Timeline of Salvador, Bahia

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Salvador, Bahia state, Brazil.

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Early history

• 1502 - Amerigo Vespucci names the bay in honour to his hometown parish church "San Salvatore di Ognissanti" (San Salvador de Todos os Santos) in Florence[1]
• 1549 - Brazilian capital established at Salvador.[2]
• 1551 - Catholic Diocese of São Salvador da Bahia de Todos os Santos established.[3]
• 1624 - Capture of Bahia by the Dutch[4]
• 1625 - Recapture of Bahia by Spanish-Portuguese forces.
• 1635 - Third Order of St. Francis active.[5]
• 1636 - Church of the Third Order of Saint Francis established.[5]
• 1638
  • First Battle of Salvador da Bahia.
  • April: Second Battle of Salvador da Bahia.
• 1672 - Cathedral of Salvador consecrated.
• 1674 - Mint established.[4]
• 1676 - Salvador becomes "metropolitan see of the colony's archbishopric."[4]
• 1704 - Church of the Third Order of Our Lady of the Rosary construction begins.
• 1711 - Maneta Revolt, two uprisings (Oct. 17 and Dec. 2) by military and public officials against local taxation[6]
• 1723
  • São Francisco Church built.
  • Third Order of St. Dominic active.[5]
• 1724 - Academia Brasílica dos Esquecidos founded.[7]
• 1754 - Church of Nosso Senhor do Bonfim consecrated.
• 1759 -
  • Academia Brasílica dos Renascidos founded.[7]
  • - December: Expulsion of the Jesuits from Bahia
• 1763 - Brazilian capital relocated from Salvador to Rio de Janeiro.[2]
• 1765 - Basílica Nossa Senhora da Conceição da Praia (church) consecrated.

19th century

• 1819 - Yellow fever outbreak.[8]
• 1822 - 2 March: Siege of Salvador begins.
• 1823 - 2 July: Siege of Salvador ends.[9]
• 1834 - Banco Econômico (bank) established.[8]
• 1835
  • Malê revolt, a slave rebellion[10]
  • Dois de Julho Society founded.[11]
• 1836 - Campo Santo Cemetery established.
• 1858 - Diário da Bahia, a newspaper, begins publication.
• 1860 - Bahia and San Francisco Railway begins operating.[12]
• 1872 - Population: 129,109.[13]
• 1873 - Elevador Lacerda begins operating.[8]
• 1882 - Baptist congregation founded.[14]
• 1890
  • Arquivo Público do Estado da Bahia established.
  • Population: 174,412.[15]
• 1891 - Empório Industrial do Norte begins operating.
• 1894 - Instituto Geográfico e Histórico da Bahia founded.[16]
• 1899 - Esporte Clube Vitória (football team) formed.
• 1900 - Population: 205,813.

20th century

• 1910 - Cine Teatro Jandaia opens.[17]
• 1912 - A Tarde newspaper begins publication.
• 1916 - Avenida Sete de Setembro opens.
• 1918 - Bahia Museum of Art established.
• 1927 - American School established.
• 1930 - Associação Bahiana de Imprensa headquartered in city.[18]
• 1931 - Esporte Clube Bahia, a football club, formed.
• 1942 - Base Aérea de Salvador (air force base) established.
• 1950 - Population: 274,910 city; 389,422 metro.[9][19]
• 1951 - Estádio Fonte Nova opens.
• 1958 - Castro Alves Theatre and Martim Gonçalves Theatre established.
• 1959 - Obras Sociais Irmã Dulce (charity) and Federal University of Bahia's Centro de Estudos Afro-Orientais founded.
• 1960 - Population: 393,207 city.[9]
• 1961 - Catholic University of Salvador established.
• 1962 - Sister city relationship established with Los Angeles, USA.[20]
• 1964 - Vila Velha Theater established.
• 1970 - Population: 998,258 city; 1,005,216 urban agglomeration.[21]
• 1972 - Business School of Bahia established.
• 1973 - Pituaçu Metropolitan Park established.
• 1974
  • Avenida Luís Viana Filho inaugurated.
  • Ilê Aiyê musical group formed.[22]
• 1975 - Iguatemi Salvador shopping center in business.
• 1979 - Olodum cultural organization founded.[22]
• 1983 - 4 November: 1983 Copa América football tournament held.
• 1987 - Shopping Barra in business.
• 1991 - Population: 2,072,058.[13]
• 1993 - Population: 2,174,072 (estimate).[23]
• 1995 - City joins the União das Cidades Capitais Luso-Afro-Américo-Asiáticas.[24]
• 1997 - Salvador Metro construction begins.[25]

21st century

• 2006 - Museu da Gastronomia Bahiana (food museum) opens.[26]
• 2007
  • 25 November: Fonte Nova stadium collapses.[27]
  • 22 May: Salvador Shopping, a mall, opens.
• 2008 - Espaco Unibanco de Cinema Glauber Rocha opens.[17]
• 2010
  • Salvador Norte Shopping, a mall, opens.
  • Population: 2,675,656.[13]
• 2012 - October: Salvador 2012 municipal election held.
• 2013
  • Itaipava Arena Fonte Nova opens.
  • ACM Neto becomes mayor.
• 2014 - Salvador Metro begins operation.
• 2016 - 2 October: Salvador 2016 municipal election held.

See also

• History of Savador
• List of mayors of Salvador, Bahia
• History of Bahia
• List of national heritage sites of Bahia, including Salvador

References

1. Piero Bargellini, Ennio Guarnieri, Le strade di Firenze, 4 voll., Firenze, Bonechi, 1977-1978, II, 1977, pp. 337-340.
2. Joseph Smith (2013). "Chronology of Main Events". A History of Brazil. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-89021-8.
3. A.A. MacErlean (1912). "Sao Salvador de Bahia de Todos os Santos". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York.
4. Ring 1995.
5. Russell-Wood 1989.
6. de Mello e Souza, Laura; Reis, João José (2012). "Popular Movements in Colonial Brazil". The Oxford Handbook of the Atlantic World: 1450-1850. 1. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199210879.013.0032.
7. Richard Young; Odile Cisneros (2010). "Academias". Historical Dictionary of Latin American Literature and Theater. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7498-5.
8. Levine 1993.
9. Marley 2005.
10. Bittencourt, Circe, ed. (2007). Dicionário de datas da história do Brasil. São Paulo, SP: Editora Contexto. pp. 37–40. ISBN 9788572442961.
11. Kraay 1999.
12. Bureau of the American Republics (1901). United States of Brazil. Washington, D.C.
13. "Tabela 1.6 - População nos Censos Demográficos, segundo os municípios das capitais - 1872/2010", Sinopse do Censo Demografico 2010 (in Portuguese), Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística, retrieved 5 September 2018
14. Borges 1993.
15. "Bahia", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424
16. Revista Trimensal do Instituto Geográphico e Histórico da Bahia (in Portuguese), 1894 – via Hathi Trust
17. "Movie Theaters in Salvador Bahia, Brazil". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved 28 December 2014.
18. Hérica Lene; Rafael Lopes (2013), Memória e história da imprensa: as associações profissionais e a conformação do ethos jornalístico (PDF) (in Portuguese), Sociedade Brasileira de Estudos Interdisciplinares da Comunicação
19. "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1955. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations.
20. "Sister Cities of Los Angeles". USA: City of Los Angeles. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
21. 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.
22. "Marching to an African Beat", New York Times, 12 February 2013
23. United Nations Department for Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis, Statistics Division (1997). "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". 1995 Demographic Yearbook. New York. pp. 262–321.
24. "Membros: Salvador". Uccla.pt (in Portuguese). Retrieved 1 November 2017.
25. Simon Romero (10 November 2013), "A Brazilian Boom Town of 'Eternal Beauty' Faces Its Troubled Side", New York Times
26. Larry Rohter (24 February 2008), "Echoes of Amado in the Dark and the Light", New York Times
27. "Seven Brazil football fans killed". BBC News. 26 November 2007.

This article incorporates information from the Portuguese Wikipedia.

Bibliography

in English

• John Mawe (1812), "(Capitania of Bahia)", Travels in the Interior of Brazil, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
• Abraham Rees (1819), "Salvador", The Cyclopaedia, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown
• Charles Knight, ed. (1866). "Bahia". Geography. English Cyclopaedia. 1. London: Bradbury, Evans, & Co.
• Michael George Mulhall; E.T. Mulhall (1877). "Bahia". Handbook of Brazil. Buenos Ayres.
• Ernst B. Filsinger (1922), "Brazil: Bahia", Commercial Travelers' Guide to Latin America, Washington, DC: Government Printing Office
• A. J. R. Russell-Wood (1989). "Prestige, Power, and Piety in Colonial Brazil: The Third Orders of Salvador". Hispanic American Historical Review. 69 (1): 61–89. doi:10.1215/00182168-69.1.61. JSTOR 2516163.
• Dain Borges (1993). "Salvador's 1890s: Paternalism and Its Discontents". Luso-Brazilian Review. 30 (2): 47–57. JSTOR 3513953.
• Robert M. Levine (1993). "The Singular Brazilian City of Salvador". Luso-Brazilian Review. 30 (2): 59–69. JSTOR 3513954.
• Mieko Nishida (1993). "Manumission and Ethnicity in Urban Slavery: Salvador, Brazil, 1808-1888". Hispanic American Historical Review. 73 (3): 361–391. JSTOR 2517695.
• Trudy Ring and Robert M. Salkin, ed. (1995). "Salvador (Bahia, Brazil)". Americas. International Dictionary of Historic Places. Routledge. p. 586+. ISBN 978-1-134-25930-4.
• Hendrik Kraay (1999). "Between Brazil and Bahia: Celebrating Dois de Julho in Nineteenth-Century Salvador". Journal of Latin American Studies. 31 (2): 255–286. doi:10.1017/S0022216X99005283. JSTOR 157905.
• David Marley (2005), "Salvador", Historic Cities of the Americas, 1, Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, pp. 710+, ISBN 1576070271
• João José Reis (2013). "African Nations in Nineteenth-Century Salvador, Bahia". 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.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

in Portuguese

• J.C.R. Milliet de Saint-Adolphe (1863), "Bahia", Diccionario geographico, historico e descriptivo, do imperio do Brazil (in Portuguese), Paris: J. P. Aillaud – via Hathi Trust
• Jorge Amado (1945). Bahia de Todos os Santos (in Portuguese).

External links

• "Salvador, Bahia, Brazil". Heritage of Portuguese Influence (in English and Portuguese). Lisbon: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.
• Items related to Salvador, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America)