The following is a
timeline of the
history of the city of
Durban in the
eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality ,
KwaZulu-Natal province,
South Africa .
19th century
1824 - British settlement of Port Natal established on land "acquired...through treaties with the Zulu king
Shaka ."[
dubious –
discuss ] [
need quotation to verify ]
1835 - Settlement renamed "D'Urban" after British colonial administrator
Benjamin D'Urban .
1839
A small British military force was stationed at the port.
On its withdrawal Dutch emigrants from the Cape took possession and proclaimed the
Natalia Republic .
1841 -
Printing press in operation (approximate date).
[3]
1842
A British military force reoccupied Durban.
Treaty signed by the Dutch recognizing British sovereignty.
1846 - "Native reserves" created.
1851 - Natal Times
newspaper begins publication.
1852 -
Mercury newspaper begins publication.
1854
"First Town Council, consisting of 8 members representing four wards" created.
[6]
George Cato becomes
mayor .
Natal Bank in business.
[6]
D'Urban Club formed.
1860
26 June:
Natal Railway (Market Square-Customs Point) begins operating in Durban.
[1]
Indian workers begin to arrive in Durban.
1863 - Population: approximately 5,000 (3,390 white, 1,380 black and 230 Asian).
[6]
1865 - Sites for Albert Park and Victoria Park established.
1866 -
Durban High School was founded.
1870 - Durban Fire Department founded.
[6]
1880 -
Magazine Barracks built.
1882 -
Durban High School for Girls was founded.
1885 - Town Hall built.
[6]
1887 -
Durban Girls' College was founded.
1888 -
Lord's cricket ground established.
1889 -
Natal cricket team formed.
1896 - Population: 31,877.
1899 -
Maris Stella School was founded.
20th century
1900s-1950s
1960s-1990s
21st century
See also
References
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^ Steven Anzovin and Janet Podell, ed. (2000).
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"Indian Newspapers in KwaZulu-Natal – 150 years of Indian Journalism" . Ulwazi Programme (in English and Zulu). eThekwini Municipality. 4 November 2015. Retrieved 27 September 2017 .
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"Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants" . 1995 Demographic Yearbook . New York. pp. 262–321. CS1 maint: location missing publisher (
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ISBN
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ISSN
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"Durban.gov.za" . Durban Metro Council. Archived from
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"About" . Ulwazi Programme (in English and Zulu). eThekwini Municipality. Retrieved 27 September 2017 .
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Bibliography
published in 19th-20th centuries
J. Forsyth Ingram (1895).
"Durban" . Colony of Natal: an official illustrated handbook and railway guide . London. {{
cite book }}
: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (
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"Principal Towns in Natal: Durban" , Natal Almanac Directory and Yearly Register , Pietermaritzburg: P. Davis & Sons, 1897
W. P. M. Henderson (1904).
Durban: Fifty Years' Municipal History . Durban: Robinson & Co.
Twentieth Century Impressions of Natal: Its People, Commerce, Industries, and Resources .
Twentieth Century Impressions . Lloyd's Greater Britain Publishing Company. 1906.
"Durban" .
Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 8 (11th ed.). 1910. pp. 696–697.
"Durban" .
Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 30 (12th ed.). 1922. p. 868.
Leo Kuper ; Hilstan Watts; Ronald Davies (1958). Durban: A study in racial ecology . Jonathan Cape.
OCLC
958188774 .
P. Maylam (1982). "Shackled by the Contradictions: The Municipal Response to African Urbanization in Durban, c. 1920-1950". African Urban Studies . Michigan State University.
ISSN
0736-6760 .
Dowlat Ramdas Bagwandeen (1983). The question of 'Indian penetration' in the Durban area and Indian politics, 1940-1946 (PhD). University of Natal.
hdl :
10413/8711 .
Paul Maylam (1985), Richard Haines; Gina Buijs (eds.), "Aspects of African Urbanization in the Durban Area before 1940", Struggle for Social and Economic Space: Urbanization in Twentieth Century South Africa , University of Durban-Westville,
ISBN
0949947733
R. Posel (1985). "Durban Ricksha Pullers' Strikes of 1918 and 1930". Journal of Natal and Zulu History . 8 . University of Natal: 85–106.
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ISSN
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R.J. Davies (1991). "Durban". In Anthony Lemon (ed.).
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ISBN
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Timothy Andrew Nuttall (1991).
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David Hemson (1996).
"Beyond the Frontier of Control: Trade Unionism and the Labour Market in the Durban Docks" . Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa (30). University of Natal.
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published in 21st century
Bill Freund (2001). "Contrasts in Urban Segregation: A Tale of Two African Cities, Durban (South Africa) and Abidjan (Côte d'Ivoire)".
Journal of Southern African Studies . 27 (3): 527–546.
doi :
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JSTOR
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PMID
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S2CID
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Antoine Bouillon (2002).
"Citizenship and the city: the Durban centre-city in 2000" . Transformation (48). University of Natal.
ISSN
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Bill Freund; Vishnu Padayachee, eds. (2002). (D)urban Vortex: South African City in Transition . University of Natal Press.
Brij Maharaj (2002),
"Post Apartheid Metro Boundaries: Conflicts, Contestations and Compromises in Durban" , Rencontres scientifiques franco-Sud-Africaines de l'innovation territoriale , p. 22 – via
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"Durban" . Understanding Slums: Case Studies for the Global Report 2003 . United Nations Human Settlements Programme and University College London. 2003.
Cherl Hendricks (2003). "Durban, South Africa". In
Paul Tiyambe Zeleza ; Dickson Eyoh (eds.).
Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History . Routledge.
ISBN
0415234794 .
Exit, Voice and Tradition: Loyalty to Chieftainship and Democracy in Metropolitan Durban, South Africa , London:
Crisis States Research Centre , 2005 – via
International Relations and Security Network
Aran S. MacKinnon (2005). "Durban". In
Kevin Shillington (ed.).
Encyclopedia of African History . Fitzroy Dearborn.
ISBN
978-1-57958-245-6 .
Kate Tuttle (2005). "Durban". In
Kwame Anthony Appiah ;
Henry Louis Gates (eds.).
Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press.
ISBN
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Bill Freund (2007). "Globalisation and the African city: Touba, Abidjan, Durban".
The African City: A History . Cambridge University Press. p. 177+.
ISBN
978-0-521-52792-7 .
Case study: Metropolitan Governance, EThekwini (Durban), South Africa , United Nations Human Settlements Programme, 2015
Ralph Callebert (2017). On Durban's Docks: Zulu Workers, Rural Households, Global Labor . Rochester NY: University of Rochester Press.
ISBN
9781580469074 .
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