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Qasimid State
Sultanate of Lahej 1728–1839
British Raj Aden Province 1839–1937
Aden Colony 1937–1963
British Empire Aden protectorate 1937–1963
State of Aden within the FSA 1963–1967
South Yemen South Yemen 1967–1990
Yemen Republic of Yemen 1990–present

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Aden, Yemen.

Prior to 19th century

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  • 8th century BC – The emergence of the awsan Kingdom in Aden.[1]
  • 6th century BC – The Qataban-Sabai alliance Awsan falls in Aden.[2]
  • 110 BCE – Himyarites overthrow the Kingdom of Saba and Qataban and take control of Aden
  • 632 – Rashidun Caliphate Islam entered Yemen in the year 6AH
  • 661 – Umayyad Caliphate
  • 750 – Abbasids in power (approximate date).[2]
  • 819 – Banu Ziyad becomes independent from the Abbasid state [2]
  • 1021 – Banu Ma'an They are independent from the Ziadian state
  • 1067 – Banū Zuraiʿ Rulers of Aden.[3]
  • 1173 – Ayyubids in power.[3]
  • 1229 – Rasulids in power.[3]
  • 1330 – Moroccan traveller Ibn Battuta visits Aden (approximate date).
  • 1420s – Chinese explorer Zheng He visits Aden (approximate date).[2]
  • 1454 – Tahirids in power.[3]
  • 1500 – Aqueduct built from Bir Mahait (approximate date).[4]
  • 1511 – Italian traveller Varthema visits Aden.[2]
  • 1513 – Aden "unsuccessfully attacked by the Portuguese under Albuquerque."[1]
  • 1538 – Aden taken by Ottoman forces of Hadım Suleiman Pasha.[1][2]
  • 1630 – Ottomans ousted.[2]
  • 1735 – Sultan of Lahej in power.[1]
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19th century

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See also: Aden Settlement
  • 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

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1900s-1950s

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1960s-1990s

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21st century

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See also: Timeline of the Yemeni crisis (2011–present)

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e Britannica 1910.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Stanley 2008.
  3. ^ a b c d Margariti 2006.
  4. ^ a b Gazetteer of India 1908.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h Thoman 1991.
  6. ^ BBC News. "Yemen Profile: Timeline". Retrieved 30 April 2015.
  7. ^ Facey 1998.
  8. ^ a b c Kour 1981.
  9. ^ a b c d 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, vol. 30 (12th ed.), 1922
  13. ^ a b c 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. ^ a b "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, vol. 20, 2012, OCLC 56766944, archived from the original on 2015-03-08[1]
  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. ^ a b "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.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  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.

Bibliography

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  • Walker, Jonathan. Aden Insurgency: The Savage War in South Arabia 1962–67 (Spellmount Staplehurst, 2003) ISBN 1-86227-225-5
  • Mawby, Spencer. British Policy in Aden & the Protectorates, 1955-67: Last Outpost of a Middle East Empire (2005).
  • Hinchcliffe, Peter, et al. Without Glory in Arabia: The British Retreat from Aden (2006).
  • Roxani Eleni Margariti (2006). "Aden". In Josef W. Meri (ed.). Medieval Islamic Civilization. Routledge. p. 14+. ISBN 978-0-415-96691-7.
  • Roxani Eleni Margariti (2007), Aden and the Indian Ocean Trade: 150 Years in the Life of a Medieval Arabian Port, University of North Carolina Press, ISBN 9780807830765
  • Bruce E. Stanley; Michael R.T. Dumper, eds. (2008), "Aden", Cities of the Middle East and North Africa, Santa Barbara, USA: ABC-CLIO, p. 8+, ISBN 9781576079195
  • Mawby, Spencer. "Orientalism and the failure of British policy in the Middle East: The case of Aden." History 95.319 (2010): 332–353. online
  • "Yemen's Despair on Full Display in 'Ruined' City", New York Times, 10 April 2015
  • Scott Steven Reese. Imperial Muslims: Islam, Community and Authority in the Indian Ocean, 1839-1937. (A history of Aden) Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press, 2017. ix + 212 pp. ISBN 978-0-7486-9765-6.
  • Edwards, Aaron. "A triumph of realism? Britain, Aden and the end of empire, 1964–67." Middle Eastern Studies 53.1 (2017): 6-18.
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