Timeline of Yaoundé

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Yaoundé, Cameroon.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Prior to 20th century

• 1888 - "Jaunde" settlement founded by German Georg August Zenker in colonial Kamerun. ^[1]
• 1895 - Trading post in business. ^[1]

20th century

• 1909 - Town designated capital of German colonial Kamerun. ^[2]
• 1911
  • Charles Atangana appointed mayor.
  • Palais de Charles Atangana  [ fr ] built.
• 1916 - Town occupied by British and French forces. ^[3]
• 1921 - Yaounde designated administrative seat of colonial French Cameroon. ^[1]
• 1927 - Transcamerounais  [ fr ] railway begins operating. ^[1]
• 1930 - Canon Yaoundé football club formed.
• 1933 - Central Hospital of Yaoundé founded.
• 1936 - Bastos (cigarette) manufactory begins operating. ^[4]
• 1939
  • Central post office built. ^[5]
  • Population: 9,080. ^[1]
• 1951 - Mvog-Betsi Zoo founded.
• 1952 - École professionnelle Charles-Atangana (school) built. ^[5]
• 1953 - Population: 36,786. ^[1]
• 1955
  • Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Yaoundé active. ^[6]
  • Our Lady of Victories Cathedral dedicated. ^[5]
• 1956 - André Fouda  [ fr ] elected mayor.
• 1959 - École nationale d'administration et de magistrature  [ fr ] (college) founded.
• 1961
  • City becomes capital of independent Republic of Cameroon. ^[1]
  • École normale supérieure de Yaoundé  [ fr ] (college) founded.
  • Supreme Court of Cameroon headquartered in Yaoundé.
• 1962
  • University of Yaoundé opens.
  • Population: 93,269. ^[7]
• 1964 - American School of Yaounde founded.
• 1965 - University Teaching Hospital of Yaounde founded.^{[ citation needed ]}
• 1966 - National Library of Cameroon headquartered in city.
• 1967 - Kondengui Central Prison built.
• 1971 - École nationale supérieure polytechnique de Yaoundé  [ fr ] (college) founded.
• 1972
  • Bank of Central African States headquartered in Yaoundé.
  • Ahmadou Ahidjo Stadium opens.
  • National "centralization of government functions" leads to population increase Yaounde. ^[2]
• 1973 - Monument de la réunification  [ fr ] erected.^{[ citation needed ]}
• 1974
  • Cameroon Tribune newspaper begins publication. ^[8]
  • Tonnerre Yaoundé football club formed.
• 1976 - Population: 291,071. ^[9]
• 1985 - Yaoundé General Hospital built.
• 1987
  • Cameroon Radio Television headquartered in Yaounde. ^[8]
  • Population: 649,000. ^[10]
• 1988 - Musée national du Cameroun  [ fr ] (museum) active.
• 1991 - Catholic University of Central Africa opens. ^[11]
• 1992 - International airport begins operating. ^[1]
• 1993 - University of Yaoundé I and University of Yaoundé II established.
• 1998
  • 14 February: Yaoundé train explosion occurs.
  • Blackitude Museum founded.
  • 1,293,000 (estimate). ^[12]
• 1999 - Afhemi Museum opens. ^[13]

21st century

• 2002 - Yaoundé Gynaecology, Obstetrics and Pediatrics Hospital opens.
• 2004 - United Nations Development Fund for Women regional office headquartered in Yaounde. ^[11]
• 2005 - Population: 1,817,524. ^[14]
• 2006 - Basilique Marie-Reine-des-Apôtres (church) dedicated.
• 2008 - February: 2008 Cameroonian anti-government protests; crackdown. ^[15]
• 2009
  • March: Catholic pope visits city.
  • Yaoundé Multipurpose Sports Complex opens.
• 2016
  • Paul Biya Stadium construction begins.
  • Population: 2,873,567 (estimate). ^[16]
• 2019 - Part of 2019 Africa Cup of Nations football contest to be held in city.

See also

• Yaoundé history
• Timeline of Douala

References

1. Eckert 2005.
2. Gates 2005.
3. "Le Cameroun: Histoire". Portail du Gouvernement du Cameroun: Services du Premier Ministre (in French). Retrieved 31 July 2017.
4. "Cameroun: l'origine des noms de 20 quartiers de Yaoundé". Camer.be (in French). Brussels. 2 February 2016.
5. "Si Yaoundé, vous était contée…", Cameroon Tribune (in French), 8 March 2017
6. "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Cameroon". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo . Retrieved 31 July 2017.
7. "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1965. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations. 1966. pp. 140–161.
8. "Cameroon: Directory". Africa South of the Sahara 2004. Regional Surveys of the World. Europa Publications. 2004. ISBN   1857431839.
9. United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1987). "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". 1985 Demographic Yearbook. New York. pp. 247–289.
10. "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2000. United Nations Statistics Division.
11. Mark Dike DeLancey; et al. (2010). Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon (4th ed.). Scarecrow Press. ISBN   978-0-8108-7399-5.
12. "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2005. United Nations Statistics Division.
13. Cybriwsky 2013.
14. "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2015. United Nations Statistics Division. 2016.
15. "Cameroon Profile: Timeline". BBC News. 20 April 2011. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
16. "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 French Wikipedia and the German Wikipedia.

Bibliography

in English

• Remi Clignet; Frank Jordan (1971). "Urbanization and Social Differentiation in Africa: A Comparative Analysis of the Ecological Structures of Douala and Yaoundé". Cahiers d'Études africaines . 11 (42): 261–297. doi:10.3406/cea.1971.2803 – via Persee.fr.
• Jane I. Guyer, ed. (1987). "Feeding Yaoundé, capital of Cameroon". In Feeding African Cities: Studies in Regional Social History. Indiana University Press. ISBN   0253321026.
• Paul Tiyambe Zeleza; Dickson Eyoh, eds. (2003). "Yaoundé, Cameroon". Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History. Routledge. ISBN   0415234794.
• Andreas Eckert [in German] (2005). "Yaoundé". In Kevin Shillington (ed.). Encyclopedia of African History. Fitzroy Dearborn. ISBN   978-1-57958-245-6.
• Kwame Anthony Appiah; Henry Louis Gates, eds. (2005). "Yaoundé, Cameroon". Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-517055-9.
• Gordon Prain; et al., eds. (2010). African Urban Harvest: Agriculture in the Cities of Cameroon, Kenya and Uganda. Springer. ISBN   978-1-4419-6249-2. (Includes articles about Yaoundé)
• Roman A. Cybriwsky (2013). "Yaoundé". Capital Cities around the World: An Encyclopedia of Geography, History, and Culture. ABC-CLIO. p. 342+. ISBN   978-1-61069-248-9.

in French

• André Franqueville (1968). "Le paysage urbain de Yaounde". Cahiers d'Outre-Mer (in French). 21– via Persee.fr.
• Louis Roussel; et al. (1968). "La mobilité de la population urbaine en Afrique Noire: Deux essais de mesure, Abidjan et Yaoundé". Population (in French). 23 (2): 333–352. doi:10.2307/1527492. ISSN   1957-7966. JSTOR   1527492 – via Persee.fr.
• André Franqueville (1984). Yaoundé: construire une capitale (in French). IRD Editions. ISBN   9782709907248. (Includes bibliography)
• Anne Sidonie Zoa (1995), Les ordures à Yaoundé. Urbanisation, environnement et politique au Cameroun (in French), L'Harmattan
• Marie Morelle (2006). "'La rue' dans la ville africaine (Yaoundé, Cameroun et Antananarivo, Madagascar" [City streets in Africa]. Annales de géographie (in French). 115. doi:10.3406/geo.2006.21445 – via Persee.fr.
• J.R. Ngambi et al., 2011, "La prolifération des décharges sauvages et leurs impacts socio-environnementaux dans la ville de Yaoundé", International Journal Advanced Studies and Research in Africa, 2011 Vol.2, N°1, 52-58.
• René Joly Assako Assako (2012). "À propos de l'opération d'embellissement de Yaoundé, capitale d'Afrique centrale" [Politics of embellishment of the Cameroon capital, Yaoundé]. Cahiers d'Outre-Mer (in French). 65 (259): 371–393. doi: 10.4000/com.6652 – via Revues.org.
• Jules Raymond Ngambi (2016). "Les pratiques populaires à la rescousse de la salubrité urbaine: la précollecte, un service alternatif aux insuffisances du système formel de gestion des déchets à Yaoundé". Cybergeo (in French) (789). doi: 10.4000/cybergeo.27782 – via Revues.org.

in German

• "Jaunde". Deutsches Kolonial-Lexikon (in German). 1920 – via Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt.

External links

• Items related to Yaoundé, various dates (via Europeana) (Images, etc.)
• Items related to Yaoundé, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America) (Images, etc.)
• "(Yaounde)". Internet Library Sub-Saharan Africa . Germany: Frankfurt University Library. (Bibliography)
• "(Yaounde)". Connecting-Africa. Leiden, Netherlands: African Studies Centre. (Bibliography)
• "(Yaounde)". AfricaBib.org . (Bibliography)
• "(Yaoundé)". Directory of Open Access Journals . UK. (Bibliography of open access articles)
• "Yaoundé, Cameroon". BlackPast.org . US. October 2014.