Timeline of Saint-Louis, Senegal

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

Prior to 20th century

• 1626 - Representatives of Compagnie Normande of Dieppe, France arrive.[1]
• 1758 - May: British forces take French fort.[2]
• 1763 - Catholic Apostolic Prefecture of Sénégal established.[3]
• 1783 - French in power in region per Treaty of Paris (1783).[2]
• 1809 - British in power in region.[2]
• 1814 - French in power in region per Treaty of Paris (1814).[2]
• 1817 - French school founded by Jean Dard.[4]
• 1819 - Catholic Sisters of St. Joseph of Cluny, France arrive in Saint-Louis.
• 1822 - Court of First Instance and Appeals Court established.
• 1828 - St. Louis Cathedral consecrated.
• 1847 - Great Mosque of Saint-Louis built.[4]
• 1848 - French citizenship nominally granted to residents of Saint-Louis.[5]
• 1849 - Public library established.
• 1852 - Branch of French trading firm Maurel & Prom in business.[6]
• 1853 - Guet N'Dar bridge built to Isle de Sor (approximate date).[7]
• 1856
  • Moniteur du Sénégal et dépendances colonial government newspaper begins publication.
  • École des otages (school) active.[4][8]
• 1858 - Walo becomes part of Saint-Louis.[9]
• 1865 - Faidherbe Bridge opens.[9]
• 1872 - Municipal government established.[9]
• 1881 - Yellow fever outbreak.
• 1885
  • Dakar–Saint-Louis railway built.[1]
  • Mbakhana water pumping station begins operating.
  • Le Réveil du Sénégal newspaper begins publication.
• 1895 - Saint-Louis becomes capital of French West Africa.[9]
• 1897 - Faidherbe Bridge rebuilt.

20th century

• 1902 - Capital of French West Africa moved from Saint-Louis to Dakar.[9]
• 1903 - École normale (school) established.
• 1904 - Population: 24,070.[1]
• 1905 - Bamako-Saint-Louis railway begins operating.
• 1916
  • French citizenship fully extended to residents of Saint-Louis.[5]
  • École Blanchot (school) founded.
• 1919 - Lycée Faidherbe (school) established.
• 1923 - Ecole des Enfants de Troupe de Saint-Louis du Sénégal (school) opens.[10]
• 1956 - Musée du Centre de recherches et de documentation du Sénégal à Saint-Louis (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 founded.
• 1969 - ASC Linguère (football club) formed.
• 1990 - University of Saint-Louis established.
• 1993 - Festival international de jazz de Saint-Louis 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

• 2009 - Cheikh Bamba Dièye elected mayor.
• 2011 - Population: 277,245.[13]
• 2014 - Mansour Faye elected mayor.

See also

• Saint-Louis history
• List of mayors of Saint-Louis, Senegal
• List of colonial governors of Senegal, 1626-1960, intermittently headquartered in Saint-Louis
• List of heritage sites in the Saint-Louis Region, Senegal
• Timeline of Senegal
• Timeline of Dakar

References

1. Britannica 1910.
2. 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. 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. doi:10.3406/outre.1974.1756 – via Persee.fr.
5. Henri Jacques Légier (1968). "Institutions municipales et politique coloniale: les Communes du Sénégal". Revue française d'histoire d'outre-mer (in French). 55. 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. doi:10.3406/outre.1974.1757 – via Persee.fr.
7. Bernard Moitt (2001). "From Pack Animals to Railways: Transport and the Expansion of Peanut Production and Trade in Senegal, 1840-1940". Outre-mers. 88. doi:10.3406/outre.2001.3851 – via Persee.fr.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
8. Yves Hazemann (1987). "Un outil de la conquête coloniale: l'École des otages de Saint-Louis". Cahiers du CRA (in French). Paris: Centre de recherches africaines (5). ISSN 0291-2848.
9. "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.
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

See also: Bibliography of Saint-Louis (in French)

in English

• "St Louis", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
• 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 0-253-00705-4. (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 (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.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• 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 (2012). Saint-Louis du Sénégal: Palimpseste d'une ville (in French). Karthala. ISBN 978-2-8111-4976-5.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• 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

• "(Saint-Louis)". AfricaBib.org. (Bibliography)
• "Saint Louis". Tolerance and Diversity in the Islam of West Africa. African Online Digital Library. Documents, maps, images and audio
• Items related to Saint-Louis, Senegal, various dates (via Europeana)
• Items related to Saint-Louis, Senegal, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America)

Images

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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