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Bissau is a city in Guinea-Bissau, a country in West Africa, formerly part of the kingdom of Kaabu and part of the Mali Empire.

Prior to 20th century

1687 - Portuguese trading post established in region of Papel people.^[1]
1692 - Portuguese colonial Captaincy of Bissau founded.^[2]
1707 - Portuguese fort dismantled and abandoned.^[2]
1753 - Portuguese overcome Papel resistance, rebuild fort.
1775 - Fortaleza de São José da Amura (fort) built.^[2]
1859 - Municipal Council founded.^[2]
1863 - Bissau attains town status.^[2]
1869
- Bissau becomes capital of the colonial district of Guinea.^[2]
- Population: 573.^[3]

20th century

1917 - Bissau attains city status.^[2]
1935 - Bissau Cathedral built.
1936 - Sporting Clube de Bissau formed.
1937 - Estrela Negra de Bissau football club formed.
1941 - Capital of colonial Portuguese Guinea moves to Bissau from Bolama.^[1]
1944 - Sport Bissau e Benfica (football club) formed.
1948 - City Market construction begins.^[4]
1950s - Craveiro Lopes (airport) built.^{[citation needed]}
1950 - Population: 18,309.^[5]
1959 - 3 August: Dockworkers strike at Porto Pidjiguiti; crackdown.^[3]
1960 - Canal do Impernal (channel) dries up; Bissau no longer an island in the Geba River estuary.^[2]
1968 - City besieged during the Guinea-Bissau War of Independence.^[2]
1971 - City besieged during the War of Independence.^[2]
1973 - Africa Bottling Company Lda [de] in business.
1974 - City becomes capital of newly independent Guinea-Bissau.^[3]
1977 - Roman Catholic Diocese of Bissau established.^[6]
1979 - Population: 109,214.^[7]
1984 - National Library of Guinea-Bissau headquartered in city.
1985 - City joins the newly formed União das Cidades Capitais Luso-Afro-Américo-Asiáticas [pt].
1989 - Estádio 24 de Setembro (stadium) opens.
1990 - 27 January: Catholic pope visits city.
1991
- Instituto Nacional de Estatística (Guinea-Bissau) [de] headquartered in city.
- Population: 197,600.^[8]
1992 - Correio-Bissau newspaper begins publication.^[9]
1996 - Rádio Bombolom begins broadcasting.^[9]
1998
- 7 June: Guinea-Bissau Civil War begins; residents flee from the city.^[10]
- Hotel Hotti Bissau in business.
1999 - 10 May: Guinea-Bissau Civil War ends.^[11]

21st century

2002 - Population: 292,000.^[3]
2005 - National People's Assembly Palácio Colinas de Boé [pt] built.
2008 - TV Guiné-Bissau [pt] begins broadcasting.
2009
- 2 March: Assassination of president Vieira.^[12]^[13]
- Population: 387,909.^[14]
2010 - Hospital Amizade China-Guine-Bissau opens.^[2]
2012 - 12 April: 2012 Guinea-Bissau coup d'état.^[15]
2022 - 1 February: 2022 Guinea-Bissau coup d'état attempt

References

^ ^a ^b "Guinea-Bissau". Political Chronology of Africa. Political Chronologies of the World. Europa Publications. 2001. pp. 208–213. ISBN 0203409957.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k Peter Karibe Mendy; Richard A. Lobban Jr. (2013). Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau (4th ed.). Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-8027-6.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Young 2005.
^ Milheiro 2009.
^ "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.
^ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Guinea-Bissau". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 15 September 2017.
^ United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1987). "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". 1985 Demographic Yearbook. New York. pp. 247–289.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2005. United Nations Statistics Division.
^ ^a ^b "Guinea-Bissau: Directory". Africa South of the Sahara 2004. Regional Surveys of the World. Europa Publications. 2004. ISBN 1857431839.
^ "Rebels and Loyalists In Guinea-Bissau Exchange Shellfire", New York Times, 16 June 1998
^ Cybriwsky 2013.
^ Guinea-Bissau's president, army chief killed, Reuters, 2 March 2009
^ Lydia Polgreen (11 March 2009), "2 slayings in West Africa may signal a new day", New York Times
^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2015. United Nations Statistics Division. 2016.
^ Bissau soldiers control capital in apparent coup, Reuters, 13 April 2012

Bibliography

in English

I. Lourenco-Lindell (1997). "Food for the poor, food for the city: the role of urban agriculture in Bissau". Geographical Journal of Zimbabwe (28). ISSN 1011-5919.
Paul Tiyambe Zeleza; Dickson Eyoh, eds. (2003). "Bissau, Guinea-Bissau". Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History. Routledge. ISBN 0415234794.
Ilda Lourenço-Lindell (2004). "Trade and the politics of informalization in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau". In Karen Tranberg Hansen; Mariken Vaa (eds.). Reconsidering Informality: Perspectives from Urban Africa. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet. ISBN 978-91-7106-518-6. OCLC 654131452.
Eric Young (2005). "Bissau, Guinea-Bissau". In Kwame Anthony Appiah; Henry Louis Gates (eds.). Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 472. ISBN 978-0-19-517055-9.
Roman A. Cybriwsky (2013). "Bissau". Capital Cities around the World: An Encyclopedia of Geography, History, and Culture. ABC-CLIO. pp. 52–53. ISBN 978-1-61069-248-9.
Manuel Rambout Barcelos (2006). "Masked children in an urban scene: the Bissau Carnival". In Simon Ottenberg; David Aaron Binkley (eds.). Playful Performers: African Children's Masquerades. Transaction Publishers. ISBN 978-1-351-49950-7.

in other languages

Esteves Pereira; Guilherme Rodrigues, eds. (1906). "Bissau". Portugal: Diccionario Historico... (in Portuguese). Vol. 2. Lisbon: Joao Romano Torres. hdl:2027/gri.ark:/13960/t6m081q3b. OCLC 865826167.
Joel Frederico da Silveira (1989). "Spatialisation d'un rapport colonial: Bissau, 1900-1960". In Michel Cahen (ed.). Vilas et cidades: bourgs et villes en Afrique lusophone (in French). Paris: L'Harmattan. ISBN 2-7384-0431-6.
François Mendy (2006). La ville de Bissau: amenagement et gestion urbaine (Ph.D.) (in French). Universite Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar.
Ana Vaz Milheiro; Eduardo Costa Dias (2009). "Arquitectura em Bissau e os Gabinetes de Urbanização colonial (1944–1974)" [Architecture in Bissau and the Colonial Urbanization Departments] (PDF). Arq.urb (in Portuguese) (2). São Paulo: Universidade São Judas Tadeu. ISSN 1984-5766.

External links

"Bissau, Guinea-Bissau". BlackPast.org. US. 9 October 2014.

[Europa2001-1] "Guinea-Bissau". Political Chronology of Africa. Political Chronologies of the World. Europa Publications. 2001. pp. 208–213. ISBN 0203409957.

[Mendy2013-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k Peter Karibe Mendy; Richard A. Lobban Jr. (2013). Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau (4th ed.). Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-8027-6.

[FOOTNOTEYoung2005-3] Young 2005.

[FOOTNOTEMilheiro2009-4] Milheiro 2009.

[5] "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.

[6] "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Guinea-Bissau". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 15 September 2017.

[7] United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1987). "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". 1985 Demographic Yearbook. New York. pp. 247–289.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

[8] "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2005. United Nations Statistics Division.

[Europa2004-9] "Guinea-Bissau: Directory". Africa South of the Sahara 2004. Regional Surveys of the World. Europa Publications. 2004. ISBN 1857431839.

[10] "Rebels and Loyalists In Guinea-Bissau Exchange Shellfire", New York Times, 16 June 1998

[FOOTNOTECybriwsky2013-11] Cybriwsky 2013.

[12] Guinea-Bissau's president, army chief killed, Reuters, 2 March 2009

[13] Lydia Polgreen (11 March 2009), "2 slayings in West Africa may signal a new day", New York Times

[14] "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2015. United Nations Statistics Division. 2016.

[15] Bissau soldiers control capital in apparent coup, Reuters, 13 April 2012

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Timeline of Bissau

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References

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