Timeline of Lilongwe

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Lilongwe, Malawi.

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20th century

• 1902 – Local leader Njewa sets up a boma named after the Lilongwe River. ^[1]
• 1904 – Lilongwe becomes administrative seat of British colonial Nyasaland Protectorate. ^[2]
• 1905 – Road built to Dedza. ^[1]
• 1906 – "Asian traders" arrive. ^[1]
• 1909 – Road built to Fort Jameson and Fort Manning. ^[1]
• 1910 – Administrative Lilongwe District created. ^[1]
• 1923 – Diamphwe Bridge built. ^[3]
• 1930 – Imperial Tobacco Company manufactory begins operating. ^[1]
• 1944 – European School founded.
• 1949 – Odini Catholic newspaper begins publication. ^[4]
• 1959 – Roman Catholic diocese of Lilongwe established. ^[5]
• 1963 – Lilongwe Technical College founded.
• 1964 – Lilongwe becomes part of independent Malawi. ^[6]
• 1966 – Population: 19,425. ^[7]
• 1967 – University of Malawi's Bunda College of Agriculture active. ^[8]
• 1968 – Capitol City Development Corporation formed; Lilongwe "development as the new national capital" begins. ^{[2] [1]}
• 1975 – Capital of Malawi moved to Lilongwe from Zomba. ^[9]
• 1977
  • Silver Strikers F.C. (football club) formed.
  • Population: 98,718. ^[7]
• 1979 – University of Malawi's Kamuzu College of Nursing established.
• 1983 – Lilongwe International Airport opens. ^[1]
• 1987 – Population: 233,973. ^[10]
• 1989 – Lilongwe National Botanic Garden  [ de ] founded. ^[11]
• 1992 – May: Anti-government protest. [12]
• 1997 – Media Institute of Southern Africa Malawi chapter headquartered in city.
• 1998 – Population: 440,471. ^[13]

21st century

• 2003 – Population: 632,867 in city; 1,087,917 urban agglomeration (estimate). ^[14]
• 2005
  • National government administration moved to Lilongwe from Blantyre. ^[15]
  • Banda Mausoleum erected. ^[16]
• 2007
  • Lilongwe Wildlife Centre founded.
  • Memorial Tower erected.^{[ chronology citation needed ]}
• 2008
  • December: Cholera outbreak. ^[17]
  • Population: 674,448 in city. ^[2]
• 2009 – Kelvin Mmangisa appointed mayor. ^[18]
• 2010 – Parliament Building constructed. ^[19]
• 2011 – July: Anti-government protest. ^[20]
• 2012
  • Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources opens. ^[21]
  • Bingu wa Mutharika Conference Centre built. ^[22]
  • Population: 868,800 in city (estimate). ^[23]
• 2013 – Capital Hill Cashgate Scandal reported. ^[24]
• 2016 – Lilongwe Trade Fair begins. ^[25]
• 2017
  • Bingu National Stadium opens.
  • Desmond Bikoko becomes mayor. ^[26]
  • July: Stampede occurs at Bingu Stadium. ^[27]
• 2018 - Population: 989,318. ^[28]
• 2020 – Population: 1,324,314 (projected estimate). ^[7]

See also

• Lilongwe history

References

1. Owen J. M. Kalinga (2012). Historical Dictionary of Malawi (4th ed.). Scarecrow Press. ISBN   978-0-8108-5961-6.
2. "Lilongwe". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
3. "Antiquities". Government of Malawi, Department of Culture. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
4. "Malawi: Directory". Africa South of the Sahara 2004. Regional Surveys of the World. Europa Publications. 2004. ISBN   1857431839.
5. "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Malawi". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo . Retrieved 28 July 2017.
6. Cybriwsky 2013.
7. Mtafu Zeleza Manda (2007). "Mchenga: urban poor housing fund in Malawi". Environment & Urbanization . 19.
8. "Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources". RUFORUM Impact. Retrieved 2020-05-26.
9. "Malawi Profile: Timeline". BBC News. 22 June 2011. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
10. 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.{{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)
11. "National Botanic Gardens of Malawi". Southern African Botanical Diversity Network. Archived from the original on 27 January 2015.
12. "Mobs challenge Malawi president", New York Times, 10 May 1992
13. "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2002. United Nations Statistics Division.
14. "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2005. United Nations Statistics Division.
15. UN-Habitat 2011.
16. "New tomb for Malawi's Banda", BBC News, 13 May 2005
17. Cholera outbreak kills 11 in Malawi, Reuters, 31 December 2008
18. "Mmangisa paid K29m, demands K56m in arrears: Ex Lilongwe CEO sues", Nyasa Times , UK, 21 May 2015
19. "China assures more funding for Malawi Parliament", Nyasa Times, 12 July 2010, archived from the original on 18 July 2010
20. "Malawi army deployed over anti-Mutharika protests", BBC News, 21 July 2011
21. "About Us". Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
22. "Chinese built conference to be named after Bingu", Nyasa Times, UK, 21 February 2012
23. "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2015. United Nations Statistics Division. 2016.
24. "The $32m heist: Malawi's "cashgate" scandal", The Economist, UK, 27 February 2014
25. "80 companies confirmed for Lilongwe Trade Fair", Daily Times , Blantyre, 20 July 2016
26. "Lilongwe has a new Mayor", Malawi24.com, 5 January 2017
27. "Malawi football stadium stampede kills eight", BBC News, 6 July 2017
28. "Table 8 - Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants", Demographic Yearbook – 2018, United Nations

This article incorporates information from the German Wikipedia and Spanish Wikipedia.

Bibliography

• Harri Englund (2001). "Politics of multiple identities: the making of a Home Villagers' Association in Lilongwe, Malawi". In Arne Tostensen; et al. (eds.). Associational Life in African Cities: Popular Responses to the Urban Crisis. Sweden: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet. p. 90+. ISBN   978-91-7106-465-3.
• Hastings Mumba (2005), "Land transfer from central to local government and its delivery to the people: the experience of Lilongwe city", in C. Kruse and M. Manda (ed.), Lessons in Urban Management Experiences in Malawi, 2000–2005, Malawi, ISBN   9990892032
• Malawi: Lilongwe Urban Profile, United Nations Human Settlements Programme, 2011, ISBN   978-92-1-132377-1
• Roman A. Cybriwsky (2013). "Lilongwe". Capital Cities around the World: An Encyclopedia of Geography, History, and Culture. ABC-CLIO. p. 155+. ISBN   978-1-61069-248-9.
• Maria Rusca; et al. (2017). "Bathing without water, and other stories of everyday hygiene practices and risk perception in urban low-income areas: the case of Lilongwe, Malawi". Environment and Urbanization .

External links

• "Lilongwe, Malawi". BlackPast.org . US. 3 September 2014.
• "(Lilongwe)". Directory of Open Access Journals . UK. (Bibliography of open access articles)
• Items related to Lilongwe, various dates (via Europeana)
• Items related to Lilongwe, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America)
• "(Lilongwe)". Internet Library Sub-Saharan Africa . Germany: Frankfurt University Library. (Bibliography)
• "(Lilongwe)". Connecting-Africa. Leiden, Netherlands: African Studies Centre. (Bibliography)
• "(Lilongwe)". AfricaBib.org . (Bibliography)
• Christian Zimmermann (ed.). "(Lilongwe)". Research Papers in Economics . US: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. (Bibliography)

Images

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  Lilongwe, early 20th c.
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  Reserve Bank of Malawi headquarters under construction, Lilongwe, 1979
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  Lilongwe market, 2008
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  View of Lilongwe from space, 2010