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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
[
edit
]
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
[
edit
]
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
[
edit
]
2003 -
Daviz Simango
becomes mayor.
2006 -
Municipiobeira.gov.mz
website launched (approximate date).
[6]
2015 - Population: 460,904 (estimate).
[7]
See also
[
edit
]
Beira history
Timeline of Maputo
History of Mozambique
References
[
edit
]
^
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
.
Bibliography
[
edit
]
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
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edit
]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to
History of Beira
.
"(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)
Cinema São Jorge Beira, opened 1954 (photo 2011)
Associação Comercial building, constructed 1965 (photo 2016)
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