Portuguese). Universidade do Minho. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
- ^ Alberto Feio (1920), A Biblioteca Pública de Braga: notas históricas (in Portuguese)
- ^ a b "Núcleo urbano da cidade de Braga". Sistema de Informação para o Património Arquitetónico (Architectural Heritage Database) (in Portuguese). Direção-Geral do Património Cultural. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
- ^ "Portugal". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921 – via HathiTrust.
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- ^ a b "Portugal". Europa World Year Book 2004. Europa Publications. 2004. ISBN 1857432533.
- ^ Douglas L. Wheeler; Walter C. Opello Jr. (2010). Historical Dictionary of Portugal (3rd ed.). Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7075-8.
- ^ "Cm-braga.pt" (in Portuguese). Câmara Municipal de Braga. Archived from the original on 2 April 2001 – via Wayback Machine.
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Bibliography
- in English
- William Smith, ed. (1865) [1854]. "Bracara Augusta". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Boston: Little, Brown.
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- "Braga". Chambers's Encyclopaedia. London. 1901.
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- Tirso López (1907). "Archdiocese of Braga". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York – via Google Books.
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- "Braga", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
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- "Braga", Spain and Portugal (4th ed.), Leipsic: Karl Baedeker, 1913, OCLC 34871901
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- "Local History, Portugal: Braga". Catalog of the William B. Greenlee Collection of Portuguese History...in the Newberry Library. Chicago: Newberry Library. 1953 – via HathiTrust.
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- in Portuguese
- Pinho Leal
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- "Braga". Diccionario encyclopedico ou novo diccionario da lingua portugueza (in Portuguese) (4th ed.). Lisbon: Francisco Arthur da Silva. 1874. OCLC 14951122.
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- José Augusto VieiraAntonio Maria Pereira , pp. 7–80
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- Albano Bellino (1895). Inscripções e lettreiros da cidade de Braga (in Portuguese). Porto: Typographia Occidental.
- Alberto Feio, (1984), Coisas Memoráveis de Braga (in Portuguese)
- José Manuel da Silva Passos, (1996), O Bilhete Postal Ilustrado e a História Urbana de Braga (in Portuguese), Lisbon
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