Timeline of Abidjan

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

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Prior to 20th century

• 1898 - Village of Abidjan founded.^[1]

20th century

• 1903 - Abidjan becomes a town.^[1]
• 1910 - Dimbokro-Abidjan railway constructed.^[2]
• 1920 - Population: 1,000.
• 1927 - Port-Bouët wharf commissioned.^[2]
• 1934
  • French administrative capital relocated to Abidjan from Bingerville.^[1][3]
  • Bobo-Dioulasso-Abidjan railway constructed.^[2]
• 1938 - Theatre Indigene formed.^[4]
• 1942 - Museum established.^[5]
• 1945 - City council election held.
• 1946 - Population: 48,000.
• 1948 - ASEC Mimosas football club formed.
• 1950 - Vridi Canal opens.^[1][2]
• 1951 - Port of Abidjan in operation.
• 1952
  • Bibliothèque municipale established.^[6]
  • Stade Andre Geo opens.
• 1953 - Banco National Park and Stella Club d'Adjamé (football club) established.
• 1954 - Abidjan Matin newspaper begins publication.^[7]
• 1955
  • Catholic Archdiocese of Abidjan established.^[8]
  • Population: 127,585.^[2]
• 1956
  • Municipality established.
  • Félix Houphouët-Boigny becomes mayor.^[9]
  • City Hall built.^[10]
• 1958
  • 1st bridge completed connecting the mainland to Petit-Bassam Island.^[1]
• 1960
  • City becomes capital of independent Republic of Côte d'Ivoire.
  • Antoine Konan Kanga becomes mayor.^[9]
  • Abidjan Transport Company founded.
• 1961 - Centre d'Edition et de Diffusion Africaines established.^[11]
• 1962
  • Presidential palace inaugurated.
  • Institut Africain pour le Développement économique et Social headquartered in Abidjan.^[12]
  • Centre Culturel Français active.^[6]
• 1964 - Fraternité Matin newspaper begins publication.
• 1965
  • African Development Bank headquartered in Abidjan.^[13]
  • Nour-al-Hayat Mall built.^[10]
• 1967
  • Charles de Gaulle bridge built.^[10]
  • Higher Institute of Religious Culture founded.
• 1968 - National Library of Ivory Coast established.^[6]
• 1969 - Ivoire InterContinental Abidjan Hotel built.
• 1971 - Abidjan Institute of Criminology established (approximate date).
• 1972 - International Community School of Abidjan founded.^[14]
• 1974 - Abidjan Stock Exchange established.
• 1975 - Population: 951,216.^[2]
• 1976 - Ivorian Society of Bank building and Department of Finances building constructed.^[10]
• 1978
  • Palais des Sports de Treichville established.
  • Population: 1,269,071.^[2]
• 1980
  • City of Abidjan organized into ten communes: Abobo, Adjamé, Attécoubé, Cocody, Koumassi, Marcory, Plateau, Port-Bouët, Treichville, Yopougon.^[15]
  • Emmanuel Dioulo becomes mayor.^[9]
• 1983 - Political capital of Ivory Coast relocated from Abidjan to Yamoussoukro.^[3]
• 1984
  • March: 1984 African Cup of Nations held.
  • Cité Administrative Tour C, D and E built.
• 1985
  • St. Paul's Cathedral, Abidjan built.
  • Ernest N’Koumo Mobio becomes mayor.^[9]
  • Population: 1,716,000 (urban agglomeration).^[16]
• 1986 - Sister city relationship established with San Francisco, USA.^[17]
• 1988
  • Maquis du Val eatery opens.^[18]
  • Population: 1,934,342.^[2]
• 1990
  • Demonstration against Houphouët-Boigny national regime.
  • Population: 2,102,000 (urban agglomeration).^[16]
• 1992 - African Publishers Network headquartered in city.^[19]
• 1993 - Marche des Arts et du Spectacle Africains (festival) begins.^[20][21]
• 1995
  • Abidjan-Ouagadougou railway concessioned.^[22][23]
  • Population: 2,535,000 (urban agglomeration).^[16]
• 1996
  • Université d'Abobo-Adjamé founded.
  • Inades-Formation Côte d'Ivoire relocated to Abidjan.^[24]
• 1998 - Population: 2,877,948.^[25]

21st century

• 2000
  • Area of city: 627 square kilometers.^[26]
  • Population: 3,028,000 (urban agglomeration).^[16]
• 2001 - August: City administration decentralized into 13 communes: Abobo, Adjamé, Anyama, Attécoubé, Bingerville, Cocody, Koumassi, Marcory, Plateau, Port-Bouët, Songon, Treichville, Yopougon.^[27]
• 2002
  • September: First Ivorian Civil War begins.^[28]
  • Pierre Djédji Amondji becomes Abidjan district governor.^[9]
• 2003 - December: "Attack on state TV building."^[28]
• 2004
  • March: Political protest; violence ensues.^[28][29]
  • November: Anti-French riots.
• 2005 - Population: 3,564,000 (urban agglomeration).^[30]
• 2007 - Ivory Coast National Film Festial begins.
• 2009
  • 29 March: 2009 Houphouët-Boigny stampede.
  • Unite de Police Anti-Pollution active.^[31]
  • University of Science and Technology of Ivory Coast established.
• 2010
  • November: Pre-election unrest.^[32]
  • December: Political protest.^[33]
  • City website online (approximate date).^[34]
  • Population: 4,151,000 (urban agglomeration).^[16]
• 2011
  • February: Protest in Abobo against Gbagbo regime.^[35]
  • March: Second Ivorian Civil War begins.^[33]
  • April: "French army take over Abidjan's airport."^[33]
  • May: Robert Beugré Mambé becomes Abidjan district governor.^[27]
• 2012
  • May: TEDx Abidjan begins.^[36]
  • November: Association Internationale des Maires Francophones conference held.^[37][38]
  • Population: 4,476,397.
• 2013
  • 1 January: 2013 Houphouët-Boigny stampede.
  • InnovAfrica meets in Abidjan.^[39]

See also

• History of Abidjan

References

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2. Alain Dubresson (1997), "Abidjan: From the public making of a modern city to urban management of a metropolis", in Carole Rakodi, The Urban Challenge in Africa, United Nations University Press, ISBN 92-808-0952-0
3. Allen Armstrong (1985). "Ivory Coast: another new capital for Africa". Geography 70.
4. Martin Banham; et al., eds. (1994). "Côte d'Ivoire". Cambridge Guide to African and Caribbean Theatre. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521411394.
5. "Côte d'Ivoire: le musée d'Abidjan pillé durant la guerre, un pan d'histoire s'efface". L'Express (in French). Paris. 14 August 2011.
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9. "Les anciens Maires et Gouverneur du District d’Abidjan" (in French). District d'Abidjan. Retrieved 10 May 2013.
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11. Claudia Schulz (2001). "Construire le paysage de l'edition dans l'Afrique francophone de l'Ouest durant l'epoque post-coloniale". Les mutations du livre et de l'édition dans le monde du XVIIIe siècle à l'an 2000 (in French). Presses Université Laval. ISBN 2747508137.
12. "Centre de Recherche et d'Action pour la Paix". Abidjan. Retrieved 10 May 2013.
13. "History". African Development Bank Group. Retrieved 28 May 2013.
14. "International Community School of Abidjan". Retrieved 10 May 2013.
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21. "MASA Festival". Retrieved September 2014.
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23. Howard W. French (November 19, 1994), "Abidjan Journal; The Little Railroad That Couldn't Goes Private", New York Times
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31. "Cote d'Ivoire: Up in Smoke; Meet Africa's first green cops". Frontline. WGBH Educational Foundation. 9 July 2009.
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35. "Ivorian troops fire to disperse anti-Gbagbo protest". Reuters. 20 February 2011.
36. "TEDx Abidjan". Retrieved 10 May 2013.
37. "Assemblee generale de l’Association Internationale des Maires Francophones" (in French). Gouvernement de Côte d'Ivoire. 26 November 2012.
38. "Villes, dialogue interculturel et paix - Abidjan, 26-28 novembre 2012". Paris: Association Internationale des Maires Francophones. Retrieved 10 May 2013.
39. "InnovAfrica" (in French). Retrieved September 2014.

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

Further reading

Published in the 20th century

• P. Haeringer (1969). "Structures foncières et création urbaine à Abidjan". Cahiers d'études africaines (in French).
• Jean-Marie Gibbal (1974). Citadins et villageois dans la ville africaine; l'exemple d'Abidjan (in French). Grenoble: Presses Universitaires/Francois Maspero.
• P. Haeringer (1977). "Abidjan 1976. Occupation de l'espace urbain et péri-urbain". Atlas de Côte-d'Ivoire (in French). Abidjan: Ministère de Plan-ORSTOM-IGT.
• P. Haeringer (1985). "Vingt-cinq ans de politique urbaine a Abidjan". Politique Africaine (in French) 17.
• C. Vidal; M. Le Pape (1986). Pratiques de crise et conditions sociales à Abidjan, 1979-1985 (in French). Abidjan: ORSTOM.
• Philippe Antoine; et al. (1987). Abidjan 'côte cours' (in French). Paris: ORSTOM/Karthala.
• A. Bonnassieux (1987), L'autre Abidjan. Chronique d'un quartier oublié (in French), Paris: INADES
• K. Attahi (1991). "Planning and management in large cities: A case study of Abidjan, Côte-d'Ivoire". Metropolitan Planning and Management in the Developing World: Abidjan and Quito. Nairobi: United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat).
• M. Le Pape; et al. (1992), Abidjan: du cosmopolitanisme à la mondialisation (in French), Paris: ASP CNRS-ORSTOM

Published in the 21st century

• "Abidjan". Understanding Slums: Case Studies for the Global Report 2003. United Nations Human Settlements Programme and University College London. 2003.
• Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, ed. (2005). "Abidjan". Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 6. ISBN 978-0-19-517055-9.
• Bill Freund (2007). "Globalisation and the African city: Touba, Abidjan, Durban". The African City: A History. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-52792-7.
• Villes et organisation de l'espace en Afrique (in French). Éditions Karthala. 2010. ISBN 2811103392. (contains several chapters about Abidjan)
• "Histoire". Abidjan. Le Petit Futé (in French). 2012.

External links

Media related to Abidjan at Wikimedia Commons

• "(Items related to Abidjan)". Internet Library Sub-Saharan Africa. Germany: Frankfurt University Library.
• "(Articles related to Abidjan)". Connecting-Africa. Leiden, Netherlands: African Studies Centre.

Images

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  De Gaulle Bridge, built 1967 (photo 2009)

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  St. Paul's Cathedral, Abidjan, built 1980 (photo 2009)

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  Abidjan, 2010

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  Liberté traffic circle, Adjamé, Abidjan, in 2010

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  Abidjan, 2014