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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Belém, in the state of Pará, Brazil.

Prior to 20th century

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• 1616 - Forte do Presépio de Belém (fort) established by Portuguese.
• 1625 - Casa de Haver o Peso (tax office) in operation.
• 1719 - Church and Former College of Saint Alexander built.
• 1720 - Roman Catholic diocese of Belém do Pará established.
• 1753 - Comissão de Limites (boundary commission) and military arrive.
• 1763 - Igreja de Nossa Senhora das Mercês [pt] (church) built.
• 1769 - Palace of the Eleven Windows (hospital) opens.
• 1771 - Palácio de Governo built.
• 1777 - Igreja de São João Batista (church) consecrated.
• 1782
  • Igreja de Santana (Belém) [pt] (church) built.
  • Construction of Our Lady of Grace Cathedral completed.
• 1822 - O Paraense [pt] newspaper begins publication.
• 1827 - A Voz das Amazonas newspaper begins publication.
• 1829 - O Sagitário newspaper begins publication.
• 1835 - Cabanagem separatist revolt begins.
• 1841 - Liceu Paraense [pt] (school) founded.
• 1866 - Museu Paraense (museum) founded.
• 1867 - Mercado Municipal de Carnes (market) built.
• 1868 - Palácio da Câmara Municipal e Prefeitura built.
• 1872
  • Instituto Paraense de Educandos Artífices established.
  • Population: 61,997.
• 1874 - Theatro da Paz (theatre) opens.
• 1876 - A Província do Pará [pt] newspaper begins publication.
• 1879 - Amazon rubber boom begins.
• 1883 - Palácio Municipal built.
• 1891 - José Coelho da Gama [pt] becomes mayor.
• 1896 - Folha do Norte begins publication.
• 1900
  • Historic and Geographic Institute of Pará and Academia Paraense de Letras [pt] (learned societies) founded.
  • Population: 96,560.

20th century

• 1901 - Mercado Ver-o-Peso (market) opens.
• 1909 - Basilica of Our Lady of Nazareth of Exile construction begins.
• 1911 - São Brás Market built.
• 1912 - Cine Olympia (cinema) opens.
• 1914 - Paysandu Sport Club founded.
• 1915 - Bolonha Mansion completed by Francisco Bolonha.
• 1918 - Estádio da Curuzú (stadium) opens.
• 1920 - Population: 236,402.
• 1946 - O Liberal [pt] newspaper begins publication.
• 1957 - Federal University of Pará established.
• 1960 - Population: 402,170.
• 1970 - Population: 642,514.
• 1976 - TV Liberal Belém begins broadcasting.
• 1978 - Mangueirão (stadium) opens.
• 1980 - Population: 949,545.
• 1982 - Diário do Pará [pt] newspaper begins publication.
• 1991 - Population: 1,244,688.
• 1994 - Belém do Pará Convention (official name: Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence Against Women), the first legally binding international treaty that criminalises all forms of violence against women, especially sexual violence.
• 1994 - Campeonato Internacional de Tênis do Estado do Pará (tennis tournament) begins.
• 1996 - Belém municipal election, 1996 [pt] held.
• 1999 - City joins the União das Cidades Capitais Luso-Afro-Américo-Asiáticas (city association).

21st century

• 2002 - August: Part of 2002 South American Games held in city.
• 2010 - Village Moon and Village Sun skyscrapers built.
• 2013 - Zenaldo Coutinho [pt] becomes mayor.
• 2016
  • BRT Belém [pt] (bus) begins operating.
  • October: Belém municipal election, 2016 [pt] held.
  • Population: 1,446,042.

See also

• Belém history
• History of Belém
• List of mayors of Belém
• Pará history and History of Pará [pt] (region)

References

1. ^ "Belém, Pará, Brazil". Heritage of Portuguese Influence (in English and Portuguese). Lisbon: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. Retrieved 14 September 2018.
2. Derenji 2009.
3. ^ Roberto Pontual, "Belém", Oxford Art Online
4. "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Brazil". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
5. Nelson Werneck Sodré (1999). História da imprensa no Brasil (in Portuguese) (4th ed.). Rio de Janeiro: Mauad Editora. ISBN 978-85-85756-88-8.
6. ^ Fernandes 2010.
7. ^ Alberto Bessa (1904). O jornalismo: esboço historico da sua origem e desenvolvimento até aos nossos dias, ampliado, com a resenha chronologica e alphabetica do jornalismo no Brasil [Journalism: a historical sketch of its origin and development up to the present day, expanded with the chronological and alphabetic review of journalism in Brazil] (in Portuguese). Lisbon: Viuva Travares Cardoso.
8. Mourão 2017.
9. Fidanza 1902.
10. ^ "Tabela 1.6 - População nos Censos Demográficos, segundo os municípios das capitais - 1872/2010", Sinopse do Censo Demografico 2010 (in Portuguese), Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística, retrieved 13 September 2018
11. "(Periódicos brasileiros - Belém (PA))". Biblioteca Digital Luso-Brasileira (in Portuguese). Biblioteca Nacional do Brasil. Retrieved 14 September 2018.
12. "Fundação" (in Portuguese). Belem: Academia Paraense de Letras. Archived from the original on 11 March 2014.
13. "Cine Olympia comemora 103 anos com programação especial em Belém", G1.globo.com (in Portuguese), 21 April 2015
14. "Brazil: Directory". Europa World Year Book. Taylor & Francis. 2004. ISBN 978-1-85743-255-8.
15. Persadie, Natalie (2012). A critical analysis of the efficacy of law as a tool to achieve gender equality. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America. p. 199. ISBN 978-0-761-85809-6. Retrieved 16 July 2015.
16. "Membros: Brasil". Uccla.pt (in Portuguese). Retrieved 13 September 2018.
17. "Buildings in Belem". Emporis.com. Hamburg: Emporis GmbH. Archived from the original on September 13, 2018. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
18. "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2016. United Nations Statistics Division. 2017.

Bibliography

in English

• Jussara da Silveira Derenji; Jorge Derenji (2009), Churches, palaces and mansions of Belém (PDF), Roteiros do patrimônio (in English and Portuguese), Brasília: Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional, ISBN 9788573341201

in Portuguese

• Album de Belem (in Portuguese). Fidanza. 1902.
• O Municipio de Belém (in Portuguese). Belém do Pará: Archivo da Intendencia Municipal. 1908.
• R. M. Araujo (1998). As cidades da Amazónia no século XVIII: Belém, Macapá e Mazagão (in Portuguese) (2nd ed.). Porto. ISBN 9729483345.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Antonio Maurício Dias da Costa (2010). "Instrucção e Civilisação nos Clubes e Associações Esportivas em Belém entre 1890 e 1920". Educativa: Revista de Educação (in Portuguese). Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás. doi:10.18224/educ.v13i1.1245 (inactive 1 November 2024). ISSN 1983-7771.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024 (link) [REDACTED]
• Phillippe Sendas de Paula Fernandes; Netília Silva dos Anjos Seixas (2010), Imprensa e Política na Belém do início do século XIX (1820-1830) (PDF) (in Portuguese), Sociedade Brasileira de Estudos Interdisciplinares da Comunicação
• A. Meira Filho (2015). Evolução histórica de Belém do Grão-Pará : fundação e história, 1616-1823 (in Portuguese) (2nd ed.). Belém. ISBN 9788556680006.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Leila Mourão (2017), Memória da indústria paraense (PDF) (in Portuguese), Associação Brasileira de Pesquisadores em História Econômica

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