Timeline of Dakar history

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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Dakar, Senegal.

This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

19th century [edit]

  • 1857
    • Gorée merchants settle in Dakar.
    • French build fort on Dakar Point.[1]
  • 1872 - Town becomes part of the commune of Gorée.
  • 1885 - Rue Blanchot mosque built (approximate date).[2]
  • 1887 - Dakar commune formed.[3]

20th century [edit]

  • 1903 - Parc Forestier de Hann created.
  • 1904 - Population: 18,447 people.[3]
  • 1905 - Brest-Dakar telegraph in operation.[3]
  • 1907
    • Government Palace built.
    • L'A.O.F. newspaper begins publication.[4]
  • 1908 - Harbor constructed.[3]
  • 1914
    • Train station opens.
    • Bubonic plague epidemic.[6]
  • 1926 - Population: 33,679 people.
  • 1929 - Société des brasseries de l'Ouest africain formed.
  • 1936 - Catholic cathedral built.[8]
  • 1960 - School of Fine Arts founded.
  • 1961 - Dakar-Matin newspaper begins publication.
  • 1970
  • 1975 - Association Nationale des Bibliothécaires, Archivistes et Documentalistes Senegalais headquartered in city.[9]
  • 1989
    • Musée historique du Sénégal à Gorée opens.
    • Ethnic violence.[14]
  • 1997
    • Media Centre de Dakar in operation.[15]
    • Mosquée de la Divinité built.
  • 1998 - Doole community exchange system established.[16]
  • 1999 - Festival international du film de quartier begins.

21st century [edit]

[icon] This section requires expansion. (August 2012)
  • 2001 - Student protests.[17]
  • 2005 - Population: 1,030,594 people.

References [edit]

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  1. ^ Derwent Whittlesey (1941). "Dakar and the Other Cape Verde Settlements". Geographical Review (American Geographical Society) 31 (4). 
  2. ^ Cleo Cantone (2006). "A Mosque in a Mosque: Some Observations on the Rue Blanchot Mosque in Dakar & Its Relationto Other Mosques in the Colonial Period". Cahiers d'Études Africaines 46 (182). 
  3. ^ a b c d e "Dakar", The Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1910, OCLC 14782424 
  4. ^ a b G. Wesley Johnson (1971), The emergence of Black politics in Senegal, Stanford, Calif.: Published for the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, by Stanford University Press, ISBN 0804707839, 0804707839 
  5. ^ "Les Archives Nationales du Sénégal". Retrieved August 15, 2012. 
  6. ^ Raymond F. Betts (April 1971). "The Establishment of the Medina in Dakar, Senegal, 1914". Africa: Journal of the International African Institute. 
  7. ^ "Medical School for French West Africa". Journal of the American Medical Association (Chicago, USA) 71 (14). October 5, 1918. Retrieved August 15, 2012. 
  8. ^ Elizabeth A. Foster (2009). "An Ambiguous Monument: Dakar's Colonial Cathedral of the Souvenir Africain". French Historical Studies 32 (1). 
  9. ^ a b c d e Bernard Dione; Dieyi Diouf (2010), "Senegal: Libraries, Archives and Museums", in Marcia J. Bates, Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press, ISBN 9780849397127 
  10. ^ a b "Festival Time in Dakar". Negro Digest. April 1966. Retrieved August 15, 2012. 
  11. ^ Hoyt W. Fuller (July 1966). "World Festival of Negro Arts". Ebony (Chicago, USA). Retrieved August 15, 2012. 
  12. ^ S. Sherwood (December 3, 2009). "The Songs of Senegal". New York Times. Retrieved August 15, 2012. 
  13. ^ "Centre Culturel Régional Blaise Senghor" (in French). Ministere de la culture du Senegal. Retrieved 14 May 2013. 
  14. ^ Fiona McLaughlin (2001). "Dakar Wolof and the Configuration of an Urban Identity". Journal of African Cultural Studies 14 (2). 
  15. ^ "Média Centre de Dakar: L’ambition de faire renaître le cinéma africain". Observatoire sur les Systèmes d'information. December 10, 2004. Retrieved August 15, 2012. 
  16. ^ Stephen Demeulenaere (Summer 2001). "On the Doole". Alternatives Journal (27.3). 
  17. ^ "Student Killed in Senegal Protest". Chronicle of Higher Education (47.24). February 23, 2001. 
  18. ^ "Statuesque or grotesque?". The Economist. February 25, 2010. Retrieved August 15, 2012. 
  19. ^ "ICANN Dakar Senegal No.42: 23-28 October 2011". ICANN. Retrieved August 15, 2012. 
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