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of the

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of the

city A city is a human settlement of a substantial size. The term "city" has different meanings around the world and in some places the settlement can be very small. Even where the term is limited to larger settlements, there is no universally agree ...

Funchal Funchal () officially Funchal City (), is the capital, largest city and a Municipality (Portugal), municipality in Portugal's Madeira, Autonomous Region of Madeira, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean. The city has a population of 105,795, making it ...

Madeira Madeira ( ; ), officially the Autonomous Region of Madeira (), is an autonomous Regions of Portugal, autonomous region of Portugal. It is an archipelago situated in the North Atlantic Ocean, in the region of Macaronesia, just under north of ...

Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe. Featuring Cabo da Roca, the westernmost point in continental Europe, Portugal borders Spain to its north and east, with which it share ...

Prior to 20th century

* 1493 -

Cathedral of Funchal The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption () in Sé, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, is the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Funchal, which encompasses all of the Autonomous Region of Madeira. The late fifteenth-century cathedral is one ...

construction begins. * 1514 - Roman Catholic Diocese of Funchal established. * 1566 - . * 1835 - Town becomes part of the newly created administrative . * 1836 ** Associação Commercial founded. ** Synagogue of Funchal built (approximate date). * 1838 - (library) founded. * 1846 - becomes district governor. * 1851 -

Jewish Cemetery of Funchal The Jewish Cemetery of Funchal is a Jewish cemetery located in Rua do Lazareto, Funchal, Madeira. Sephardi Jews as well as Ashkenazi Jews are buried here. History The cemetery was built in 1851, the last burial took place in 1976. Jews from Mo ...

established. * 1876 - '

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begins publication. * 1883 - (town hall) in use. * 1888 - (theatre) opens. * 1893 - Monte Railway and begin operating. * 1900 - Population: 20,850.

20th century

* 1910 - C.D. Nacional and C.S. Marítimo (football clubs) formed. * 1911 - Population: 24,687 in town; 169,777 in district. * 1927 ** '

begins publication. ** Campo dos Barreiros (sport field) opens. * 1931 - (

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) founded. * 1935 - becomes mayor. * 1940 - Mercado dos Lavradores (market) built. * 1957 - Estádio dos Barreiros (stadium) built. * 1964 -

Madeira Airport Madeira Airport () , informally Funchal Airport (), formerly Santa Catarina Airport () and officially Cristiano Ronaldo International Airport, is an international airport in the civil parish of Santa Cruz in the Portuguese archipelago and auton ...

begins operating. * 1972 - Duas Torres (hi-rise) built. * 1976 -

Casino da Madeira Casino da Madeira (''Casino of Madeira'') is a casino located in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, which is part of the hotel Pestana Casino Park. It was designed in 1966, but work did not begin until six years later, and it opened in 1976. While p ...

in business. * 1979 - City twinned with

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, Hawaii, United States. * 1980 - City twinned with Livingstone, Zambia. * 1984 - City twinned with

New Bedford New Bedford is a city in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. It is located on the Acushnet River in what is known as the South Coast (Massachusetts), South Coast region. At the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, New Bedford had a ...

, Massachusetts, United States. * 1985 ** City joins the regional Associação de Municípios da Região Autónoma da Madeira. ** City twinned with

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, Hawaii, United States. * 1987 ** ''Correio da Madeira''

begins publication. **

Horários do Funchal Horários do Funchal is a bus operator based in Funchal, Madeira. They operate Urban and Inter-urban services on the south, central, and north of the island. History On 11 April 1985, the Committee for the Study of Urban Transportation (CETU) ...

(transit entity) established. ** City twinned with

Cape Town Cape Town is the legislature, legislative capital city, capital of South Africa. It is the country's oldest city and the seat of the Parliament of South Africa. Cape Town is the country's List of municipalities in South Africa, second-largest ...

, South Africa. * 1988 ** University of Madeira and Banco Internacional do Funchal established. ** City twinned with Santos, São Paulo, Brazil. * 1991 - City twinned with

Herzliya Herzliya ( ; , / ) is an affluent List of Israeli cities, city in the Israeli coastal plain, central coast of Israel, at the northern part of the Tel Aviv District, known for its robust start-up and entrepreneurial culture. In it had a populatio ...

, Israel. * 1992 - May: meets in Funchal. * 1993 - City twinned with

Oakland Oakland is a city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area in the U.S. state of California. It is the county seat and most populous city in Alameda County, with a population of 440,646 in 2020. A major West Coast port, Oakland is ...

, California, United States. * 1994 **

Miguel Albuquerque Miguel Filipe Machado de Albuquerque (born 4 May 1961) is a Portugal, Portuguese Monarchism, monarchist politician of the Social Democratic Party (Portugal), Social Democratic Party (PSD) and the current Presidents of the Regional Government of M ...

becomes mayor. ** City twinned with

Marrickville Marrickville is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Marrickville is located south-west of the Sydney central business district and is the largest suburb in the Inner West Council local government ...

, Australia. * 1996 - City twinned with

Fremantle Fremantle () () is a port city in Western Australia located at the mouth of the Swan River (Western Australia), Swan River in the metropolitan area of Perth, the state capital. Fremantle Harbour serves as the port of Perth. The Western Australi ...

, Australia, and

Leichlingen Leichlingen (; officially Leichlingen (Rheinland); Ripuarian: ''Lëijchlinge'') is a town in the Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Leichlingen is a centre for apple and berry growing in the region. Geography Leichling ...

, Germany. * 1998 - Estadio Eng. Rui Alves (stadium) opens. * 2000 ** ''Cm-funchal.pt''

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online (approximate date). ** Funchal Cable Car begins operating.

21st century

* 2001 ** Population: 103,961. ** in business. * 2003 - City twinned with

Praia Praia (, Portuguese for "beach") is the capital and largest city of Cape Verde.Ílhavo, Portugal, and

Saint Helier St Helier (; Jèrriais: ; ) is the Capital city, capital of Jersey, the largest of the Channel Islands in the English Channel. It is the most populous of the twelve parishes of Jersey, with a population of 35,822, over one-third of the island' ...

, United Kingdom. * 2009 - City twinned with

Gibraltar Gibraltar ( , ) is a British Overseas Territories, British Overseas Territory and British overseas cities, city located at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula, on the Bay of Gibraltar, near the exit of the Mediterranean Sea into the A ...

, United Kingdom. * 2010 - 20 February: 2010 Madeira floods and mudslides. * 2013 - Paulo Cafôfo becomes mayor. * 2014 - Iº Sarau Anual de Poesia Madeirense * 2016 ** August: Wildfire. ** City twinned with

Angra do Heroísmo Angra do Heroísmo (), or simply Angra, is a city and municipality on Terceira Island, Portugal, and one of the three capital cities of the Azores. Founded in 1478, Angra was historically the most important city in the Azores, as seat of the Roma ...

, Portugal. * 2017 - held.

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