Timeline of Port Said
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Port Said, Egypt.
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- 1859
- 1861 - Population: 4,000.[2]
- 1863 - Sweet Water Canal built.
- 1869
- Lighthouse of Port Said begins operating.
- November: Suez Canal opens.
- 1870 - Coal heaving porters guild established.[3]
- 1870s - Anti-European unrest.[4]
- 1881 - Abbas Mosque commissioned (built later).[5]
- 1883 - Population: 17,000.[6]
- 1899 - De Lesseps statue unveiled on Jetee Ouest (pier).[6]
20th century
- 1904 - Cairo-Port Said railway begins operating.
- 1917 - Russian battleship Peresvet sinks offshore.
- 1920 - Al-Masry Sporting Club formed.
- 1926
- Port Fouad founded on opposite side of Suez Canal.
- Catholic Diocese of the Canal of Suez established.[7]
- 1947 - Population: 177,703.[8]
- 1955 - Port Said Stadium opens.
- 1956
- 5 November: British and French forces arrive during Suez Crisis.[9]
- 23 December: British and French troops depart.[9]
- December: Moorhouse Affair.
- 1960 - Population: 244,000.[8]
- 1967 - After Israeli forces occupy Sinai Peninsula, some residents begin to flee city.[10]
- 1976
- Suez Canal University established.
- Port Said declared a duty-free port.
- 1995 - Museum of Modern Art opens.
- 1998 - History Gardens laid out.[11]
- 1999 - Port Said Hall (arena) opens.
21st century
- 2004
- Suez Canal Container Terminal begins operating.
- Misr Public Library inaugurated.
- 2005 - Port Said International School opens.
- 2008
- December: 2008 Arab Futsal Championship held.
- Population: 588,938.[1]
- 2010
- Port Said University established.
- Population: 603,787.
- 2012 - 1 February: Port Said Stadium riot.[12]
- 2013
See also
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Historical Dictionary of Egypt. Scarecrow Press. 2013. ISBN 978-0-8108-8025-2.
- 1 2 Jean-Paul Calon (1997). "Suez Canal revisited: 19th century global infrastructure". Macro-Engineering: MIT Brunel Lectures on Global Infrastructure. Woodhead. ISBN 978-1-78242-057-6.
- ↑ John Chalcraft (2001). "Coal Heavers of Port Sa'id: State-Making and Worker Protest, 1869-1914". International Labor and Working-Class History (60). JSTOR 27672741.
- ↑ Juan R. I. Cole (1989). "Of Crowds and Empires: Afro-Asian Riots and European Expansion, 1857-1882". Comparative Studies in Society and History 31. JSTOR 178796.
- ↑ Fassil Demissie, ed. (2012). Colonial Architecture and Urbanism in Africa: Intertwined and Contested Histories. Ashgate. ISBN 978-0-7546-7512-9.
- 1 2 "Port Said", Egypt and the Sudan (7th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1914
- ↑ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Egypt". www.katolsk.no. Norway: Oslo katolske bispedømme (Oslo Catholic Diocese). Retrieved January 2015.
- 1 2 Janet L. Abu-Lughod (1965). "Urbanization in Egypt: Present State and Future Prospects". Economic Development and Cultural Change 13. JSTOR 1152248.
- 1 2 "Timeline: The Suez Crisis". BBC News. 18 July 2006.
- ↑ Mohamed Abdel Shakur; et al. (2005). "War and forced migration in Egypt: the experience of evacuation from the Suez Canal cities (1967-1976)". Arab Studies Quarterly 27. JSTOR 41858507.
- ↑ Egypt: Port Said, ArchNet, archived from the original on 29 October 2013
- ↑ Encyclopaedia Britannica Book of the Year. 2013. ISBN 978-1-62513-103-4.
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