Timeline of Libreville

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Libreville, Gabon.

19th century
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  • 1843 - Fort and trading post established by French.[1]
  • 1849
    • Libreville founded by French military official Édouard Bouët-Willaumez. Freed Vili slaves were resettled in the new village.[2][3]
    • M. Mountier, a resettled former slave, becomes mayor (approximate date).[4]
  • 1860 - Town becomes administrative seat of colonial "French territories in the Gulf of Guinea" (approximate date).[3]
  • 1865 - Church of the Immaculate Conception built.[5]
  • 1888 - Libreville becomes administrative seat of colonial French Congo.[5][6]

20th century

21st century
Aerial view of Libreville, 2012

See also

References
  1. Young 2010.
  2. "France: Africa: French Equatorial Africa (French Congo)". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. pp. 886–888.
  3. "Gabon". Political Chronology of Africa. Political Chronologies of the World. Europa Publications. 2001. pp. 181–186. ISBN 978-0203409954.
  4. Binza 2006.
  5. Ngolet 2005.
  6. "Historique de la ville". Libreville.ga (in French). Retrieved 25 July 2017.
  7. Mboumba 2013.
  8. "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Gabon". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
  9. "Anciens maires de Libreville". Libreville.ga (in French). Retrieved 25 July 2017.
  10. "Gabon: Directory". Africa South of the Sahara 2004. Regional Surveys of the World. Europa Publications. 2004. ISBN 978-1857431834.
  11. "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.
  12. "Madagascar Profile: Timeline". BBC News. 21 June 2011. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
  13. "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2015. United Nations Statistics Division. 2016.
  14. "Gabon: Rose Christiane Ossouka Raponda, le nouveau visage de Libreville". Jeune Afrique (in French). Paris. 21 January 2014.
This article incorporates information from the French Wikipedia.

Bibliography
in English
  • Henry H. Bucher Jr. (1979). "Liberty and Labor: The Origins of Libreville Reconsidered". Bulletin de l'Institut fondamental d'Afrique noire. 41.
  • François Ngolet (2005). "Libreville". In Kevin Shillington (ed.). Encyclopedia of African History. Fitzroy Dearborn. pp. 828–829. ISBN 978-1-57958-245-6.
  • Hugues Steve Ndinga-Koumba Binza (2006). "Demographic profiles of Libreville and Lome". In S.B. Bekker; Anne Leildé (eds.). Reflections on Identity in Four African Cities. South Africa: African Minds. ISBN 978-1-920051-40-2. (about Cape Town, Johannesburg, Libreville, Lomé)
  • Peter P. Hinks; John R. McKivigan, eds. (2007). "Libreville". Encyclopedia of Antislavery and Abolition. Greenwood. p. 432+. ISBN 978-0-313-33144-2.
  • Eric Young (2010). "Libreville, Gabon". In Kwame Anthony Appiah; Henry Louis Gates (eds.). Encyclopedia of Africa. Oxford University Press. p. 51+. ISBN 9780195337709.
in French
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