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- 1754 - Dutch settlements at the Cape extended eastwards to adjacent Algoa Bay . [1]
- 1799 - Fort Frederick built by British during the Napoleonic wars . [1]
- 1820 - Port Elizabeth settlement founded by British . [2] [1]
- 1823 - Population: 319. [3]
- 1836 - Made a free warehousing port
- 1841 - Jetty constructed in Algoa Bay . [4]
- 1845 - Eastern Province Herald newspaper begins publication. [5]
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1856
- Grey High School founded. [3]
- King George VI Art Gallery opens.
- 1859 - St George's Park founded.
- 1861 - Town of Port Elizabeth incorporated. [1]
- 1862 - Western-Road Synagogue formed. [6]
- 1865 - Hill Presbyterian Church consecrated.
- 1866 - St. Augustine's Cathedral built.
- 1873 - Railway station building starts. [1]
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1875
- Uitenhage -Port Elizabeth railway begins operating. [3]
- Port Elizabeth railway station built. [7]
- 1880 - Prince Alfred's Guard Drill Hall built.
- 1881 - Horsecar tram begins operating.
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1882
- Imbumba yama Nyama political group formed. [8]
- Conservatory built in St George's Park.
- 1885 - " South African Exhibition " held [9]
- 1888 - Mighty Elephants rugby team formed. [ chronology citation needed ]
- 1889 - St George's Park Cricket Ground in use.
- 1892 - Opera House built.
- 1897 - Electric tram begins operating.
- 1899 - Humewood Road railway station built.
- 1900 - Post Office built.
20th century
- 1900-1902 - Port Elizabeth Concentration Camp in operation
- 1903 - New Brighton black township established.
- 1905 - Horse Memorial erected.
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1907
- NG gemeente Port Elizabeth [ af ] (church) founded.
- Prince Alfred's Guard Memorial unveiled.
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1908
- Port Elizabeth Orthodox Hebrew Congregation formed. [ chronology citation needed ]
- Devastating flooding
- 1912 - Raleigh Street Synagogue [ de ] built.
- 1913 - Port Elizabeth gains city status. [1]
- 1917 - Airplane flown from Cape Town to Port Elizabeth. [ citation needed ]
- 1928 - NG gemeente Port Elizabeth-Sentraal [ af ] (church) founded.
- 1929 - Port Elizabeth Airport and Gereformeerde kerk Port Elizabeth [ af ] (church) established.
- 1936 - Campanile (belltower) installed.
- 1937 - Oosterlig [ af ] newspaper begins publication. [5]
- 1940 - NG gemeente Port Elizabeth-Wes [ af ] (church) founded.
- 1940 - Victoria Park High School was founded
- 1949 - Adcockvale [ af ] suburb laid out (approximate date).
- 1950 - Evening Post [ af ] newspaper begins publication. [5]
- 1951 - Van Stadens-veldblomreservaat [ af ] (nature reserve) established near city.
- 1952 - Govan Mbeki , Raymond Mhlaba and Vuyisile Mini were imprisoned for three months in Rooi Hel ('Red Hell' or North End Prison, Port Elizabeth) for participating in the Defiance Campaign .
- 1954 - 20th Century Theatre in business. [10]
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1960
- Boet Erasmus Stadium opens.
- Alliance Française of Port Elizabeth founded.
- 1961 - 16 December: Bombings. [11]
- 1964 - University of Port Elizabeth established.
- 1965 - Walmer, South Africa becomes part of Port Elizabeth.
- 1969 - Kouga Dam begins operating in vicinity of city.
- 1979 - Port Elizabeth Black Civic Organisation founded.
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1984
- Port Elizabeth Youth Congress founded.
- Development of Motherwell begins near city.
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1985
- March: Labor strike . [12] [13]
- 8 May: Disappearance of " Pebco Three " anti- apartheid activists.
- 27 June: The deaths of " The Cradock Four " political activists.
- 1986 - Jewish Pioneer's Memorial Museum [ de ] established. ( de )
- 1991 - Population: 303,353 city; 853,205 metro. [5]
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1995
- Nceba Faku elected mayor. [14]
- Part of 1995 Rugby World Cup contest played in Port Elizabeth.
- 1996 - Part of 1996 Africa Cup of Nations football contest played in Port Elizabeth.
21st century
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2001
- Port Elizabeth becomes the seat of the newly-created Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality . [15]
- Anti-apartheid leader Govan Mbeki dies at age 91.
- 2004 - Website Mandelametro.gov.za launched. [16]
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2005
- First premier of the Eastern Cape and anti-apartheid leader Raymond Mhlaba dies at the ages of 85 years.
- Nelson Mandela University formed.
- Red Location Museum of apartheid opens.
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2006
- 1 March: South African municipal elections, 2006 held.
- Nondumiso Maphazi becomes mayor. ( fr )
- Bay United F.C. (football club) formed.
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2009
- Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium opens.
- Zanoxolo Wayile becomes mayor. [17] ( fr )
- Southern Kings rugby team formed.
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2010
- Gelvandale Stadium opens.
- Part of 2010 FIFA World Cup football contest played in Port Elizabeth.
- 2011 - Population : 312,392.
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2013
- Part of 2013 Africa Cup of Nations football contest played in Port Elizabeth.
- Ben Fihla becomes mayor. [17]
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2015
- Danny Jordaan becomes mayor. [17]
- Chippa United F.C. moved to the city from Cape Town .
- 2016 - Athol Trollip becomes mayor.
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2021
- Name officially changed from Port Elizabeth to Gqeberha. [18]
- 2023 - Eight people are killed in a mass shooting .
See also
- Port Elizabeth history
- List of heritage sites in Port Elizabeth
- Timelines of other cities in South Africa: Cape Town , Durban , Johannesburg , Pietermaritzburg , Pretoria
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Britannica 1910 .
- ↑ W. H. Hosking (1914). "Chronology of South Africa" . South African Year-book . London: George Routledge and Sons . pp. 10–27.
- 1 2 3 "Port Elizabeth Timeline 1799-1986" . Cape Town: South African History Online . Retrieved 1 October 2017 .
- ↑ H.L. Huisman (1971). "How Port Elizabeth got its first jetty". Civil Engineering . 13 . hdl : 10520/AJA10212019_18711 .
- 1 2 3 4 "South Africa". Africa South of the Sahara 2003 . Regional Surveys of the World. Europa Publications . 2003. ISBN 978-1-85743-131-5 . ISSN 0065-3896 .
- ↑ Isidore Harris, ed. (1901), "Colonial Synagogues: South Africa" , Jewish Year Book , London: Greenberg & Co.
- ↑ Huisman, H L (October 1986). "The coming of the Railway to the Cape". Restorica . No. 20. hdl : 2263/47120 .
- ↑ Robert Ross; et al., eds. (2011). Cambridge History of South Africa . Vol. 2: 1885–1994. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-86983-6 .
- ↑ "The South African Exhibition, Port Elizabeth, 1885: Lectures, Prize and ... - Google Books" . 1886 . Retrieved 30 September 2019 .
- ↑ "Movie Theaters in Port Elizabeth, South Africa" . CinemaTreasures.org . Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC . Retrieved 1 October 2017 .
- ↑ Jacqueline Audrey Kalley; et al., eds. (1999). Southern African Political History: A Chronology of Key Political Events from Independence to Mid-1997 . Greenwood. ISBN 978-0-313-30247-3 .
- ↑ Mark Swilling (1985). "Urban Social Movements under Apartheid". Cahiers d'Études africaines . 25 (99): 363–379. doi : 10.3406/cea.1985.1735 – via Persee.fr .
- ↑ "Report: The March Stay-aways in Port Elizabeth and UItenhage". South African Labour Bulletin . 11 . 1985. ISSN 0377-5429 .
- ↑ "Former Mandela Bay mayor lashes out at Zuma" , Iol.co.za , 23 November 2016
- ↑ "Pecc.gov.za" . Archived from the original on 3 June 2002.
- ↑ "Mandelametro.gov.za" . Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality. Archived from the original on 23 October 2005 – via Wayback Machine .
- 1 2 3 "Danny Jordaan ANC's choice to replace Nelson Mandela Bay mayor" , News24.com , 18 May 2015
- ↑ "BREAKING | It is official, Port Elizabeth has a new name — Gqeberha" . DispatchLIVE . Retrieved 15 August 2021 .
- This article incorporates information from the Afrikaans Wikipedia , French Wikipedia , and German Wikipedia .
Bibliography
- "Directory of Port Elizabeth" . Cape of Good Hope Almanac and Annual Register for 1853 . Cape Town: Van de Sandt de Villiers & Tier. 1852.
- Port Elizabeth Directory and Guide to the Eastern Province of the Cape of Good Hope . Port Elizabeth: J.W.C. Mackay. 1877.
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John Noble, ed. (1886).
"Cities and Towns of the Colony"
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Official Handbook: History, Productions and Resources of the Cape of Good Hope
. Cape Town:
Saul Solomon
& Co. for the
Colonial & Indian Exhibition
Committee.
Port Elizabeth
- "Port Elizabeth" . Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 22 (11th ed.). 1910. pp. 112–113.
- Eleanor K Lorimer (1971). Panorama of Port Elizabeth . Cape Town: A. A. Balkema . OCLC 297945 .
- H.O. Terblanche (1977). "Die trek van die Afrikaner na Port Elizabeth" [ Trek of the Afrikaner to Port Elizabeth ] . Historia . Historical Association of South Africa. 22 (1): 90–107. hdl : 10520/AJA0018229X_323 .
- A. J. Christopher (1987). "Apartheid Planning in South Africa: The Case of Port Elizabeth". Geographical Journal . 153 (2): 195–204. doi : 10.2307/634871 . JSTOR 634871 .
- J.G. Nel (1989). "Making of an Apartheid City: The Case of Port Elizabeth, Republic of South Africa". African Urban Quarterly . 4 . ISSN 0747-6108 .
- A. J. Christopher (1991). "Port Elizabeth". In Anthony Lemon (ed.). Homes Apart: South Africa's Segregated Cities . Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-33321-0 .
- Janet Cherry (1993). "myth of working class defeat: Port Elizabeth in the post-war years". Kronos: Journal of Cape History . University of the Western Cape. 20 . hdl : 10520/AJA02590190_435 .
- H.O. Terblanche; M.J. Swart (1993). "Die Afrikaner se stryd om taalgelykberegtiging in Port Elizabeth, 1902-1937" [ Afrikaner's struggle for language equality in Port Elizabeth, 1902-1937 ] . South African Journal of Cultural History (in Afrikaans). 7 . hdl : 10520/AJA10113053_59 .
- Jennifer Robinson (1993). "Politics of urban form: differential citizenship and township formation in Port Elizabeth 1925-1945". Kronos: Journal of Cape History . 20 . hdl : 10520/AJA02590190_434 .
- Gary Baines (1998). "Port Elizabeth history: a select annotated bibliography". South African Historical Journal (38).
- H.O. Terblanche (1998). "Die stigting van die eerste Afrikaanse koerante in Port Elizabeth" [ Foundation of the first Afrikaans newspapers in Port Elizabeth ] . South African Journal of Cultural History (in Afrikaans). 12 (1): 60–74. hdl : 10520/AJA10113053_103 .
- Gary Baines (2004). "A Progressive South African City?". Journal of Urban History . 31 .
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- "(Port Elizabeth)" . AfricaBib.org . (Bibliography)
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