Timeline of Lubumbashi

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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 (mining entity) active.
 * (hospital) 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.(fr)
 * 1912
 * Racially segregated "native city" established per ordinance.
 * Elisabethville becomes seat of Upper Luapula district.
 * 1918 - begins operating.
 * 1919
 * Population: 8,000 (approximate).
 * 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 - (museum) 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 (estimate).

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 (mayor).
 * 1960s - "Gecamines tower and the 2 hospitals" built.
 * 1961 - 15 September: Airport bombed by Katangese Air Force.
 * 1963 -  newspaper begins publication.
 * 1964 - Stade Albert (stadium) opens.
 * 1966 - City becomes capital of Katanga Province.
 * 1967
 * La Générale des Carrières et des Mines (mining entity) headquartered in city.
 * opens.
 * 1970
 * Elisabethville renamed "Lubumbashi."
 * (museum) 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 (national railway) headquartered in Lubumbashi.
 * 1975 - Population: 480,875 (estimate).
 * 1977 - created.
 * 1981 - University of Lubumbashi active.
 * 1984 - Population: 543,268.
 * 1990 - May: Student demonstration at University of Lubumbashi; crackdown.
 * 1994 - Population: 851,381 (estimate).
 * 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 (Kinshasa-Lubumbashi) 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 (stadium) 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 (estimate).
 * 2016 - December: Political protest.