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Timeline of Port Harcourt

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Timeline of Port Harcourt

This is a timeline of the history of Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers State, Nigeria.

Contents

20th century

  • 1925 - Braithwaite Memorial Hospital begins operating.
  • 1961 - Roman Catholic Diocese of Port Harcourt established.
  • 1965 - Port Harcourt Refining Company founded.
  • 1971 - Newspaper The Tide begins publication.
  • 1972
  • Rivers State College of Science and Technology opens.
  • Sharks football club formed.
  • 1975
  • University College, Port Harcourt created
  • Port Harcourt Zoo established.
  • 1977 - University College gains University status becomes University of Port Harcourt.
  • 1980
  • Rivers State University of Science and Technology replaces Rivers State College of Science and Technology.
  • University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital in operation.
  • 1981 - Radio Rivers begins broadcasting.
  • 1984 - Rivers State School of Basic Studies commences in Port Harcourt.
  • 1985 - Rivers State Television inaugurated.
  • 1988 - Dolphins football club is founded.
  • 1993 - Sister-city relationship with Kansas City formed.
  • 1995 - Ken Saro-Wiwa and Ogoni Nine buried in Port Harcourt Cemetery.
  • 1996 - Meridian Hospital begins operating.
  • 1999 - Rivers State School of Basic Studies revamped and renamed to Rivers State College of Arts and Science.

    • 21st century

  • 2001 - Liberation Stadium opens.
  • 2004
  • Population: 1,133,400.
  • National Network newspaper begins publication.
  • 2005 - Sosoliso Airlines Flight 1145 crashes.
  • 2006
  • Port Harcourt International Airport stop operations for maintenance.
  • Population: 1,382,592.
  • 2008
  • Garden City Literary Festival begins.
  • Street Rhymes Studios in business.
  • 2009 - Port Harcourt International Airport named Nigeria's third busiest airport.
  • 2010 - Bus electrocutions accident.
  • 2011 - 91.7 FM begins broadcasting.
  • 2012
  • Port Harcourt selected 2014 World Book Capital.
  • Massacre of four Uniport students.
  • 2013
  • Kelsey Harrison and Rivers State Dental and Maxillofacial hospitals start to function.
  • I'm on Fire becomes most successful mixtape by a Port Harcourt-based artist.
  • Port Harcourt International Fashion Week begins.
  • Garden City Literary Festival gets new name: Port Harcourt Book Festival.
  • 2014 - Port Harcourt World Book Capital takes place.

    • References

    Timeline of Port Harcourt Wikipedia
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