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Timeline of Saint-Louis, Senegal

Summary

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Saint-Louis, Senegal.

Prior to 20th century edit

20th century edit

  • 1903
  • 1904 - Population: 24,070.[1]
  • 1905 - Bamako-Saint-Louis railway begins operating.
  • 1916
  • 1919 - Lycée Faidherbe (school) established.[1]
  • 1923 - Ecole des Enfants de Troupe de Saint-Louis du Sénégal [fr] (school) opens.[10]
  • 1956 - Musée du Centre de recherches et de documentation du Sénégal à Saint-Louis [fr] (museum) opens.
  • 1957 - Capital of French Colonial Mauritania moved from Saint-Louis to Nouakchott.
  • 1960 - Saint Louis becomes part of independent Republic of Senegal.
  • 1965 - Institut culturel et linguistique Jean-Mermoz [fr] founded.
  • 1969 - ASC Linguère (football club) formed.
  • 1990 - University of Saint-Louis established.
  • 1993 - Festival international de jazz de Saint-Louis [fr] active.
  • 1994 - Population: 132,449 (estimate).[11]
  • 1999 - Population: 147,961.[12]
  • 2000 - Island of Saint-Louis designated an Unesco World Heritage Site.

21st century edit

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d e f Britannica 1910.
  2. ^ a b c d Kenneth J. Panton (2015). Historical Dictionary of the British Empire. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-8108-7524-1.
  3. ^ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Senegal". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
  4. ^ a b c Denise Bouche (1974). "L'école française et les musulmans au Sénégal de 1850 à 1920". Revue française d'histoire d'outre-mer (in French). 61 (223): 218–235. doi:10.3406/outre.1974.1756 – via Persee.fr.  
  5. ^ a b Henri Jacques Légier (1968). "Institutions municipales et politique coloniale: les Communes du Sénégal". Revue française d'histoire d'outre-mer (in French). 55 (201): 414–464. doi:10.3406/outre.1968.1473 – via Persee.fr.  
  6. ^ Leland Conley Barrows (1974). "The Merchants and General Faidherbe: Aspects of French Expansion in Sénégal in the 1850s". Revue française d'histoire d'outre-mer. 61 (223): 236–283. doi:10.3406/outre.1974.1757 – via Persee.fr.  
  7. ^ Bernard Moitt [in Haitian Creole] (2001). "From Pack Animals to Railways: Transport and the Expansion of Peanut Production and Trade in Senegal, 1840-1940". Outre-mers. 88 (330): 241–267. doi:10.3406/outre.2001.3851. PMID 19097321 – via Persee.fr.  
  8. ^ Yves Hazemann (1987). "Un outil de la conquête coloniale: l'École des otages de Saint-Louis". Cahiers du CRA (in French) (5). Paris: Centre de recherches africaines. ISSN 0291-2848.
  9. ^ a b c d e "Historique de la municipalité". Villedesaintlouis.com (in French). Mairie de Saint-Louis du Senegal. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
  10. ^ "Historique du Prytanée" (in French). Prytanee Militaire Charles Ntchorere de Saint-Louis. Retrieved 21 September 2017.
  11. ^ 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)
  12. ^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2005. United Nations Statistics Division.
  13. ^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2015. United Nations Statistics Division. 2016.
This article incorporates information from the French Wikipedia.

Bibliography edit

in English
  • "St Louis (1.)" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 21 (9th ed.). 1886. pp. 182–183.
  • "St Louis (Senegal)" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 24 (11th ed.). 1910. p. 27.
  • Lucie Colvin Phillips (1972). Kajor and its diplomatic relations with Saint-Louis-du-Sénégal, 1763-1861 (PhD). Columbia University. OCLC 872514124.
  • Michael David Marcson (1976). European-African interaction in the Precolonial Period: Saint-Louis-Senegal 1758-1854 (PhD). Princeton University. OCLC 844188035.
  • Karen Amanda Sackur (1999). Development of Creole society and culture in Saint-Louis and Goree, 1719-1817 (Ph.D). University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies – via British Library.  
  • Kalala Ngalamulume (2006). "Plague and Violence in Saint-Louis-du-Sénégal, 1917-1920". Cahiers d'Études africaines. 183.
  • Hilary Jones (2013). Métis of Senegal: Urban Life and Politics in French West Africa. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-00705-6. (About Saint Louis)
in French
  • Prosper Alquier (1922). "Saint-Louis du Senegal pendant la Revolution et L'Empire". Bulletin (in French). Comité d'études historiques et scientifiques de l'Afrique occidentale française – via Gallica.bnf.fr.  
  • Claude Pulvenis (1968). "Une epidemie de fievre jaune'a Saint-Louis du Senegal (1881)". Bulletin de l'Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire (in French). 30.
  • François Zuccarelli [in French] (1973). "Les maîres de Saint-Louis et Gorée de 1816 à 1872" [Mayors of Saint-Louis and Gorée]. Bulletin de l'Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire, Série B: Sciences humaines (in French). 35. ISSN 0018-9642. OCLC 772635318.
  • Régine Bonnardel (1993). Saint-Louis du Sénégal: Mort ou naissance? (in French). L'Harmattan. ISBN 978-2-296-21988-5.
  • Alain Sinou (1993). Comptoirs et villes coloniales du Senegal: Saint-Louis, Goree, Dakar (in French). Paris: Éditions Karthala. ISBN 2865373932.
  • Jean-Pierre Dozon [in French] (2012). Saint-Louis du Sénégal: Palimpseste d'une ville (in French). Karthala. ISBN 978-2-8111-4976-5.
  • Guillaume Vial (2019). Femmes d'influence. Les signares de Saint-Louis du Sénégal et de Gorée XVIIIe-XIXe siècle. Étude critique d'une identité métisse (in French). Paris: Éditions Maisonneuve & Larose - Hémisphères Éditions. ISBN 978-2-37701-043-1.

External links edit

 
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Images edit

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    Orphelinat des Sœurs de Saint-Joseph de Cluny (photo 2013). The nuns arrived in 1819
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    Great Mosque, built 1847 (photo 2007)
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    Guet-N'Dar bridge, built circa 1853, rebuilt 1865
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    Mbakhana water pumping station, in operation 1885-1952 (photo 2016)
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    Map of Saint Louis, 1942

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