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
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Timeline

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
  • 1915
    • Lahej-Aden railway construction begins.[11]
    • Population: 36,900 town.[12]
  • 1917 - British Royal Air Force Khormaksar station established.
  • 1924 - Sukkat Shalom synagogue established.
  • 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]
  • 1946 - Population: 56,849.[14]
  • 1947
  • 1951 - Aden Women's Club formed.[15]
  • 1954
    • British Petroleum refinery built in Little Aden.[16]
    • 27 April: British queen visits Aden.[17]
  • 1955 - Aden Legislative Council election, 1955 held.
  • 1956 - General Labour Union established.[18]
  • 1958 - Al-Ayyam newspaper begins publication.[19]
  • 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.[20]
  • 1967
  • 1968 - Ar-Rabi Ashar Min Uktubar newspaper begins publication.[21]
  • 1970 - Aden becomes part of the Peoples Democratic Republic of Yemen.[16]
  • 1971 - Aden Military Museum established.
  • 1972 - Ittihad al-Udaba (writers' guild) established.[13]
  • 1973 - Population: 264,326.[22]
  • 1975
  • 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.[23]
  • 1992
    • General Hospital built.[24]
    • 29 December: 1992 Yemen hotel bombings.[2]
  • 1994
  • 1996 - University of Aden museum established.[20]
  • 1997 - 27 April: Yemeni parliamentary election, 1997 held.[26]
  • 2000 - 12 October: USS Cole bombing.

21st century
See also: Timeline of the Yemeni Crisis (2011–present)

See also

References
  1. Britannica 1910.
  2. Stanley 2008.
  3. Margariti 2006.
  4. Gazetteer of India 1908.
  5. Thoman 1991.
  6. BBC News. "Yemen Profile: Timeline". Retrieved 30 April 2015.
  7. Facey 1998.
  8. Kour 1981.
  9. 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+. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368440.
  12. "Aden", Encyclopædia Britannica, 30 (12th ed.), 1922
  13. 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. "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
  19. Rémy Leveau; et al., eds. (1999). Le Yémen contemporain (in French). Éditions Karthala. ISBN 978-2-86537-893-7.
  20. "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
Published in 20th century
Published in 21st century
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