Timeline of Manaus

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Manaus, in Amazonas state, Brazil.

Prior to 20th century

• 1669 - Fort of São José da Barra do Rio Negro built.
• 1833 - Town council convenes in the former Fábrica Imperial.[1]
• 1848 - Manaus elevated to the category of city.[2]
• 1850 - Town becomes capital of Amazonas province.[3]
• 1856 - Town renamed "Manaus."[3]
• 1871 - Associação Comercial do Amazonas established.
• 1872 - Population: 29,334.[4]
• 1878 - Metropolitan Cathedral of Manaus is inaugurated.
• 1883 - Mercado Adolpho Lisboa built.
• 1892 - Catholic Diocese of Amazonas established.
• 1896
  • Amazon Theatre opens.[5]
  • Electric lighting introduced.[6]
• 1900 - Population: 73,647.

20th century

• 1904 - Jornal do Commercio newspaper begins publication.
• 1910 - Free University School of Manaus established.[7]
• 1913 - Nacional Futebol Clube formed.
• 1917 - Instituto Geográfico e Histórico do Amazonas founded.[8][9]
• 1920 - Population: 179,263.
• 1930 - Nacional Fast Clube (football team) formed.
• 1939 - América Futebol Clube formed.
• 1949 - A Crítica newspaper begins publication.[10]
• 1961 - Estádio Ismael Benigno (stadium) opens.
• 1967 - Free Economic Zone of Manaus established.[11]
• 1970
  • Manaus Air Force Base begins operating.
  • Vivaldão stadium opens.
  • Population: 284,118.[12]
• 1974 - Nossa Senhora das Graças (Manaus) neighborhood established.
• 1976 - Eduardo Gomes International Airport opens.
• 1980 - Population: 922,477.
• 1989
  • Park of Mindu established.[13]
  • Arthur Virgílio Neto becomes mayor.
• 1991 - Population: 1,010,544.[4]
• 1996 - Festival Amazonas de Ópera begins.
• 1997
  • Amazonas Philharmonic founded.
  • Alfredo Nascimento becomes mayor.
• 2000 - Population: 1,347,590.

21st century

• 2005 - Park of Bilhares established.
• 2010 - Population: 1,802,014.[14]
• 2011 - Rio Negro Bridge opens.
• 2012 - 7 October: Manaus 2012 municipal election held.
• 2013 - 2013 protests in Brazil.
• 2014 - Arena da Amazônia opens.
• 2016 - 2 October: Manaus 2016 municipal election held.
• 2017 - Prison riot at Anisio Jobim Penitentiary Complex .

See also

• Manaus history
• History of Manaus
• List of mayors of Manaus
• Amazonas history (state)
• History of Amazonas (Brazilian state)

References

1. "Sedes da Câmara Municipal de Manaus". Cmm.am.gov.br (in Portuguese). Câmara Municipal de Manaus. Retrieved 6 September 2018.
2. Manaus, retrieved 2019-10-30
3. Ring 1995.
4. "Tabela 1.6 - População nos Censos Demográficos, segundo os municípios das capitais - 1872/2010", Sinopse do Censo Demografico 2010 (in Portuguese), Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística, retrieved 5 September 2018
5. "A history of cities in 50 buildings", The Guardian, UK, 2015
6. Candace Slater (2002). "Chronology". Entangled Edens: Visions of the Amazon. University of California Press. p. 205+. ISBN 978-0-520-92601-1.
7. Burns 1965.
8. "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.
9. Jose Martins (ed.). "Blogdorocha" (in Portuguese). Retrieved 30 December 2014 – via Blogspot.
10. "Brazil: Directory". Europa World Year Book 2003. Europa Publications. 2003. ISBN 978-1-85743-227-5.
11. Despres 1991.
12. 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.
13. "Protected Areas". Manaus City Hall. Retrieved 2019-10-30.
14. "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 (3): 400–421. doi:10.2307/164992. 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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