Timeline of Boa Vista, Cape Verde

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The following is a timeline of the island of Boa Vista, Cape Verde.

Prehistoric era

16 million years ago: the Fundo das Figueiras formation formed^[1]
15 to 12.5 million years ago: langhium and serravallium rocks were under formation including the volcanic cone, the Monte Passarão complex, the Monte Caçador complex and the Pico Forcado formation.^[2]
9.5 million years ago: the Chão de Calheta formation started to form
4.5 million years ago: the Chão da Calheta formed^[2]
During the Ice Age, the island was possibly connected with Maio, though a third of that island was underwater, it formed a part of the "East Island". Its size was approximately 3,000 to 3,500 km2 at the time. It was north-south, it was about 150–200 km long and its width was 20 km and 50 km in the northern part
Around 6,000 to 5,000 BC: The Eastern Island of Cape Verde broken up into Boavista, Middle and Maio Islands, the Middle Island would later be underwater and became a nearly shallow part of the ocean.
Around 4,000 to 3,000 BC: Ilhéu de Sal Rei and Ilhéu do Baluarte separated from Boa Vista Island.

Colonial era

1462 - The island was discovered
1497 - October 29: Rodrigo Afonso became the first captain of the island
1505 - January 3: Pero Correia (then spelt Péro Correia) became the second captain of the island
1520s or 1530s: António Correia became the third captain of the island
1542 - Maria Correia became the fourth and last captain of the island
1587 - The island's first settlement now known as Povoação Velha established, it would be populated to around 50 inhabitants
1620 - Saltpans attracted English captains, slaves mined the salt, Sal Rei was later founded
1650 - Population: around 1 500
1680 - Chapel built around Estância
1720 - Population: around 2 000
1800
- Population: around 2 500 to 3 000
- Chapel of Santo António (Saint Anthony) built
1810 - Island capital moved from Povoação da Boa Vista to Rabil for its paper production
1815 - Sal Rei sacked by pirates
1817 - Sal Rei sacked for the second time, the fortress started construction to protect the town and the island
1818 - A pirate ship from South America seized the fort, likely one of the last pirate raids in any of the Cape Verde islands.
1820 - Forte Duque de Bragança (today, commonly known as Forte de Sal Rei) built on Ilhéu de Sal Rei completed
Mid 1850s - Population: around 4 000
1828 - Our Lady of Conception Church (Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Conceição) built near Rocha Estância.
1843
- The Anglo-Portuguese Commission on the Abolition of Slavery' took place, it would be abolished 44 years later.
- June: USS Columbus along with William Harwar Parker visited Gata in the northeastern part of the island, one of the first American ships to visit Cape Verde
1845 - Yellow fever epidemic struck the island
1848 - December: USS Yorktown visited Gata in the northeast of the island, William Harwar Parker again visited the area for his patrol against slavery
1878 - Slavery abolished in the island of Boa Vista
1900 - Population: around 3 000
1930 - Population 2 454
1935 - The Municipality solely includes the island along with its nearby islets.
1940 - Population: 2 779^[3]
1950 - Population: 2 985^[3]
1952 - August 28: Sal-Rei FC established
1956 - Sporting Clube da Boa Vista football (soccer) club established
1960 - Population: 3 263^[3]
1968 - September 1: The cargo ship Cabo Santa Maria was wrecked and ran aground at Praia de Atalanta in the north of the island, its ruins now rusty can still be seen today.^[4]
1970 - Population: 3 569^[3]

After independence in 1975-1999

1975 - July 5: Cape Verde declared independence from Portugal and became and independent nation
1976 - Onze Estrelas football (soccer) club established
1977 - July 3: Académica Operária football (soccer) club founded
1978 - Boa Vista Island League established
1980 - Population: 3 372^[3]
Around the 1980s: the village of Espingueira became abandoned
1990
- Population: 3 452^[3]
- Ilhéu do Baluarte became an integral nature reserve^[5]

21st century

2000 - Population: 4 209^[6]
2002 - The island's aerodrome became an airport
2003 - Hotels and villas established west of Rabil
2005 - July 18: Ilhéu de Curral Velho and adjacent coast Important Bird Area became a Ramsar site

Rabil Airport Terminal in November 2007 when the airport was to fully operate

2007 - Rabil Airport (now Aristides Pereira International Airport) became enlarged with a 2,100 meter runway and paved.^[7]
2008
- Estadio Municipal Arsénio Ramos completed and opened
- Windmills started construction in the northwestern extremity of the island
- Hotels and villas spread north of Sal Rei
2009 - Sal Rei Perimeter Road opened
Around 2009 - Rabil - Curral Velho paved road completed
2010
- Population - 8 554^[8]
- Around five hotels and villas built west of Rabil
- Villas built in the area of Curral Velho
2011
- Onze Estrelas participated in the Boa Vista Island League for the first time
- Enlargement of the island's only port
2011 or 2012
- Sal-Bofareira-Norte Road completed

Sal Rei along with its port then under expansion in 2012

- Boa Vista may have reached the population at 10,000
2014
- May 9: the municipality became twinned with the town of Zocca
- Enlargement of the island's port completed^[9]
2015 - August 31: Hurricane Fred struck the island, Povoação Velha was without electricity for five days^[10]

References

↑ Dyhr, C. T.; Holm, P. M. (2009). A volcanological and geochemical investigation of Boa Vista, Cape Verde Islands;40Ar/39Ar geochronology and field constraints. 189. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research. p. 19-32.
1 2 Ramalho, R. (2010). Tracers of uplift and subsidence in the Cape Verde Archipelago.
1 2 3 4 5 6 Source: Statoids
↑ A Semana
↑ "Protected areas of Cape Vetrde".
↑ Source: Instituto Nacional de Estatísticas.
↑ "Cape Verde: New Boavista international airport receives first flights". Macauhub English. 7 November 2007.
↑ Portal do Instituto Nacional de Estatística: INE - CENSO 2010.
↑ http://asemana.publ.cv/spip.php?article93891&ak=1
↑ Fonseca, Sanny (2015-08-31). "Boa Vista: Furacão Fred deixa 50 casas destruídas em Povoação Velha" [Hurricane Fred Destroyed About 50 Houses in Povoação Velha]. A Semana (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2015-08-31.

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