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

ca. 41 BCE - Installation of Roman milestones begins.^[1]
ca.16 BCE - Roman Bracara Augusta [pt] founded.
3rd C. CE - Town walls built.^[2]
ca.300 CE - Victor of Braga is martyred.
4th C. CE - Roman Catholic diocese of Braga established.^[3]
5th C. CE - Suevi in power.^[4]
ca.450s - Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Braga established.^[3]
ca.485 - Visigoths in power.^[4]
561-563 - Religious council meets in Braga.^[5]
572 - Religious council meets in Braga.^[5]
675 - Religious council meets in Braga.^[5]
8th C. - Moors in power.^[4]
1040 - Braga taken by forces of Ferdinand I.^[4]
1089 - Braga Cathedral consecrated.
1093 - Braga becomes seat of royal court (until 1147).^[4]
1417 - Fernando da Guerra becomes archbishop.^[6]
1494 - Printing press in operation.^[7]
1616 - Ponte do Prado (bridge) to Vila Verde rebuilt.
1642 - Construction of Igreja de Santa Cruz (church) begins.^[8]^[4]
1756 - Braga City Hall built.^[9]
1841 - Biblioteca Pública de Braga [pt] (library) founded.^[10]^[11]
1857 - Public gas lighting installed.^[12]
1858 - Population: 30,175.^[13]
1875 - Ramal de Braga (railway) begins operating; Braga railway station [pt] opens.^[12]
1880 - Rua D. Frei Caetano Brandão (street) developed.^[12]
1882 - Bom Jesus do Monte Funicular begins operating.
1888 - Livraria Cruz (bookshop) in business.
1893 - Public electric lighting installed.^[12]
1900 - Population: 24,202.^[4]

20th century

1911 - Population: 24,647 in town; 382,461 in district.^[14]
1914 - Braga electric tram [pt] begins operating.
1915 - Theatre Circo (theatre) opens.^[12]
1917 - Arquivo Distrital de Braga [pt] (archive) founded.^[15]
1918 - D. Diogo de Sousa Museum founded.^[12]
1919 - Diário do Minho [pt] newspaper begins publication.^[16]
1921 - S.C. Braga (football club) formed.
1926 - 28 May 1926 coup d'état begins in Braga.^[17]
1929 - Airfield begins operating in Palmeira.
1936 - City becomes seat of newly formed Minho Province.
1950 - Estádio Municipal 28 de Maio (stadium) opens.
1955 - Jardim de Santa Bárbara (garden) created.^[12]
1961 - Hospital opens.^[12]
1963 - Trolleybus begins operating.
1973 - University of Minho established.
1977 - Mesquita Machado becomes mayor (almost continually until 2013).
1978 - Biscainhos Museum opens.
1982 - Transportes Urbanos de Braga [pt] (transit entity) established.
1993 - Circuito Vasco Sameiro (vehicular racetrack) opens.
1999 - Shopping Braga Parque [fr] in business in São Victor.

21st century

2001
- Cm-braga.pt website online (approximate date).^[18]
- Population: 112,039 in city;^[16] 831,366 in district.
2002 - Pavilhão das Goladas [pt] (arena) opens.
2003 - Estádio Municipal de Braga (stadium) opens.
2004
- Completion of the works of modernization and electrification of Oporto–Braga railway line, which included the construction of a new building for Braga railway station. The modernisation allowed the extension of the high-speed Alfa Pendular trains from Oporto to Braga, a service which started on June 5, 2004.^[19]
- Biblioteca Lúcio Craveiro da Silva [pt] (library) opens.
- Part of UEFA Euro 2004 football contest played in Braga.
2011 - Population: 181,819 in city; 848,185 in district.
2013
- Ricardo Rio becomes mayor.
- União das Freguesias de Braga created.^[12]
2014 - Organ Festival of Braga begins.

References

^ "Sistema de Informação para o Património Arquitetónico" [Architectural Heritage Database]. Monumentos.gov.pt (in Portuguese). Direção-Geral do Património Cultural. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
^ Cesar Valenca, "Braga", Oxford Art Online Retrieved 10 November 2017
^ ^a ^b "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Portugal". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 9 November 2017.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Britannica 1910.
^ ^a ^b ^c López 1907.
^ E. Michael Gerli, ed. (2003). "Braga". Medieval Iberia: An Encyclopedia. Routledge. ISBN 0-415-93918-6.
^ 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.
^ Chambers 1901.
^ "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 ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Ricardo Graça. "Núcleo urbano da cidade de Braga". Sistema de Informação para o Património Arquitetónico (in Portuguese). Direção-Geral do Património Cultural. Retrieved 10 November 2017. (Includes timeline)
^ Hunter, Brian; Paxton, John; Steinberg, S. H.; Epstein, Mortimer; Renwick, Isaac Parker Anderson; Keltie, John Scott; Martin, Frederick (1865). "Portugal". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. hdl:2027/nyp.33433081590311 – via HathiTrust.
^ "Portugal". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368440.
^ "Arquivo Distrital de Braga: Apresentação" (in Portuguese). Universidade do Minho. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
^ ^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.
^ "Alfa Pendular inicia ligações Braga-Faro". Público. 5 June 2004. Retrieved 30 June 2019.

This article incorporates information from the Portuguese Wikipedia.

Bibliography

in English

William Smith, ed. (1865) [1854]. "Bracara Augusta". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Boston: Little, Brown. hdl:2027/nnc1.0063610590.
"Braga", Handbook for Travellers in Portugal (4th ed.), London: J. Murray, 1887, pp. 131+, hdl:2027/hvd.hn2ha1
"Braga". Chambers's Encyclopaedia. London. 1901. hdl:2027/njp.32101065312876.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
Tirso López (1907). "Archdiocese of Braga". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York – via Google Books.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
"Braga" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 4 (11th ed.). 1910. pp. 375–376.
"Braga", Spain and Portugal (4th ed.), Leipsic: Karl Baedeker, 1913, OCLC 34871901
"Local History, Portugal: Braga". Catalog of the William B. Greenlee Collection of Portuguese History...in the Newberry Library. Chicago: Newberry Library. 1953. hdl:2027/mdp.39015023946240 – via HathiTrust. (Bibliography)

in Portuguese

Luís Cardoso, ed. (1751). "Braga". Diccionario geografico, ou, Noticia historica de todas as cidades...de Portugal (in Portuguese). Vol. 2. Lisbon: Regia Officina Sylviana and Academia Real [pt]. OCLC 987786218.
Pinho Leal (1873). "Braga". Portugal Antigo e Moderno: Diccionario... (in Portuguese). Vol. 1. Mattos Moreira. pp. 432+.
"Braga". Diccionario encyclopedico ou novo diccionario da lingua portugueza (in Portuguese) (4th ed.). Lisbon: Francisco Arthur da Silva. 1874. OCLC 14951122.
Carlos Augusto da Silva Campos, ed. (1886), "Negociantes e industriaes das provincias e ilhas: Braga", Almanach Commercial de Lisboa (in Portuguese), pp. 224–228
José Augusto Vieira (1887), "Braga", O Minho Pitoresco (in Portuguese), vol. 2, Lisbon: Parceria A. M. Pereira, pp. 7–80
Bernardino José de Senna Freitas (1890–1891). Memorias de Braga (in Portuguese). Braga: Imprensa Catholica.
Albano Bellino (1895). Inscripções e lettreiros da cidade de Braga (in Portuguese). Porto: Typographia Occidental.
Esteves Pereira; Guilherme Rodrigues, eds. (1906). "Braga". Portugal: Diccionario Historico... (in Portuguese). Vol. 2. Lisbon: Joao Romano Torres. hdl:2027/nyp.33433004990440. OCLC 865826167.
Eduardo Pires de Oliveira. As alterações toponímicas 1380–1980, Braga, 1982
Eduardo Pires de Oliveira et al. Braga Evolução da Estrutura Urbana, Braga, 1982
José Marques. Braga Medieval, Braga, 1983
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

External links

Arquivo Municipal da Câmara Municipal de Braga (city archives)
"(Braga)" – via Europeana.
"(Braga)" – via Digital Public Library of America.

[SIPA-1] "Sistema de Informação para o Património Arquitetónico" [Architectural Heritage Database]. Monumentos.gov.pt (in Portuguese). Direção-Geral do Património Cultural. Retrieved 10 November 2017.

[OxfordArt-2] Cesar Valenca, "Braga", Oxford Art Online Retrieved 10 November 2017

[katolsk-3] "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Portugal". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 9 November 2017.

[FOOTNOTEBritannica1910-4] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Britannica 1910.

[FOOTNOTELópez1907-5] López 1907.

[Gerli2003-6] E. Michael Gerli, ed. (2003). "Braga". Medieval Iberia: An Encyclopedia. Routledge. ISBN 0-415-93918-6.

[7] 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.

[FOOTNOTEChambers1901-8] Chambers 1901.

[Built-9] "Built Heritage". Cm-braga.pt (in English and Portuguese). Município de Braga. Retrieved 10 November 2017.

[10] "História da BPB" (in Portuguese). Universidade do Minho. Retrieved 10 November 2017.

[11] Alberto Feio (1920), A Biblioteca Pública de Braga: notas históricas (in Portuguese)

[Nucleo-12] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Ricardo Graça. "Núcleo urbano da cidade de Braga". Sistema de Informação para o Património Arquitetónico (in Portuguese). Direção-Geral do Património Cultural. Retrieved 10 November 2017. (Includes timeline)

[13] Hunter, Brian; Paxton, John; Steinberg, S. H.; Epstein, Mortimer; Renwick, Isaac Parker Anderson; Keltie, John Scott; Martin, Frederick (1865). "Portugal". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. hdl:2027/nyp.33433081590311 – via HathiTrust.

[14] "Portugal". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368440.

[15] "Arquivo Distrital de Braga: Apresentação" (in Portuguese). Universidade do Minho. Retrieved 10 November 2017.

[Europa2004-16] "Portugal". Europa World Year Book 2004. Europa Publications. 2004. ISBN 1857432533.

[Wheeler2010-17] Douglas L. Wheeler; Walter C. Opello Jr. (2010). Historical Dictionary of Portugal (3rd ed.). Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7075-8.

[18] "Cm-braga.pt" (in Portuguese). Câmara Municipal de Braga. Archived from the original on 2 April 2001 – via Wayback Machine.

[19] "Alfa Pendular inicia ligações Braga-Faro". Público. 5 June 2004. Retrieved 30 June 2019.

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