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

Prior to 20th century

  • 1616 - Forte do Presépio de Belém (fort) established by Portuguese.[1][2]
  • 1625 - Casa de Haver o Peso (tax office) in operation.
  • 1719 - Church and Former College of Saint Alexander built.[3]
  • 1720 - Roman Catholic diocese of Belém do Pará established.[4]
  • 1753 - Comissão de Limites (boundary commission) and military arrive.[1]
  • 1763 - Igreja de Nossa Senhora das Mercês (church) built.
  • 1769 - Palace of the Eleven Windows (hospital) opens.[1]
  • 1771 - Palácio de Governo built.[3]
  • 1777 - Igreja de São João Batista (church) consecrated.[3]
  • 1782
  • 1822 - O Paraense newspaper begins publication.[5][6]
  • 1827 - A Voz das Amazonas newspaper begins publication.[7][6]
  • 1829 - O Sagitário newspaper begins publication.[7][6]
  • 1835 - Cabanagem separatist revolt begins.
  • 1841 - Liceu Paraense (school) founded.[8]
  • 1866 - Museu Paraense (museum) founded.[9][3]
  • 1867 - Mercado Municipal de Carnes (market) built.
  • 1868 - Palácio da Câmara Municipal e Prefeitura built.[3]
  • 1872
    • Instituto Paraense de Educandos Artífices established.
    • Population: 61,997.[10]
  • 1874 - Theatro da Paz (theatre) opens.
  • 1876 - A Província do Pará newspaper begins publication.
  • 1879 - Amazon rubber boom begins.
  • 1883 - Palácio Municipal built.
  • 1891 - José Coelho da Gama becomes mayor.
  • 1896 - Folha do Norte begins publication.[11]
  • 1900
    • Instituto Histórico e Geográfico do Pará and Academia Paraense de Letras (learned societies) founded.[12]
    • Population: 96,560.[10]

20th century

21st century

  • 2002 - August: Part of 2002 South American Games held in city.
  • 2010 - Village Moon and Village Sun skyscrapers built.[17]
  • 2013 - Zenaldo Coutinho becomes mayor.
  • 2016
    • BRT Belém (bus) begins operating.
    • October: Belém municipal election, 2016 held.
    • Population: 1,446,042.[18]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Belém, Pará, Brazil". Heritage of Portuguese Influence (in English and Portuguese). Lisbon: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. Retrieved 14 September 2018.
  2. ↑ Derenji 2009.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 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 [in Portuguese] (1999). História da imprensa no Brasil (in Portuguese) (4th ed.). Rio de Janeiro: Mauad Editora. ISBN 978-85-85756-88-8.
  6. 1 2 3 Fernandes 2010.
  7. 1 2 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. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "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
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 August 2023). ISSN 1983-7771.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of August 2023 (link) Open access icon
  • 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 Free access icon
  • 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 Free access icon
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