Timeline_of_Zanzibar_City
The following is a timeline of the history of Zanzibar City, Unguja island, Zanzibar, Tanzania. The city is composed of Ng'ambo and Stone Town. Until recently it was known as Zanzibar Town.
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- 1700 – Old Fort of Zanzibar is built by Omanis (approximate date).[1]
- 1710 – Queen Fatima in power.[2]
- 1746 – "Arab garrison" installed in fort.[2]
- 1753 – Fort "unsuccessfully attacked by Mazrui Arabs from Mombasa."[2]
- 1784 – Zanzibar becomes part of Oman.[2]
- 1822 – Moresby Treaty.
- 1828 – The sultan orders a particular portion of the land to be cultivated in to cloe plantations. This result in an expansion of slave import.
- 1830 – Mtoni Palace built near town.[3]
- 1832 – Capital of the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman relocated to Zanzibar from Muscat, Oman by Said bin Sultan.[4]
- 1836 – United States consulate established.[4]
- 1841 – British consulate established.[5]
- 1844 – French consulate established.[6]
- 1845 – Hamerton Treaty.
- 1850 - Kidichi Baths built near town.[7]
- 1856 – Majid bin Said of Zanzibar in power.[8]
- 1870
- Barghash ibn Said in power.[5]
- Population: 70,000 (approximate).[5]
- 1872 - Cyclone.[9]
- 1873 – British "forced the closure of the slave market."[5]
- 1879 – Anglican Christ Church built.[4]
- 1880 – Marhubi Palace built near town.[3]
- 1883 – House of Wonders built.
- 1888 – Hamamni Persian Baths built.
- 1890 – British in power per Heligoland–Zanzibar Treaty.
- The purchase and selling of slaves is prohibited; slavery itself is preserved.
- 1896 – 27 August: Anglo-Zanzibar War.
- 1897 – Slavery in Zanzibar abolished[10] except in the case of concubines (abolished in 1909[11]).
- 1898 – Catholic St. Joseph's Cathedral built.
- 1904 – Darajani Market building constructed.
- 1905
- 1909 – Slavery in Zanzibar fully abolished with the abolition of slave concubinage.[13]
- 1910
- 1914 – 20 September: German SMS Königsberg sinks British HMS Pegasus in harbour.
- 1925 – Peace Memorial Museum established.[15][3]
- 1928 - Rent strike in Ng'ambo.[16]
- 1935 - Jubilee Gardens laid out.[17]
- 1948
- 1957 – Afro-Shirazi Party headquartered in town.
- 1961 – June: Unrest.[20]
- 1964
- 12 January: Zanzibar Revolution; city becomes capital of People's Republic of Zanzibar and Pemba.
- April: Sultanate of Zanzibar becomes part of the new United Republic of Tanzania.
- City becomes capital of semiautonomous region of Zanzibar.[5]
- Mtoro Rehani becomes mayor.[21]
- 1966 - Kikwajuni GDR housing built.[22]
- 1972 - 7 April: Abeid Karume assassinated.
- 1973 - Television Zanzibar inaugurated.
- 1977 - Trains of Michenzani (housing) built (approximate date).[22]
- 1985
- Economic liberalization begins.[22]
- Population: 133,000 (estimate).[23]
- 1994
- Palace Museum established.
- Stone Town Conservation Plan approved.[24]
- Old Dispensary building restored.
- 1997
- Zanzibar International Film Festival founded.[25]
- Keele Square rehabilitated.[17]
- 1999
- 2000 – Stone Town designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.[25]
- 2004 – Sauti za Busara (music festival) begins.
- 2005 – Population: 220,000 (estimate).[5]
- 2008 – 21 May – 19 June: 2008 Zanzibar power blackout.
- 2009–2010 – 10 December–March: Second Zanzibar power blackout
- 2009 – Forodhani Gardens rehabilitated.[17]
- 2012 – Anti-government protests.[26]
- 2013 – August: Two 18-year-old, British volunteer teachers, Katie Gee and Kirstie Trup, were injured by an acid attack by men on a motorcycle near Stone Town.[27]
- 2014 – June: Mosque bombed.[28]
- History of Stone Town
- History of Ng'ambo
- Wards of Zanzibar City
- History of Zanzibar (islands)
- List of Sultans of Zanzibar
- Zanzibar Urban/West Region (Zanzibar City is capital)
- List of football clubs in Zanzibar
- Timelines of other cities in Tanzania: Dar es Salaam
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- "36 Hours in Zanzibar, Tanzania", The New York Times, 1 May 2014
- M. Catharine Newbury (1983). "Colonialism, Ethnicity, and Rural Political Protest: Rwanda and Zanzibar in Comparative Perspective". Comparative Politics. 15 (3): 253–280. doi:10.2307/421681. JSTOR 421681.
- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Zanzibar (sultanate)" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 957–958.
- Frederick Cooper (1980), From slaves to squatters: plantation labor and agriculture in Zanzibar and coastal Kenya, 1890-1925 , p. 295, New Haven: Yale University Press, ISBN 0300024541
- The End of Slavery in Africa. (1988). USA: University of Wisconsin Press. 23
- Ethel Younghusband (1910), "Zanzibar (etc.)", Glimpses of East Africa and Zanzibar, London: J. Long, OCLC 4793682
- The End of Slavery in Africa. (1988). USA: University of Wisconsin Press. 23
- Africa Pilot. Washington DC: U.S. Navy. 1916.
- Karin Adahl and Mikael Ahlund, ed. (2000). "Tanzania". Islamic Art Collections: An International Survey. Curzon Press. ISBN 978-1-136-11362-8.
- ArchNet. "Zanzibar". MIT School of Architecture and Planning. Archived from the original on 14 October 2012.
- Anthony Clayton (1976), 1948 Zanzibar General Strike, Sweden: Nordic Africa Institute – via International Relations and Security Network
- "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1955. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations.
- Roman Loimeier (2009). Between social skills and marketable skills: the politics of Islamic education in 20th century Zanzibar. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 9789004175426.
- United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1987). "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". 1985 Demographic Yearbook. New York. pp. 247–289.
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- "Islamist riots threaten Zanzibar's stability". IRIN. United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. 24 October 2012.
- Zanzibar mosque bombing kills one, wounds seven, Reuters, 14 June 2014
- Published in 19th century
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- Edward Steere (1869), Some account of the town of Zanzibar, London: Charles Cull, OCLC 181102819, OL 23332973M
- Richard Burton (1872), "Zanzibar: city, island, and coast", Nature, 5 (122), London: Tinsley brothers: 338, Bibcode:1872Natur...5..338., doi:10.1038/005338a0, hdl:2027/mdp.39015020056217, OCLC 3816910, OL 23363070M, S2CID 39092274
- Karl Wilhelm Schmidt (1888), Sansibar: Ein ostafrikanisches Culturbild (in German), Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus
- "Zanzibar". Handbook of British East Africa. London: War Office. 1893.
- Great Britain. Hydrographic Dept. (1897), "Zanzibar Town", Africa Pilot (6th ed.), London
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- Published in 20th century
- Robert Nunez Lyne (1905), Zanzibar in contemporary times, London: Hurst and Blackett, OL 17935092M
- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1910). "Zanzibar (seaport)" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 958–959.
- "Sansibar". Deutsches Kolonial-Lexikon (in German). 1920 – via Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt.
- F.B. Pearce (1920), Zanzibar: the island metropolis of eastern Africa, London: T.F. Unwin, OL 13518480M
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- "Zanzibar". Encyclopaedia of Islam. E.J. Brill. 1936. p. 1214+. ISBN 9789004097940.
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- Nancy Ingram Nooter (1984). "Zanzibar Doors". African Arts. 17.
- Garth A. Myers (1994), "Making the Socialist City of Zanzibar", Geographical Review, 84 (4): 451–464, doi:10.2307/215759, JSTOR 215759
- Andrew Petersen (1996). "Zanzibar". Dictionary of Islamic Architecture. Routledge. p. 316. ISBN 978-1-134-61366-3.
- Noelle Watson, ed. (1996). "Zanzibar". International Dictionary of Historic Places: Middle East and Africa. UK: Routledge. pp. 723–728. ISBN 1884964036.
- Laura Fair (1997). "Kickin' It: Leisure, Politics and Football in Colonial Zanzibar, 1900s–1950s". Africa: Journal of the International African Institute. 67.
- Garth Andrew Myers (1997). "Sticks and Stones: Colonialism and Zanzibari Housing". Africa: Journal of the International African Institute. 67 (2): 252–272. doi:10.2307/1161444. JSTOR 1161444. S2CID 146516949.
- Mary Fitzpatrick (1999), "Unguja (Zanzibar Island)", Tanzania, Zanzibar & Pemba, Lonely Planet, p. 148+, ISBN 9780864427267, OL 8314875M
- Francesco Siravo (1999). "Zanzibar: A Plan for the Historic Stone Town". Environmental Design: Journal of the Islamic Environmental Design Research Centre. Archived from the original on 3 July 2013.
- Published in 21st century
- Jørgen Andreasen (2001). "The legacy of mobilisation from above: participation in a Zanzibar neighbourhood". In Arne Tostensen; et al. (eds.). Associational Life in African Cities: Popular Responses to the Urban Crisis. Sweden: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet. ISBN 978-91-7106-465-3.
- Brian Hoyle (2002). "Urban Waterfront Revitalization in Developing Countries: The Example of Zanzibar's Stone Town". Geographical Journal. 168.
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