Timeline of Aden
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Aden, Yemen.
Prior to 19th century
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- 24 BCE - Romans in power (approximate date).[1]
- 628 CE - Badhan (Persian Governor) converts to Islam, affecting Aden.[2]
- 750 CE - Abbasids in power (approximate date).[2]
- 904 - Ibn al-Fadl in power (approximate date).[2]
- 1062 - Ali al-Sulayhi in power.[3]
- 1135 - Attempted siege by "ruler of the Arabian Gulf island of Kish/Qais."[3]
- 1173 - Ayyubids in power.[3]
- 1229 - Rasulids in power.[3]
- 1330 - Moroccan traveller Ibn Battuta visits Aden (approximate date).
- 1420s - Chinese explorer Zheng He visits Aden (approximate date).[2]
- 1454 - Tahirids in power.[3]
- 1500 - Aqueduct built from Bir Mahait (approximate date).[4]
- 1511 - Italian traveller Varthema visits Aden.[2]
- 1513 - Aden "unsuccessfully attacked by the Portuguese under Albuquerque."[1]
- 1538 - Aden taken by Ottoman forces of Hadım Suleiman Pasha.[1][2]
- 1630 - Ottomans ousted.[2]
- 1735 - Sultan of Lahej in power.[1]
- 1745 - Aden besieged by Zaydi forces.[2]
19th century
- 1839
- January: Aden occupied by British forces.[5][6]
- November: Abdali anti-British unrest; crackdown.[2]
- British colonial postal mail begins operating.
- 1840
- May: Abdali anti-British unrest; crackdown.[2]
- June: Sultan of Lahej Shaykh Muhsin ibn Fadl signs treaty with British.[5]
- 1850 - Aden becomes a free port.[7]
- 1852 - Catholic church built.[8]
- 1858 - Grand Synagogue of Aden built.
- 1867 - Aqueduct built.[1]
- 1868 - Jebel Ihsan peninsula and nearby Sirah island sold by Sultan of Lahej to British.[4]
- 1869 - Suez Canal opens in Egypt, affecting Aden as a port.[9]
- 1871 - Protestant church built.[8]
- 1876 - "Settlement committee" (local government) established.[5]
- 1880 - August: French poet Rimbaud visits Aden.[10]
- 1882 - Sheikh Othman bought by British.[8]
- 1889 - "Port trust" (local government) established.[5]
- 1890 - Big Ben Aden clocktower built.
20th century
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1900s-1950s
- 1915
- 1917 - British Royal Air Force Khormaksar station established.
- 1924 - Sukkat Shalom synagogue established.[citation needed]
- 1925 - Arab Literary Club formed.[13]
- 1929 - Arab Reform Club active.[13]
- 1937 - 1 April: City becomes capital of the British Colony of Aden.[5]
- 1947
- Legislative council established.[5]
- December: 1947 Aden riots against Jews.[2]
- 1951 - Aden Women's Club formed.[14]
- 1954
- British Petroleum refinery built in Little Aden.[15]
- 27 April: British queen visits Aden.[16]
- 1955 - Aden Legislative Council election, 1955 held.
- 1956 - General Labour Union established.[17]
- 1958 - Al-Ayyam newspaper begins publication.[18]
- 1959 - January: Legislative council election held.[5]
1960s-1990s
- 1963 - January: Aden becomes part of the Federation of South Arabia.[5]
- 1964 - 16 October: Aden Legislative Council election, 1964 held.
- 1966 - National Museum of Aden established.[19]
- 1967
- January: Front for the Liberation of Occupied South Yemen-National Liberation Front conflict.[2]
- June: Suez Canal closes, affecting port of Aden.[9]
- 29 November: Aden becomes capital of People's Republic of South Yemen; British forces depart.[9]
- 1968 - Ar-Rabi Ashar Min Uktubar newspaper begins publication.[20]
- 1970 - Aden becomes part of the Peoples Democratic Republic of Yemen.[15]
- 1971 - Aden Military Museum established.[2]
- 1972 - Ittihad al-Udaba (writers' guild) established.[13]
- 1975
- Suez Canal reopens, affecting port of Aden.[9]
- University of Aden established.[2]
- 1985 - Aden Airport new terminal built.
- 1986 - January: South Yemen Civil War.
- 1990 - City becomes part of the newly formed Republic of Yemen.
- 1991 - Rimbaud House opens.[21]
- 1992
- General Hospital built.[22]
- 29 December: 1992 Yemen hotel bombings.[2]
- 1994
- 1994 civil war in Yemen.[2]
- Population: 564,335 governorate.[23]
- 1996 - University of Aden museum established.[19]
- 1997 - 27 April: Yemeni parliamentary election, 1997 held.[24]
21st century
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- 2000 - 12 October: USS Cole bombing.
- 2009 - Population: 684,322.[25]
- 2012 - Population: 760,923.
- 2015
- 19 March: Battle of Aden Airport.
- 25 March: Battle of Aden begins.
See also
- Aden history
- Timeline of Yemeni history
- List of British representatives at Aden, 1839-1967
- Timeline of Sana'a
References
- ^ a b c d e "Aden", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), 1910, OCLC 14782424
{{citation}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Michael R.T. Dumper; Bruce E. Stanley, eds. (2008), "Aden", Cities of the Middle East and North Africa, Santa Barbara, USA: ABC-CLIO, p. 8+
{{citation}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - ^ a b c d e Roxani Eleni Margariti (2006). "Aden". In Josef W. Meri (ed.). Medieval Islamic Civilization. Routledge. p. 14+. ISBN 978-0-415-96691-7.
{{cite book}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - ^ a b "Aden". Imperial Gazetteer of India. Vol. 5. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1908.
{{cite book}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - ^ a b c d e f g h Roy E. Thoman (1991). "Aden". In James Stuart Olson (ed.). Historical Dictionary of European Imperialism. Greenwood. ISBN 978-0-313-26257-9.
{{cite book}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - ^ BBC News. "Yemen Profile: Timeline". Retrieved April 2015.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help) - ^ Roy Facey (1998), Development of the Port of Aden, British-Yemeni Society – via Al-Bab.com
{{citation}}: line feed character in|title=at position 16 (help) - ^ a b c Z. H. Kour (1981). The History of Aden 1839-1872. Frank Cass. ISBN 978-1-135-78115-6.
- ^ a b c d Robert D. Burrowes (2010). Historical Dictionary of Yemen (2nd ed.). Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-5528-1.
- ^ Charles Nicholl (1999). Somebody Else: Arthur Rimbaud in Africa 1880-91. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-58029-6.
- ^ "British Empire: Asia: Aden, Perim, Sokotra, and Kuria Muria Islands". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. p. 95+.
{{cite book}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - ^ "Aden", Encyclopaedia Britannica, vol. 30 (12th ed.), 1922
{{citation}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - ^ a b c Sheila Carapico (1998). Civil Society in Yemen: the Political Economy of Activism in Modern Arabia. Cambridge Middle East Studies. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-03482-1.
- ^ Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures. Brill. 2005. ISBN 90-04-12818-2.
- ^ a b "Yemen Time Line", Atlas of the Middle East, Washington DC: US Central Intelligence Agency, 1993 – via University of Texas, Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
- ^ "The Queen in Aden", British-Yemeni Society Journal[1], vol. 20, 2012, OCLC 56766944
{{citation}}: External link in|work= - ^ "Yemeni union calls for general strike to protest against low wages", BBC Monitoring Middle East, May 13, 2010 – via LexisNexis Academic
{{citation}}: Unknown parameter|subscription=ignored (|url-access=suggested) (help) - ^ Rémy Leveau; et al., eds. (1999). Le Yémen contemporain (in French). Éditions Karthala. ISBN 978-2-86537-893-7.
- ^ a b "Museums: Yemen". Arabia Antica. University of Pisa. Retrieved April 2015.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help) - ^ "Yemen: Directory". Europa World Year Book. Europa Publications. 2004. ISBN 978-1-85743-255-8.
{{cite book}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - ^ Lucine Taminian (1998). "Rimbaud's House in Aden, Yemen". Cultural Anthropology. 13. JSTOR 656569.
- ^ Yemen: Aden, ArchNet[dead link]
- ^ Population of Yemen, 1994 census, Al-Bab.com, retrieved April 2015
{{citation}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help) - ^ Mark N. Katz (1997), Election Day in Aden, Al-Bab.com
- ^ "Population of Capital Cities and Cities of 100,000 or More Inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2013. United Nations Statistics Division.
Further reading
- Published in the 19th century
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- William Milburn (1813), "Aden", Oriental Commerce: containing a geographical description of the principal places in the East Indies, China, and Japan, London: Black, Parry & Co., OCLC 6856418
{{citation}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - John Macgregor (1844). "Aden". Commercial Statistics. London: C. Knight and Co.
{{cite book}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - James Horsburgh (1852). "Arabia, South Coast: Aden Bay and Aden Harbor". India Directory: Or, Directions for Sailing to and from the East Indies, China, Australia, and the Interjacent Ports of Africa and South America (6th ed.). London: William H. Allen & Co. – via Google Books.
{{cite book}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - R.L. Playfair (1859). "Aden". History of Arabia Felix or Yemen. Bombay.
{{cite book}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - William Perry Fogg (1875), "Aden", Arabistan, Hartford, USA: Dustin, Gilman & Co.
{{citation}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - N. Elias, ed. (1876). Precis of Papers in the Foreign Dept. of the Government of India Regarding Aden, 1838-1872. Simla: Government Central Branch Press.
- F. M. Hunter (1877), An account of the British settlement of Aden in Arabia, London: Trübner, OCLC 1088546
- Edward Balfour (1885), "Aden", Cyclopaedia of India (3rd ed.), London: B. Quaritch
{{citation}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - "Aden", Handbook for Travellers in India and Ceylon, London: J. Murray, 1892
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- Published in the 20th century
- Marco Polo; Henry Yule (1903), "(Aden)", Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian Concerning the Kingdoms and Marvels of the East, vol. 2 (3rd ed.), London: John Murray
{{citation}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - Frederick Mercer Hunter; Charles William Henry Sealey (1909). An Account of the Arab Tribes in the Vicinity of Aden.
- "Aden". Encyclopædia of Islam. Leiden: E.J. Brill. 1913. p. 131.
{{cite book}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - British Admiralty (1916). "Aden and Hadhramaut: Districts and Towns: Aden Town". Handbook of Arabia. Vol. 1. London: British War Office.
{{cite book}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) - United States Navy (1943). "Aden". Sailing Directions for the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. Washington DC: Government Printing Office – via Hathi Trust.
{{cite book}}: External link in|chapterurl=|chapterurl=ignored (|chapter-url=suggested) (help) (fulltext) - R. J. Gavin. Aden under British Rule 1839–1967 (London: C. Hurst & Co., 1975)
- José-Marie Bel (1998). Aden, Mythical port of Yemen. Amyris. ISBN 978-2-7068-1360-3.
- Published in the 21st century
- Roxani Eleni Margariti (2007), Aden and the Indian Ocean Trade: 150 Years in the Life of a Medieval Arabian Port, University of North Carolina Press, ISBN 9780807830765
- "Yemen's Despair on Full Display in 'Ruined' City", New York Times, 10 April 2015
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Aden.
- Map of Aden, 1978
- "Military Situation in Aden City". Archicivilians. 2 April 2015.
- "(Aden)". Qatar Digital Library. Qatar National Library.
- Records of the British Administrations in Aden 1837-1967, India Office Records, London "Guide to archival sources for areas outside India" – via British Library.
