Timeline of Durban
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Durban in the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality , KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa .
19th century
1824 - British settlement of Port Natal established on land "acquired...through treaties with the Zulu king Shaka ."[dubious – discuss ] [need quotation to verify ]
1835 - Settlement renamed "D'Urban" after British colonial administrator Benjamin D'Urban .
1839
A small British military force was stationed at the port.
On its withdrawal Dutch emigrants from the Cape took possession and proclaimed the Natalia Republic .
1841 - Printing press in operation (approximate date).[ 3]
1842
A British military force reoccupied Durban.
Treaty signed by the Dutch recognizing British sovereignty.
1846 - "Native reserves" created.
1851 - Natal Times newspaper begins publication.
1852 - Mercury newspaper begins publication.
1854
"First Town Council, consisting of 8 members representing four wards" created.[ 6]
George Cato becomes mayor .
Natal Bank in business.[ 6]
D'Urban Club formed.
1860
26 June: Natal Railway (Market Square-Customs Point) begins operating in Durban.[1]
Indian workers begin to arrive in Durban.
1863 - Population: approximately 5,000 (3,390 white, 1,380 black and 230 Asian).[ 6]
1865 - Sites for Albert Park and Victoria Park established.
1866 - Durban High School was founded.
1870 - Durban Fire Department founded.[ 6]
1880 - Magazine Barracks built.
1882 - Durban High School for Girls was founded.
1885 - Town Hall built.[ 6]
1887 - Durban Girls' College was founded.
1888 - Lord's cricket ground established.
1889 - Natal cricket team formed.
1896 - Population: 31,877.
1899 - Maris Stella School was founded.
20th century
1900s-1950s
1960s-1990s
21st century
See also
References
^ Alan Charles Gore Lloyd (1914). J.Y.W. Macalister ; Alfred W. Pollard (eds.). "Birth of Printing in South Africa" . The Library: A Quarterly Review of Bibliography and Library Lore . 5 . London: 31–43. hdl :2027/mdp.39015014978228 . ISSN 0024-2160 – via HathiTrust . Incuadi yesibini yabafundayo
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p "Durban Timeline 1497-1990" . Cape Town: South African History Online . Retrieved 27 September 2017 .
^ Steven Anzovin and Janet Podell, ed. (2000). Famous First Facts . H.W. Wilson Co. ISBN 0824209583 .
^ "British Empire: Province of Natal" . Statesman's Year-Book . London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. hdl :2027/njp.32101072368440 – via HathiTrust .
^ "Indian Newspapers in KwaZulu-Natal – 150 years of Indian Journalism" . Ulwazi Programme (in English and Zulu). eThekwini Municipality. 4 November 2015. Retrieved 27 September 2017 .
^ "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants" . Demographic Yearbook 1955 . New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations . pp. 171–184.
^ "Packed house sees Durban's first world premiere" , Natal Witness , 16 November 1951 – via Disa.ukzn.ac.za
^ "Southern Africa, 1900 A.D.–present: Key Events" . Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History . New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art . Retrieved 25 September 2017 .
^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants" . Demographic Yearbook 1965 . New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations. 1966. pp. 140–161.
^ "Movie Theaters in Durban, South Africa" . CinemaTreasures.org . Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved 25 September 2017 .
^ United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs , Statistical Office. "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants" . Demographic Yearbook 1980 . New York. pp. 225–252.
^ 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 .
^ 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. CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link )
^ "South Africa". Africa South of the Sahara 2003 . Regional Surveys of the World. Europa Publications . 2003. ISBN 9781857431315 . ISSN 0065-3896 .
^ "Durban.gov.za" . Durban Metro Council. Archived from the original on 29 March 1996 – via Wayback Machine . Local Government - Durban - South Africa
^ "Population of Capital Cities and Cities of 100,000 or More Inhabitants" . Demographic Yearbook 2012 . United Nations Statistics Division . 2013.
^ "South Africa profile: Timeline" . BBC News . 9 July 2011. Retrieved 25 September 2017 .
^ Durban Local History Museums, ed. (26 October 2009). "About" . Ulwazi Programme (in English and Zulu). eThekwini Municipality. Retrieved 27 September 2017 .
^ "Field day for music in Durban", The Mercury , South Africa, 26 June 2013 – via LexisNexis Academic
^ "South African mayors" . City Mayors.com . London: City Mayors Foundation 25 September 2017.
^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants" . Demographic Yearbook 2015 . United Nations Statistics Division. 2016.
Bibliography
published in 19th-20th centuries
J. Forsyth Ingram (1895). "Durban" . Colony of Natal: an official illustrated handbook and railway guide . London. {{cite book }}
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"Principal Towns in Natal: Durban" , Natal Almanac Directory and Yearly Register , Pietermaritzburg: P. Davis & Sons, 1897
W. P. M. Henderson (1904). Durban: Fifty Years' Municipal History . Durban: Robinson & Co.
Twentieth Century Impressions of Natal: Its People, Commerce, Industries, and Resources . Twentieth Century Impressions . Lloyd's Greater Britain Publishing Company. 1906.
"Durban" . Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 8 (11th ed.). 1910. pp. 696–697.
"Durban" . Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 30 (12th ed.). 1922. p. 868.
Leo Kuper ; Hilstan Watts; Ronald Davies (1958). Durban: A study in racial ecology . Jonathan Cape. OCLC 958188774 .
P. Maylam (1982). "Shackled by the Contradictions: The Municipal Response to African Urbanization in Durban, c. 1920-1950". African Urban Studies . Michigan State University. ISSN 0736-6760 .
Dowlat Ramdas Bagwandeen (1983). The question of 'Indian penetration' in the Durban area and Indian politics, 1940-1946 (PhD). University of Natal. hdl :10413/8711 .
Paul Maylam (1985), Richard Haines; Gina Buijs (eds.), "Aspects of African Urbanization in the Durban Area before 1940", Struggle for Social and Economic Space: Urbanization in Twentieth Century South Africa , University of Durban-Westville, ISBN 0949947733
R. Posel (1985). "Durban Ricksha Pullers' Strikes of 1918 and 1930". Journal of Natal and Zulu History . 8 . University of Natal: 85–106. doi :10.1080/02590123.1985.11964240 . ISSN 0259-0123 .
R.J. Davies (1991). "Durban". In Anthony Lemon (ed.). Homes Apart: South Africa's Segregated Cities . Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-33321-0 .
Timothy Andrew Nuttall (1991). Class, race and nation: African politics in Durban, 1929-1949 (PhD). University of Oxford.
David Hemson (1996). "Beyond the Frontier of Control: Trade Unionism and the Labour Market in the Durban Docks" . Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa (30). University of Natal. ISSN 0258-7696 – via African e-Journals Project .
published in 21st century
Bill Freund (2001). "Contrasts in Urban Segregation: A Tale of Two African Cities, Durban (South Africa) and Abidjan (Côte d'Ivoire)". Journal of Southern African Studies . 27 (3): 527–546. doi :10.1080/13632430120074572 . JSTOR 823314 . PMID 17650571 . S2CID 37285422 .
Antoine Bouillon (2002). "Citizenship and the city: the Durban centre-city in 2000" . Transformation (48). University of Natal. ISSN 0258-7696 – via African e-Journals Project.
Bill Freund; Vishnu Padayachee, eds. (2002). (D)urban Vortex: South African City in Transition . University of Natal Press.
Brij Maharaj (2002), "Post Apartheid Metro Boundaries: Conflicts, Contestations and Compromises in Durban" , Rencontres scientifiques franco-Sud-Africaines de l'innovation territoriale , p. 22 – via Halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr
"Durban" . Understanding Slums: Case Studies for the Global Report 2003 . United Nations Human Settlements Programme and University College London. 2003.
Cherl Hendricks (2003). "Durban, South Africa". In Paul Tiyambe Zeleza ; Dickson Eyoh (eds.). Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History . Routledge. ISBN 0415234794 .
Exit, Voice and Tradition: Loyalty to Chieftainship and Democracy in Metropolitan Durban, South Africa , London: Crisis States Research Centre , 2005 – via International Relations and Security Network
Aran S. MacKinnon (2005). "Durban". In Kevin Shillington (ed.). Encyclopedia of African History . Fitzroy Dearborn. ISBN 978-1-57958-245-6 .
Kate Tuttle (2005). "Durban". In Kwame Anthony Appiah ; Henry Louis Gates (eds.). Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-517055-9 .
Bill Freund (2007). "Globalisation and the African city: Touba, Abidjan, Durban". The African City: A History . Cambridge University Press. p. 177+. ISBN 978-0-521-52792-7 .
Case study: Metropolitan Governance, EThekwini (Durban), South Africa , United Nations Human Settlements Programme, 2015
Ralph Callebert (2017). On Durban's Docks: Zulu Workers, Rural Households, Global Labor . Rochester NY: University of Rochester Press. ISBN 9781580469074 .
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