Timeline of Libreville

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Libreville, Gabon.

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19th century

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  • 1843 - Fort and trading post established by French.[1]
  • 1849
    • Libreville founded by French military official Édouard Bouët-Willaumez. Freed Vili [fr] slaves were resettled in the new village.[2][3]
    • M. Mountier, a resettled former slave, becomes mayor (approximate date).[4]
  • 1860 - Town becomes administrative seat of colonial "French territories in the Gulf of Guinea" (approximate date).[3]
  • 1865 - Church of the Immaculate Conception built.[5]
  • 1888 - Libreville becomes administrative seat of colonial French Congo.[5][6]

20th century

21st century

Aerial view of Libreville, 2012

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c Young 2010.
  2. ^ "France: Africa: French Equatorial Africa (French Congo)". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. pp. 886–888.
  3. ^ a b c "Gabon". Political Chronology of Africa. Political Chronologies of the World. Europa Publications. 2001. pp. 181–186. ISBN 978-0203409954.
  4. ^ a b Binza 2006.
  5. ^ a b c d e f Ngolet 2005.
  6. ^ a b c "Historique de la ville". Libreville.ga (in French). Retrieved 25 July 2017.
  7. ^ a b c d Mboumba 2013.
  8. ^ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Gabon". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
  9. ^ a b c d e f "Anciens maires de Libreville". Libreville.ga (in French). Retrieved 25 July 2017.
  10. ^ a b "Gabon: Directory". Africa South of the Sahara 2004. Regional Surveys of the World. Europa Publications. 2004. ISBN 978-1857431834.
  11. ^ "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.
  12. ^ "Madagascar Profile: Timeline". BBC News. 21 June 2011. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
  13. ^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2015. United Nations Statistics Division. 2016.
  14. ^ "Gabon: Rose Christiane Ossouka Raponda, le nouveau visage de Libreville". Jeune Afrique (in French). Paris. 21 January 2014.
This article incorporates information from the French Wikipedia.

Bibliography

in English
  • Henry H. Bucher Jr. (1979). "Liberty and Labor: The Origins of Libreville Reconsidered". Bulletin de l'Institut fondamental d'Afrique noire. 41.
  • François Ngolet (2005). "Libreville". In Kevin Shillington (ed.). Encyclopedia of African History. Fitzroy Dearborn. pp. 828–829. ISBN 978-1-57958-245-6.
  • Hugues Steve Ndinga-Koumba Binza (2006). "Demographic profiles of Libreville and Lome". In S.B. Bekker; Anne Leildé (eds.). Reflections on Identity in Four African Cities. South Africa: African Minds. ISBN 978-1-920051-40-2. (about Cape Town, Johannesburg, Libreville, Lomé)
  • Peter P. Hinks; John R. McKivigan, eds. (2007). "Libreville". Encyclopedia of Antislavery and Abolition. Greenwood. p. 432+. ISBN 978-0-313-33144-2.
  • Eric Young (2010). "Libreville, Gabon". In Kwame Anthony Appiah; Henry Louis Gates (eds.). Encyclopedia of Africa. Oxford University Press. p. 51+. ISBN 9780195337709.
in French
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