Timeline of Beira, Mozambique

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Beira, Mozambique.

19th century

1920 - Gorongosa Hunting Reserve created in vicinity of Beira.
1924 - Clube Ferroviário da Beira (football club) formed.
1925 - Catholic Our Lady of the Rosary church built.
1940 - Roman Catholic diocese of Beira established.^[3]
1941 - Beira becomes part of Portuguese East Africa.^[1]
1943 - Atlético Desportivo Moma, Estrella Beira, and GD da Companhia Têxtil do Punguè football clubs formed.
1946 - City expansion plan created by José Porto and Ribeiro Alegre.^[4]
1952 - Beira Airport opens.
1954 - Grande Hotel Beira and Cine-Teatro São Jorge (cinema)^[5] in business.
1955 - Liceu Pêro de Anaia [pt] (school) established.
1965 - Estação Ferroviária da Beira [pt] (railway station) and Associação Comercial building constructed.^[5]
1970 - Population: 113,770.
1975 - Beira becomes part of newly independent Mozambique.^[1]
1980 - Population: 230,744.
1988 - September: Catholic pope visits city.
1997 - Population: 412,588.
1998 - Chivavice Muchangage becomes mayor.
2000
- February: Cyclone Leon–Eline occurs.
- February-March: 2000 Mozambique flood occurs.

^ ^a ^b ^c Young 2005.
^ ^a ^b Arnold 2005.
^ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Mozambique". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 26 October 2017.
^ André Renga Faria Ferreira (2006). Obras públicas em Moçambique: inventário da produção arquitectónica executada entre 1933 e 1961 (MA) (in Portuguese). Universidade de Coimbra. hdl:10316/6004.
^ ^a ^b "Sistema de Informação para o Património Arquitetónico" [Architectural Heritage Database]. Monumentos.gov.pt (in Portuguese). Portugal: Direção-Geral do Património Cultural. Retrieved 26 October 2017.
^ "Conselho Municipal da Cidade da Beira". Municipiobeira.gov.mz (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 11 January 2006 – via Wayback Machine.
^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2015. United Nations Statistics Division. 2016.

This article incorporates information from the Portuguese Wikipedia and German Wikipedia.

Ilídio do Amaral [pt] (1969). "Beira, cidade e porto do Índico" [Beira, city and port of the Indian Ocean]. Finisterra [pt] (in Portuguese). 4 (7). doi:10.18055/Finis2492. ISSN 0430-5027. {{cite journal}}: Check |author= value (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
Eric Young (2005). "Beira, Mozambique". In Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates (ed.). Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 413. ISBN 978-0-19-517055-9.
Guy Arnold (2005). "Beira Corridor". In Kevin Shillington (ed.). Encyclopedia of African History. Fitzroy Dearborn. ISBN 978-1-57958-245-6.

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