Timeline of Kuwait City

The following is a timeline of the history of Kuwait City, Al Asimah Governorate, Kuwait, and its metro surroundings.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

Prior to 20th century
Part of a series on the
History of Kuwait
Prehistoric and ancient
5th–15th century
Maishan 5th–13th century
Battle of Chains 629 / 633
15th–18th century
Portuguese control 1500s
Kuwait town 1613
Bani Utub invasion of Bahrain
 1782–83
Battle of Riqqa 1783
18th century to 1961
Sheikhdom of Kuwait 1752–1961
1913
Kuwait–Najd War 1919–20
Kuwait since 1961
State of Kuwait
1961–90
1991–present
Gulf War Aug 1990 – Feb 1991
See also
  • National Assembly of Kuwait
  • 1899 - Treaty with the United Kingdom signed.[1]

20th century

21st century
Aerial view of Kuwait City and surroundings, 2004
Map of Kuwait City, 2011

See also

References
  1. Turner 2008.
  2. Leon E. Seltzer, ed. (1952), "Kuwait, Kuweit, or Al-Kuwayt", Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, New York: Columbia University Press, p. 996, OL 6112221M, Formerly called Qurein, Grane, or Grain
  3. "Arabia: Sultanate of Koweit". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368440.
  4. Michael Herb (2014). The Wages of Oil: Parliaments and Economic Development in Kuwait and the UAE. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0-8014-5468-4.
  5. "Kuwait marks 50th anniversary of first municipal elections". Kuwait News Agency. June 2014.
  6. Wafa'a H. Al-Sane (2003). "Kuwait". In Miriam Drake (ed.). Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science (2nd ed.). Marcel Dekker. ISBN 978-0-8247-2079-7.
  7. Malcolm C. Peck (2007). Historical Dictionary of the Gulf Arab States. USA: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6416-0.
  8. Jones 2014.
  9. "Kuwait City". Lonely Planet. Retrieved 30 April 2015.
  10. Noura Alsager, ed. (2014). Acquiring Modernity. State of Kuwait, National Council for Culture, Arts and Letters. ISBN 978-99906-0-423-8. Biennale di Venezia
  11. Alan Rush (1987). Al-Sabah: History & Genealogy of Kuwait's Ruling Family, 1752-1987. London: Ithaca Press. ISBN 978-0-86372-081-9.
  12. "Kuwait". Europa World Year Book. Europa Publications. 2004. p. 2538+. ISBN 978-1-85743-255-8.
  13. Abdul-llah Abu-Ayyash (1986). "Urban Public Transport Planning in Kuwait". GeoJournal. 12 (3): 243–254. JSTOR 41143870.
  14. "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1965. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations. 1966. pp. 140–161.
  15. Karim Jamal (12 December 1973), "Kuwait: a Salutary Tale", Architects Journal
  16. United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1987). "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". 1985 Demographic Yearbook. New York. pp. 247–289.
  17. (Kuwait City), ArchNet, retrieved 30 April 2015
  18. "Art Galleries and Museums (list)". ArtKuwait.org. Retrieved 30 April 2015.
  19. BBC News. "Kuwait Profile: Timeline". Retrieved 30 April 2015.
  20. "(Kuwait City)". Emporis.com. Hamburg. Retrieved 30 April 2015.
  21. "Kuwaiti Women Join the Voting After a Long Battle for Suffrage", New York Times, 30 June 2006
  22. "Statistical Reports: Population: Population Density by Governorate". Government of Kuwait, Public Authority for Civil Information. 2014.

Bibliography
Published in 19th century
Published in 20th century
  • "Kuwet (Kuweit, Koweit)", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424
  • British Admiralty (1916). "Sultanate of Koweit: Towns: Koweit". Handbook of Arabia. 1. London: British War Office. hdl:2027/njp.32101006882755.
  • "Kuwait". Persian Gulf Pilot. Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 1920.
  • L.W. Amps (1953). "Kuwait Town Development". Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society. UK. 40 (3–4): 234–240. doi:10.1080/03068375308731484.
  • Abdul-llah Abu-Ayyash (1980). "Urban Development and Planning Strategies in Kuwait". International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 4.
  • Najat Abd al-Qadir al-Jasim (1980). The Kuwait Municipality over 50 Years. Kuwait Municipality.
  • Stephen Gardiner; Ian Cook (1983). Kuwait, the making of a city. Longman. ISBN 978-0-582-78356-0.
  • Norconsult (1984), Public Transport in Kuwait Town and Urban Areas, Kuwait Municipality and Kuwait Transport Company
  • Saleh Abdulghani Al-Mutawa (1994), History of Architecture in Old Kuwait City
Published in 21st century
  • Yasser Elsheshtawy, ed. (2008). "Kuwait: learning from a globalized city". The Evolving Arab City: Tradition, Modernity and Urban Development. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-12821-1.
  • Angie Turner (2008), "Kuwait City", in Michael R.T. Dumper; Bruce E. Stanley (eds.), Cities of the Middle East and North Africa, USA: ABC-CLIO, p. 229+, ISBN 9781576079195
  • Farah al-Nakib (2013). "Kuwait's Modern Spectacle: Oil Wealth and the Making of a New Capital City, 1950–90". Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. 33: 7–25. doi:10.1215/1089201X-2072694.
  • Gwyn Lloyd Jones (2014). "Kuwait City, Kuwait". In Murray Fraser; Nasser Golzari (eds.). Architecture and Globalisation in the Persian Gulf Region. Ashgate. pp. 37–56. ISBN 978-1-4094-7098-4.

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