Timeline of Yaoundé

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Yaoundé, Cameroon.

Prior to 20th century

1888 - "Jaunde" settlement founded by German Georg August Zenker in colonial Kamerun.^[1]
1895 - Trading post in business.^[1]

20th century

1909 - Town designated capital of German colonial Kamerun.^[2]
1911
- Charles Atangana appointed mayor.
- Palais de Charles Atangana [fr] built.
1916 - Town occupied by British and French forces.^[3]
1921 - Yaounde designated administrative seat of colonial French Cameroon.^[1]
1927 - Transcamerounais [fr] railway begins operating.^[1]
1930 - Canon Yaoundé football club formed.
1933 - Central Hospital of Yaoundé founded.
1936 - Bastos (cigarette) manufactory begins operating.^[4]
1939
- Central post office built.^[5]
- Population: 9,080.^[1]
1951 - Mvog-Betsi Zoo founded.
1952 - École professionnelle Charles-Atangana (school) built.^[5]
1953 - Population: 36,786.^[1]
1955
- Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Yaoundé active.^[6]
- Our Lady of Victories Cathedral dedicated.^[5]
1956 - André Fouda [fr] elected mayor.
1959 - École nationale d'administration et de magistrature [fr] (college) founded.
1961
- City becomes capital of independent Republic of Cameroon.^[1]
- École normale supérieure de Yaoundé [fr] (college) founded.
- Supreme Court of Cameroon headquartered in Yaoundé.
1962
- University of Yaoundé opens.
- Population: 93,269.^[7]
1964 - American School of Yaounde founded.
1965 - University Teaching Hospital of Yaounde founded.^{[citation needed]}
1966 - National Library of Cameroon headquartered in city.
1967 - Kondengui Central Prison built.
1971 - École nationale supérieure polytechnique de Yaoundé [fr] (college) founded.
1972
- Bank of Central African States headquartered in Yaoundé.
- Ahmadou Ahidjo Stadium opens.
- National "centralization of government functions" leads to population increase Yaounde.^[2]
1973 - Monument de la réunification [fr] erected.^{[citation needed]}
1974
- Cameroon Tribune newspaper begins publication.^[8]
- Tonnerre Yaoundé football club formed.
1976 - Population: 291,071.^[9]
1985 - Yaoundé General Hospital built.
1987
- Cameroon Radio Television headquartered in Yaounde.^[8]
- Population: 649,000.^[10]
1988 - Musée national du Cameroun [fr] (museum) active.
1991 - Catholic University of Central Africa opens.^[11]
1992 - International airport begins operating.^[1]
1993 - University of Yaoundé I and University of Yaoundé II established.
1998
- 14 February: Yaoundé train explosion occurs.
- Blackitude Museum founded.
- 1,293,000 (estimate).^[12]
1999 - Afhemi Museum opens.^[13]

21st century

2002 - Yaoundé Gynaecology, Obstetrics and Pediatrics Hospital opens.
2004 - United Nations Development Fund for Women regional office headquartered in Yaounde.^[11]
2005 - Population: 1,817,524.^[14]
2006 - Basilique Marie-Reine-des-Apôtres (church) dedicated.
2008 - February: 2008 Cameroonian anti-government protests; crackdown.^[15]
2009
- March: Catholic pope visits city.
- Yaoundé Multipurpose Sports Complex opens.
2016
- Paul Biya Stadium construction begins.
- Population: 2,873,567 (estimate).^[16]
2019 - Part of 2019 Africa Cup of Nations football contest to be held in city.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Eckert 2005.
^ ^a ^b Gates 2005.
^ "Le Cameroun: Histoire". Portail du Gouvernement du Cameroun: Services du Premier Ministre (in French). Retrieved 31 July 2017.
^ "Cameroun: l'origine des noms de 20 quartiers de Yaoundé". Camer.be (in French). Brussels. 2 February 2016.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Si Yaoundé, vous était contée…", Cameroon Tribune (in French), 8 March 2017
^ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Cameroon". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1965. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations. 1966. pp. 140–161.
^ ^a ^b "Cameroon: Directory". Africa South of the Sahara 2004. Regional Surveys of the World. Europa Publications. 2004. ISBN 1857431839.
^ United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1987). "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". 1985 Demographic Yearbook. New York. pp. 247–289.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2000. United Nations Statistics Division.
^ ^a ^b Mark Dike DeLancey; et al. (2010). Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon (4th ed.). Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7399-5.
^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2005. United Nations Statistics Division.
^ Cybriwsky 2013.
^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2015. United Nations Statistics Division. 2016.
^ "Cameroon Profile: Timeline". BBC News. 20 April 2011. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
^ "Table 8 - Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants", Demographic Yearbook – 2018, United Nations

This article incorporates information from the French Wikipedia and the German Wikipedia.

Bibliography

in English

Remi Clignet; Frank Jordan (1971). "Urbanization and Social Differentiation in Africa: A Comparative Analysis of the Ecological Structures of Douala and Yaoundé". Cahiers d'Études africaines. 11 (42): 261–297. doi:10.3406/cea.1971.2803 – via Persee.fr.
Jane I. Guyer, ed. (1987). "Feeding Yaoundé, capital of Cameroon". In Feeding African Cities: Studies in Regional Social History. Indiana University Press. ISBN 0253321026.
Paul Tiyambe Zeleza; Dickson Eyoh, eds. (2003). "Yaoundé, Cameroon". Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History. Routledge. ISBN 0415234794.
Andreas Eckert [in German] (2005). "Yaoundé". In Kevin Shillington (ed.). Encyclopedia of African History. Fitzroy Dearborn. ISBN 978-1-57958-245-6.
Kwame Anthony Appiah; Henry Louis Gates, eds. (2005). "Yaoundé, Cameroon". Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-517055-9.
Gordon Prain; et al., eds. (2010). African Urban Harvest: Agriculture in the Cities of Cameroon, Kenya and Uganda. Springer. ISBN 978-1-4419-6249-2. (Includes articles about Yaoundé)
Roman A. Cybriwsky (2013). "Yaoundé". Capital Cities around the World: An Encyclopedia of Geography, History, and Culture. ABC-CLIO. p. 342+. ISBN 978-1-61069-248-9.

in French

André Franqueville (1968). "Le paysage urbain de Yaounde". Cahiers d'Outre-Mer (in French). 21 – via Persee.fr.
Louis Roussel; et al. (1968). "La mobilité de la population urbaine en Afrique Noire: Deux essais de mesure, Abidjan et Yaoundé". Population (in French). 23 (2): 333–352. doi:10.2307/1527492. ISSN 1957-7966. JSTOR 1527492 – via Persee.fr.
André Franqueville (1984). Yaoundé: construire une capitale (in French). IRD Editions. ISBN 9782709907248. (Includes bibliography)
Anne Sidonie Zoa (1995), Les ordures à Yaoundé. Urbanisation, environnement et politique au Cameroun (in French), L'Harmattan
Marie Morelle (2006). "'La rue' dans la ville africaine (Yaoundé, Cameroun et Antananarivo, Madagascar" [City streets in Africa]. Annales de géographie (in French). 115. doi:10.3406/geo.2006.21445 – via Persee.fr.
J.R. Ngambi et al., 2011, "La prolifération des décharges sauvages et leurs impacts socio-environnementaux dans la ville de Yaoundé", International Journal Advanced Studies and Research in Africa, 2011 Vol.2, N°1, 52-58.
René Joly Assako Assako (2012). "À propos de l'opération d'embellissement de Yaoundé, capitale d'Afrique centrale" [Politics of embellishment of the Cameroon capital, Yaoundé]. Cahiers d'Outre-Mer (in French). 65 (259): 371–393. doi:10.4000/com.6652 – via Revues.org.
Jules Raymond Ngambi (2016). "Les pratiques populaires à la rescousse de la salubrité urbaine: la précollecte, un service alternatif aux insuffisances du système formel de gestion des déchets à Yaoundé". Cybergeo (in French) (789). doi:10.4000/cybergeo.27782 – via Revues.org.

in German

"Jaunde". Deutsches Kolonial-Lexikon (in German). 1920 – via Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt.^{[permanent dead link‍]}

External links

Items related to Yaoundé, various dates (via Europeana) (Images, etc.)
Items related to Yaoundé, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America) (Images, etc.)
"(Yaounde)". Internet Library Sub-Saharan Africa. Germany: Frankfurt University Library. (Bibliography)
"(Yaounde)". Connecting-Africa. Leiden, Netherlands: African Studies Centre. (Bibliography)
"(Yaounde)". AfricaBib.org. (Bibliography)
"(Yaoundé)". Directory of Open Access Journals. UK. (Bibliography of open access articles)
"Yaoundé, Cameroon". BlackPast.org. US. October 2014.

[FOOTNOTEEckert2005-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Eckert 2005.

[FOOTNOTEGates2005-2] Gates 2005.

[3] "Le Cameroun: Histoire". Portail du Gouvernement du Cameroun: Services du Premier Ministre (in French). Retrieved 31 July 2017.

[4] "Cameroun: l'origine des noms de 20 quartiers de Yaoundé". Camer.be (in French). Brussels. 2 February 2016.

[si2017-5] "Si Yaoundé, vous était contée…", Cameroon Tribune (in French), 8 March 2017

[6] "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Cameroon". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 31 July 2017.

[7] "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1965. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations. 1966. pp. 140–161.

[Europa2004-8] "Cameroon: Directory". Africa South of the Sahara 2004. Regional Surveys of the World. Europa Publications. 2004. ISBN 1857431839.

[9] United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1987). "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". 1985 Demographic Yearbook. New York. pp. 247–289.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

[10] "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2000. United Nations Statistics Division.

[Delancey2010-11] Mark Dike DeLancey; et al. (2010). Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon (4th ed.). Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7399-5.

[12] "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2005. United Nations Statistics Division.

[FOOTNOTECybriwsky2013-13] Cybriwsky 2013.

[14] "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2015. United Nations Statistics Division. 2016.

[15] "Cameroon Profile: Timeline". BBC News. 20 April 2011. Retrieved 31 July 2017.

[16] "Table 8 - Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants", Demographic Yearbook – 2018, United Nations

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References

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