Timeline of Pretoria
The following is a timeline of the history of Pretoria , in the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality , Gauteng province, South Africa .
Ancient
200 000 ya artefacts found in a rock shelter on the Erasmus Castle property.
19th century
Church Street, Pretoria [fr ] , 1881
1825
Mzilikazi arrives in the Transvaal region.
Mfecane , or the genocide of the people of the Transvaal by Mzilikazi lasts until 1840.
1837
1840
First permanent white settlers in the Pretoria area.
1848
David Botha builds a farmhouse that would later become the Pionier Museum .
1852
1853
16 November: The establishment of the Volksraad (parliament) of the South African Republic.
M.W. Pretorius buys the farms of Elandspoort and Koedoespoort and later in November of the same year the town of Pretoria is founded on the two adjoining farms.
1855
1867
1873
1874
1877
1879
1880
1881
1884
1886
1892
1896
city plan, 1895
1897
1898
1899
1900
5 June: British forces occupy the city.
20th century
1900s-1940s
1950s-1990s
21st century
Map of Tshwane, showing location of Pretoria, 2006
View of Pretoria, 2008
2001
2002
2004
2005
December: Shanty town unrest.[ 23]
2008
2011
2012
11 July: Construction begins on the A Re Yeng rapid bus transit system.
2013
2014
2016
2017
2019
11 February: Solly Msimanga resigns as mayor
12 February 2019: Stevens Mokgalapa is elected mayor.
23 August 2019: Hoërskool Hendrik Verwoerd becomes as the newly Rietondale High School.
See also
References
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^ "Shantytown Dwellers in South Africa Protest Sluggish Pace of Change" , New York Times , 25 December 2005
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^ World Health Organization (2016), Global Urban Ambient Air Pollution Database , Geneva, archived from the original on 28 March 2014{{citation }}
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^ "Time Square Grand Opening" .
Bibliography
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