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Prior to 20th century [ edit ]
1874 - Lomé founded "by African, British and German traders."
1897 - Lomé becomes capital of German colonial Togoland .
Loading of cotton (1885)
1902 - Catholic Cathedral built.[ 3]
1904 - Wharf constructed.[ 4]
1905
1907
Kpalimé -Lomé railway and Protestant church[ 3] built.
1911 - Atakpamé -Lomé railway built.
1914 - Lomé "annexed by the British from the Gold Coast."
1920 - Lomé becomes capital of colonial French Togoland .
1920s - Boulevard Circulaire laid out.
1922 - Political "council of notables" formed.
1932
1933 - January: "Riot by women" against taxes.[ 7]
1955
1957 - La Vérité Togolaise newspaper begins publication.
1958 - Tokoin becomes part of Lome.
1960 - City becomes part of independent Togo .
1961 - Dynamic Togolais football club formed.
1962
1963 - 13 January: 1963 Togolese coup d'état ; Sylvanus Olympio assassinated.
1965 - Happy Star Concert Band formed.[ 12]
1968 - Stade Général Eyadema (stadium) opens.[citation needed ]
1969 - Deep-water harbor built.
1970
1975
1980 - Hotel du 2 Fevrier and West African Development Bank[ 15] built.
1981 - Population: 375,499.
1983 - British School established.
1985
1989
"Industrial and harbour free zone" established.
Dove of Peace statue unveiled in Tokoin .
1990 - 5 October: Anti-government demonstrations begin.
1991 - April: Crackdown on anti-government demonstrators.
1993 - La Dépêche newspaper begins publication.[ 10]
1997
Nouvel Echo newspaper begins publication.[ 10]
Al-Furkan Center built.[ 15]
1998 - Bourse Régionale des Valeurs Mobilières (stock exchange) branch established.[ 14]
1999 - July: City hosts signing of the Lomé Peace Accord .[ 14]
2000 - Stade de Kégué (stadium) opens.
2001 - October: Mayor Amousouvi Akakpo arrested.[ 18]
2005
2007 - Musée international du Golfe de Guinée (museum) founded.[ 20]
2011 - Population: 1,524,000 (urban agglomeration).[ 21]
2012
2013 - 11 January: Lomé Grand Market fire.[ 23]
2015 - Population: 1,788,600 (estimate, urban agglomeration).[ 24]
^ a b Thierry Lulle (1993). "Le Togo" . In Jacques Soulillou (ed.). Rives coloniales: architectures, de Saint-Louis à Douala (in French). Editions Parenthèses. ISBN 978-2-86364-056-2 .
^ Komla Tallaki (2005). "Pest-Control System in the Market Gardens of Lome, Togo" . In Luc J. A. Mougeot (ed.). Agropolis: The Social, Political, and Environmental Dimensions of Urban Agriculture . International Development Research Centre . pp. 51–88. ISBN 978-1-55250-186-3 .
^ Albert Frederick Calvert (1918), Togoland , London: T. W. Laurie, OL 7185419M
^ Benjamin N. Lawrance (2003), "La Révolte des Femmes: Economic Upheaval and the Gender of Political Authority in Lomé, Togo, 1931–33", African Studies Review , 46 (1): 43–67, doi :10.2307/1514980 , JSTOR 1514980 , S2CID 142773071
^ Collectif; Auzias, Dominique; Labourdette, Jean-Paul (2010). "Lome" . Togo . Le Petit Futé (in French). p. 70+. ISBN 978-2-7469-3597-6 .
^ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Togo" . www.katolsk.no . Norway: Oslo katolske bispedømme (Oslo Catholic Diocese). Retrieved 30 September 2014 .
^ a b c Europa World Year Book 2004 . Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1857432534 .
^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants" . Demographic Yearbook 1965 . New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations . 1966.
^ Alain Ricard (1974), "Concert Party as a Genre: The Happy Stars of Lomé", Research in African Literatures , 5 (2): 165–179, JSTOR 3818671
^ United Nations Department for Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis, Statistics Division (1997). "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants" . 1995 Demographic Yearbook . New York. pp. 262–321. CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link )
^ a b c "Togo: Directory" . Africa South of the Sahara 2004 . Regional Surveys of the World. Europa Publications . 2004. ISBN 978-1857431834 .
^ a b "(Lome, Togo)" . ArchNet . Retrieved 30 September 2014 .
^ a b "Togo Profile: Timeline" . BBC News . 11 July 2011. Retrieved 30 September 2014 .
^ Lome mayor in corruption probe , BBC News, 5 October 2001
^ Michael Kamber (5 May 2005), "Lomé Journal" , New York Times
^ "Togo: Lome" . West Africa . Lonely Planet . 2009. pp. 774–783. ISBN 978-1-74104-821-6 .
^ The State of African Cities 2014 . United Nations Human Settlements Programme . 2015-09-10. ISBN 978-92-1-132598-0 . Archived from the original on 10 September 2014. Retrieved 30 September 2014 .
^ "Togo: Police Clashes with Thousand of Protesters in Lomé" . 21 August 2012 – via Global Voices .
^ Togo: le bâtiment principal du grand marché de Lomé ravagé par le feu (in French), Radio France Internationale , 12 January 2013
^ "Table 8 - Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants" , Demographic Yearbook – 2018 , United Nations
This article incorporates information from the French Wikipedia .
Paul Tiyambe Zeleza ; Dickson Eyoh, eds. (2003). "Lome, Togo". Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History . Routledge. ISBN 978-0415234795 .
N. Adovi Goeh-Akue (2005). "Lomé" . In Kevin Shillington (ed.). Encyclopedia of African History . Fitzroy Dearborn. ISBN 978-1-135-45670-2 .
Hugues Steve Ndinga-Koumba Binza (2006). "Demographic Profiles of Libreville and Lomé" . In S.B. Bekker and Anne Leildé (ed.). Reflections on Identity in Four African Cities . South Africa: African Minds. ISBN 978-1-920051-40-2 . (about Cape Town, Johannesburg, Libreville, Lomé)
Philippe Gervais-Lambony (2011), Simon Bekker and Goran Therborn (ed.), "Lomé" , Capital Cities in Africa: Power and Powerlessness , Dakar: Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa , ISBN 978-2-8697-8495-6
Years in
Togo (1960–present)