Timeline of Lubumbashi
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
20th century
1900s-1950s
- 1909
- * 1 September: Elisabethville site designated seat of Katanga province; named after Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Belgium.
- * 27 September: begins operating.
- 1910
- * Union Minière du Haut Katanga active.
- * and Catholic Apostolic Prefecture of Katanga established.
- * Population: 360.
- * Émile Wangermée becomes vice governor-general of Katanga.
- 1910s - "Governor's Residence and Imara and Twendelee schools" built.
- 1911
- * Journal du Katanga newspaper begins publication.
- * Population: 1,000.
- * Etoile mining begins near Elisabethville.
- * Catholic schools Institut Marie-José and Collège Saint-François de Sales established.
- 1912
- * Racially segregated "native city" established per ordinance.
- * Elisabethville becomes seat of Upper Luapula district.
- 1918 - begins operating.
- 1919
- * Population: 8,000.
- * Ruashi mining begins in vicinity of Elisabethville.
- 1920
- * "Management of the Union Minière was transferred from the British to the Belgians."
- * Catholic Sts. Peter and Paul Cathedral built.
- 1920s - "Makutano Club, Jerusalem United Methodist Church, and the Jewish synagogue" built.
- 1921 - Development of Albert I township begins.
- 1928
- * begins operating.
- * L'Essor du Congo newspaper begins publication.
- 1930s- "Courthouse and Mazembe stadium" built.
- 1931 - L'Écho du Katanga newspaper begins publication.
- 1932 - Wallace Memorial Church built.
- 1937 - founded.
- 1939 - Football clubs FC Saint-Éloi Lupopo and FC Saint-Georges formed.
- 1941
- * Elisabethville attains city status.
- * Development of Kenya township begins.
- 1944 - Premiere of Joseph Kiwele's Cantate à la gloire de la Belgique.
- 1945 - Union Africaine des Arts et Lettres founded.
- 1946 - Académie d'Art Populaire d'Elisabethville founded.
- 1949 - Athénée royal built.
- 1950 - Development of Katuba township begins.
- 1950s - "Post office,...CSK headquarters, the theater, St. Mary's Basilica, and the railway headquarters" built.
- 1951 - Académie des Beaux-Arts d'Elisabethville founded.
- 1954
- * Development of Ruashi township begins.
- * City seal in use.
- 1956 - Université officielle du Congo et du Rwanda-Urundi opens.
- 1957
- * City "divided into 5 communes, one for Europeans and 4 for Africans."
- * December: held.
- 1959
- * Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Elisabethville established.
- * Population: 183,711.
1960s-1990s
- 1960
- * June: City becomes part of independent Republic of the Congo.
- * July: City becomes capital of breakaway State of Katanga during the Congo Crisis.
- * becomes bourgmestre.
- 1960s - "Gecamines tower and the 2 hospitals" built.
- 1961 - 15 September: Airport bombed by Katangese Air Force.
- 1963 - newspaper begins publication.
- 1964 - Stade Albert opens.
- 1966 - City becomes capital of Katanga Province.
- 1967
- * La Générale des Carrières et des Mines headquartered in city.
- * opens.
- 1970
- * Elisabethville renamed "Lubumbashi."
- * active.
- 1970s - "Hotel Karavia and Mobutu Stadium" built.
- 1971 - City becomes part of Shaba Province in the Republic of Zaire.
- 1972
- * Kampemba commune created.
- * University's Centre d'études des littératures romanes d'inspiration africaine active.
- 1974 - Société nationale des Chemins de fer du Congo headquartered in Lubumbashi.
- 1975 - Population: 480,875.
- 1977 - created.
- 1981 - University of Lubumbashi active.
- 1984 - Population: 543,268.
- 1990 - May: Student demonstration at University of Lubumbashi; crackdown.
- 1994 - Population: 851,381.
- 1997
- * April: Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo take city during the First Congo War.
- * Floribert Kaseba Makunko becomes mayor.
- * May: City becomes part of Democratic Republic of the Congo.
21st century
- 2007 - Moïse Katumbi becomes governor of Katanga Province.
- 2008 - becomes mayor.
- 2010
- * becomes mayor.
- * Congo Express airline begins operating.
- * Centennial of founding of city.
- 2011
- * February: Airport attacked by secessionist Tigers.
- * June: Unrest.
- * 7 September: Prison break; escapees include warlord Gédéon Kyungu.
- * Stade TP Mazembe opens in Kamalondo.
- 2013 - March: Secessionist Mai-Mai Kata Katanga unrest.
- 2014 - January: Mai-Mai Kata Katanga unrest.
- 2015
- * City becomes capital of the newly formed Haut-Katanga Province.
- * Population: 2,015,502.
- 2016 - December: Political protest.