Timeline of Braga
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Braga, Portugal.
Prior to 20th century
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- ca. 41 BCE - Installation of Roman milestones begins.[1]
- ca. 16 BCE - Roman Bracara Augusta founded.
- 3rd century CE - Town walls built.[2]
- 4th century CE - Roman Catholic diocese of Braga established.[3]
- 5th century CE - Suevi in power.[4]
- ca. 450s - Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Braga established.[3]
- ca. 485 CE - Visigoths in power.[4]
- 561-563 - Religious council meets in Braga.[5]
- 572 - Religious council meets in Braga.[5]
- 675 - Religious council meets in Braga.[5]
- 8th century - Moors in power.[4]
- 1040 - Braga taken by forces of Ferdinand I.[4]
- 1089 - Braga Cathedral consecrated.
- 1093 - Braga becomes seat of royal court (until 1147).[4]
- 1417 - Fernando da Guerra becomes archbishop.[6]
- 1494 - Printing press in operation.[7]
- 1616 - Ponte do Prado (bridge) to Vila Verde rebuilt.
- 1642 - Construction of Igreja de Santa Cruz (church) begins.[8]
- 1756 - Braga City Hall built.[9]
- 1841 - Biblioteca Pública de Braga (library) founded.[10][11]
- 1857 - Public gas lighting installed.[12]
- 1858 - Population: 30,175.[13]
- 1875 - Ramal de Braga (railway) begins operating; Braga railway station opens.[12]
- 1880 - Rua D. Frei Caetano Brandão (street) developed.[12]
- 1882 - Bom Jesus do Monte Funicular begins operating.
- 1888 - Livraria Cruz (bookshop) in business.
- 1893 - Public electric lighting installed.[12]
- 1900 - Population: 24,202.[4]
20th century
- 1911 - Population: 24,647 in town; 382,461 in district.[14]
- 1914 - Braga electric tram begins operating.
- 1915 - Theatre Circo (theatre) opens.[12]
- 1917 - Arquivo Distrital de Braga (archive) founded.[15]
- 1918 - D. Diogo de Sousa Museum founded.[12]
- 1919 - Diário do Minho newspaper begins publication.[16]
- 1921 - S.C. Braga (football club) formed.
- 1926 - 28 May 1926 coup d'état begins in Braga.[17]
- 1929 - Airfield begins operating in Palmeira.
- 1936 - City becomes seat of newly formed Minho Province.
- 1950 - Estádio Municipal 28 de Maio (stadium) opens.
- 1955 - Jardim de Santa Bárbara (garden) created.[12]
- 1961 - Hospital opens.[12]
- 1963 - Trolleybus begins operating.
- 1973 - University of Minho established.
- 1977 - Mesquita Machado becomes mayor (almost continually until 2013).
- 1978 - Biscainhos Museum opens.
- 1982 - Transportes Urbanos de Braga (transit entity) established.
- 1993 - Circuito Vasco Sameiro (vehicular racetrack) opens.
- 1999 - Shopping Braga Parque in business in São Victor.
21st century
- 2001
- 2002 - Pavilhão das Goladas (arena) opens.
- 2003 - Estádio Municipal de Braga (stadium) opens.
- 2004
- Completion of the works of modernization and electrification of Oporto–Braga railway line, which included the construction of a new building for Braga railway station. The modernisation allowed the extension of the high-speed Alfa Pendular trains from Oporto to Braga, a service which started on June 5, 2004.[19]
- Biblioteca Lúcio Craveiro da Silva (library) opens.
- Part of UEFA Euro 2004 football contest played in Braga.
- 2011 - Population: 181,819 in city; 848,185 in district.
- 2013
- Ricardo Rio becomes mayor.
- União das Freguesias de Braga created.[12]
- 2014 - Organ Festival of Braga begins.
See also
- Braga history
- History of Braga
- Ecclesiastical history of Braga
- List of mayors of Braga since 1836
- List of bishops of Braga
- List of governors of Braga district (in Portuguese)
- List of heritage sites in Braga district
- Timelines of other cities/municipalities in Portugal: Coimbra, Funchal (Madeira), Lisbon, Porto, Setúbal
References
- ^ "Sistema de Informação para o Património Arquitetónico" [Architectural Heritage Database]. Monumentos.gov.pt (in Portuguese). Direção-Geral do Património Cultural. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
- ^ Cesar Valenca, "Braga", Oxford Art Online Retrieved 10 November 2017
- ^ a b "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Portugal". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 9 November 2017.
- ^ a b c d e f Britannica 1910.
- ^ a b c López 1907.
- ^ E. Michael Gerli, ed. (2003). "Braga". Medieval Iberia: An Encyclopedia. Routledge. ISBN 0-415-93918-6.
- ^ Henri Bouchot (1890). "Topographical index of the principal towns where early printing presses were established". The book: its printers, illustrators, and binders, from Gutenberg to the present time. London: H. Grevel & Co.
{{cite book}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - ^ Chambers 1901.
- ^ "Built Heritage". Cm-braga.pt (in English and Portuguese). Município de Braga. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
- ^ "História da BPB" (in Portuguese). Universidade do Minho. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
- ^ Alberto Feio (1920), A Biblioteca Pública de Braga: notas históricas (in Portuguese)
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Ricardo Graça. "Núcleo urbano da cidade de Braga". Sistema de Informação para o Património Arquitetónico (in Portuguese). Direção-Geral do Património Cultural. Retrieved 10 November 2017. (Includes timeline)
- ^ "Portugal". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1865 – via HathiTrust.
{{cite book}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - ^ "Portugal". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921.
{{cite book}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - ^ "Arquivo Distrital de Braga: Apresentação" (in Portuguese). Universidade do Minho. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
- ^ a b "Portugal". Europa World Year Book 2004. Europa Publications. 2004. ISBN 1857432533.
- ^ Douglas L. Wheeler; Walter C. Opello Jr. (2010). Historical Dictionary of Portugal (3rd ed.). Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7075-8.
- ^ "Cm-braga.pt" (in Portuguese). Câmara Municipal de Braga. Archived from the original on 2 April 2001 – via Wayback Machine.
- ^ "Alfa Pendular inicia ligações Braga-Faro". Público. 5 June 2004. Retrieved 30 June 2019.
- This article incorporates information from the Portuguese Wikipedia.
Bibliography
in English
- William Smith, ed. (1865) [1854]. "Bracara Augusta". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Boston: Little, Brown.
{{cite book}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - "Braga", Handbook for Travellers in Portugal (4th ed.), London: J. Murray, 1887, pp. 131+
{{citation}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - "Braga". Chambers's Encyclopaedia. London. 1901.
{{cite book}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Tirso López (1907). "Archdiocese of Braga". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York – via Google Books.
{{cite book}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - "Braga", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
{{citation}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - "Braga", Spain and Portugal (4th ed.), Leipsic: Karl Baedeker, 1913, OCLC 34871901
{{citation}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - "Local History, Portugal: Braga". Catalog of the William B. Greenlee Collection of Portuguese History...in the Newberry Library. Chicago: Newberry Library. 1953 – via HathiTrust.
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in Portuguese
- Luís Cardoso, ed. (1751). "Braga". Diccionario geografico, ou, Noticia historica de todas as cidades...de Portugal (in Portuguese). Vol. 2. Lisbon: Regia Officina Sylviana and Academia Real. OCLC 987786218.
{{cite book}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - Pinho Leal (1873). "Braga". Portugal Antigo e Moderno: Diccionario... (in Portuguese). Vol. 1. Mattos Moreira. pp. 432+.
{{cite book}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help)CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link) - "Braga". Diccionario encyclopedico ou novo diccionario da lingua portugueza (in Portuguese) (4th ed.). Lisbon: Francisco Arthur da Silva. 1874. OCLC 14951122.
{{cite book}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - Carlos Augusto da Silva Campos, ed. (1886), "Negociantes e industriaes das provincias e ilhas: Braga", Almanach Commercial de Lisboa (in Portuguese), pp. 224–228
- José Augusto Vieira (1887), "Braga", O Minho Pitoresco (in Portuguese), vol. 2, Lisbon: Parceria A. M. Pereira, pp. 7–80
{{citation}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - Bernardino José de Senna Freitas (1890–1891). Memorias de Braga (in Portuguese). Braga: Imprensa Catholica.
- Albano Bellino (1895). Inscripções e lettreiros da cidade de Braga (in Portuguese). Porto: Typographia Occidental.
- Esteves Pereira; Guilherme Rodrigues, eds. (1906). "Braga". Portugal: Diccionario Historico... (in Portuguese). Vol. 2. Lisbon: Joao Romano Torres. OCLC 865826167.
{{cite book}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - Eduardo Pires de Oliveira. As alterações toponímicas 1380-1980, Braga, 1982
- Eduardo Pires de Oliveira et al. Braga Evolução da Estrutura Urbana, Braga, 1982
- José Marques. Braga Medieval, Braga, 1983
- Alberto Feio, (1984), Coisas Memoráveis de Braga (in Portuguese)
- José Manuel da Silva Passos, (1996), O Bilhete Postal Ilustrado e a História Urbana de Braga (in Portuguese), Lisbon
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Braga.
- Arquivo Municipal da Câmara Municipal de Braga (city archives)
- "(Braga)" – via Europeana.
- "(Braga)" – via Digital Public Library of America.
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