Timeline of Lusaka

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Lusaka, Zambia.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

20th century

• 1905
  • Railway begins operating.^[1]
  • European settlement formed.^[1]
• 1913 - Village Management Board established.^[2]
• 1926 - "District administrative headquarters" relocated to Lusaka from Chilanga (approximate date).^[1]
• 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 begins publication.^[4]
• 1951 - Lusaka Playhouse built.^[5]
• 1952 - African Listener radio programme begins broadcasting.^[6]
• 1954 - F. Payne becomes mayor.
• 1956 - Lusaka African Marketeers' Cooperative Society organized.^[7]
• 1958 - Waddington Theatre Club founded.^[5]
• 1959 - 20th Century cinema opens (approximate date).^[8]
• 1960
  • Lusaka attains city status.^[1]
  • African Mail newspaper begins publication.^[4]
  • Palace cinema opens (approximate date).^[8]
  • Luburma market established (approximate date).^[9]
• 1963
  • National Archives of Zambia headquartered in city.^[10]
  • International School of Lusaka founded.^[11]
  • Population: 87,495.^[1]
• 1964
  • City becomes capital of the newly independent Republic of Zambia.^[12]
  • Independence Stadium (Zambia) opens.
• 1965 - Rhodes Park School established.
• 1966 - University of Zambia founded.
• 1967 - Mtendele "squatter township" opens.^[13]
• 1968
  • Zambia Daily Mail newspaper in publication.^[14]
  • Sister city relationship established with Los Angeles, USA.^[15]
• 1969 - Zambian News Agency headquartered in city.
• 1970 - "Greater Lusaka created."^[3]
• 1971 - Chikwakwa Theatre established at the University of Zambia.^[16]
• 1972 - Chunga market built.^[9]
• 1976
  • Housing Project Unit established.^[17]
  • United Nations Institute for Namibia inaugurated.
  • Libala, Kaunda Square, and Longacres markets established (approximate date).^[9]
• 1978 - Racial unrest.^[18]
• 1979
  • August: City hosts Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 1979.^[19]
  • Zambia Consumer Buying Corporation opens.^[9]
• 1985
  • Zanaco Football Club formed.
  • Non-governmental Organisations' Co-ordinating Committee established.^[11]
• 1991 - Weekly Post newspaper begins publication (approximate date).^[4]
• 1994
  • Lusaka Stock Exchange opens.^[11]
  • Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa headquartered in Lusaka.^[20]
• 1996 - Lusaka National Museum opens.
• 1997
  • Umar Al Farook mosque opens.
  • Sustainable Lusaka Project launched.^[21]
• 1999 - University of Lusaka founded.

21st century

• 2000 - Population: 1,057,212.^[22]
• 2001 - Munali Girls High School established.^[23]
• 2006 - October: Post-election unrest.^[24]
• 2010 - Daniel Chisenga becomes mayor.^[25]
• 2012 - February: Celebration of Zambia's winning 2012 Africa Cup of Nations.^[26]

References

1. Elizabeth Wilson (1963). "Lusaka". Geography (UK: Geographical Association) 48.
2. Emmanuel Mutale (2004), Management of Urban Development in Zambia, Ashgate Publishing, ISBN 9780754635963
3. "History of Lusaka". Lusaka City Council. Archived from the original on 17 February 2005. Retrieved 15 May 2013.
4. "Lusaka (Zambia) Newspapers". WorldCat. USA: Online Computer Library Center. Retrieved 15 May 2013.
5. Dickson Mwansa (1997). "Zambia". In Don Rubin. World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre: Africa. Routledge. ISBN 0415059313.
6. Jack Howard (1953). "Lusaka Calling". Quarterly of Film Radio and Television 7.
7. Anthony Oberschall (1972). "Lusaka Market Vendors: Then and Now". Urban Anthropology 1. JSTOR 40552859.
8. "The Bioscope". Great North Road. March 2002. Retrieved 15 May 2013.
9. Earl P. Scott (1985). "Lusaka's Informal Sector in National Economic Development". Journal of Developing Areas 20. JSTOR 4191418.
10. "About Us". National Archives of Zambia. Archived from the original on 21 January 2012. Retrieved 15 May 2013.
11. Karen Fung (ed.). "Zambia". Africa South of the Sahara: Selected Internet Resources. USA: Stanford University. Retrieved 15 May 2013.
12. "Zambia Profile: Timeline". BBC News. Retrieved 15 May 2013.
13. Karen Tranberg Hansen (1980). "The Urban Informal Sector as a Development Issue: Poor Women and Work in Lusaka, Zambia". Urban Anthropology 9. JSTOR 40552918.
14. "Zambia: Directory: the Press". Africa South of the Sahara 2004. Regional Surveys of the World. Europa Publications. 2004. p. 1217. ISBN 1857431839.
15. "Sister Cities of Los Angeles". USA: City of Los Angeles. Retrieved December 2015.
16. Martin Banham; et al., eds. (1994). "Zambia". Cambridge Guide to African and Caribbean Theatre. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521411394.
17. Karen Tranberg Hansen (1982). "Lusaka's Squatters: Past and Present". African Studies Review 25. JSTOR 524213.
18. "Zambians, Outraged By Rhodesian Raids, Attack Whites in City". New York Times. 8 November 1978.
19. Ackson M. Kanduza (2003). "Lusaka". In Dickson Eyoh and Paul Tiyambe Zeleza. Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History. Routledge. ISBN 0415234794.
20. "Organizations". International Relations and Security Network. Switzerland: Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich. Retrieved September 2014.
21. "Lusaka". Sustainable Cities Programme, 1990-2000. UN-HABITAT. 2002.
22. "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2011. United Nations Statistics Division. 2012. Retrieved 15 May 2013.
23. "About Us". Munali Girls High School. Retrieved 15 May 2013.
24. "Riots Spread as Incumbent Widens Lead in Zambia Vote". New York Times. 3 October 2006. Retrieved 15 May 2013.
25. "New Lusaka mayor, Chisenga, shares plans for the City". The Post. 9 September 2010. Retrieved 15 May 2013.
26. "After Tragedy, Zambia Triumphs". New York Times. 15 February 2012. Retrieved 15 May 2013.

Further reading

Published in the 20th century

• J. Collins (1980). "Lusaka: Urban Planning in a British Colony, 1931-64". In G.E. Cherry. Shaping an Urban World. London.
• E. Shamilupa Kalapula (1987). "Electrification of peri-urban areas in Lusaka, Zambia". Geography (UK) 72.
• A.W. Drescher (1996). "Urban microfarming in central Southern Africa: a case study of Lusaka, Zambia". African Urban Quarterly.

Published in the 21st century

• Drescher; Mackel (2000). "Urban and peri-urban food security: the example of Lusaka (Zambia". Urbanization, vulnerability and resource management in developing countries. Germany.
• "Lusaka". 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). "Lusaka". Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 661+. ISBN 978-0-19-517055-9.
• "Lusaka". African Cities Driving the NEPAD Initiative. UN-HABITAT. 2006.
• Lusaka urban profile, UN-HABITAT, 2007

External links

• "(Articles related to Lusaka)". Connecting-Africa. Leiden, Netherlands: African Studies Centre.