• Source: Timeline of Lubumbashi

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo.




20th century






= 1900s-1950s

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1909
1 September: Elisabethville site designated seat of Katanga province; named after Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Belgium.
27 September: Sakania-Elisabethville railway begins operating.
1910
Union Minière du Haut Katanga (mining entity) active.
Hôpital Gécamines Sud (hospital) and Catholic Apostolic Prefecture of Katanga established.
Population: 360.
Émile Wangermée becomes vice governor-general of Katanga.
1910s - "Governor's Residence and Imara and Twendelee schools" built.
1911
Journal du Katanga newspaper begins publication.
Population: 1,000.
Etoile mining begins near Elisabethville.
Catholic schools Institut Marie-José and Collège Saint-François de Sales established.(fr)
1912
Racially segregated "native city" established per ordinance.
Elisabethville becomes seat of Upper Luapula district.
1918 - Bukama-Elisabethville railway begins operating.
1919
Population: 8,000 (approximate).
Ruashi mining begins in vicinity of Elisabethville.
1920
"Management of the Union Minière was transferred from the British to the Belgians."
Catholic Sts. Peter and Paul Cathedral built.
1920s - "Makutano Club, Jerusalem United Methodist Church, and the Jewish synagogue" built.
1921 - Development of Albert I township begins.
1928
Port-Francqui-Elisabethville railway begins operating.
L'Essor du Congo newspaper begins publication.
1930s- "Courthouse and Mazembe stadium" built.
1931 - L'Écho du Katanga newspaper begins publication.
1932 - Wallace Memorial Church built.
1937 - Musée d'Élisabethville (museum) founded.
1939 - Football clubs FC Saint-Éloi Lupopo and FC Saint-Georges formed.
1941
Elisabethville attains city status.
Development of Kenya township begins.
1944 - Premiere of Joseph Kiwele's Cantate à la gloire de la Belgique.
1945 - Union Africaine des Arts et Lettres founded.[1]
1946 - Académie d'Art Populaire d'Elisabethville founded.[2]
1949 - Athénée royal built.
1950 - Development of Katuba township begins.
1950s - "Post office,...CSK headquarters, the theater, St. Mary's Basilica, and the railway headquarters" built.
1951 - Académie des Beaux-Arts d'Elisabethville founded.[3]
1954
Development of Ruashi township begins.
City seal in use.
1956 - Université officielle du Congo et du Rwanda-Urundi opens.
1957
City "divided into 5 communes, one for Europeans and 4 for Africans."
December: Local election held.
1959
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Elisabethville established.
Population: 183,711 (estimate).




= 1960s-1990s

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1960
June: City becomes part of independent Republic of the Congo.
July: City becomes capital of breakaway State of Katanga during the Congo Crisis.
Boniface Mwepu Katentakanya becomes bourgmestre (mayor).
1960s - "Gecamines tower and the 2 hospitals" built.
1961 - 15 September: Airport bombed by Katangese Air Force.
1963 - Mjumbe newspaper begins publication.
1964 - Stade Albert (stadium) opens.
1966 - City becomes capital of Katanga Province.
1967
La Générale des Carrières et des Mines (mining entity) headquartered in city.
Centre Culturel Français opens.
1970
Elisabethville renamed "Lubumbashi."
Musée national de Lubumbashi (museum) active.
1970s - "Hotel Karavia and Mobutu Stadium" built.
1971 - City becomes part of Shaba Province in the Republic of Zaire.
1972
Kampemba commune created.
University's Centre d'études des littératures romanes d'inspiration africaine active.[4][5]
1974 - Société nationale des Chemins de fer du Congo (national railway) headquartered in Lubumbashi.
1975 - Population: 480,875 (estimate).
1977 - Annexe (commune) created.
1981 - University of Lubumbashi active.
1984 - Population: 543,268.
1990 - May: Student demonstration at University of Lubumbashi; crackdown.
1994 - Population: 851,381 (estimate).
1997
April: Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo take city during the First Congo War.
Floribert Kaseba Makunko becomes mayor.
May: City becomes part of Democratic Republic of the Congo.




21st century


2007 - Moïse Katumbi becomes governor of Katanga Province.
2008 - Marie-Grégoire Tambila becomes mayor.
2010
Jean Oscar Sanguza Mutunda becomes mayor.
Congo Express airline (Kinshasa-Lubumbashi) begins operating.
Centennial of founding of city.
2011
February: Airport attacked by secessionist Tigers.
June: Unrest.
7 September: Prison break; escapees include warlord Gédéon Kyungu.
Stade TP Mazembe (stadium) opens in Kamalondo.
2013 - March: Secessionist Mai-Mai Kata Katanga unrest.
2014 - January: Mai-Mai Kata Katanga unrest.
2015
City becomes capital of the newly formed Haut-Katanga Province.
Population: 2,015,502 (estimate).
2016 - December: Political protest.




See also


Lubumbashi#History
List of mayors of Lubumbashi
List of cities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Timeline of Bukavu
Timeline of Goma
Timeline of Kinshasa
Timeline of Kisangani




References






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External links


"(Lubumbashi)". AfricaBib.org. (Bibliography)
"(Elisabethville-Lubumbashi)". Mukanda: ressources documentaires sur l'Afrique centrale (in French). France: University of Lorraine. (Bibliography)
"(Lubumbashi)" – via Europeana. (Images, etc.)
"(Lubumbashi)" – via Digital Public Library of America. (Images, etc.)
"(Lubumbashi)". Connecting-Africa. Leiden, Netherlands: African Studies Centre. (Bibliography)
"(Lubumbashi)". Internet Library Sub-Saharan Africa. Germany: Frankfurt University Library. 2016-09-29. (Bibliography)
"(Lubumbashi)". Contemporary History Library Catalogue. Belgium: Royal Museum for Central Africa. (Bibliography) (see also "Elisabethville")




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