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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