Timeline of Manaus
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil.
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- 1669 - Fort of São José da Barra do Rio Negro built.
- 1850 - Town becomes capital of Amazonas province.[1]
- 1856 - Town renamed "Manaus."[1]
- 1871 - Associação Comercial do Amazonas established.
- 1872 - Population: 38,998.
- 1883 - Mercado Adolpho Lisboa built.
- 1892 - Catholic Diocese of Amazonas established.
- 1896
- Amazon Theatre opens.[2]
- Electric lighting introduced.[3]
20th century
- 1900 - Population: 73,647.
- 1904 - Jornal do Commercio newspaper begins publication.
- 1910 - Free University School of Manaus established.[4]
- 1913 - Nacional Futebol Clube formed.
- 1917 - Instituto Geográfico e Histórico do Amazonas founded.[5][6]
- 1920 - Population: 179,263.
- 1930 - Nacional Fast Clube (football team) formed.
- 1939 - América Futebol Clube formed.
- 1940 - Population: 272,232.
- 1949 - A Crítica newspaper begins publication.[7]
- 1961 - Estádio Ismael Benigno (stadium) opens.
- 1967 - Free Economic Zone of Manaus established.[8]
- 1970
- Manaus Air Force Base begins operating.
- Vivaldão stadium opens.
- Population: 473,545.
- 1974 - Nossa Senhora das Graças (Manaus) neighborhood established.
- 1976 - Eduardo Gomes International Airport opens.
- 1980 - Population: 922,477.
- 1989
- Park of Mindu established.
- Arthur Virgílio Neto becomes mayor.
- 1991 - Population: 1,011,403.
- 1996 - Festival Amazonas de Ópera begins.
- 1997
- Amazonas Philharmonic founded.
- Alfredo Nascimento becomes mayor.
21st century
- 2000 - Population: 1,347,590.
- 2005 - Park of Bilhares established.
- 2010 - Population: 1,802,014.[9]
- 2011 - Rio Negro Bridge opens.
- 2013 - 2013 protests in Brazil.
- 2014 - Arena da Amazônia opens.
See also
- Manaus history
- History of Manaus
- List of mayors of Manaus
- Other cities in Brazil
- Timeline of Brasília
- Timeline of Curitiba
- Timeline of Fortaleza
- Timeline of Recife
- Timeline of Rio de Janeiro
- Timeline of Salvador, Bahia
- Timeline of São Paulo
References
- 1 2 Ring 1995.
- ↑ "A history of cities in 50 buildings", The Guardian, UK, 2015
- ↑ Candace Slater (2002). "Chronology". Entangled Edens: Visions of the Amazon. University of California Press. p. 205+. ISBN 978-0-520-92601-1.
- ↑ Burns 1965.
- ↑ "Instituto Geográfico e Histórico do Amazonas completa quase um século de história" [Amazon Geographical and Historical Institute completes nearly a century of history]. A Crítica (in Portuguese). 25 March 2011.
- ↑ Jose Martins (ed.). "Blogdorocha" (in Portuguese). Retrieved 30 December 2014 – via Blogspot.
- ↑ "Brazil: Directory". Europa World Year Book 2003. Europa Publications. 2003. ISBN 978-1-85743-227-5.
- ↑ Despres 1991.
- ↑ "2010 census". Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística. 2010. Retrieved 30 December 2014.
This article incorporates information from the Portuguese Wikipedia.
Bibliography
in English
- Lauro B. Bitancourt. "City of Manaos". State of Amazon, Brazil.
World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893
- Henry C. Pearson (1911). "(Manaos)". The rubber country of the Amazon. New York: India Rubber World.
- Ernst B. Filsinger (1922), "Brazil: Manaos", Commercial Travelers' Guide to Latin America, Washington, DC: Government Printing Office
- E. Bradford Burns (1965). "Manaus, 1910: Portrait of a Boom Town". Journal of Inter-American Studies. 7. JSTOR 164992.
- Leo A. Despres (1991). Manaus: Social Life and Work in Brazil's Free Trade Zone. State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-0-7914-0537-6.
- Trudy Ring and Robert M. Salkin, ed. (1995). "Manaus (Amazonas, Brazil)". Americas. International Dictionary of Historic Places. Routledge. p. 355+. ISBN 978-1-134-25930-4.
in Portuguese
- J.C.R. Milliet de Saint-Adolphe (1863), "Manaos", Diccionario geographico, historico e descriptivo, do imperio do Brazil (in Portuguese), Paris: J. P. Aillaud – via Hathi Trust
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