Timeline of Braga

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Prior to 20th century[]

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  • ca. 41 BCE - Installation of Roman milestones begins.[1]
  • ca.16 BCE - Roman Bracara Augusta [pt] founded.
  • 3rd C. CE - Town walls built.[2]
  • ca.300 CE - Victor of Braga is martyred.
  • 4th C. CE - Roman Catholic diocese of Braga established.[3]
  • 5th C. CE - Suevi in power.[4]
  • ca.450s - Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Braga established.[3]
  • ca.485 - Visigoths in power.[4]
  • 561-563 - Religious council meets in Braga.[5]
  • 572 - Religious council meets in Braga.[5]
  • 675 - Religious council meets in Braga.[5]
  • 8th C. - Moors in power.[4]
  • 1040 - Braga taken by forces of Ferdinand I.[4]
  • 1089 - Braga Cathedral consecrated.
  • 1093 - Braga becomes seat of royal court (until 1147).[4]
  • 1417 - Fernando da Guerra becomes archbishop.[6]
  • 1494 - Printing press in operation.[7]
  • 1616 - Ponte do Prado (bridge) to Vila Verde rebuilt.
  • 1642 - Construction of Igreja de Santa Cruz (church) begins.[8][4]
  • 1756 - Braga City Hall built.[9]
  • 1841 -  [pt] (library) founded.[10][11]
  • 1857 - Public gas lighting installed.[12]
  • 1858 - Population: 30,175.[13]
  • 1875 - Ramal de Braga (railway) begins operating;  [pt] opens.[12]
  • 1880 - Rua D. Frei Caetano Brandão (street) developed.[12]
  • 1882 - Bom Jesus do Monte Funicular begins operating.
  • 1888 - Livraria Cruz (bookshop) in business.
  • 1893 - Public electric lighting installed.[12]
  • 1900 - Population: 24,202.[4]

20th century[]

  • 1911 - Population: 24,647 in town; 382,461 in district.[14]
  • 1914 -  [pt] begins operating.
  • 1915 - Theatre Circo (theatre) opens.[12]
  • 1917 -  [pt] (archive) founded.[15]
  • 1918 - D. Diogo de Sousa Museum founded.[12]
  • 1919 -  [pt] newspaper begins publication.[16]
  • 1921 - S.C. Braga (football club) formed.
  • 1926 - 28 May 1926 coup d'état begins in Braga.[17]
  • 1929 - Airfield begins operating in Palmeira.
  • 1936 - City becomes seat of newly formed Minho Province.
  • 1950 - Estádio Municipal 28 de Maio (stadium) opens.
  • 1955 - Jardim de Santa Bárbara (garden) created.[12]
  • 1961 - Hospital opens.[12]
  • 1963 - Trolleybus begins operating.
  • 1973 - University of Minho established.
  • 1977 - Mesquita Machado becomes mayor (almost continually until 2013).
  • 1978 - Biscainhos Museum opens.
  • 1982 -  [pt] (transit entity) established.
  • 1993 - Circuito Vasco Sameiro (vehicular racetrack) opens.
  • 1999 -  [fr] in business in São Victor.

21st century[]

  • 2001
    • Cm-braga.pt website online (approximate date).[18]
    • Population: 112,039 in city;[16] 831,366 in district.
  • 2002 -  [pt] (arena) opens.
  • 2003 - Estádio Municipal de Braga (stadium) opens.
  • 2004
    • Completion of the works of modernization and electrification of Oporto–Braga railway line, which included the construction of a new building for Braga railway station. The modernisation allowed the extension of the high-speed Alfa Pendular trains from Oporto to Braga, a service which started on June 5, 2004.[19]
    •  [pt] (library) opens.
    • Part of UEFA Euro 2004 football contest played in Braga.
  • 2011 - Population: 181,819 in city; 848,185 in district.
  • 2013
    • Ricardo Rio becomes mayor.
    • União das Freguesias de Braga created.[12]
  • 2014 - Organ Festival of Braga begins.

See also[]

  • Braga history
  • History of Braga [pt]
  • Ecclesiastical history of Braga
  •  [pt] since 1836
  • List of bishops of Braga
  • List of governors of Braga district (in Portuguese)
  •  [pt]
  • Timelines of other cities/municipalities in Portugal: Coimbra, Funchal (Madeira), Lisbon, Porto, Setúbal

References[]

  1. ^ "Sistema de Informação para o Património Arquitetónico" [Architectural Heritage Database]. Monumentos.gov.pt (in Portuguese). Direção-Geral do Património Cultural. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
  2. ^ Cesar Valenca, "Braga", Oxford Art Online Retrieved 10 November 2017
  3. ^ a b "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Portugal". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 9 November 2017.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g Britannica 1910.
  5. ^ a b c López 1907.
  6. ^ E. Michael Gerli, ed. (2003). "Braga". Medieval Iberia: An Encyclopedia. Routledge. ISBN 0-415-93918-6.
  7. ^ Henri Bouchot (1890). "Topographical index of the principal towns where early printing presses were established". The book: its printers, illustrators, and binders, from Gutenberg to the present time. London: H. Grevel & Co.
  8. ^ Chambers 1901.
  9. ^ "Built Heritage". Cm-braga.pt (in English and Portuguese). Município de Braga. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
  10. ^ "História da BPB" (in Portuguese). Universidade do Minho. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
  11. ^ Alberto Feio (1920), A Biblioteca Pública de Braga: notas históricas (in Portuguese)
  12. ^ a b c d e f g h i Ricardo Graça. "Núcleo urbano da cidade de Braga". Sistema de Informação para o Património Arquitetónico (in Portuguese). Direção-Geral do Património Cultural. Retrieved 10 November 2017. (Includes timeline)
  13. ^ "Portugal". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1865 – via HathiTrust.
  14. ^ "Portugal". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921.
  15. ^ "Arquivo Distrital de Braga: Apresentação" (in Portuguese). Universidade do Minho. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
  16. ^ a b "Portugal". Europa World Year Book 2004. Europa Publications. 2004. ISBN 1857432533.
  17. ^ Douglas L. Wheeler; Walter C. Opello Jr. (2010). Historical Dictionary of Portugal (3rd ed.). Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7075-8.
  18. ^ "Cm-braga.pt" (in Portuguese). Câmara Municipal de Braga. Archived from the original on 2 April 2001 – via Wayback Machine.
  19. ^ "Alfa Pendular inicia ligações Braga-Faro". Público. 5 June 2004. Retrieved 30 June 2019.
This article incorporates information from the Portuguese Wikipedia.

Bibliography[]

in English[]

in Portuguese[]

  • Luís Cardoso, ed. (1751). "Braga". Diccionario geografico, ou, Noticia historica de todas as cidades...de Portugal (in Portuguese). Vol. 2. Lisbon: Regia Officina Sylviana and  [pt]. OCLC 987786218.
  • Pinho Leal (1873). "Braga". Portugal Antigo e Moderno: Diccionario... (in Portuguese). Vol. 1. Mattos Moreira. pp. 432+.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link)
  • "Braga". Diccionario encyclopedico ou novo diccionario da lingua portugueza (in Portuguese) (4th ed.). Lisbon: Francisco Arthur da Silva. 1874. OCLC 14951122.
  • Carlos Augusto da Silva Campos, ed. (1886), "Negociantes e industriaes das provincias e ilhas: Braga", Almanach Commercial de Lisboa (in Portuguese), pp. 224–228
  • José Augusto Vieira (1887), "Braga", O Minho Pitoresco (in Portuguese), vol. 2, Lisbon: Parceria A. M. Pereira, pp. 7–80
  • Bernardino José de Senna Freitas (1890–1891). Memorias de Braga (in Portuguese). Braga: Imprensa Catholica.
  • Albano Bellino (1895). Inscripções e lettreiros da cidade de Braga (in Portuguese). Porto: Typographia Occidental.
  • Esteves Pereira; Guilherme Rodrigues, eds. (1906). "Braga". Portugal: Diccionario Historico... (in Portuguese). Vol. 2. Lisbon: Joao Romano Torres. OCLC 865826167.
  • Eduardo Pires de Oliveira. As alterações toponímicas 1380–1980, Braga, 1982
  • Eduardo Pires de Oliveira et al. Braga Evolução da Estrutura Urbana, Braga, 1982
  • José Marques. Braga Medieval, Braga, 1983
  • Alberto Feio, (1984), Coisas Memoráveis de Braga (in Portuguese)
  • José Manuel da Silva Passos, (1996), O Bilhete Postal Ilustrado e a História Urbana de Braga (in Portuguese), Lisbon

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