Timeline of Port Elizabeth

The following is a timeline of the history of Port Elizabeth in the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality, Eastern Cape province, South Africa.

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Prior to 20th century

• 1799 - Fort Frederick built by British during the Napoleonic wars.[1]
• 1820 - Port Elizabeth settlement founded by British.[2]
• 1823 - Population: 319.[3]
• 1841 - Jetty constructed in Algoa Bay.[4]
• 1845 - Eastern Province Herald newspaper begins publication.[5]
• 1856
  • Grey High School founded.[3]
  • King George VI Art Gallery opens.
• 1859 - St George’s Park founded.
• 1861 - Town of Port Elizabeth incorporated.[1]
• 1862 - Western-Road Synagogue formed.[6]
• 1865 - Hill Presbyterian Church consecrated.
• 1866 - St. Augustine's Cathedral built.
• 1875
  • Uitenhage-Port Elizabeth railway begins operating.[3]
  • Port Elizabeth railway station built.[7]
• 1880 - Prince Alfred's Guard Drill Hall built.
• 1881 - Horsecar tram begins operating.
• 1882
  • Imbumba yama Nyama political group formed.[8]
  • Conservatory built in St George's Park.
• 1885 - "South African Exhibition" held[9]
• 1888 - Mighty Elephants rugby team formed.
• 1889 - St George's Park Cricket Ground in use.
• 1892 - Opera House built.
• 1897 - Electric tram begins operating.
• 1899 - Humewood Road railway station built.
• 1900 - Post Office built.

20th century

• 1903 - New Brighton black township established.
• 1905 - Horse Memorial erected.
• 1907
  • NG gemeente Port Elizabeth (church) founded.
  • Prince Alfred's Guard Memorial unveiled.
• 1908 - Port Elizabeth Orthodox Hebrew Congregation formed.
• 1912 - Raleigh Street Synagogue built.
• 1913 - Port Elizabeth attains city status.[1]
• 1917 - Airplane flown from Cape Town to Port Elizabeth.
• 1928 - NG gemeente Port Elizabeth-Sentraal (church) founded.
• 1929 - Port Elizabeth Airport and Gereformeerde kerk Port Elizabeth (church) established.
• 1936 - Campanile (belltower) installed.
• 1937 - Oosterlig newspaper begins publication.[5]
• 1940 - NG gemeente Port Elizabeth-Wes (church) founded.
• 1940 - Victoria Park High School was founded
• 1949 - Adcockvale suburb laid out (approximate date).
• 1950 - Evening Post newspaper begins publication.[5]
• 1951 - Van Stadens-veldblomreservaat (nature reserve) established near city.
• 1954 - 20th Century Theatre in business.[10]
• 1960
  • Boet Erasmus Stadium opens.
  • Alliance Française of Port Elizabeth founded.
• 1961 - 16 December: Bomb explosions occur.[11]
• 1964 - University of Port Elizabeth established.
• 1965 - Walmer, South Africa becomes part of Port Elizabeth.
• 1969 - Kouga Dam begins operating in vicinity of city.
• 1979 - Port Elizabeth Black Civic Organisation founded.
• 1984
  • Port Elizabeth Youth Congress founded.
  • Development of Motherwell begins near city.
• 1985
  • March: Labor strike.[12][13]
  • 8 May: Disappearance of "Pebco Three" anti-apartheid activists.
  • 27 June: The death of "The Cradock Four" political activists.
• 1986 - Jewish Pioneer’s Memorial Museum established.^(de)
• 1991 - Population: 303,353 city; 853,205 metro.[5]
• 1995
  • Nceba Faku elected mayor.[14]
  • Part of 1995 Rugby World Cup contest played in Port Elizabeth.
• 1996 - Part of 1996 Africa Cup of Nations football contest played in Port Elizabeth.

21st century

• 2001
  • Port Elizabeth becomes seat of newly created Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality.[15]
  • Anti-apartheid leader Govan Mbeki dies at ages 91 years.
• 2004 - Website Mandelametro.gov.za launched.[16]
• 2005
  • First premier of the Eastern Cape and anti-apartheid leader Raymond Mhlaba dies at the ages of 85 years.
  • Nelson Mandela University formed.
  • Red Location Museum of Apartheid opens.
• 2006
  • 1 March: South African municipal elections, 2006 held.
  • Nondumiso Maphazi becomes mayor.^(fr)
  • Bay United F.C. (football club) formed.
• 2009
  • Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium opens.
  • Zanoxolo Wayile becomes mayor.[17]^(fr)
  • Southern Kings rugby team formed.
• 2010
  • Gelvandale Stadium opens.
  • Part of 2010 FIFA World Cup football contest played in Port Elizabeth.
• 2011 - Population: 312,392.
• 2013
  • Part of 2013 Africa Cup of Nations football contest played in Port Elizabeth.
  • Ben Fihla becomes mayor.[17]
• 2015 - Danny Jordaan becomes mayor.[17]
• 2016 - Athol Trollip becomes mayor.

See also

• Port Elizabeth history
• List of heritage sites in Port Elizabeth
• Timelines of other cities in South Africa: Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg, Pietermaritzburg, Pretoria

References

1. "Port Elizabeth, South Africa". Britannica.com. Retrieved 1 October 2017.
2. W. H. Hosking (1914). "Chronology of South Africa". South African Year-book. London: George Routledge and Sons. pp. 10–27.
3. "Port Elizabeth Timeline 1799-1986". Cape Town: South African History Online. Retrieved 1 October 2017.
4. H.L. Huisman (1971). "How Port Elizabeth got its first jetty". Civil Engineering. 13. hdl:10520/AJA10212019_18711.
5. "South Africa". Africa South of the Sahara 2003. Regional Surveys of the World. Europa Publications. 2003. ISBN 9781857431315. ISSN 0065-3896.
6. Isidore Harris, ed. (1901), "Colonial Synagogues: South Africa", Jewish Year Book, London: Greenberg & Co.
7. Huisman, H L (October 1986). "The coming of the Railway to the Cape". hdl:2263/47120. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
8. Robert Ross; et al., eds. (2011). Cambridge History of South Africa. 2: 1885–1994. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521869836.
9. "The South African Exhibition, Port Elizabeth, 1885: Lectures, Prize and ... - Google Books". 1886. Retrieved 30 September 2019.
10. "Movie Theaters in Port Elizabeth, South Africa". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved 1 October 2017.
11. 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.
12. Mark Swilling (1985). "Urban Social Movements under Apartheid". Cahiers d'Études africaines. 25 (99): 363–379. doi:10.3406/cea.1985.1735 – via Persee.fr.
13. "Report: The March Stay-aways in Port Elizabeth and UItenhage". South African Labour Bulletin. 11. 1985. ISSN 0377-5429.
14. "Former Mandela Bay mayor lashes out at Zuma", Iol.co.za, 23 November 2016
15. "Pecc.gov.za". Archived from the original on 3 June 2002.
16. "Mandelametro.gov.za". Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality. Archived from the original on 23 October 2005 – via Wayback Machine.
17. "Danny Jordaan ANC's choice to replace Nelson Mandela Bay mayor", News24.com, 18 May 2015

This article incorporates information from the Afrikaans Wikipedia, French Wikipedia, and German Wikipedia.

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• Port Elizabeth Directory and Guide to the Eastern Province of the Cape of Good Hope. Port Elizabeth: J.W.C. Mackay. 1877.
• John Noble, ed. (1886). "Cities and Towns of the Colony". Official Handbook: History, Productions and Resources of the Cape of Good Hope. Cape Town: Saul Solomon & Co. for the Colonial & Indian Exhibition Committee. Port Elizabeth
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• Eleanor K Lorimer (1971). Panorama of Port Elizabeth. Cape Town: A. A. Balkema. OCLC 297945.
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• Janet Cherry (1993). "myth of working class defeat: Port Elizabeth in the post-war years". Kronos: Journal of Cape History. University of the Western Cape. 20. hdl:10520/AJA02590190_435.
• H.O. Terblanche; M.J. Swart (1993). "Die Afrikaner se stryd om taalgelykberegtiging in Port Elizabeth, 1902-1937" [Afrikaner's struggle for language equality in Port Elizabeth, 1902-1937]. South African Journal of Cultural History (in Afrikaans). 7. hdl:10520/AJA10113053_59.
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External links

• "Registry: (Port Elizabeth)". Archivalplatform.org. Rondebosch. (Directory of South African archival and memory institutions and organisations)
• "(Port Elizabeth)". AfricaBib.org. (Bibliography)
• "(Port Elizabeth)" – via Digital Public Library of America. (Images, etc.)