Timeline of Aden

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Aden, Yemen.

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Prior to 19th century

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

1900s-1950s

1960s-1990s

21st century

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Britannica 1910.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Stanley 2008.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Margariti 2006.
  4. 1 2 Gazetteer of India 1908.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Thoman 1991.
  6. ↑ BBC News. "Yemen Profile: Timeline". Retrieved 30 April 2015.
  7. ↑ Facey 1998.
  8. 1 2 3 Kour 1981.
  9. 1 2 3 4 Robert D. Burrowes (2010). Historical Dictionary of Yemen (2nd ed.). Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-5528-1.
  10. ↑ Charles Nicholl (1999). Somebody Else: Arthur Rimbaud in Africa 1880-91. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-58029-6.
  11. ↑ "British Empire: Asia: Aden, Perim, Sokotra, and Kuria Muria Islands". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. p. 95+.
  12. ↑ "Aden", Encyclopædia Britannica, 30 (12th ed.), 1922
  13. 1 2 3 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.
  14. ↑ "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1955. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations.
  15. ↑ Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures. Brill. 2005. ISBN 90-04-12818-2.
  16. 1 2 "Yemen Time Line", Atlas of the Middle East, Washington DC: US Central Intelligence Agency, 1993 – via University of Texas, Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
  17. ↑ "The Queen in Aden", British-Yemeni Society Journal, 20, 2012, OCLC 56766944, archived from the original on 2015-03-08
  18. ↑ "Yemeni union calls for general strike to protest against low wages", BBC Monitoring Middle East, May 13, 2010 – via LexisNexis Academic, (Subscription required (help))
  19. ↑ Rémy Leveau; et al., eds. (1999). Le Yémen contemporain (in French). Éditions Karthala. ISBN 978-2-86537-893-7.
  20. 1 2 "Museums: Yemen". Arabia Antica. University of Pisa. Retrieved 30 April 2015.
  21. ↑ "Yemen: Directory". Europa World Year Book. Europa Publications. 2004. p. 4714+. ISBN 978-1-85743-255-8.
  22. ↑ United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1976). "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1975. New York. pp. 253–279.
  23. ↑ Lucine Taminian (1998). "Rimbaud's House in Aden, Yemen". Cultural Anthropology. 13. JSTOR 656569.
  24. ↑ Yemen: Aden, ArchNet, archived from the original on 2007-07-02
  25. ↑ Population of Yemen, 1994 census, Al-Bab.com, archived from the original on 8 September 2015, retrieved 30 April 2015
  26. ↑ Mark N. Katz (1997), Election Day in Aden, Al-Bab.com, archived from the original on 2015-10-18
  27. ↑ "Population of Capital Cities and Cities of 100,000 or More Inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2013. United Nations Statistics Division.
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Bibliography

Published in 19th century
  • 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
  • John Macgregor (1844). "Aden". Commercial Statistics. London: C. Knight and Co.
  • 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.
  • R.L. Playfair (1859). "Aden". History of Arabia Felix or Yemen. Bombay.
  • William Perry Fogg (1875), "Aden", Arabistan, Hartford, USA: Dustin, Gilman & Co.
  • 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
  • "Aden", Handbook for Travellers in India and Ceylon, London: J. Murray, 1892
Published in 20th century
  • Marco Polo; Henry Yule (1903), "(Aden)", Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian Concerning the Kingdoms and Marvels of the East, 2 (3rd ed.), London: John Murray
  • "Aden". Imperial Gazetteer of India. 5. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1908.
  • Frederick Mercer Hunter; Charles William Henry Sealey (1909). An Account of the Arab Tribes in the Vicinity of Aden.
  • "Aden", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
  • "Aden". Encyclopædia of Islam. Leiden: E.J. Brill. 1913. p. 131.
  • British Admiralty (1916). "Aden and Hadhramaut: Districts and Towns: Aden Town". Handbook of Arabia. 1. London: British War Office.
  • United States Navy (1943). "Aden". Sailing Directions for the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. Washington DC: Government Printing Office – via Hathi Trust. (fulltext)
  • R. J. Gavin. Aden under British Rule 1839–1967 (London: C. Hurst & Co., 1975)
  • Z. H. Kour (1981). The History of Aden 1839-1872. Frank Cass. ISBN 978-1-135-78115-6.
  • Roy E. Thoman (1991). "Aden". In James Stuart Olson. Historical Dictionary of European Imperialism. Greenwood. ISBN 978-0-313-26257-9.
  • José-Marie Bel (1998). Aden, Mythical port of Yemen. Amyris. ISBN 978-2-7068-1360-3.
  • Roy Facey (1998), Development of the Port of Aden, British-Yemeni Society, archived from the original on 2013-12-30 – via Al-Bab.com
Published in 21st century
  • Roxani Eleni Margariti (2006). "Aden". In Josef W. Meri. Medieval Islamic Civilization. Routledge. p. 14+. ISBN 978-0-415-96691-7.
  • 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
  • Bruce E. Stanley; Michael R.T. Dumper, eds. (2008), "Aden", Cities of the Middle East and North Africa, Santa Barbara, USA: ABC-CLIO, p. 8+
  • "Yemen's Despair on Full Display in 'Ruined' City", New York Times, 10 April 2015
  • 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.
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