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The following is a timeline of the history of Cape Town in the Western Cape province of South Africa.

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Prior to 19th century

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A 1757 naval action off of the Cape of Good Hope between 3 British and 2 unidentified vessels.

19th century

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A diorama of Cape Town was it would have appeared in 1800.
Panoramic view of Cape Town from the roof of the Lutheran Church, Strand Street in 1849.
Crowds gather to hear speeches on the Convict Crisis during the 1849 anti-convict demonstrations.

20th century

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Historical population
YearPop.±% p.a.
1658360—    
17313,157+3.02%
183620,000+1.77%
187545,000+2.10%
189167,000+2.52%
1901171,000+9.82%
1950618,000+2.66%
1955705,000+2.67%
1960803,000+2.64%
1965945,000+3.31%
19701,114,000+3.35%
19751,339,000+3.75%
19801,609,000+3.74%
19851,933,000+3.74%
19902,296,000+3.50%
19962,565,018+1.86%
20012,892,243+2.43%
20073,497,097+3.22%
20113,740,025+1.69%
20143,750,000+0.09%
Note: Census figures (1996–2011) cover figures after 1994 reflect the greater Cape Town metropolitan municipality reflecting post-1994 reforms. Sources: 1658–1904,[35] 1950-1990,[36]

1996,[37] 2001, and 2011 Census;[38]

2007,[39] 2014 Census estimates.[citation needed]

1900s–1940s

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1950s–1980s

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1990s

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21st century

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See also

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References

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Bibliography

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Published in 19th century

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  • Robert Semple (1805), "Cape Town", Walks and sketches at the Cape of Good Hope to which is subjoined a journey from Cape Town to Blettenberg's Bay (2nd ed.), London: Printed by and for C. and R. Baldwin
  • Josiah Conder (1830), "Cape Town", The Modern Traveller, London: J.Duncan
  • "British Colonies: Cape Town". The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction (716–717). London: J. Limbird. April–May 1835.
  • J. Thomas; T. Baldwin, eds. (1868), "Cape Town", Lippincott's Pronouncing Gazetteer (2nd ed.), Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co.
  • John Noble, ed. (1886). "Cities and Towns of the Colony". Official Handbook: History, Productions and Resources of the Cape of Good Hope. Cape Town: Saul Solomon & Co. for the Colonial & Indian Exhibition Committee. Cape Town

Published in 20th century

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  • A. Samler Brown; G. Gordon Brown, eds. (1906), "Cape Town and Suburbs", Guide to South Africa (14th ed.), London: Sampson, Low, Marston & Co.
  • "Cape Town" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 5 (11th ed.). 1911. pp. 252–253.
  • "Cape Town", Official South African Municipal Year Book, Cape Town: Francis G. Pay, 1914, hdl:2027/mdp.39015073264619
  • Dorothea Fairbridge (1922), "Old Cape Town", Historic houses of South Africa, London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, OCLC 2777566
  • "Cape Town" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 30 (12th ed.). 1922. pp. 564–565.
  • John Western (1981). Outcast Cape Town. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-20737-0.
  • Evangelos A. Mantzaris (1987). "Jewish Trade Unions in Cape Town, South Africa, 1903-1907: A Socio-Historical Study". Jewish Social Studies. 49 (3/4): 251–264. JSTOR 4467388.
  • Nigel Worden (Spring 1994). "Unwrapping History at the Cape Town Waterfront". Public Historian. 16.
  • Noelle Watson, ed. (1996). "Cape Town". International Dictionary of Historic Places: Middle East and Africa. UK: Routledge. pp. 165–170. ISBN 1884964036.
  • Kirsten McKenzie (1998). "Franklins of the Cape: the South African Commercial Advertiser and the Creation of a Colonial Public Sphere, 1824–1854". Kronos (25).
  • Grant Saff (1998). Changing Cape Town: Urban Dynamics, Policy, and Planning During the Political Transition in South Africa. University Press of America. ISBN 978-0-7618-1199-2.
  • Nigel Worden; Elizabeth Van Heyningen; Vivian Bickford-Smith (1998), Cape Town: the Making of a City, Claremont, South Africa: D. Philip, ISBN 0864864353
  • Vivian Bickford-Smith; Elizabeth Van Heyningen; Nigel Worden (1999), Cape Town in the twentieth century, Claremont, South Africa: D. Philip Publishers, ISBN 0864863845

Published in 21st century

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