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The following is a
timeline of the
history of the
city of
Lomé ,
Togo .
Prior to 20th century
1874 - Lomé founded "by African, British and German traders."
1897 - Lomé becomes capital of German colonial
Togoland .
Loading of
cotton (1885)
20th century
1902 - Catholic
Cathedral built.
[3]
1904 - Wharf constructed.
[4]
1905
1907
Kpalimé -Lomé railway and Protestant church
[3] built.
1911 -
Atakpamé -Lomé railway built.
1914 - Lomé "annexed by the British from the Gold Coast."
1920 - Lomé becomes capital of colonial
French Togoland .
1920s - Boulevard Circulaire laid out.
1922 - Political "council of notables" formed.
1932
1933 - January: "Riot by women" against taxes.
[7]
1955
1957 - La Vérité Togolaise
newspaper begins publication.
1958 -
Tokoin becomes part of Lome.
1960 - City becomes part of independent
Togo .
1961 -
Dynamic Togolais football club formed.
1962
1963 - 13 January:
1963 Togolese coup d'état ;
Sylvanus Olympio assassinated.
1965 - Happy Star Concert Band formed.
[12]
1968 -
Stade Général Eyadema (stadium) opens.[
citation needed ]
1969 - Deep-water harbor built.
1970
1975
1980 -
Hotel du 2 Fevrier and West African Development Bank
[15] built.
1981 - Population: 375,499.
1983 -
British School established.
1985
1989
"Industrial and harbour free zone" established.
Dove of Peace statue unveiled in
Tokoin .
1990 - 5 October: Anti-government demonstrations begin.
1991 - April: Crackdown on anti-government demonstrators.
1993 - La Dépêche newspaper begins publication.
[10]
1997
Nouvel Echo newspaper begins publication.
[10]
Al-Furkan Center built.
[15]
1998 -
Bourse Régionale des Valeurs Mobilières (stock exchange) branch established.
[14]
1999 - July: City hosts signing of the
Lomé Peace Accord .
[14]
2000 -
Stade de Kégué (stadium) opens.
21st century
2001 - October: Mayor Amousouvi Akakpo arrested.
[18]
2005
2007 - Musée international du Golfe de Guinée (museum) founded.
[20]
2011 - Population: 1,524,000 (urban agglomeration).
[21]
2012
2013 - 11 January:
Lomé Grand Market fire.
[23]
2015 - Population: 1,788,600 (estimate, urban agglomeration).
[24]
See also
References
^
a
b Thierry Lulle (1993).
"Le Togo" . In Jacques Soulillou (ed.). Rives coloniales: architectures, de Saint-Louis à Douala (in French). Editions Parenthèses.
ISBN
978-2-86364-056-2 .
^ Komla Tallaki (2005).
"Pest-Control System in the Market Gardens of Lome, Togo" . In Luc J. A. Mougeot (ed.). Agropolis: The Social, Political, and Environmental Dimensions of Urban Agriculture .
International Development Research Centre . pp. 51–88.
ISBN
978-1-55250-186-3 .
^ Albert Frederick Calvert (1918), Togoland , London: T. W. Laurie,
OL
7185419M
^ Benjamin N. Lawrance (2003), "La Révolte des Femmes: Economic Upheaval and the Gender of Political Authority in Lomé, Togo, 1931–33", African Studies Review , 46 (1): 43–67,
doi :
10.2307/1514980 ,
JSTOR
1514980 ,
S2CID
142773071
^ Collectif; Auzias, Dominique; Labourdette, Jean-Paul (2010).
"Lome" . Togo .
Le Petit Futé (in French). p. 70+.
ISBN
978-2-7469-3597-6 .
^
"Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Togo" . www.katolsk.no . Norway: Oslo katolske bispedømme (Oslo Catholic Diocese). Retrieved 30 September 2014 .
^
a
b
c Europa World Year Book 2004 . Taylor & Francis.
ISBN
978-1857432534 .
^
"Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants" . Demographic Yearbook 1965 . New York:
Statistical Office of the United Nations . 1966.
^ Alain Ricard (1974), "Concert Party as a Genre: The Happy Stars of Lomé", Research in African Literatures , 5 (2): 165–179,
JSTOR
3818671
^ 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. CS1 maint: location missing publisher (
link )
^
a
b
c
"Togo: Directory" . Africa South of the Sahara 2004 . Regional Surveys of the World.
Europa Publications . 2004.
ISBN
978-1857431834 .
^
a
b
"(Lome, Togo)" .
ArchNet . Retrieved 30 September 2014 .
^
a
b
"Togo Profile: Timeline" . BBC News . 11 July 2011. Retrieved 30 September 2014 .
^
Lome mayor in corruption probe , BBC News, 5 October 2001
^ Michael Kamber (5 May 2005),
"Lomé Journal" , New York Times
^
"Togo: Lome" . West Africa .
Lonely Planet . 2009. pp. 774–783.
ISBN
978-1-74104-821-6 .
^
The State of African Cities 2014 .
United Nations Human Settlements Programme . 2015-09-10.
ISBN
978-92-1-132598-0 . Archived from
the original on 10 September 2014. Retrieved 30 September 2014 .
^
"Togo: Police Clashes with Thousand of Protesters in Lomé" . 21 August 2012 – via
Global Voices .
^
Togo: le bâtiment principal du grand marché de Lomé ravagé par le feu (in French),
Radio France Internationale , 12 January 2013
^
"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 .
Bibliography
in English
Paul Tiyambe Zeleza ; Dickson Eyoh, eds. (2003). "Lome, Togo". Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History . Routledge.
ISBN
978-0415234795 .
N. Adovi Goeh-Akue (2005).
"Lomé" . In Kevin Shillington (ed.). Encyclopedia of African History . Fitzroy Dearborn.
ISBN
978-1-135-45670-2 .
Hugues Steve Ndinga-Koumba Binza (2006).
"Demographic Profiles of Libreville and Lomé" . In S.B. Bekker and Anne Leildé (ed.). Reflections on Identity in Four African Cities . South Africa: African Minds.
ISBN
978-1-920051-40-2 . (about Cape Town, Johannesburg, Libreville, Lomé)
Philippe Gervais-Lambony (2011), Simon Bekker and Goran Therborn (ed.),
"Lomé" , Capital Cities in Africa: Power and Powerlessness , Dakar:
Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa ,
ISBN
978-2-8697-8495-6
in French
in German
External links
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Years in
Togo (1960–present)