Timelines –
Kenya Uganda Tanzania (Courtesy of GOANET)
Year Place
Event
1594 Mombasa Portuguese built Fort Jesus
1698 Mombasa Omani Arabs seize Fort Jesus and end
Portuguese rule
1865 Zanzibar C.R. de Souza opens store on island
1884 Zanzibar M.R. de Souza starts a business
1889 Mombasa M.R.de Souza opens branch of his store
1900 Nairobi Creation of the township of Nairobi
1901 Mombasa Goan Reading Room opened in the house
of D.L. Pereira
1904 Nairobi Portuguese Cricket Club was formed by
29 employees of the
Uganda
Railway
1905 Nairobi Portuguese Cricket Club closed by
Uganda Railway
authorities
due to disputes between railway and non-railway employees
1905 Nairobi Non-Railway Goan members of the former
Portuguese
Cricket
Club re-group and form the Goan Institute
1905 Mombasa St. Francis Xavier Goan Tailors
Society formed
1906 Mombasa C.R. de Souza opens Mombasa branch
1909 Nairobi M.R. de Souza opens branches in
Nairobi and Nakuru
1909 Nairobi Railway Goan employees re-organize to
form the Railway
Goan
Institute
1911 Mombasa Goan Reading Room name changed to the
Goan Institute
1915 Mombasa Dr A.C.L. de Sousa arrives in E.
Africa and is
appointed a
Government Medical Officer
1916 Nairobi St. Francis Xavier Goan Tailors
Society formed
1919 Nairobi Dr. A.C.L. de Sousa moves to Nairobi
and enters private practice with his wife, Mary, also a doctor
1927 Mombasa Goan Institute opens new building on
Salim Road
1927 Nairobi Goan Overseas Association formed by
Dr. A.C.L. D'Sousa
on 9th.
July
1928 Nairobi Dr. Ribeiro Goan School opens in April
with 38 children
in premises
loaned by Dr. Ribeiro
1931 Nairobi New Dr. Ribeiro Goan School Building
opens on 19th July
1934 Nairobi Dr. A.C.L. de Sousa serves a member of
the Kenya
Legislative
Council for four years
1936 Nairobi Goan Gymkhana formed by break away
group of Goan
Institute
members
1943 Nairobi Goan Gymkhana opens stone building
club house
1946 Mombasa Eighty delegates from all parts of
East Africa assemble
for the
East African Goan Conference with Dr. A.C.L. D'Souza as Chairman
1955 Nairobi Goan Institute moves from downtown to
new premises in
Pangani
suburb
1956 Nairobi Goan Overseas Association opens new
Secondary School
building on
May 24
1958 Nairobi Dr. A.C.L. de Sousa dies on July 17th,
at age 75
1959 Mombasa Tailors Society open 3-storey club and
rest house
1963 Kenya becomes independent.
1967 Nairobi Closing of Railway Goan Institute
1962 Uganda becomes independent.
1961 Tanzania Tanganyika becomes independent.
1963 Tanzania Zanzibar becomes independent and joins
Tanganyika to
to form
Tanzania
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