Timeline of Nairobi

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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Nairobi, Kenya.

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Prior to 20th century[]

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20th century[]

1900s-1920s[]

  • 1900 - Incorporated as the Township of Nairobi
  • 1901
    • Native Civil hospital opens.
    • The Nairobi Club established
  • 1904 - Norfolk Hotel opens.[2]
  • 1905
    • British East Africa Protectorate capital moves from Mombasa to Nairobi.
    • Nairobi Parsee Zoroastrian Anjuman Religious and Charitable Funds established.[3]
  • 1906
    • Jamia Mosque construction started.
    • Royal Nairobi Golf Club founded.
  • 1907 - British Government House built.
  • 1909 - East Africa and Uganda Natural History Society established.[3]
  • 1910
  • 1912 - Theatre Royal opens.[6]
  • 1913 - Muthaiga Country Club founded.
  • 1914 - Shri Vankaner Vidya Prasarak Mandal established.[3]
  • 1917
    • Anjuman Islamia established.[3]
    • East Africa Women's League established.[3]
    • Indian Christian Union formed.[3]
  • 1918 - Punjebhai Club formed.[3]
  • 1919 - Nairobi Political Association formed.[3]
  • 1920
    • Social Service Volunteer Corps established.[3]
    • Majlis-i-Ahl-i-Kashmeer established.[3]

1930s-1950s[]

  • 1930 - Coryndon Museum opens.[4]
  • 1931 - McMillan lending library (for white settlers) opens.[4][7]
  • 1934 - Sir Ali Muslim Club (cricket) founded.
  • 1935 - Nairobi becomes a municipality.[8]
  • 1939 - St. Mary's School founded.
  • 1944 - Kenya Conservatoire of Music founded.[9]
  • 1946 - Nairobi National Park established.
  • 1947 - Kenya National Archives headquartered in city.[10]
  • 1948
    • East African Literature Bureau founded.[4]
    • Population: 118,976 (urban agglomeration).[11]
  • 1949 - American Center Library established.[10]
  • 1950 - Nairobi became a city[citation needed]
  • 1951 - Railway rerouted via Kibera
  • 1952
    • City Council formed.[8]
    • Princess Elizabeth Hospital opens.[12]
  • 1953 - Nairobi Dam constructed.
  • 1954
  • 1955
    • Israel Somen elected mayor.
    • Government Indian School renamed Duke of Gloucester School
  • 1956
    • Royal Technical College established.
    • East African Library Association headquartered in city.[13]
  • 1958
    • Nairobi Embakasi Airport opened
    • Embassy Cinema[6] opened.
    • Thika Rd Drive-In (later renamed Fox Drive-In) opened
    • Kenya Cinema opened
    • New Donovan Maule Theatre opened
    • Aga Khan Hospital opened

1960s-1970s[]

  • 1961 - Kenya Polytechnic established.[9]
  • 1962 - Nairobi West Airport renamed Wilson Airport
  • 1963
    • City becomes capital of Republic of Kenya.[9]
    • Kenya School of Law established.
  • 1964 - Abaluhya United Football Club founded.
  • 1966 - United Nations Office at Nairobi established.
  • 1967
    • National Library Service of Kenya headquartered in city.[10]
    • Kenya Open golf tournament begins.
  • 1968
    • Gor Mahia Football Club founded.
    • Swedish school founded.
  • 1969
    • July: Political leader Tom Mboya assassinated.
    • Hilton Nairobi built.
  • 1970
  • 1971 - Nairobi Railway Museum opens.
  • 1973
    • Kenyatta International Conference Centre and National Social Security Fund building constructed.
    • City administrators develop municipal "master plan."[14]
    • Population: 630,000 urban agglomeration.[15]
  • 1975
  • 1978 - Mazingira Institute founded.[16]

1980s-1990s[]

21st century[]

View of Nairobi, 2007
Nairobi, 2011
Kibera, Nairobi, 2015

2000s[]

2010s[]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ J. Gettleman (March 18, 2007). "36 Hours in Nairobi, Kenya". New York Times.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j 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.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e 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
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b "Nairobi National Museum". National Museums of Kenya. Archived from the original on May 17, 2013. Retrieved May 14, 2013.
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Movie Theaters in Nairobi, Kenya". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
  7. ^ Anthony Olden (1995), "The Kenya (Carnegie) Circulating Libraries and the McMillan Memorial Library, Nairobi", Libraries in Africa, Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, ISBN 0810830930
  8. ^ Jump up to: a b "City Council of Nairobi". Archived from the original on July 22, 2012. Retrieved August 16, 2012.
  9. ^ Jump up to: a b c Office of Public Communications (2008). "About Kenya: Nairobi". Republic of Kenya. Archived from the original on September 21, 2010. Retrieved August 16, 2012.
  10. ^ Jump up to: a b c World Guide to Libraries (25th ed.), De Gruyter Saur, 2011, ISBN 9783110230710
  11. ^ "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1955. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations.
  12. ^ Jump up to: a b "About The Nairobi Hospital: History". Nairobi Hospital. Archived from the original on September 11, 2012. Retrieved August 16, 2012.
  13. ^ "Kenya Library Association". Archived from the original on May 15, 2007. Retrieved May 14, 2013.
  14. ^ UN-HABITAT 2006.
  15. ^ 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.
  16. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Organizations". International Relations and Security Network. Switzerland: Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
  17. ^ 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 2013-06-17.
  18. ^ Jump up to: a b "Kenya Profile: Timeline". BBC News. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
  19. ^ Xan Rice (August 3, 2007). "Nairobi cafes buzzing as real coffee finally comes home". The Guardian.
  20. ^ "Kenya". Art Spaces Directory. New York: New Museum. Retrieved 2 December 2013.
  21. ^ "Google Africa Blog". July 2008 – via Blogspot.
  22. ^ "Corporate Information: Google Offices". Google Inc. Archived from the original on 20 December 2010.
  23. ^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2011. United Nations Statistics Division. 2012.
  24. ^ Jump up to: a b Nic Cheeseman (2011). "Kenya". In Andreas Mehler; et al. (eds.). Africa Yearbook: Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara in 2010. Koninklijke Brill. pp. 345–358. ISBN 90-04-20556-X.
  25. ^ "Table 8 - Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants", Demographic Yearbook – 2018, United Nations
  26. ^ "A fatal explosion". Economist.com. Sep 12, 2011.
  27. ^ "Hay-on-Nairobi". Economist.com. Sep 23, 2011.
  28. ^ "Kenyan capital Nairobi gets new train". BBC News. November 12, 2012.
  29. ^ "Raleigh's Sister Cities". US: City of Raleigh. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  30. ^ "Nairobi's Latest Novelty: High-End Mac and Cheese, Served by Whites", New York Times, 16 October 2014
  31. ^ "Bustling Nairobi deserted ahead of Obama arrival", People Daily, Kenya: Mediamax, July 25, 2015

Bibliography[]

  • Karen Blixen (1937). Out of Africa. London: Putnam. ISBN 0679600213. (Memoir set in Nairobi area circa 1920s)
  • Diana Lee-Smith and Davinder Lamba (2000). "Social transformation in a post-colonial city: the case of Nairobi". In Mario Polèse and Richard E. Stren (ed.). The Social Sustainability of Cities: Diversity and the Management of Change. University of Toronto Press. p. 250+. ISBN 978-0-8020-8320-3.
  • "Nairobi". Understanding Slums: Case Studies for the Global Report 2003. United Nations Human Settlements Programme and University College London. 2003.
  • Paul Tiyambe Zeleza; Dickson Eyoh, eds. (2003). "Nairobi, Kenya". Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History. Routledge. ISBN 0415234794.
  • David Levinson, ed. (2004). "Nairobi". Encyclopedia of Homelessness. Sage Publications. p. 403+. ISBN 978-0-7619-2751-8.
  • "Inventing a City: Nairobi", National Geographic Magazine, Washington DC, 208, 2005
  • Nairobi Urban Sector Profile. United Nations Human Settlements Programme. 2006.
  • Urban Integration in Africa: A Socio-Demographic Survey of Nairobi, Dakar: Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, 2009
  • M. Merino (2010). Déchets et pouvoirs dans les villes africaines: l’action publique de gestion des déchets à Nairobi de 1964 à 2002 (in French).  [fr] d’Aquitaine. ISBN 2-85892-367-1.
  • Sanctuary in the City? Urban Displacement and Vulnerability in Nairobi, London: Overseas Development Institute, 2011 – via International Relations and Security Network
  • Simon Bekker and Goran Therborn, ed. (2011), "Nairobi", Capital Cities in Africa: Power and Powerlessness, Dakar: Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, ISBN 978-2- 8697-8495-6

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