Timeline of Lusaka

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

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## 20th century

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History of Zambia
|  Early history|  pre-1888

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Northern Rhodesia
(Colonial era)

|  1888-1964
Federation|  1953-1963
Independence|  1964-present
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Years in Zambia
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* 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 newspaper begins publication.[4]
* 1950 - Population: 27,100.[5]
* 1951 - Lusaka Playhouse built.[6]
* 1952 - African Listener radio programme begins broadcasting.[7]
* 1954 - F. Payne becomes mayor.
* 1956 - Lusaka African Marketeers' Cooperative Society organized.[8]
* 1958 - Waddington Theatre Club founded.[6]
* 1959 - 20th Century cinema opens (approximate date).[9]

Lusaka in the 1960s

* 1960
* Lusaka attains city status.[1]
* African Mail newspaper begins publication.[4]
* Palace cinema opens (approximate date).[9]
* Luburma market established (approximate date).[10]
* 1963
* National Archives of Zambia headquartered in city.[11]
* International School of Lusaka founded.[12]
* Population: 87,495.[1]
* 1964
* City becomes capital of the newly independent Republic of Zambia.[13]
* Independence Stadium (Zambia) opens.
* 1965
* Rhodes Park School established.
* Green Buffaloes F.C. founded.
* 1966 - University of Zambia founded.
* 1967
* Mtendele "squatter township" opens.[14]
* Intergovernmental Council of Copper Exporting Countries established in Lusaka.
* 1968
* Zambia Daily Mail newspaper in publication.[15]
* Sister city relationship established with Los Angeles, US.[16]
* 1969 - Zambian News Agency headquartered in city.
* 1970
* "Greater Lusaka created."[3]
* September: International 3rd Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement held in city.
* 1971 - Chikwakwa Theatre established at the University of Zambia.[17]
* 1972
* Chunga market built.[10]
* Population: 448,000 urban agglomeration.[18]
* 1976
* Housing Project Unit established.[19]
* United Nations Institute for Namibia inaugurated.
* Libala, Kaunda Square, and Longacres markets established (approximate date).[10]
* 1978 - Racial unrest.[20]
* 1979
* August: City hosts Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 1979.[21]
* Zambia Consumer Buying Corporation opens.[10]

Lusaka in the 1980s

* 1980 - Population: 498,837 city; 535,830 urban agglomeration.[22]
* 1985
* Zanaco Football Club formed.
* Non-governmental Organisations' Co-ordinating Committee established.[12]
* 1990 - Population: 982,362 city.[22]
* 1991 - Weekly Post newspaper begins publication (approximate date).[4]
* 1994
* 31 October: Lusaka Protocol initiated.
* Lusaka Stock Exchange opens.[12]
* Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa headquartered in Lusaka.[23]
* 1996 - Lusaka National Museum opens.
* 1997
* Umar Al Farook mosque opens.
* Sustainable Lusaka Project launched.[24]
* 1999 - University of Lusaka founded.
* 2000 - Population: 1,057,212.[25]

## 21st century

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View of Lusaka, 2013

* 2001 - Munali Girls High School established.[26]
* 2001 - Independent Churches of Zambia (ICOZ) established. ICOZ was Founded by Rev David Musonda Masupa with the help of the 2nd Republican President Fredrick Chiluba.
* 2006 - October: Post-election unrest.[27]
* 2010
* Daniel Chisenga becomes mayor.[28]
* Population: 1,747,152.[29]
* 2012 - February: Celebration of Zambia's winning 2012 Africa Cup of Nations.[30]
* 2017 - March: Stampede occurs.[31]

Independence avenue in 2024

## References

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1. ^ a b c d e Wilson 1963.
2. ^ Emmanuel Mutale (2004), Management of Urban Development in Zambia, Ashgate Publishing, ISBN 9780754635963
3. ^ a b "History of Lusaka". Lusaka City Council. Archived from the original on 17 February 2005.
4. ^ a b c "Lusaka (Zambia) Newspapers". WorldCat. US: Online Computer Library Center. Retrieved 15 May 2013.
5. ^ "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1955. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations.
6. ^ a b Dickson Mwansa (1997). "Zambia". In Don Rubin (ed.). World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre: Africa. Routledge. ISBN 0415059313.
7. ^ Howard 1953.
8. ^ Oberschall 1972.
9. ^ a b "The Bioscope". Great North Road. March 2002.
10. ^ a b c d Scott 1985.
11. ^ "About Us". National Archives of Zambia. Archived from the original on 21 January 2012.
12. ^ a b c Karen Fung (ed.). "Zambia". Africa South of the Sahara: Selected Internet Resources. US: Stanford University. Retrieved 15 May 2013.
13. ^ "Zambia Profile: Timeline". BBC News. 11 July 2011. Retrieved 15 May 2013.
14. ^ Hansen 1980.
15. ^ "Zambia: Directory: the Press". Africa South of the Sahara 2004. Regional Surveys of the World. Europa Publications. 2004. p. 1217\. ISBN 1857431839.
16. ^ "Sister Cities of Los Angeles". US: City of Los Angeles. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
17. ^ Martin Banham; et al., eds. (1994). "Zambia". Cambridge Guide to African and Caribbean Theatre. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521411394.
18. ^ United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1976). "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1975. New York. pp. 253–279.`{{cite book}}`: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
19. ^ Hansen 1982.
20. ^ "Zambians, Outraged By Rhodesian Raids, Attack Whites in City". New York Times. 8 November 1978. `{{cite web}}`: Missing or empty `|url=` (help)
21. ^ Kanduza 2003.
22. ^ a b United Nations Department for Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis, Statistics Division (1997). "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". 1995 Demographic Yearbook. New York. pp. 262–321. `{{cite book}}`: `|author=` has generic name (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
23. ^ "Organizations". International Relations and Security Network. Switzerland: Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
24. ^ "Lusaka". Sustainable Cities Programme, 1990-2000. UN-HABITAT. 2002. ISBN 9789211316322.
25. ^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2011. United Nations Statistics Division. 2012.
26. ^ "About Us". Munali Girls High School. Retrieved 15 May 2013.
27. ^ "Riots Spread as Incumbent Widens Lead in Zambia Vote". New York Times. 3 October 2006.
28. ^ "New Lusaka mayor, Chisenga, shares plans for the City". The Post. 9 September 2010.
29. ^ "Table 8 - Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants", Demographic Yearbook – 2018, United Nations
30. ^ "After Tragedy, Zambia Triumphs". New York Times. 15 February 2012.
31. ^ Zambia police say eight killed in stampede over food aid, Reuters, 6 March 2017

## Bibliography

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Published in 20th century

* Jack Howard (1953). "Lusaka Calling". Quarterly of Film Radio and Television. 7.
* Elizabeth Wilson (1963). "Lusaka". Geography. 48. UK: Geographical Association.
* Anthony Oberschall (1972). "Lusaka Market Vendors: Then and Now". Urban Anthropology. 1 (1): 107–123\. JSTOR 40552859.
* J. Collins (1980). "Lusaka: Urban Planning in a British Colony, 1931-64". In G.E. Cherry (ed.). Shaping an Urban World. London.`{{cite book}}`: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
* Karen Tranberg Hansen (1980). "The Urban Informal Sector as a Development Issue: Poor Women and Work in Lusaka, Zambia". Urban Anthropology. 9 (2): 199–225\. JSTOR 40552918.
* Karen Tranberg Hansen (1982). "Lusaka's Squatters: Past and Present". African Studies Review. 25 (2/3): 117–136\. doi:10.2307/524213. JSTOR 524213. S2CID 145505993.
* Earl P. Scott (1985). "Lusaka's Informal Sector in National Economic Development". Journal of Developing Areas. 20 (1): 71–100\. JSTOR 4191418.
* E. Shamilupa Kalapula (1987). "Electrification of peri-urban areas in Lusaka, Zambia". Geography. 72. UK.
* A.W. Drescher (1996). "Urban microfarming in central Southern Africa: a case study of Lusaka, Zambia". African Urban Quarterly.
* Drescher; Mackel (2000). "Urban and peri-urban food security: the example of Lusaka (Zambia". Urbanization, vulnerability and resource management in developing countries. Germany.`{{cite book}}`: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

Published in 21st century

* Ackson M. Kanduza (2003). "Lusaka". In Paul Tiyambe Zeleza; Dickson Eyoh (eds.). Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History. Routledge. ISBN 0415234794.
* "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.
* Kevin Shillington, ed. (2005). "Lusaka". Encyclopedia of African History. Fitzroy Dearborn. ISBN 978-1-57958-245-6.
* "Lusaka". African Cities Driving the NEPAD Initiative. UN-HABITAT. 2006.
* Lusaka urban profile, UN-HABITAT, 2007

## External links

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* "(Lusaka)". Directory of Open Access Journals. UK. (Bibliography of open access articles)
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* "(Lusaka)". Internet Library Sub-Saharan Africa. Germany: Frankfurt University Library. 15 January 2019. (Bibliography)
* "(Lusaka)". Connecting-Africa. Leiden, Netherlands: African Studies Centre. (Bibliography)
* "(Lusaka)". AfricaBib.org. (Bibliography)
* "Lusaka, Zambia". BlackPast.org. US. 3 November 2014.

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