Timeline of Funchal

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Funchal, Madeira, Portugal.

Prior to 20th century

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1493 - Cathedral of Funchal construction begins.
1514 - Roman Catholic Diocese of Funchal established.^[1]
1566 - Sack of Funchal [pt].
1835 - Town becomes part of the newly created administrative Funchal District [pt].
1836
- Associação Commercial founded.^[2]^[3]
- Synagogue of Funchal built (approximate date).^{[chronology citation needed]}
1838 - Biblioteca Municipal do Funchal [pt] (library) founded.
1846 - José Silvestre Ribeiro [pt] becomes district governor.
1851 - Jewish Cemetery of Funchal established.
1876 - Diário de Notícias da Madeira [pt] newspaper begins publication.^[2]
1883 - Paços do Concelho do Funchal [pt] (town hall) in use.
1888 - Teatro Municipal Baltazar Dias [pt] (theatre) opens.
1893 - Monte Railway and horsecar tram [pt] begin operating.
1900 - Population: 20,850.^[4]

20th century

1910 - C.D. Nacional and C.S. Marítimo (football clubs) formed.
1911 - Population: 24,687 in town; 169,777 in district.^[5]
1927
- Jornal da Madeira [pt] newspaper begins publication.^[2]
- Campo dos Barreiros (sport field) opens.
1931 - Arquivo Distrital do Funchal [pt] (archive) founded.
1935 - Fernão de Ornelas [pt] becomes mayor.
1940 - Mercado dos Lavradores (market) built.
1957 - Estádio dos Barreiros (stadium) built.
1964 - Madeira Airport begins operating.
1972 - Duas Torres (hi-rise) built.^[6]
1976 - Casino da Madeira in business.^[6]
1979 - City twinned with Honolulu, Hawaii, United States.^[7]
1980 - City twinned with Livingstone, Zambia.^[7]
1984 - City twinned with New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States.^[7]
1985
- City joins the regional Associação de Municípios da Região Autónoma da Madeira.^[8]
- City twinned with Maui, Hawaii, United States.^[7]
1987
- Correio da Madeira newspaper begins publication.^[2]
- Horários do Funchal (transit entity) established.
- City twinned with Cape Town, South Africa.^[7]
1988
- University of Madeira and Banco Internacional do Funchal^[2] established.
- City twinned with Santos, São Paulo, Brazil.^[7]
1991 - City twinned with Herzliya, Israel.^[7]
1992 - May: Associação Nacional de Municípios Portugueses [pt] meets in Funchal.^[9]
1993 - City twinned with Oakland, California, United States.^[7]
1994
- Miguel Albuquerque becomes mayor.
- City twinned with Marrickville, Australia.^[7]
1996 - City twinned with Fremantle, Australia, and Leichlingen, Germany.^[7]
1998 - Estadio Eng. Rui Alves (stadium) opens.
2000
- Cm-funchal.pt website online (approximate date).^[10]
- Funchal Cable Car begins operating.

21st century

2001
- Population: 103,961.^[2]
- MadeiraShopping [pt] in business.
2003 - City twinned with Praia, Cape Verde.^[7]
2005 - Festival Internacional de Cinema do Funchal [pt] begins.
2008 - City twinned with Ílhavo, Portugal, and Saint Helier, United Kingdom.^[7]
2009 - City twinned with Gibraltar, United Kingdom.^[7]
2010 - 20 February: 2010 Madeira floods and mudslides.
2013 - Paulo Cafôfo becomes mayor.
2014 - Iº Sarau Anual de Poesia Madeirense
2016
- August: Wildfire.^[11]
- City twinned with Angra do Heroísmo, Portugal.^[7]
2017 - Funchal local election, 2017 [pt] held.

References

^ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Portugal". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 13 November 2017.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Portugal". Europa World Year Book 2004. Europa Publications. 2004. ISBN 1857432533.
^ José Silvestre Ribeiro, ed. (1871–1893). Historia dos estabelecimentos scientificos, litterarios e artisticos de Portugal (in Portuguese). Academia Real das Sciencias.
^ Britannica 1910.
^ "Portugal". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368440 – via HathiTrust.
^ ^a ^b "Building Directory: Portugal: Madeira: Funchal". Emporis.com. Hamburg: Emporis GmbH. Archived from the original on November 13, 2017. Retrieved 13 November 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ "Geminações: Municipio: Funchal". Anmp.pt (in Portuguese). Associação Nacional de Municípios Portugueses. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
^ "Associação de Municípios da Região Autónoma da Madeira" (in Portuguese). Retrieved 14 November 2017.
^ "Congressos da ANMP" (in Portuguese). Associação Nacional de Municípios Portugueses. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
^ "Cm-funchal.pt" (in Portuguese). Câmara Municipal do Funchal. Archived from the original on 3 September 2000 – via Wayback Machine.
^ "Madeira wildfires: Three dead as flames reach Funchal", BBC News, 10 August 2016

This article incorporates information from the Portuguese Wikipedia.

Bibliography

in English

"Funchal", Handbook for Travellers in Portugal (4th ed.), London: J. Murray, 1887, hdl:2027/hvd.hn2ha1
A. Samler Brown (1903), "Funchal", Brown's Madeira, Canary Islands and Azores (7th ed.), London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co.
"Funchal" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 11 (11th ed.). 1910. p. 301.
"Funchal", The Mediterranean: Seaports and Sea Routes, including Madeira, the Canary Islands, the Coast of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1911, OCLC 490068

in Portuguese

Manuel Pinheiro Chagas, ed. (1879). "Funchal". Diccionario Popular (in Portuguese). Vol. 5. Lisbon: Diario Illustrado. hdl:2027/mdp.39015087705284.
Carlos Augusto da Silva Campos, ed. (1886), "Negociantes e industriaes das provincias e ilhas: Funchal", Almanach Commercial de Lisboa (in Portuguese), pp. 244–245
Esteves Pereira; Guilherme Rodrigues, eds. (1907). "Funchal". Portugal: Diccionario Historico... (in Portuguese). Vol. 3. Lisbon: Joao Romano Torres. hdl:2027/nyp.33433004990432. OCLC 865826167.

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