Timeline of Aden

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

Prior to 19th century

• 8th century BC – The emergence of the Kingdom of Awsan in Aden.
• 6th century BC – The Qataban-Sabai alliance Awsan falls in Aden.
• 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).
• 819 – Banu Ziyad becomes independent from the Abbasid state
• 1021 – Banu Ma'an They are independent from the Ziadian state
• 1067 – BanÅ« ZuraiÊ¿ Rulers of Aden.
• 1173 – Ayyubids in power.
• 1229 – Rasulids in power.
• 1330 – Moroccan traveller Ibn Battuta visits Aden (approximate date).
• 1420s – Chinese explorer Zheng He visits Aden (approximate date).
• 1454 – Tahirids in power.
• 1500 – Aqueduct built from Bir Mahait (approximate date).
• 1511 – Italian traveller Varthema visits Aden.
• 1513 – Aden "unsuccessfully attacked by the Portuguese under Albuquerque."
• 1538 – Aden taken by Ottoman forces of Hadım Suleiman Pasha.
• 1630 – Ottomans ousted.
• 1735 – Sultan of Lahej in power.

19th century

• 1839
• January: Aden occupied by British forces.
• November: Abdali anti-British unrest; crackdown.
• British colonial postal mail begins operating.
• 1840
• May: Abdali anti-British unrest; crackdown.
• June: Sultan of Lahej Shaykh Muhsin ibn Fadl signs treaty with British.
• 1850 – Aden becomes a free port.
• 1852 – Catholic church built.
• 1858 – Grand Synagogue of Aden built.
• 1867 – Aqueduct built.
• 1868 – Jebel Ihsan peninsula and nearby Sirah island sold by Sultan of Lahej to British.
• 1869 – Suez Canal opens in Egypt, affecting Aden as a port.
• 1871 – Protestant church built.
• 1876 – "Settlement committee" (local government) established.
• 1880 – August: French poet Rimbaud visits Aden.
• 1882 – Sheikh Othman bought by British.
• 1889 – "Port trust" (local government) established.
• 1890 – Big Ben Aden clocktower built.

20th century

1900s-1950s

• 1915
• Lahej-Aden railway construction begins.
• Population: 36,900 town.
• 1917 – British Royal Air Force Khormaksar station established.
• 1924 – Sukkat Shalom synagogue established.
• 1925 – Arab Literary Club formed.
• 1929 – Arab Reform Club active.
• 1937 – 1 April: City becomes capital of the British Colony of Aden.
• 1946 – Population: 56,849.
• 1947
• Legislative Council established.
• December: 1947 Aden riots against Jews.
• 1951 – Aden Women's Club formed.
• 1954
• BP refinery built in Little Aden.
• 27 April: British queen visits Aden.
• 1955 – Aden Legislative Council election, 1955 held.
• 1956 – General Labour Union established.
• 1958 – Al-Ayyam newspaper begins publication.
• 1959 – January: Legislative council election held.

1960s-1990s

• 1963 – January: Aden becomes part of the Federation of South Arabia.
• 1964 – 16 October: Aden Legislative Council election, 1964 held.
• 1966 – established.
• 1967
• January: Front for the Liberation of Occupied South Yemen-National Liberation Front conflict.
• June: Suez Canal closes, affecting port of Aden.
• 29 November: Aden becomes capital of People's Republic of South Yemen; British forces depart.
• 1968 – Ar-Rabi Ashar Min Uktubar newspaper begins publication.
• 1970 – Aden becomes part of the Peoples Democratic Republic of Yemen.
• 1971 – established.http://www.lonelyplanet.com/yemen/southern-yemen/aden/sights
• 1972 – Ittihad al-Udaba (writers' guild) established.
• 1973 – Population: 264,326.
• 1975
• Suez Canal reopens, affecting port of Aden.
• University of Aden established.
• 1985 – Aden Airport new terminal built.
• 1986 – January: South Yemen Civil War.
• 1990 – City becomes part of the newly formed Republic of Yemen.
• 1991 – Rimbaud House opens.
• 1992
• General Hospital built.
• 29 December: 1992 Yemen hotel bombings.
• 1994
• 1994 civil war in Yemen.
• Population: 564,335 governorate.
• 1996 – University of Aden museum established.
• 1997 – 27 April: Yemeni parliamentary election, 1997 held.
• 2000 – 12 October: USS Cole bombing.

21st century

• 2009 – Population: 684,322.
• 2012 – Population: 760,923.
• 2015
• 19 March: Battle of Aden Airport.
• 25 March: Battle of Aden begins.

See also

• Aden history
• Timeline of Yemeni history
• List of British representatives at Aden, 1839-1967
• of other cities in Yemen: Sana'a

References

Bibliography

Published in 19th century

Published in 20th century

• (fulltext)
• Garston, J. "Aden: The First Hundred Years," History Today (Mar 1965) 15#3 pp 147–158. covers 1839 to 1939.
• Gavin, R.J. Aden Under British Rule: 1839–1967 (C. Hurst & Co. 1975).

Published in 21st century

• Walker, Jonathan. Aden Insurgency: The Savage War in South Arabia 1962–67 (Spellmount Staplehurst, 2003)
• 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).
• Mawby, Spencer. "Orientalism and the failure of British policy in the Middle East: The case of Aden." History 95.319 (2010): 332–353. online
• 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. .
• Edwards, Aaron. "A triumph of realism? Britain, Aden and the end of empire, 1964–67." Middle Eastern Studies 53.1 (2017): 6-18.

External links

• Map of Aden, 1978