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
- 2000 - 12 October: USS Cole bombing.
- 2009 - Population: 684,322.[25]
- 2012 - Population: 760,923.
- 2015
See also
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Aden", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), 1910, OCLC 14782424
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 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+
- 1 2 3 4 5 Roxani Eleni Margariti (2006). "Aden". In Josef W. Meri. Medieval Islamic Civilization. Routledge. p. 14+. ISBN 978-0-415-96691-7.
- 1 2 "Aden". Imperial Gazetteer of India 5. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1908.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Roy E. Thoman (1991). "Aden". In James Stuart Olson. Historical Dictionary of European Imperialism. Greenwood. ISBN 978-0-313-26257-9.
- ↑ BBC News. "Yemen Profile: Timeline". Retrieved April 2015.
- ↑ Roy Facey (1998), Development of the Port of Aden, British-Yemeni Society – via Al-Bab.com
- 1 2 3 Z. H. Kour (1981). The History of Aden 1839-1872. Frank Cass. ISBN 978-1-135-78115-6.
- 1 2 3 4 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+.
- ↑ "Aden", Encyclopaedia Britannica 30 (12th ed.), 1922
- 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.
- ↑ Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures. Brill. 2005. ISBN 90-04-12818-2.
- 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
- ↑ "The Queen in Aden", British-Yemeni Society Journal 20, 2012, OCLC 56766944
- ↑ "Yemeni union calls for general strike to protest against low wages", BBC Monitoring Middle East, May 13, 2010 – via LexisNexis Academic, (subscription required (help))
- ↑ Rémy Leveau; et al., eds. (1999). Le Yémen contemporain (in French). Éditions Karthala. ISBN 978-2-86537-893-7.
- 1 2 "Museums: Yemen". Arabia Antica. University of Pisa. Retrieved April 2015.
- ↑ "Yemen: Directory". Europa World Year Book. Europa Publications. 2004. ISBN 978-1-85743-255-8.
- ↑ Lucine Taminian (1998). "Rimbaud's House in Aden, Yemen". Cultural Anthropology 13. JSTOR 656569.
- ↑ Yemen: Aden, ArchNet, archived from the original on July 2007
- ↑ Population of Yemen, 1994 census, Al-Bab.com, retrieved April 2015
- ↑ 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
- 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 the 20th century
- Published in the 21st century
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