Timeline of Port Louis
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Port Louis on the island of Mauritius.
Prior to 20th century
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- 1721 - French in power on Isle de France; Noord-Wester Haven (harbor) renamed "Port Louis."[1]
- 1729 - Hôtel du Gouvernement built.[2]
- 1735 - Development of Port Louis begins (approximate date).[3]
- 1749 - Le Réduit (fort) built near Port Louis at Moka.
- 1772 - Bagne Prison built.[4]
- 1782 - Dyot Canal construction begins.(de)
- 1790 - Thomas Enouf becomes mayor.[3]
- 1794 - Town renamed “Port de La Montagne.”[3]
- 1795 - Town renamed “Port Nord-Ouest.”[3]
- 1803 - Town renamed “Port Napoléon.”[3]
- 1805 - Mosque constructed.[1]
- 1810
- 1812 - Champ de Mars Racecourse opens.[5]
- 1816 - Fire.[2]
- 1838 - Citadel (Fort Adelaïde) built.[6]
- 1847 - Roman Catholic Diocese of Port-Louis established.[7]
- 1849 - Development of Aapravasi Ghat immigration depot begins.[6]
- 1850
- 1852 - Mosquée des Arabes established.
- 1864 - North line railway begins operating.[citation needed]
- 1866 - Municipal government headquartered in the Hôtel d’Europe building.[8]
- 1867 - Malaria outbreak.
- 1870 - General Post Office built.[4]
- 1869 - Port Louis economy affected by opening of Suez Canal in Egypt.[1]
- 1887 - Revue historique et littéraire de l'Ile Maurice begins publication.
- 1892 - 29 April: 1892 Mauritius cyclone occurs.[10]
- 1897 - 22 June: Statue of British queen Victoria unveiled.[10]
20th century
- 1904 - 8-9 June: Flood.[10]
- 1907 - Population: 30,899.[11]
- 1910 - Government House rebuilt.[2]
- 1919 - Population: 40,106 metro.[12]
- 1933 - Catholic St. Louis Cathedral rebuilt.
- 1942 - Airport established in Plaine Magnien, 48 km from Port Louis.
- 1951 - Fort Adelaide (La Citadelle) murders and hanging
- 1952 - Population: 84,539.[13]
- 1953 - Mauritius Sugar Industry Research Institute founded in nearby Réduit.[6][1]
- 1959 - Eddy J. Changkye becomes mayor.
- 1963 - L'Express newspaper begins publication.[14]
- 1964 - Population: 126,550 (estimate).[15]
- 1965 - University of Mauritius established in nearby Réduit.[6]
- 1966
- City Hall built.
- Photography museum founded.[2]
- 1967 - City economy affected by temporary closure of Suez Canal during war in Egypt.[6]
- 1968 - Mauritian independence.[5]
- 1969 - Six administrative wards created.[3]
- 1975 - Suez Canal reopens in Egypt.[6]
- 1979 - August: Sugar industry labor strike.[16]
- 1984 - Population: 135,200 (estimate).[17]
- 1989 - Stock Exchange of Mauritius headquartered in city.[18]
- 1992
- Mauritius Telecom headquartered in city.[14]
- City becomes part of independent Republic of Mauritius.[5]
- 1993
- October: Meeting of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie held in city.
- Meeting of the Association Internationale des Maires Francophones held in city.
- 1995 - Mauritius Postal Museum opens
- 1996 - Caudan Waterfront in business.[5]
- 2000
- AS Port-Louis 2000 (football club) formed.
- Population: 144,303 metro.[6]
21st century
- 2002 - Statue of Basdeo Bissoondoyal unveiled.
- 2006 - Bank of Mauritius Tower built.[19]
- 2007 - Appleby Mauritius in business.[3]
- 2008 - Musée de l'immigration chinoise (museum) opens.
- 2010 - Population: 128,483 city; 148,416 metro.[5]
- 2013 - March-April: Flood.[18]
- 2017 - Daniel Eric Clive Laurent becomes mayor.[20]
- 2017 - Heritage building (circa 1791) "La School" (Edith Cavell Street) was demolished. [21]
- 2018 - Population: 147,448 (estimate).[22]
See also
- Port Louis history
- List of mayors of Port Louis
- List of heritage sites in Port Louis
- List of governors of Isle de France (Mauritius) 1735-1810, seated at Le Réduit, Moka, near Port Louis
- List of governors of British Mauritius, 1810-1968, seated at Moka near Port Louis
- Timeline of Mauritius history (in French)
References
- ^ a b c "L'hôtel du gouvernement: sur les traces des élus", Lexpress.mu (in French), 24 April 2017
- ^ a b c d e f g h "History of the City". Mccpl.mu. City Council of Port Louis. Archived from the original on 23 September 2017.
- ^ a b Satyendra Peerthum (25 August 2008), "Port Louis: Home to half of our national heritage", Lexpress.mu. Part 2, 1 September 2008
- ^ a b c d e Cybriwsky 2013.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Port Louis". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 23 September 2017.
- ^ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Mauritius". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 23 September 2017.
- ^ a b "Il y a 150 ans, P.-Louis perdait son 1er maire", Lexpress.mu (in French), 24 April 2006
- ^ "Municipality of Port Louis: List of mayors and deputy-mayors from 1850". Mauritius Almanac and Colonial Register. 1874.
{{cite book}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - ^ a b c Benjamin Vincent (1910), "Mauritius", Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.), London: Ward, Lock & Co.
{{citation}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - ^ Blue Book for the Colony of Mauritius: 1907. Port Louis. 1908. OCLC 18922692 – via HathiTrust.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ "British Empire: Mauritius". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921.
{{cite book}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - ^ "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.
- ^ a b "Mauritius: Directory". Africa South of the Sahara 2004. Regional Surveys of the World. Europa Publications. 2004. ISBN 1857431839.
- ^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1965. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations. 1966. pp. 140–161.
- ^ "Mauritius". Political Chronology of Africa. Political Chronologies of the World. Europa Publications. 2001. ISBN 0203409957.
- ^ 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) - ^ a b "Mauritius profile: Timeline". BBC News. Retrieved 23 September 2017.
- ^ "Mauritius: Port Louis". Emporis.com. Hamburg: Emporis GmbH. Retrieved 23 September 2017.
- ^ "Élections, Municipalité de Port-Louis: Daniel Laurent élu lord-maire", Lemauricien.com (in French), 28 June 2017
- ^ "Port Louis Batiment du 17eme siecle. Demolition de La School: La grogne continue". Retrieved 2017-07-05.
- ^ "Table 8 - Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants", Demographic Yearbook – 2018, United Nations
- This article incorporates information from the French Wikipedia and German Wikipedia.
Bibliography
- in English
- A. Sinnot (October 1820). "Description of Port Louis, in the Isle of France". Gentleman's Magazine. London.
- James Backhouse (1844). A Narrative of a Visit to the Mauritius and South Africa. London: Hamilton, Adams, and Co. (Includes description of Port Louis)
- Ari Nave (2005). "Port Louis, Mauritius". In Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates (ed.). Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-517055-9.
- Roman A. Cybriwsky (2013). "Port Louis". Capital Cities around the World: An Encyclopedia of Geography, History, and Culture. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1-61069-248-9.
- in French
External links
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- "(Port Louis)". Internet Library Sub-Saharan Africa. Germany: Frankfurt University Library. (Bibliography)
- "(Port Louis)" – via Digital Public Library of America. (Images, etc.)
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Port Louis railway station (photo circa 1880s-1890s) -
Aftermath of cyclone, 1892 -
Unveiling of queen Victoria statue, 1897 -
Government House, built 1729, rebuilt in 1910 (photo 2015) -
Basdeo Bissoondoyal statue, erected in 2002
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