The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Kampala , Buganda , Uganda .
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by with reliable sources .
Prior to 20th century [ ]
1881 - Kasubi Tombs built.
1885 - Mengo Palace built.
1894
Uganda Protectorate established.[1]
Anglican church built on Namirembe Hill .
1897 - Mengo Hospital founded.
20th century [ ]
1901 - Kampala Sports Club formed.[1]
1903 - Nsambya Hospital founded.
1904 - St. Paul's church built in Mengo.[2]
1905 - Government station relocated to Nakasero Hill.[1]
1906
Kampala designated a township; its area includes Mengo , Nakasero , Namirembe , Nsambya , and Lubaga hills.[1]
Population: 30,000.
1908 - Uganda Museum founded.
1910 - Goan Institute established.[1]
1911 - Kampala Club founded.[1]
1913 - Indian Association formed.[1]
1915 - Port Bell -Kampala railway begins operating.[4]
1917 - Kampala Public Library established.[1]
1921 - Central Council of Indian Associations of Uganda headquartered in Kampala.[1]
1922
Technical school established.
Population: 40,000 (approximate).[5]
1925 - Speke Hotel in business.[citation needed ]
1929 - Entebbe airfield begins operating.
1931 - Uganda Railway begins operating.
1948 - Catholic Vicariate of Kampala established.[6]
1949
Kampala gains "municipal status".
Population: 58,000.
1950 - 28 July: Knifing at hospital.
1955 - Butabika Hospital opens.
1957 - Lugogo Cricket Oval in use.
1958 - Bulange constructed.
1959
Serwano Kulubya becomes mayor.
Population: 46,735 city; 123,332 urban agglomeration.[7]
1962 - Kampala becomes capital of Uganda.
1963 - City becomes part of republic of Uganda.[8]
1964
1965 - Apollo Hotel in business.
1966 - Battle of Mengo Hill .
1967
East African Development Bank headquartered in Kampala.
Ugandan National Theatre established.[11]
1968 - Kawempe, Kyambogo, Luzira, Makindye, Mmengo, Nakawa, Nakulabye, Natete, and Ntinda villages become part of Kampala.
Indian lawyer A.G. Mehta becomes the mayor of Kampala.[12]
1969
Catholic pope visits city.
Population: 330,700 urban agglomeration.[13]
1970 - Crested Towers built.
1971 - 25 January: Coup .
1975
July: Organisation of African Unity summit meeting held.
Kibuli Hospital founded.
1978 - October: Uganda–Tanzania War begins.
1979 - 11 April: Fall of Kampala .[14]
1980
Uganda House built.[citation needed ]
Population: 458,503.[15]
1986
City taken by National Resistance Army rebels.[8]
Watoto Church founded.[16]
1991 - Population: 774,241.[15]
1994
1996
1997 - Namboole Stadium opens.
1998 - Bugala study center established.
1999
21st century [ ]
Aerial view of Kampala, 2014
2001
City limits expanded.
Red Pepper newspaper begins publication.[18]
Workers' House and Amamu House built.[citation needed ]
2002
Baganda political demonstration.
Population: 1,189,142.[15]
2004 - The Observer newspaper begins publication.[18]
2005
2006
2007
2008 - Memonet (media network) formed.[18]
2009 - September: Conflict between Buganda partisans and police.[24] [25]
2010
March: Student unrest.[26]
11 July: Bombings .[8]
Rolling Stone newspaper begins publication.
2011
2012 - Mapeera House (Centenary Bank ) built.
2013
Google office in business.[29]
Writivism Literary Festival begins.[30]
Air pollution in Kampala reaches annual mean of 104 PM2.5 and 170 PM10 , much higher than recommended .[31]
2014
2021 - Attempted assassination of Katumba Wamala
See also [ ]
Kampala history
Kampala Capital City Authority
List of mayors of Kampala
History of Uganda
References [ ]
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i The Red Book 1922-23: Handbook and Directory for Kenya Colony and Protectorate, Uganda Protectorate, Tanganyika Territory, and Zanzibar Sultanate . Nairobi: East African Standard Ltd. 1922.
^ "Uganda" , Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424
^ "Railway Age Gazette". New York. 1915.
^ "Uganda" , Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed.), London: Encyclopædia Britannica Co., 1922
^ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Uganda" . www.katolsk.no . Norway: Oslo katolske bispedømme (Oslo Catholic Diocese). Retrieved 30 September 2014 .
^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1965 . New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations . 1966.
^ Jump up to: a b c d "Uganda Profile: Timeline" . BBC News. Retrieved 23 February 2013 .
^ C.J. Endra (2002), "Public and School Libraries in Uganda", Proceedings of the PanAfrican PanArab Conference on Public and School Libraries , Netherlands: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions , ISBN 9070916851
^ "Uganda National Cultural Centre" . Retrieved 23 February 2013 .
^ Don Rubin, ed. (1997), World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre , London: Routledge
^ New Vision. "Kampala's Mayors since Independence" . www.newvision.co.ug .
^ 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.
^ "Uganda". Political Chronology of Africa . Political Chronologies of the World. Europa Publications . 2001. p. 451+. ISBN 0203409957 .
^ Jump up to: a b c "Uganda" . www.citypopulation.de . Oldenburg, Germany: Thomas Brinkhoff. Retrieved 23 February 2013 .
^ "Watotochurch.com" . Retrieved 23 February 2013 .
^ "Uganda: Directory". Africa South of the Sahara 2004 . Regional Surveys of the World. Europa Publications . 2004. p. 1191+. ISBN 1857431839 .
^ Jump up to: a b c d e Karen Fung, African Studies Association (ed.). "Uganda: News" . Africa South of the Sahara: Selected Internet Resources . US. Retrieved 23 February 2013 – via Stanford University.
^ Bosman, Julie (15 July 2012). "Big Air In Kampala" . The New York Times .
^ Andreas Mehler; et al., eds. (2008). "Uganda". Africa Yearbook: Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara in 2007 . 4 . Koninklijke Brill. p. 401. ISBN 90-04-16805-2 .
^ "Uganda Community Libraries Association" . Retrieved 30 October 2014 .
^ "Economist" . 24 February 2011. Retrieved 23 February 2013 .
^ "Kampala hit by renewed violence" . BBC News . 11 September 2009.
^ "Nine Dead in Kampala Riots" . Global Voices . 11 September 2009.
^ "Uganda: Students riot, Kampala burns" . Global Voices . 17 March 2010.
^ "Protests in Uganda Over Rising Prices Grow Violent" , New York Times , 21 April 2011
^ "The State of African Cities 2014" . United Nations Human Settlements Programme . ISBN 978-92-1-132598-0 . Archived from the original on 2014-09-10.
^ "Company: Locations" . Google Inc. Archived from the original on 15 August 2013.
^ "We need to create awareness about African literature produced here" , The EastAfrican , 4 July 2014
^ World Health Organization (2016), Global Urban Ambient Air Pollution Database , Geneva
^ Ladu, Ismail Musa (27 June 2014). "Dfcu Shareholders Get Dividends Despite Difficult Business Times" . Daily Monitor (Kampala) .
^ "Table 8 - Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants", Demographic Yearbook – 2018 , United Nations
Bibliography [ ]
David Parkin (1969). Neighbours and Nationals in an African City Ward . Routledge. ISBN 978-1-136-53248-1 . (about Kampala)
Noelle Watson, ed. (1996). "Kampala". International Dictionary of Historic Places: Middle East and Africa . UK: Routledge. ISBN 1884964036 .
Kampala City Development Strategy , UN-HABITAT , 2003, archived from the original on 2014-09-13
Paul Tiyambe Zeleza ; Dickson Eyoh, eds. (2003). "Kampala, Uganda". Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History . Routledge. ISBN 0415234794 .
David Kiyaga-Mulindwa (2004). "Kampala". In Kevin Shillington (ed.). Encyclopedia of African History . Routledge. pp. 731–2. ISBN 978-1-135-45670-2 .
Creole and Tribal Designs: Dar es Salaam and Kampala as Ethnic Cities in Coalescing Nation States , London: Crisis States Research Centre , 2008 – via International Relations and Security Network
T. Goodfellow (2010). “’The bastard child of nobody’? Anti-planning and the institutional crisis in Kampala”, Crisis Research Centre.
S. Lwasa (2010). “Adapting urban areas in Africa to climate change: the case of Kampala”, Current Opinion in Environment and Sustainability, Vol. 2.
Ari Nave (2010). "Kampala". In Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates (ed.). Encyclopedia of Africa . Oxford University Press. p. 630. ISBN 978-0-19-533770-9 .
Gordon Prain; et al., eds. (2010). African Urban Harvest: Agriculture in the Cities of Cameroon, Kenya and Uganda . Springer. ISBN 978-1-4419-6249-2 . (Includes articles about Kampala)
T. Goodfellow and K. Titeca. (2012). ‘Presidential intervention and the changing ‘politics of survival’ in Kampala’s informal economy’, Cities, Vol. 29 (4).
Philip Briggs (2013). "Kampala". Uganda . Bradt Travel Guides . p. 133+. ISBN 978-1-84162-467-9 .
Tom Goodfellow. ‘Urban planning in Africa and the politics of implementation: contrasting patterns of state intervention in Kampala and Kigali’, in: Arlt, V. and Macamo, E. and Obrist, B., (eds.) Living the City. Zurich: Lit Verlag, 2013.
E.N. Sabiiti; C.B. Katongole (2014). "Urban Agriculture: a Response to the Food Supply Crisis in Kampala City, Uganda". In Basant Maheshwari (ed.). Security of Water, Food, Energy and Liveability of Cities: Challenges and Opportunities for Peri-Urban Futures . Springer. p. 233+. ISBN 978-94-017-8878-6 .
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