Timeline of Port Harcourt

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This is a timeline of the history of Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers State, Nigeria.

20th century

Port Harcourt in 1930s

• 1925 - Braithwaite Memorial Hospital begins operating.
• 1961 - Roman Catholic Diocese of Port Harcourt established.
• 1965 - Port Harcourt Refining Company founded.
• 1971 - Newspaper The Tide begins publication.^[1]
• 1972
  • Rivers State College of Science and Technology opens.
  • Sharks football club formed.
• 1975
  • University College, Port Harcourt created^[2]
  • Port Harcourt Zoo established.
• 1977 - University College gains University status becomes University of Port Harcourt.
• 1980
  • Rivers State University of Science and Technology replaces Rivers State College of Science and Technology.
  • University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital in operation.
• 1981 - Radio Rivers begins broadcasting.^[3]
• 1984 - Rivers State School of Basic Studies commences in Port Harcourt.
• 1985 - Rivers State Television inaugurated.
• 1988 - Dolphins football club is founded.
• 1993 - Sister-city relationship with Kansas City formed.^[4]
• 1995 - Ken Saro-Wiwa and Ogoni Nine buried in Port Harcourt Cemetery.^[5]
• 1996 - Meridian Hospital begins operating.
• 1999 - Rivers State School of Basic Studies revamped and renamed to Rivers State College of Arts and Science.

21st century

• 2001 - Liberation Stadium opens.^[6]

• 2004
  • Population: 1,133,400.^[4]
  • National Network newspaper begins publication.^[7]
• 2005 - Sosoliso Airlines Flight 1145 crashes.
• 2006
  • Port Harcourt International Airport stop operations for maintenance.
  • Population: 1,382,592.
• 2008
  • Garden City Literary Festival begins.^[8]
  • Street Rhymes Studios in business.^[9]
• 2009 - Port Harcourt International Airport named Nigeria's third busiest airport.
• 2010 - Bus electrocutions accident.
• 2011 - 91.7 FM begins broadcasting.^[10]
• 2012
  • Port Harcourt selected 2014 World Book Capital.^[11]
  • Massacre of four Uniport students.^[12]
• 2013
  • Kelsey Harrison and Rivers State Dental and Maxillofacial hospitals start to function.^[13]
  • I'm on Fire becomes most successful mixtape by a Port Harcourt-based artist.^[9]
  • Port Harcourt International Fashion Week begins.
  • Garden City Literary Festival gets new name: Port Harcourt Book Festival.^[14]
• 2014 - Port Harcourt World Book Capital takes place.^[15]

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