Timeline of Zanzibar City
The following is a timeline of the history of Zanzibar City, Unguja island, Zanzibar, Tanzania. The city is composed of Ng'ambo and Stone Town. Until recently it was known as Zanzibar Town.
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Prior to 19th century
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- 1700 - Old Fort of Zanzibar is built by Omanis (approximate date).[1]
- 1710 - Fatima in power.[2]
- 1746 - "Arab garrison" installed in fort.[2]
- 1753 - Fort "unsuccessfully attacked by Mazrui Arabs from Mombasa."[2]
- 1784 - Zanzibar becomes part of Oman.[2]
19th century
- 1830 - Mtoni Palace built near town.[3]
- 1832 - Capital of the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman relocated to Zanzibar from Muscat, Oman by Said bin Sultan.[4]
- 1836 - United States consulate established.[4]
- 1841 - British consulate established.[5]
- 1844 - French consulate established.[6]
- 1850 - Kidichi Baths built near town.[7]
- 1856 - Majid bin Said of Zanzibar in power.[8]
- 1870
- Barghash ibn Said in power.[5]
- Population: 70,000 (approximate).[5]
- 1872 - Cyclone.[9]
- 1873 - British "forced the closure of the slave market."[5]
- 1879 - Anglican Christ Church built.[4]
- 1880 - Marhubi Palace built near town.[3]
- 1883 - House of Wonders built.
- 1888 - Hamamni Persian Baths built.
- 1890 - British in power per Heligoland–Zanzibar Treaty.
- 1896 - 27 August: Anglo-Zanzibar War.
- 1897 - Slave trade abolished.[10]
- 1898 - Catholic St. Joseph's Cathedral built.
20th century
- 1904 - Darajani Market building constructed.
- 1905
- 1910
- 1914 - 20 September: German SMS Königsberg sinks British HMS Pegasus in harbour.
- 1925 - Peace Memorial Museum established.[13][3]
- 1928 - Rent strike in Ng'ambo.[14]
- 1935 - Jubilee Gardens laid out.[15]
- 1948 - General strike.[5][16]
- 1957 - Afro-Shirazi Party headquartered in town.
- 1960 - Population: 45,276.[17]
- 1961 - June: Unrest.[18]
- 1964
- 12 January: Zanzibar Revolution; city becomes capital of People's Republic of Zanzibar and Pemba.
- April: Sultanate of Zanzibar becomes part of the new United Republic of Tanzania.
- City becomes capital of semiautonomous region of Zanzibar.[5]
- Mtoro Rehani becomes mayor.[19]
- 1966 - Kikwajuni GDR housing built.[20]
- 1972 - 7 April: Abeid Karume assassinated.
- 1973 - Television Zanzibar inaugurated.
- 1977 - Trains of Michenzani (housing) built (approximate date).[20]
- 1985 - Economic liberalization begins.[20]
- 1994
- Palace Museum established.
- Stone Town Conservation Plan approved.[21]
- Old Dispensary building restored.
- 1997
- Zanzibar International Film Festival founded.[22]
- Keele Square rehabilitated.[15]
- 1999
21st century
- 2000 - Stone Town designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.[22]
- 2004 - Sauti za Busara (music festival) begins.
- 2005 - Population: 220,000 (estimate).[5]
- 2008 - 21 May-19 June: 2008 Zanzibar power blackout.
- 2009-2010 - 10 December-March: Second Zanzibar power blackout
- 2009 - Forodhani Gardens rehabilitated.[15]
- 2012 - Anti-government protests.[23]
- 2013 - August: Two 18-year-old, British volunteer teachers, Katie Gee and Kirstie Trup, were injured by an acid attack by men on a motorcycle near Stone Town.[24]
- 2014 - June: Mosque bombed.[25]
See also
- History of Stone Town
- History of Ng'ambo
- Wards of Zanzibar City
- History of Zanzibar (islands)
- List of Sultans of Zanzibar
- Zanzibar Urban/West Region (Zanzibar City is capital)
- List of football clubs in Zanzibar
- Timeline of Dar es Salaam
References
- ↑ "Zanzibar". Islamic Cultural Heritage Database. Istanbul: Organization of Islamic Cooperation, Research Centre for Islamic History, Art and Culture. Retrieved 29 May 2013.
- 1 2 3 4 F.B. Pearce (1920), Zanzibar: the island metropolis of eastern Africa, London: T.F. Unwin
- 1 2 3 Andrew Petersen (1996). "Zanzibar". Dictionary of Islamic Architecture. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-61366-3.
- 1 2 3 4 "Zanzibar (seaport)", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Bruce Stanley (2008), "Zanzibar", in Michael R.T. Dumper; Bruce E. Stanley, Cities of the Middle East and North Africa, Santa Barbara, USA: ABC-CLIO
- ↑ Norman Robert Bennett (1973). "France and Zanzibar, 1844 to the 1860s". International Journal of African Historical Studies. 6. JSTOR 217223.
- ↑ "36 Hours in Zanzibar, Tanzania", New York Times, 1 May 2014
- ↑ M. Catharine Newbury (1983). "Colonialism, Ethnicity, and Rural Political Protest: Rwanda and Zanzibar in Comparative Perspective". Comparative Politics. 15. JSTOR 421681.
- ↑ "Zanzibar (Sultanate)", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York: Encyclopaedia Britannica Co., 1910, OCLC 14782424
- ↑ Frederick Cooper (1980), From slaves to squatters: plantation labor and agriculture in Zanzibar and coastal Kenya, 1890-1925, New Haven: Yale University Press, ISBN 0300024541
- ↑ Ethel Younghusband (1910), "Zanzibar (etc.)", Glimpses of East Africa and Zanzibar, London: J. Long, OCLC 4793682
- ↑ Africa Pilot. Washington DC: U.S. Navy. 1916.
- ↑ Karin Adahl and Mikael Ahlund, ed. (2000). "Tanzania". Islamic Art Collections: An International Survey. Curzon Press. ISBN 978-1-136-11362-8.
- ↑ Garth Andrew Myers (1997). "Sticks and Stones: Colonialism and Zanzibari Housing". Africa: Journal of the International African Institute. 67. JSTOR 1161444.
- 1 2 3 ArchNet. "Zanzibar". MIT School of Architecture and Planning. Archived from the original on 14 October 2012.
- ↑ Anthony Clayton (1976), 1948 Zanzibar General Strike, Sweden: Nordic Africa Institute – via International Relations and Security Network
- ↑ "Zanzibar", Webster's Geographical Dictionary, Springfield, Mass., USA: G. & C. Merriam Co., 1960, OL 5812502M
- ↑ Michael Lofchie (1963). "Party Conflict in Zanzibar". Journal of Modern African Studies. 1. JSTOR 159028.
- ↑ Roman Loimeier (2009). Between social skills and marketable skills : the politics of Islamic education in 20th century Zanzibar. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 9789004175426.
- 1 2 3 Garth A. Myers (1994), "Making the Socialist City of Zanzibar", Geographical Review, 84 (4): 451–464, doi:10.2307/215759, JSTOR 215759
- 1 2 3 Francesco Siravo (1999). "Zanzibar: A Plan for the Historic Stone Town". Environmental Design: Journal of the Islamic Environmental Design Research Centre.
- 1 2 "Eastern Africa, 1900 A.D.–present: Key Events". Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 30 August 2015.
- ↑ "Islamist riots threaten Zanzibar's stability". IRIN. United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. 24 October 2012. Retrieved 29 May 2013.
- ↑ Zanzibar acid attack, 9 August 2013, Daily Mirror
- ↑ Zanzibar mosque bombing kills one, wounds seven, Reuters, 14 June 2014
Further reading
- Published in the 19th century
- Edward Steere (1869), Some account of the town of Zanzibar, London: Charles Cull, OCLC 181102819
- Richard Burton (1872), Zanzibar: city, island, and coast, London: Tinsley brothers, OCLC 3816910
- Karl Wilhelm Schmidt (1888), Sansibar: Ein ostafrikanisches Culturbild (in German), Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus
- "Zanzibar". Handbook of British East Africa. London: War Office. 1893.
- Great Britain. Hydrographic Dept. (1897), "Zanzibar Town", Africa Pilot (6th ed.), London
- Published in the 20th century
- Robert Nunez Lyne (1905), Zanzibar in contemporary times, London: Hurst and Blackett
- "Zanzibar". The Red Book 1922-23: Handbook and Directory for Kenya Colony and Protectorate, Uganda Protectorate, Tanganyika Territory, and Zanzibar Sultanate. Nairobi: East Africa Standard Ltd. 1922.
- "Zanzibar". Encyclopaedia of Islam. E.J. Brill. 1936. p. 1214+.
- "Clove-Scented Zanzibar", National Geographic Magazine, Washington DC, 101, 1952
- Nancy Ingram Nooter (1984). "Zanzibar Doors". African Arts. 17.
- Noelle Watson, ed. (1996). "Zanzibar". International Dictionary of Historic Places: Middle East and Africa. UK: Routledge. pp. 723–728. ISBN 1884964036.
- Laura Fair (1997). "Kickin' It: Leisure, Politics and Football in Colonial Zanzibar, 1900s-1950s". Africa: Journal of the International African Institute. 67.
- Mary Fitzpatrick (1999), "Unguja (Zanzibar Island)", Tanzania, Zanzibar & Pemba, Lonely Planet, p. 148+, OL 8314875M
- Published in the 21st century
- Jørgen Andreasen (2001). "The legacy of mobilisation from above: participation in a Zanzibar neighbourhood". In Arne Tostensen; et al. Associational Life in African Cities: Popular Responses to the Urban Crisis. Sweden: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet. ISBN 978-91-7106-465-3.
- Brian Hoyle (2002). "Urban Waterfront Revitalization in Developing Countries: The Example of Zanzibar's Stone Town". Geographical Journal. 168.
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