Timeline of Tangier

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Tangier, Morocco.

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Prior to 20th century

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• 42 CE - Tingis becomes capital of Roman province of Mauretania Tingitana.^[1]
• 429 - Vandals take Tingis.^[1]
• 672 - Arabs in power.^[2]
• 1078 - Almoravids in power.^[3]
• 1304 - Ibn Battuta born.
• 1437 - Battle of Tangier.
• 1471 - Portuguese in power.^[2][3]
• 1580 - Spanish in power.^[4]
• 1662 - English in power.^[4]
• 1677 - Jews expelled.^[4]
• 1678 - City besieged by forces of Moulay Ismail.^[1]
• 1684 - Control of city passes from English to Moroccans.^[2]
• 1815 - Tangier Grand Mosque rebuilt.^[5]
• 1821 - American Legation building in use.
• 1844
  • 6 August: Bombardment of Tangiers.
  • October: Treaty of Tangiers signed in city.
• 1883 - Al-Moghreb al-Aksa newspaper begins publication.^[6]

20th century

• 1904 - Journal de Tanger begins publication.^[7]
• 1905
  • La Dépêche marocaine newspaper begins publication.
  • Anglican Church of St. Andrew consecrated.
• 1913 - Gran Teatro Cervantes opens.^[8]
• 1917 - Sidi Bou Abib Mosque built.^[5]
• 1920 - Gran Cafe de Paris in business.^[9]
• 1921 - Café Hafa opens.
• 1924 - Tangier International Zone in effect, per Tangier Protocol.
• 1937 - Dean's Bar in business.^[1]
• 1939 - Stade de Marchan (stadium) built.
• 1940 - 14 June: City occupied by Spanish forces.^[4]
• 1945 - 11 October: City returned to international status. ^[10]
• 1947
  • Sultan Mohammed V of Morocco gives speech at the Grand Socco.^[11]
  • American writer Paul Bowles moves to Tangier.^[12]
• 1948 - Cinema Rif opens.^[13]
• 1952 - 30 March: Political demonstration.^[4]
• 1956
  • 8 October: City becomes part of independent Morocco;^[2] Tangier International Zone disestablished.^[11]
• 1983 - Ittihad Riadi Tanger football club formed.

21st century

• 2005 - Rabat–Tangier expressway constructed.
• 2006 - Cinematheque de Tanger opens.^[14]
• 2008
  • Tanger-Med port begins operating near city.^[15]
  • Tangier Ibn Battouta Airport new terminal building opens.
• 2011
  • Grand Stade de Tanger (stadium) opens.
  • Kenitra–Tangier high-speed rail line construction begins.

See also

• History of Tangier
• Chronology of Tangier (French)
• List of governors of Tangier, 15th to 17th centuries
• Timeline of Casablanca
• Timeline of Fes
• Timeline of Marrakesh
• Timeline of Rabat
• Years in Morocco

References

This article incorporates information from the French Wikipedia.

Further reading

Published in the 19th century

• Ali Bey al-Abbasi (1816), "Chapters 2-4 (Tangier)", Travels of Ali Bey in Morocco, Tripoli, Cyprus, Egypt, Arabia, Syria, and Turkey, Between the Years 1803 and 1807, Philadelphia: John Conrad, OCLC 754174 
• Arthur de Capell Brooke (1831). "Tangier". Sketches in Spain and Morocco. London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley. OCLC 13783280. 
• H.M.P. de la Martinière (1889). "(Tangier)". Morocco: Journeys in the Kingdom of Fez and to the Court of Mulai Hassan. London: Whittaker & Co. OCLC 4428176. 

Published in the 20th century

• S.L. Bensusan (1904). Morocco. London: A and C Black. 
• "Tangier", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 
• "Tangier", The Mediterranean, Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1911, OCLC 490068 

Published in the 21st century

• Mark Ellingham (2001), "Tangier", Rough Guide to Morocco (6th ed.), London: Rough Guides, p. 79+, OL 24218635M 
• Michael R.T. Dumper; Bruce E. Stanley, eds. (2008). "Tangier". Cities of the Middle East and North Africa. Santa Barbara, USA: ABC-CLIO. 
• Elbl, Martin Malcolm. Portuguese Tangier (1471-1662): Colonial Urban Fabric as Cross-Cultural Skeleton (Baywolf Press: Toronto and Peterborough, 2013) ISBN 978-0-921437-50-5.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tangier.

• "(Articles related to Tangier)". Connecting-Africa. Leiden, Netherlands: African Studies Centre. 
• Map of Tangier, 1943

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