Timeline of Lomé
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Lomé, Togo.
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Prior to 20th century
- 1874 - Lomé founded "by African, British and German traders."[1]
- 1897 - Lomé becomes capital of German colonial Togoland.[2]
20th century
- 1902 - Catholic Cathedral built.[3]
- 1904 - Wharf constructed.[4]
- 1905
- Aného-Lomé railway[5] and Palace of the Governors built.
- 1907
- 1911 - Atakpamé-Lomé railway built.[1]
- 1914 - Lomé "annexed by the British from the Gold Coast."[1]
- 1920 - Lomé becomes capital of colonial French Togoland.[1]
- 1920s - Boulevard Circulaire laid out.[1]
- 1922 - Political "council of notables" formed.[1]
- 1932
- Municipality established.[6]
- Étoile Filante du Togo football club formed.
- 1933 - January: "Riot by women" against taxes.[2][7]
- 1955
- Lonato building constructed.[8]
- Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Lomé established.[9]
- 1957 - La Vérité Togolaise newspaper begins publication.
- 1958 - Tokoin becomes part of Lome.[1]
- 1960
- 1961 - Dynamic Togolais football club formed.
- 1962 - Togo-Presse government newspaper begins publication.[10]
- 1963 - 13 January: 1963 Togolese coup d'état; Sylvanus Olympio assassinated.
- 1965 - Happy Star Concert Band formed.[11]
- 1968 - Stade Général Eyadema (stadium) opens.
- 1969 - Deep-water harbor built.[1]
- 1970 - University of Benin founded.
- 1972 - Population: 170,000.[4]
- 1975
- Togo National Museum opens.
- City hosts signing of the Lomé Convention.[12]
- 1980 - Hotel du 2 Fevrier and West African Development Bank[13] built.
- 1981 - Population: 375,499.[14]
- 1983 - British School established.
- 1985
- 1989
- 1990 - 5 October: Anti-government demonstrations begin.[1][2]
- 1991 - April: Crackdown on anti-government demonstrators.[1]
- 1993 - La Dépêche newspaper begins publication.[10]
- 1997
- 1998 - Bourse Régionale des Valeurs Mobilières (stock exchange) branch established.[12]
- 1999 - July: City hosts signing of the Lomé Peace Accord.[12]
21st century
- 2000 - Stade de Kégué (stadium) opens.
- 2001 - October: Mayor Amousouvi Akakpo arrested.[16]
- 2005
- March: Funeral of Gnassingbé Eyadéma.[1]
- May: Post-election unrest.[17]
- 2007 - Musée international du Golfe de Guinée (museum) founded.[18]
- 2011 - Population: 1,524,000 (urban agglomeration).[19]
- 2012
- June: Political demonstration.[15][20]
- University of Science and Technology of Togo established.
- 2013 - 11 January: Lomé Grand Market fire.[21]
See also
- History of Lomé (in French)
- History of Togo
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Gervais-Lambony 2011.
- 1 2 3 4 Goeh-Akue 2005.
- 1 2 Thierry Lulle (1993). "Le Togo". In Jacques Soulillou. Rives coloniales: architectures, de Saint-Louis à Douala (in French). Editions Parenthèses. ISBN 978-2-86364-056-2.
- 1 2 3 Komla Tallaki (2005). "Pest-Control System in the Market Gardens of Lome, Togo". In Luc J. A. Mougeot. Agropolis: The Social, Political, and Environmental Dimensions of Urban Agriculture. International Development Research Centre. pp. 51–88. ISBN 978-1-55250-186-3.
- ↑ Albert Frederick Calvert (1918), Togoland, London: T. W. Laurie
- ↑ Binza 2006.
- ↑ Benjamin N. Lawrance (2003), "La Révolte des Femmes: Economic Upheaval and the Gender of Political Authority in Lomé, Togo, 1931–33", African Studies Review 46, JSTOR 1514980
- ↑ "Lome". Togo. Le Petit Futé (in French). 2010. p. 70+. ISBN 2-7469-3597-X.
- ↑ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Togo". www.katolsk.no. Norway: Oslo katolske bispedømme (Oslo Catholic Diocese). Retrieved September 2014.
- 1 2 3 Europa World Year Book 2004. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 1857432533.
- ↑ Alain Ricard (1974), "Concert Party as a Genre: The Happy Stars of Lomé", Research in African Literatures 5, JSTOR 3818671
- 1 2 3 "Togo: Directory". Africa South of the Sahara 2004. Regional Surveys of the World. Europa Publications. 2004. ISBN 1857431839.
- 1 2 "(Lome, Togo)". ArchNet. Retrieved September 2014.
- ↑ Gabriel Kwami Nyassogbo (1993). "Comment une capitale devient macrocephale en Afrique subsaharienne: le cas de Lome au Togo". In John Taylor; et al. Les capitales: Perspectives internationales (in French). McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN 978-0-7735-8496-9.
- 1 2 "Togo Profile: Timeline". BBC News. Retrieved September 2014.
- ↑ Lome mayor in corruption probe, BBC News, 5 October 2001
- ↑ Michael Kamber (5 May 2005), "Lomé Journal", New York Times
- ↑ "Togo: Lome". West Africa. Lonely Planet. 2009. pp. 774–783. ISBN 978-1-74104-821-6.
- ↑ "The State of African Cities 2014". United Nations Human Settlements Programme. ISBN 978-92-1-132598-0. Retrieved September 2014.
- ↑ "Togo: Police Clashes with Thousand of Protesters in Lomé". 21 August 2012 – via Global Voices.
- ↑ Togo: le bâtiment principal du grand marché de Lomé ravagé par le feu (in French), Radio France Internationale, 12 January 2013
This article incorporates information from the French Wikipedia.
Bibliography
in English
- N. Adovi Goeh-Akue (2005). "Lomé". In Kevin Shillington. Encyclopedia of African History. Fitzroy Dearborn. ISBN 978-1-135-45670-2.
- Hugues Steve Ndinga-Koumba Binza (2006). "Demographic Profiles of Libreville and Lomé". In S.B. Bekker and Anne Leildé. Reflections on Identity in Four African Cities. South Africa: African Minds. ISBN 978-1-920051-40-2. (about Cape Town, Johannesburg, Libreville, Lomé)
- Philippe Gervais-Lambony (2011), Simon Bekker and Goran Therborn, ed., "Lomé", Capital Cities in Africa: Power and Powerlessness (Dakar: Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa), ISBN 978-2- 8697-8495-6
in French
- Philippe Gervais-Lambony and G. Kwami Nyassogbo, ed. (2008). Lomé: Dynamiques d'une ville africaine [Lome: Dynamics of an African city] (in French). Éditions Karthala. ISBN 978-2-8111-4224-7.
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