title: Timeline of Port Harcourt
text: # Timeline of Port Harcourt
  
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  This is a timeline of the history of Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers State, Nigeria.
  
  ## 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 createdUniversity of Port Harcourt at the Wayback Machine (archived 14 July 2014)
     * 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.
  