The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Funchal, Madeira, Portugal.
- 1910 - C.D. Nacional and C.S. Marítimo (football clubs) formed.
- 1911 - Population: 24,687 in town; 169,777 in district.[5]
- 1927
- 1931 - Arquivo Distrital do Funchal [pt] (archive) founded.
- 1935 - Fernão de Ornelas [pt] becomes mayor.
- 1940 - Mercado dos Lavradores (market) built.
- 1957 - Estádio dos Barreiros (stadium) built.
- 1964 - Madeira Airport begins operating.
- 1972 - Duas Torres (hi-rise) built.[6]
- 1976 - Casino da Madeira in business.[6]
- 1979 - City twinned with Honolulu, Hawaii, United States.[7]
- 1980 - City twinned with Livingstone, Zambia.[7]
- 1984 - City twinned with New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States.[7]
- 1985
- City joins the regional Associação de Municípios da Região Autónoma da Madeira.[8]
- City twinned with Maui, Hawaii, United States.[7]
- 1987
- 1988
- 1991 - City twinned with Herzliya, Israel.[7]
- 1992 - May: Associação Nacional de Municípios Portugueses [pt] meets in Funchal.[9]
- 1993 - City twinned with Oakland, California, United States.[7]
- 1994
- 1996 - City twinned with Fremantle, Australia, and Leichlingen, Germany.[7]
- 1998 - Estadio Eng. Rui Alves (stadium) opens.
- 2000
- 2001
- Population: 103,961.[2]
- MadeiraShopping [pt] in business.
- 2003 - City twinned with Praia, Cape Verde.[7]
- 2005 - Festival Internacional de Cinema do Funchal [pt] begins.
- 2008 - City twinned with Ílhavo, Portugal, and Saint Helier, United Kingdom.[7]
- 2009 - City twinned with Gibraltar, United Kingdom.[7]
- 2010 - 20 February: 2010 Madeira floods and mudslides.
- 2013 - Paulo Cafôfo becomes mayor.
- 2014 - Iº Sarau Anual de Poesia Madeirense
- 2016
- 2017 - Funchal local election, 2017 [pt] held.
"Congressos da ANMP" (in Portuguese). Associação Nacional de Municípios Portugueses. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
- This article incorporates information from the Portuguese Wikipedia.
- in English
- "Funchal", Handbook for Travellers in Portugal (4th ed.), London: J. Murray, 1887, hdl:2027/hvd.hn2ha1
- A. Samler Brown (1903), "Funchal", Brown's Madeira, Canary Islands and Azores (7th ed.), London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co.
- "Funchal" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 11 (11th ed.). 1910. p. 301.
- "Funchal", The Mediterranean: Seaports and Sea Routes, including Madeira, the Canary Islands, the Coast of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1911, OCLC 490068
- in Portuguese
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