Timeline of Mombasa

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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Mombasa, Coast Province, Kenya.

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14th-18th centuries[]

Mombaza, 16th century
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  • 1331 - Ibn Battuta, a Moroccan traveler, visits Mombasa.[1]
  • 1498 - 8 April: Vasco da Gama anchors in port.[2]
  • 1505 - Town sacked by Portuguese forces of Francisco de Almeida.[2]
  • 1507 - Mandhry Mosque built.[3]
  • 1528 - Town sacked by Portuguese forces of Nuno da Cunha.[2]
  • 1529 - Portuguese in power.[4]
  • 1588 - Town captured by Amir Ali Bey.[2]
  • 1593 - Town under rule of Malindi.[5]
  • 1594 - Fort Jesus built by Portuguese.[6]
  • 1597 - Augustinian mission initiated.[7]
  • 1631 - Portuguese "expelled."[8][9] The sultan of Mombasa, christened Dom Jerónimo Chingulia, assassinated the Portuguese governor, reclaimed his Muslim name of Yusuf ibn al-Hasan, and ordered all Christians in the city to convert to Islam.[10]
  • 1632 - Town besieged by Portuguese forces.[7]
  • 1661 - Town sacked by Omani forces.[11]
  • 1696 - Siege of Fort Jesus by Omani forces.[11]
  • 1698 - Sultanate of Oman in power.[7]
  • 1734 - Mazrui in power.[7]

19th century[]

  • 1837 - Said bin Sultan, Sultan of Muscat and Oman in power.[7]
  • 1885 - Hinduism in Africa Formation of the Hindu Union, and creation of Lord Shiva Temple (Shivaalay) in Central Mombasa.
  • 1887 - Mombasa "leased to the British East Africa Company;"[7] town becomes capital of British East Africa Protectorate.[4]
  • 1895 - Government Press established.[12]
  • 1896
    • Kilindini Harbour inaugurated.[citation needed]
    • National Bank of India branch[13][14] and Mombasa Club established.[15]
  • 1897 - Population on island: 15,000-20,000 (estimate).[6]
  • 1899 - Post office built.[16]

20th century[]

21st century[]

  • 2002 - 28 November: 2002 Mombasa attacks.
  • 2003 - established in Kilindini.[3]
  • 2005 - Population: 830,000 (urban agglomeration).[28]
  • 2007 - Mombasa Polytechnic University College established.[23]
  • 2009
    • Ahmed Mohdhar elected mayor.[29]
    • Population: 523,183.[30]
  • 2010 - Population: 905,627 (estimate).[31]
  • 2012
  • 2013
    • October: Cleric Sheikh Ibrahim killed; unrest ensues.[32]
    • Mombasa polytechnic university college was promoted to a fully developed university now known as Technical University Of Mombasa.
  • 2017 - Mombasa–Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway begins operating.

See also[]

  • Mombasa history (fr)
  • Mombasa District
  • Timelines of other cities in Kenya: Nairobi

References[]

  1. ^ Ibn Battuta, "The Journeys of Ibn Battuta
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c d Montgomery 1996.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Kenya: Mombasa". ArchNet. Archived from the original on 23 September 2011.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b Webster's Geographical Dictionary, US: G. & C. Merriam Co., 1960, OL 5812502M
  5. ^ Swartz 1979.
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b Horsey 1897.
  7. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f Bosworth 2007.
  8. ^ Morse 1823.
  9. ^ Freeman-Grenville 1980.
  10. ^ Freeman-Granville, GSP (2008). New Encyclopedia of Africa. Gale. pp. 378–79. ISBN 978-0-684-31455-6.
  11. ^ Jump up to: a b Sassoon 1982.
  12. ^ "Government Press". Nairobi: Ministry of State for Provincial Administration and Internal Security. Retrieved 8 May 2013.
  13. ^ Andrew K. Mullei and Joshua M. Ng'elu (1990). "Evolution, Structure and Performance of Kenya's Financial System". Savings and Development. 14 (3): 265–284. JSTOR 25830234.
  14. ^ Robert M. Maxon (1992). "Colonial Financial System". In William Robert Ochieng and Robert M. Maxon (ed.). Economic History of Kenya. East African Publishers. p. 249+. ISBN 996646963X.
  15. ^ Frankl 2001.
  16. ^ Jump up to: a b c Hoyle 2001.
  17. ^ Jump up to: a b R.T. Ogonda (1992). "Transport and Communications in the Colonial Economy". In William Robert Ochieng and Robert M. Maxon (ed.). Economic History of Kenya. East African Publishers. p. 129+. ISBN 996646963X.
  18. ^ Jump up to: a b Savita Nair (2008), "Shops and Stations: Rethinking Power and Privilege in British/Indian East Africa", in John C. Hawley (ed.), India in Africa, Africa in India, Indiana University Press, ISBN 9780253351210
  19. ^ Jump up to: a b Irene Muthoni Kibandi; et al. (2010), "Kenya: Libraries, Museums and Archives", in Marcia J. Bates (ed.), Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press, ISBN 9780849397127
  20. ^ Frankl 2008.
  21. ^ Strobel 1975.
  22. ^ "Mombasa (Kenya) Newspapers". WorldCat. US: Online Computer Library Center. Retrieved 8 May 2013.
  23. ^ Jump up to: a b "History". Technical University of Mombasa. Retrieved 8 May 2013.
  24. ^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1965. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations. 1966.
  25. ^ Stren 1970.
  26. ^ 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.
  27. ^ "Seattle's 21 Sister Cities". US: City of Seattle. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  28. ^ Jump up to: a b c "The State of African Cities 2010: Governance, Inequalities and Urban Land Markets". United Nations Human Settlements Programme. 2010. Archived from the original on 17 June 2013.
  29. ^ "Mayor faces tough battle in poll". Daily Nation. 12 June 2011.
  30. ^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2011. United Nations Statistics Division. 2012.
  31. ^ "Table 8 - Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants", Demographic Yearbook – 2018, United Nations
  32. ^ Jump up to: a b "Kenya Profile: Timeline". BBC News. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
  33. ^ "Kenya: Murder of Muslim Cleric in Mombasa Sparks Riots". Global Voices. 6 September 2012. Missing or empty |url= (help)

Bibliography[]

Published in 19th century
  • Jedidiah Morse; Richard C. Morse (1823), "Mombaca", A New Universal Gazetteer (4th ed.), New Haven: S. Converse
  • Algernon F.R. de Horsey (1897), "(Mombasa)", Africa Pilot (6th ed.), London: Great Britain. Admiralty
Published in 20th century
  • "Mombassa". Meyers Grosses Konversations-Lexikon (in German). Leipzig. 1906. hdl:2027/njp.32101064063199.
  • "Mombasa", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York: Encyclopædia Britannica Co., 1910, OCLC 14782424
  • Frederick Treves (1910), "Mombasa", Uganda for a holiday, London: Smith, Elder & Co., OCLC 33285047
  • "Mombasa". The Red Book 1922-23: Handbook and Directory for Kenya Colony and Protectorate, Uganda Protectorate, Tanganyika Territory, and Zanzibar Sultanate. Nairobi: East Africa Standard Ltd. 1922. hdl:2027/inu.30000125593750.
  • John Milner Gray (1957), The British in Mombasa, 1824-1826, London: Macmillan, OCLC 2629449
  • C.R. Boxer (1960), Fort Jesus and the Portuguese in Mombasa, 1593-1729, London: Hollis & Carter, OCLC 939150
  • Irene S. van Dongen (1963). "Mombasa in the Land and Sea Exchanges of East Africa". Erdkunde. 17. doi:10.3112/erdkunde.1963.01.02. Free to read
  • F.J. Berg (1968). "The Swahili Community of Mombasa, 1500-1900". Journal of African History. 9: 35–56. doi:10.1017/S0021853700008343.
  • Harm J. De Blij (1968), Mombasa: an African city, Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press
  • Richard Stren (1970). "Factional Politics and Central Control in Mombasa, 1960-1969". Canadian Journal of African Studies. 4 (1): 33–56. JSTOR 483741.
  • Hyder Kindy (1972). Life and Politics in Mombasa.
  • G.S.P. Freeman-Grenville, ed. (1975), "History of Mombasa", The East African Coast: Select Documents (2nd ed.), London: Collings, ISBN 0901720852
  • Margaret Strobel (1975). "Women's Wedding Celebrations in Mombasa, Kenya". African Studies Review. 18 (3): 35–45. doi:10.2307/523720. JSTOR 523720.
  • John H. A. Jewell (1976), Mombasa, the friendly town, Nairobi: East African Pub. House
  • Marc J. Swartz (1979). "Religious Courts, Community, and Ethnicity among the Swahili of Mombasa: An Historical Study of Social Boundaries". Africa: Journal of the International African Institute. 49 (1): 29–41. doi:10.2307/1159503. JSTOR 1159503.
  • G.S.P. Freeman-Grenville, ed. (1980), The Mombasa rising against the Portuguese, 1631, London: Published for the British Academy by the Oxford University Press, ISBN 0197259928
  • Kurula Varkey and Klaus Roesch, ed. (1981). Report on Pilot Study for Conservation and Revitalization of Old Town Mombasa. Nairobi.
  • Mano Sassoon (1982). "Sinking of the Santo Antonio de Tanna in Mombasa Harbour". Paideuma. 28: 101–108. JSTOR 41409877.
  • James Kirkman (1983). "The Muzungulos of Mombasa". International Journal of African Historical Studies. 16.
  • J. Maitland-Jones; et al. (1985). Old Town Mombasa: A Historical Guide. Mombasa: Friends of Fort Jesus.
  • Sue Montgomery (1996), "Mombasa", in Trudy Ring (ed.), Middle East and Africa, International Dictionary of Historic Places, Routledge, pp. 512–516, ISBN 9781884964039
Published in 21st century
  • Brian Hoyle (2001). "Urban renewal in East African port cities: Mombasa's Old Town waterfront". GeoJournal. 53 (2): 183–197. doi:10.1023/A:1015704101663. JSTOR 41147599.
  • P.J.L. Frankl (2001). "The Early Years of the Mombasa Club: A Home Away from Home for European-Christians". History in Africa. 28: 71–81. doi:10.2307/3172208. JSTOR 3172208.
  • Paul Tiyambe Zeleza; Dickson Eyoh, eds. (2003). "Mombasa, Kenya". Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History. Routledge. ISBN 0415234794.
  • C. Edmund Bosworth, ed. (2007). "Mombasa". Historic Cities of the Islamic World. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill. ISBN 978-9004153882.
  • P.J.L. Frankl (2008). "Mombasa Cathedral and the CMS Compound: The Years of the East Africa Protectorate". History in Africa. 35: 209–229. doi:10.1353/hia.0.0017. JSTOR 25483723.
  • Demand for housing in urban Kenya: The case of households in Nairobi and Mombasa counties, 2013 – via Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis Free to read
  • Isolde Brielmaier (2013). "Mombasa on Display: Photography and the Formation of an Urban Public, from the 1940s Onward". In John Peffer and Elisabeth L. Cameron (ed.). Portraiture and Photography in Africa. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-00872-5.

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