Timeline of Beira, Mozambique

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

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

19th century

• 1891 - Beira established by Portuguese colonial Companhia de Moçambique.^[1]
• 1898 - Umtali-Beira railway begins operating.^[2]
• 1899 - Salisbury-Beira railway begins operating.^[2]

20th 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.

21st century

• 2003 - Daviz Simango becomes mayor.
• 2006 - Municipiobeira.gov.mz website launched (approximate date).^[6]
• 2015 - Population: 460,904 (estimate).^[7]

See also

• Beira history
• Timeline of Maputo
• History of Mozambique

References

1. Young 2005.
2. Arnold 2005.
3. "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Mozambique". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 26 October 2017.
4. 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.
5. "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.
6. "Conselho Municipal da Cidade da Beira". Municipiobeira.gov.mz (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 11 January 2006 – via Wayback Machine.
7. "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2015. United Nations Statistics Division. 2016.

Bibliography

• Ilídio do Amaral [in Portuguese] (1969). "Beira, cidade e porto do Índico" [Beira, city and port of the Indian Ocean]. Finisterra (in Portuguese). 4 (7). doi:10.18055/Finis2492. ISSN 0430-5027.
• 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.

External links

• "(Beira)". AfricaBib.org. (Bibliography)
• Items related to Beira, various dates (via Europeana)
• Items related to Beira, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America)
• "(Beira)". Internet Library Sub-Saharan Africa. Germany: Frankfurt University Library. 2016-09-29. (Bibliography)
• "(Beira)". Directory of Open Access Journals. UK. (Bibliography of open access articles)

Images

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  Railway station, Beira, built 1890s? (photo 1902)
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  Cinema São Jorge Beira, opened 1954 (photo 2011)
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  Associação Comercial building, constructed 1965 (photo 2016)