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The following is a timeline of the history of Cape Town, South Africa.

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Prior to 19th century

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19th century

A model of Cape Town was it would have appeared in 1800.

20th century

Historical population
YearPop.±% p.a.
1658360—    
17313,157+3.02%
183620,000+1.77%
187545,000+2.10%
189167,000+2.52%
1901171,000+9.82%
1950618,000+2.66%
1955705,000+2.67%
1960803,000+2.64%
1965945,000+3.31%
19701,114,000+3.35%
19751,339,000+3.75%
19801,609,000+3.74%
19851,933,000+3.74%
19902,296,000+3.50%
19962,565,018+1.86%
20012,892,243+2.43%
20073,497,097+3.22%
20113,740,025+1.69%
20143,750,000+0.09%
Note: Census figures (1996–2011) cover figures after 1994 reflect the greater Cape Town metropolitan municipality reflecting post-1994 reforms. Sources: 1658-1904,[33] 1950-1990,[34]

1996,[35] 2001, and 2011 Census;[36]

2007,[37] 2014 Census estimates.[citation needed]

1900s-1940s

1950s-1980s

1990s

21st century

See also

References

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  9. ^ William Darby (1845), Darby's Universal Gazetteer (4th ed.), Philadelphia: Grigg & Elliot
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  12. ^ a b McKenzie 1998.
  13. ^ Andrew Smith (1826), A descriptive catalogue of the South African Museum, Cape Town: W. Bridekirk
  14. ^ a b c George McCall Theal (1908), History Of South Africa, 1795-1834, London: S. Sonnenschein & Co.
  15. ^ A. Wyatt Tilby (1914), South Africa, 1486-1913, The English People Overseas, vol. 6, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, OCLC 6132589
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  18. ^ "Cape Town Botanic Garden". Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information (Royal Gardens, Kew). 1892.
  19. ^ J. Don Vann; Rosemary T. VanArsdel, eds. (1996). Periodicals of Queen Victoria's Empire. University of Toronto Press.
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  23. ^ Burman, Jose (1984), Early Railways at the Cape, Cape Town: Human & Rousseau, ISBN 0-7981-1760-5
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  61. ^ World Literature Today, 2007
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  66. ^ Contemporary African art comes home to Cape Town, UK: Economist Group, 2017

Bibliography

Published in 19th century

  • Robert Semple (1805), "Cape Town", Walks and sketches at the Cape of Good Hope to which is subjoined a journey from Cape Town to Blettenberg's Bay (2nd ed.), London: Printed by and for C. and R. Baldwin {{citation}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)
  • Josiah Conder (1830), "Cape Town", The Modern Traveller, London: J.Duncan {{citation}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)
  • "British Colonies: Cape Town". The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction (716–717). London: J. Limbird. April–May 1835.
  • J. Thomas; T. Baldwin, eds. (1868), "Cape Town", Lippincott's Pronouncing Gazetteer (2nd ed.), Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co. {{citation}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)

Published in 20th century

  • A. Samler Brown; G. Gordon Brown, eds. (1906), "Cape Town and Suburbs", Guide to South Africa (14th ed.), London: Sampson, Low, Marston & Co. {{citation}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)
  • "Cape Town", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive {{citation}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • "Cape Town", Official South African Municipal Year Book, Cape Town: Francis G. Pay, 1914 {{citation}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)
  • Dorothea Fairbridge (1922), "Old Cape Town", Historic houses of South Africa, London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, OCLC 2777566 {{citation}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)
  • John Western (1981). Outcast Cape Town. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-20737-0.
  • Evangelos A. Mantzaris (1987). "Jewish Trade Unions in Cape Town, South Africa, 1903-1907: A Socio-Historical Study". Jewish Social Studies. 49. JSTOR 4467388.
  • Nigel Worden (Spring 1994). "Unwrapping History at the Cape Town Waterfront". Public Historian. 16.
  • Noelle Watson, ed. (1996). "Cape Town". International Dictionary of Historic Places: Middle East and Africa. UK: Routledge. pp. 165–170. ISBN 1884964036.
  • Kirsten McKenzie (1998). "Franklins of the Cape: the South African Commercial Advertiser and the Creation of a Colonial Public Sphere, 1824-1854". Kronos (25).
  • Grant Saff (1998). Changing Cape Town: Urban Dynamics, Policy, and Planning During the Political Transition in South Africa. University Press of America. ISBN 978-0-7618-1199-2.
  • Nigel Worden; Elizabeth Van Heyningen; Vivian Bickford-Smith (1998), Cape Town: the Making of a City, Claremont, South Africa: D. Philip, ISBN 0864864353
  • Vivian Bickford-Smith; Elizabeth Van Heyningen; Nigel Worden (1999), Cape Town in the twentieth century, Claremont, South Africa: D. Philip Publishers, ISBN 0864863845

Published in 21st century

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