Timeline of Luanda

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Luanda, Angola.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

16th-18th centuries

• 1530s - "Portuguese establish a slave-trading station."[1]
• 1575 - Church built on Ilha de Luanda.
• 1576
  • São Paulo da Assumpção de Loanda founded by Portuguese Paulo Dias de Novais.[2]
  • Fortress of São Miguel built.
• 1605 - Settlement recognized as a city.[2]
• 1618 - Fortaleza São Pedro da Barra built.
• 1623 - Jesuit college founded.[3]
• 1634 - Fortress of São Miguel rebuilt.
• 1641 - Capture of Luanda by Dutch.[4]
• 1679 - Cathedral of Luanda built.
• 1684 - Bishop's seat relocated to Luanda from São Salvador.
• 1764 - Arquivo Historico de Angola organized.[5]
• 1766 - Fortress of São Francisco do Penedo rebuilt.
• 1769 - Aula de Geometria e Fortificacao (educational institution) founded.[2]
• 1781 - Population: 9,755.[6]
• 1796 - Population: 7,204.[6]

19th century

• 1816 - Population: 4,689.[6]
• 1836 - Slave trade declared illegal.[7]
• 1844
  • Port opens to foreign shipping.[7]
  • Population: 5,605.[7]
• 1850 - Population: 12,565.[7]
• 1865 - Banco Nacional Ultramarino branch opens.[8]
• 1873 - Biblioteca Municipal established.[9]
• 1881 - O Echo de Angola begins publication.[10]
• 1889 - Luanda Railway and aqueduct begin operating.
• 1896 - Palácio de Ferro (iron palace) assembled.[11]

20th century

Portuguese coat of arms of the city of Luanda

• 1908 - Voz de Angola newspaper begins publication.[12]
• 1910 - Population: 15,000 (approximate).[13]
• 1913 - Angolan League founded in Luanda.[4]
• 1923 - A Provincia de Angola newspaper begins publication.[12]
• 1930 - Diario de Luanda newspaper begins publication.[12]
• 1940
  • Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Luanda established.[14]
  • Population: 61,028.[15]
• 1942 - Liceu Salvador Correia de Sa (school) built.[16]
• 1950 - Population: 141,647.[17]
• 1951 - Mensagem literary magazine begins publication.[18]
• 1954 - General Craveiro Lopes Airport inaugurated.[19]
• 1956
  • Museu Nacional de História Natural de Angola (Natural History Museum of Angola) built.[20]
  • People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola headquartered in Luanda.
• 1958 - Petroleum refinery built by Fina Petroleos de Angola.[21]
• 1960 - Population: 224,540.[15]
• 1962 - Estudos Gerais Universitários de Angola founded.
• 1964 - Cine Atlântico (cinema) built.[19]
• 1969 - National Library of Angola founded.[9]
• 1970 - Population: 475,328 urban agglomeration.[22]
• 1975
  • June: Angolan Civil War begins.[23]
  • 11 November: City becomes part of independent Republic of Angola.[24]
  • União dos Escritores Angolano (writer's union) established.[25]
  • Televisao Publica de Angola headquartered in city.[23]
• 1976
  • Museu Nacional de Antropologia (National Anthropology Museum) and Grupo Desportivo Interclube football club founded.
  • National Bank of Angola headquartered in city.[8]
• 1978 - Angola Red Cross and Cinemateca Nacional de Angola headquartered in city.[26]
• 1979
  • University of Angola established.
  • 17 September: Funeral of Agostinho Neto.[27]
• 1980 - Empresa de Electricidade de Luanda (electricity company),[28] Atlético Petróleos de Luanda football club, and National Centre for Historical Documentation and Research established.[29]
• 1981 - August–September: Central African Games held in city.
• 1985 - City joins the newly formed União das Cidades Capitais Luso-Afro-Américo-Asiáticas.
• 1988 - Elinga Theater established.[30]
• 1989 - October: International Países Africanos de Língua Oficial Portuguesa meets in Luanda.[31]
• 1991 - October: UNITA headquarters relocated to Luanda from Jamba.[23]
• 1992
  • Luanda Antena Comercial (radio) begins broadcasting.[32]
  • 30 October-1 November: Three Day War.[4]
• 1993 - Population: 1,822,407 (urban agglomeration).[33]
• 1997
  • Jornal do Rangel newspaper begins publication.[34]
  • National Museum of Slavery founded.
• 1999
  • Catholic University of Angola and Cha de Caxinde publishing firm founded.[34]
  • January: UNITA-R congress held in city.[23]
• 2000 - Population: 2,591,000 (urban agglomeration).[35]

21st century

View of Luanda, 2007

• 2001 - Boa Vista shantytown residents evicted.[34]
• 2003 - Estádio Joaquim Dinis built.
• 2005 - Population: 3,533,000 (urban agglomeration).[35]
• 2006 - African Diamond Producers Association headquartered in city.[34]
• 2007
  • Feira Internacional de Luanda (international fair) established.[36]
  • January: Flooding.[37]
  • Edificio GES, Edificio Sonangol, and Torres Atlantico towers built.
• 2008 - Construction of Angola International Airport begins.
• 2009
  • Estádio 11 de Novembro opens.
  • Luanda International Jazz Festival begins.
  • March: Catholic pope visits city; stampede at Estádio dos Coqueiros.[38][39]
  • Francisca Espírito Santo becomes governor of Luanda Province (approximate date).
• 2010
  • Luanda Railway resumes operating.
  • Edificio Zimbo Tower built.
• 2011
  • Intercontinental Hotel built.
  • Jose Maria dos Santos becomes governor of Luanda Province (approximate date).
  • Population: 5,068,000.[40]
• 2012
  • Angola Sovereign Wealth Fund headquartered in city.[41]
  • Political protest.[41]
  • Kilamba housing development built near city.[40][42]
• 2013 - 1 January: Stampede at Estádio da Cidadela.
• 2014 - Graciano Francisco Domingos becomes governor of Luanda Province (approximate date).
• 2018 - Population: 2,487,444 (estimate, urban agglomeration).[43]
• 2021 - Lusophony Games to be held in Luanda.

See also

• Luanda history
• History of Luanda (in Portuguese)
• List of newspapers in Luanda
• List of colonial governors of Angola, headquartered in Luanda (until 1975)
• Timeline of Benguela

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26. "A Cinemateca" (in Portuguese). Luanda: Cinemateca Nacional de Angola. Retrieved 21 May 2013.
27. Jacqueline Audrey Kalley; et al., eds. (1999). Southern African Political History: A Chronology of Key Political Events from Independence to Mid-1997. Greenwood. ISBN 978-0-313-30247-3.
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This article incorporates information from the Portuguese Wikipedia.

Bibliography

Published in 19th century

• Richard Brookes (1820), "Loanda", The General Gazetteer (17th ed.), London: F.C. and J. Rivington
• "Loanda". Brockhaus' Konversations-Lexikon (in German) (14th ed.). Leipzig: Brockhaus. 1898.

Published in 20th century

• Esteves Pereira; Guilherme Rodrigues, eds. (1909). "Loanda". Portugal: Diccionario Historico... (in Portuguese). 4. Lisbon: Joao Romano Torres. hdl:2027/gri.ark:/13960/t1xd4tg47. OCLC 865826167.
• "Loanda", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
• C. R. Boxer (1965), Portuguese society in the tropics: the municipal councils of Goa, Macao, Bahia, and Luanda, 1510-1800, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, OCLC 518169
• Ilídio do Amaral (1968). Luanda: estudo de geografia urbana (in Portuguese). Lisboa.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Michael Hugo-Brunt (1968), "Angola", Portuguese Planning and Architecture on the Sea Route to the Orient, Exchange Bibliography, US: Council of Planning Librarians, pp. 536–589, ISSN 0010-9959 (Includes Luanda)

• Joseph C. Miller (1974). "The Archives of Luanda, Angola". International Journal of African Historical Studies. 7.
• Ilídio do Amaral (1983). "Luanda e os seus 'muceques', problemas de Geografia usbuna". Finisterra (in Portuguese). Centro de Estudos Geográficos da Universidade de Lisboa. 18. ISSN 0430-5027.
• David Birmingham (1988). "Carnival at Luanda". Journal of African History. 29.
• M.C. Mendes (1988). "Slum Housing in Luanda". In Robert A. Obudho and Constance C. Mhlanga (ed.). Slum and squatter settlements in Sub-Saharan Africa: toward a planning strategy. Praeger.
• Christine Messiant (1989). "Luanda 1945-1961: colonises, societe coloniale et engagement nationaliste". In M. Cahen (ed.). Bourgs et Villes en Afrique Lusophone (in French).
• L. Colaco (1992). "Luanda: Contexto Demografico e Desigualdades Espaciais". Cadernos Populacao e Desenvolvimento (in Portuguese). 1.
• José C. Curto (1992). "A Quantitative Reassessment of the Legal Portuguese Slave Trade from Luanda, Angola, 1710-1830". African Economic History. 20.
• P. Jenkins; et al. (1992). "City Profile: Luanda". Cities. 19. doi:10.1016/s0264-2751(02)00010-0.
• José C. Curto (1999). "Anatomy of a Demographic Explosion: Luanda, 1844-1850". International Journal of African Historical Studies. 32 (2/3): 381–405. doi:10.2307/220347. JSTOR 220347.

Published in 21st century

2000s

• José C. Curto; Raymond R. Gervais (2001). "Population History of Luanda during the Late Atlantic Slave Trade, 1781-1844" (PDF). African Economic History. 29 (29): 1–59. JSTOR 3601706 – via New York Public Library.
• Paul Robson (2001). "Communities and Community Institutions in Luanda, Angola". In Arne Tostensen; et al. (eds.). Associational Life in African Cities: Popular Responses to the Urban Crisis. Sweden: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet. p. 250+. ISBN 978-91-7106-465-3.
• Paul Tiyambe Zeleza; Dickson Eyoh, eds. (2003). "Luanda, Angola". Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History. Routledge. ISBN 0415234794.
• Marissa J. Moorman (2004). "Dueling Bands and Good Girls: Gender, Music, and Nation in Luanda's Musseques, 1961-1974". International Journal of African Historical Studies. 37.
• Marissa Moorman (2004). "Putting on a Pano and Dancing Like Our Grandparents: Nation and Dress in Late Colonial Luanda". In Jean Allman (ed.). Fashioning Africa: Power and the Politics of Dress. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. ISBN 9780253111043.
• Kevin Shillington, ed. (2005). "Luanda". Encyclopedia of African History. Fitzroy Dearborn. ISBN 978-1-57958-245-6.
• Cristina Udelsmann Rodrigues (2007). "From Family Solidarity to Social Classes: Urban Stratification in Angola (Luanda and Ondjiva)". Journal of Southern African Studies. 33.
• Marissa J. Moorman (2008). Intonations: A Social History of Music and Nation in Luanda, Angola, from 1945 to Recent Times. Ohio University Press. ISBN 978-0-8214-4304-0. (review in H-Luso-Africa)
• Catarina Madeira Santos (2008). "Luanda". In Liam Matthew Brockey (ed.). Portuguese Colonial Cities in the Early Modern World. Ashgate. ISBN 9780754663133.
• "Angola: The high cost of living in Luanda". Global Voices. 9 November 2009. Missing or empty |url= (help)

2010s

• P. Jenkins (2011), Simon Bekker and Goran Therborn (ed.), "Maputo and Luanda", Capital Cities in Africa: Power and Powerlessness, Dakar: Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, ISBN 978-2-8697-8495-6
• Sílvia Leiria Viegas (2012), Urbanization in Luanda – via International Planning History Society
• Arlindo Manuel Caldeira (2013), "Luanda in the 17th Century: Diversity and Cultural Interaction in the Process of Forming an Afro-Atlantic City", Nordic Journal of African Studies, 22
• Roquinaldo Ferreira (2013). "Slavery and the Social and Cultural Landscapes of Luanda". In Jorge Canizares-Esguerra; et al. (eds.). Black Urban Atlantic in the Age of the Slave Trade. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-0813-9.
• Carlos Nunes Silva, ed. (2015). Urban Planning in Lusophone African Countries. UK: Ashgate. ISBN 978-1472444882. (Includes articles about Luanda)
• Sílvia Leiria Viegas (2016). "Urbanisation and Peri-Urbanisation in Luanda: A Geopolitical and Socio-Spatial Perspective from the Late Colonial Period to the Present". Journal of Southern African Studies. 42 (4).
• Vanessa de Pacheco Melo (2016). "Production of Urban Peripheries For and By Low-Income Populations at the Turn of the Millennium: Maputo, Luanda and Johannesburg". Journal of Southern African Studies. 42 (4).

External links

• "(Luanda)". Directory of Open Access Journals. UK. (Bibliography of open access articles)
• "(Luanda)" – via Europeana. (Images, etc.)
• "(Luanda)" – via Digital Public Library of America. (Images, etc.)
• "(Luanda)". Internet Library Sub-Saharan Africa. Germany: Frankfurt University Library. (Bibliography)
• "(Luanda)". Connecting-Africa. Leiden, Netherlands: African Studies Centre. (Bibliography)
• "(Luanda)". AfricaBib.org. (Bibliography)
• "Luanda, Angola". BlackPast.org. US.
• Gonçalo Pires Carvalho (c. 1625). "Map of Luanda".