Timeline of Sal, Cape Verde

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The following is a timeline of the island of Sal, Cape Verde.

Prehistoric era

50 million years ago: The island now known as Sal was formed during the eruption of a volcano which is now inactive, the geologically oldest island in Cape Verde.
Up to about 10,000 years ago: The island was larger and compromised an estimate size of around 1,000 to 1,500 km2 of land, the southern part was underwater at the time.
Up to about 4,000 BC: The island size was about 300 to 400 km2

Colonial era

1460 - December 3: The island was discovered, it would be named Llana (Modern Portuguese: Plana) as most of the geography are predominantly of plain.
1799 - Salt deposits discovered
1800s - The island's first settlement Pedra de Lume established, the island became populated
1804 - Cape Verde's first tunnel constructed at Pedra de Lume
1830 - Santa Maria founded, became the chief island capital up to the mid 20th century
1832 - Estimate population: 400^[1]
1887 - Salt production went into decline after Brazil nationalized its salt production to Portugal
1892 - Farol da Ponta do Sinó near Santa Maria completed
1897 - Farol da Ponta Norte constructed, the first tower was completed near Reguinho Fiúra
1920 - French salt company Le Salines du Cap-Vert mined for salt production to France
1935 - Sal became an independent municipality carved out the municipality of Boa Vista or Boa Vista and Sal
1939 - Italian government after granted authorization by the Portuguese government constructed Cape Verde's first major and international airport primarily to serve as a stopover for flights between Rome and South America.
1940
- Population: 1,121^[2]
- As a consequence of World War II in Europe, the Italians left, airport construction abandoned
1941 - Second tower of Farol da Ponta Norte completed, today the lighthouse lay in ruins
1945 - May 1: Sport Clube Verdun football (soccer) team established
1947 - The Portuguese purchased the airport installations from the Italians, the Portuguese constructed the rest
1949
- Sal International Airport (now Amílcar Cabral International Airport) opened
- The settlement of Preguiça, named after a settlement in São Nicolau, it is now known as Espargos due to its abundances of asparagus grown in the sandy areas of the area
1950
- Population: 1,838^[2]
- Alitalia served as a stopover for refueling on Rome-Sal-Buenos Aires-Caracas flight, the service continued up to 1961
1960
- Population: 2,608^[2]
- Sal was the stop of a Friendship Flight (Voo da amizade) between Portugal and Brazil, only Brazilian and Portuguese citizens or foreigners with permanent residence in Brazil and Portugal could use those flights, they were popular due to their low fares. Cape Verde was a Portuguese overseas province at the time.
Around the 1960s - A frigate, likely Danish sunk southeast of Sal and shipped chocolate from the Congo region to Denmark, Ponta and Costa da Fragata would be named after the sunken frigate which is now collapsed into the ocean and is no longer seen. The ship was one of the last European ships sunk in the waters of Cape Verde and within 180 km (100 nm) of the island's shoreline.
1962 - February 26: Juventude (Sal) football (soccer) club established
1963 - August 3: Académica do Sal football (soccer) club established
1966 - Académico do Aeroporto football (soccer) club established
1967 - South African Airways (SAA) used as a refueling stop for flights to and from Europe, since SAA was denied landing rights by most African countries due to the international boycott of apartheid.
1970 - Population: 5,505^[2]

After independence in 1975-1999

1975 - July 5: Cape Verde declared independence from Portugal and became and independent nation
1980 - Population: 5,826^[2]
1983 - SAA used the airport as a refueling sup for its Boeing 747SP service between South Africa and Houston Intercontinental Airport in the US
1985 - TACV began services to Boston, Massachusetts, USA using a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 provided by LAM Mozambique Airlines, TACV flights with Boston had now shifted to Praia
1990 - Population: 7,715^[2]
1991 - September 19: GDRC Pretória basketball club established
Late 1990s - Sal's first seaside touristic village started construction and later completed years later
March 1994 - When apartheid ended in South Africa, SAA would no longer use Sal as a stopover with flights to and from Europe
1999 - End of salt production in Sal

21st century

2000
- Population: 14,816^[3]
- Sal Island Super Cup established
2003 - March 10: Estádio Marcelo Leitão opened
2004 - The first hotels and resorts constructed in the southernmost part of the island west of Santa Maria, Funaná and Garupa, owned by RIU.
2006 - July 1: SAA operated its final flight to Sal due to the ending of its flights to Atlanta, Georgia in the US
2010 - Population: 25,481^[3]
2014
- Estimate population: 32,000
- Sal Island League introduced the Second Division
2015 - Hurricane Fred struck the island on August 31, in Santa Maria, his storm surge sunk or stranded dozens of vessels and destroyed an important tourist pier.^[4] Hotels, restaurants, and other beach facilities were flooded, and roads in the town became impassable. High winds leveled the roof of a sport center at a gymnasium^[5] which had initially been set up as a storm shelter to about 100 citizens.^[4] Elsewhere, the hurricane knocked out power to homes in Palmeira^[5] and caused minor structural damage to Sal International Airport.^[6]

References

↑ Roberts, Edmund (1837). Embassy to the Eastern Courts of Cochin-China, Siam, and Muscat. New York: Harper & Brothers. p. 17.
1 2 3 4 5 6 Source: Statoids
1 2 Source: Instituto Nacional de Estatísticas.
1 2 "Resumo a minuto do Furacão Fred". Ocean Press (in Portuguese). 31 August 2015. Retrieved 9 September 2015.
1 2 Fonseca, Sanny (31 August 2015). "Furacão "Fred" causa estragos na Boa Vista e no Sal". A Semana (in Portuguese). Retrieved 31 August 2015.
↑ "llha do Sal foi uma das mais fustigadas pelo Furacão Fred" (in Portuguese). Radio Onda Livre. 1 September 2015. Retrieved 1 September 2015.

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