Timeline of Lusaka
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Lusaka , Zambia .
20th century
1905
Railway begins operating.
European settlement formed.
1913 - Village Management Board established.[ 2]
1926 - "District administrative headquarters" relocated to Lusaka from Chilanga (approximate date).
1935 - Capital of British Protectorate of Northern Rhodesia relocated to Lusaka from Livingstone .[ 3]
1937 - City of Lusaka Football Club formed.
1948 - Central African Post newspaper begins publication.[ 4]
1950 - Population: 27,100.[ 5]
1951 - Lusaka Playhouse built.[ 6]
1952 - African Listener radio programme begins broadcasting.
1954 - F. Payne becomes mayor.
1956 - Lusaka African Marketeers' Cooperative Society organized.
1958 - Waddington Theatre Club founded.[ 6]
1959 - 20th Century cinema opens (approximate date).[ 9]
Lusaka in the 1960s
1960
Lusaka attains city status.
African Mail newspaper begins publication.[ 4]
Palace cinema opens (approximate date).[ 9]
Luburma market established (approximate date).
1963
1964
1965
1966 - University of Zambia founded.
1967
1968
1969 - Zambian News Agency headquartered in city.
1970
1971 - Chikwakwa Theatre established at the University of Zambia.[ 17]
1972
Chunga market built.
Population: 448,000 urban agglomeration.[ 18]
1976
1978 - Racial unrest.[ 20]
1979
Lusaka in the 1980s
1980 - Population: 498,837 city; 535,830 urban agglomeration.[ 22]
1985
1990 - Population: 982,362 city.[ 22]
1991 - Weekly Post newspaper begins publication (approximate date).[ 4]
1994
1996 - Lusaka National Museum opens.
1997
1999 - University of Lusaka founded.
2000 - Population: 1,057,212.[ 25]
21st century
View of Lusaka, 2013
2001 - Munali Girls High School established.[ 26]
2001 - Independent Churches of Zambia (ICOZ) established. ICOZ was Founded by Rev David Musonda Masupa with the help of the 2nd Republican President Fredrick Chiluba.
2006 - October: Post-election unrest.[ 27]
2010
Daniel Chisenga becomes mayor.[ 28]
Population: 1,747,152.[ 29]
2012 - February: Celebration of Zambia's winning 2012 Africa Cup of Nations .[ 30]
2017 - March: Stampede occurs.[ 31]
Independence avenue in 2024
References
^ Emmanuel Mutale (2004), Management of Urban Development in Zambia , Ashgate Publishing, ISBN 9780754635963
^ a b
"History of Lusaka" . Lusaka City Council. Archived from the original on 17 February 2005.
^ a b c "Lusaka (Zambia) Newspapers" . WorldCat . US: Online Computer Library Center . Retrieved 15 May 2013 .
^ "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants" . Demographic Yearbook 1955 . New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations .
^ a b Dickson Mwansa (1997). "Zambia". In Don Rubin (ed.). World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre: Africa . Routledge. ISBN 0415059313 .
^ a b "The Bioscope" . Great North Road . March 2002.
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"About Us" . National Archives of Zambia. Archived from the original on 21 January 2012.
^ a b c Karen Fung (ed.). "Zambia" . Africa South of the Sahara: Selected Internet Resources . US: Stanford University. Retrieved 15 May 2013 .
^ "Zambia Profile: Timeline" . BBC News. 11 July 2011. Retrieved 15 May 2013 .
^ "Zambia: Directory: the Press". Africa South of the Sahara 2004 . Regional Surveys of the World. Europa Publications . 2004. p. 1217. ISBN 1857431839 .
^ "Sister Cities of Los Angeles" . US: City of Los Angeles. Retrieved 30 December 2015 .
^ Martin Banham; et al., eds. (1994). "Zambia". Cambridge Guide to African and Caribbean Theatre . Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521411394 .
^ United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs , Statistical Office (1976). "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants" . Demographic Yearbook 1975 . New York. pp. 253–279.{{cite book }}
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^ "Zambians, Outraged By Rhodesian Raids, Attack Whites in City". New York Times . 8 November 1978.
^ Kanduza 2003 .
^ a b United Nations Department for Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis, Statistics Division (1997). "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants" . 1995 Demographic Yearbook . New York. pp. 262–321. CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link )
^ "Organizations" . International Relations and Security Network . Switzerland: Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich . Retrieved 30 September 2014 .
^ "Lusaka" . Sustainable Cities Programme, 1990-2000 . UN-HABITAT. 2002. ISBN 9789211316322 .
^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants" . Demographic Yearbook 2011 . United Nations Statistics Division . 2012.
^ "About Us" . Munali Girls High School. Retrieved 15 May 2013 .
^ "Riots Spread as Incumbent Widens Lead in Zambia Vote" . New York Times . 3 October 2006.
^ "New Lusaka mayor, Chisenga, shares plans for the City" . The Post . 9 September 2010.
^ "Table 8 - Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants" , Demographic Yearbook – 2018 , United Nations
^ "After Tragedy, Zambia Triumphs" . New York Times . 15 February 2012.
^ Zambia police say eight killed in stampede over food aid , Reuters, 6 March 2017
Bibliography
Published in 20th century
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Karen Tranberg Hansen (1980). "The Urban Informal Sector as a Development Issue: Poor Women and Work in Lusaka, Zambia". Urban Anthropology . 9 (2): 199–225. JSTOR 40552918 .
Karen Tranberg Hansen (1982). "Lusaka's Squatters: Past and Present". African Studies Review . 25 (2/3): 117–136. doi :10.2307/524213 . JSTOR 524213 . S2CID 145505993 .
Earl P. Scott (1985). "Lusaka's Informal Sector in National Economic Development". Journal of Developing Areas . 20 (1): 71–100. JSTOR 4191418 .
E. Shamilupa Kalapula (1987). "Electrification of peri-urban areas in Lusaka, Zambia". Geography . 72 . UK.
A.W. Drescher (1996). "Urban microfarming in central Southern Africa: a case study of Lusaka, Zambia". African Urban Quarterly .
Drescher; Mackel (2000). "Urban and peri-urban food security: the example of Lusaka (Zambia". Urbanization, vulnerability and resource management in developing countries . Germany. {{cite book }}
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Published in 21st century
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