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Timeline of Peshawar

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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

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Prior to 19th century

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19th century

  • 1809 - Mountstuart Elphinstone arrives as ambassador to Shah Shujah.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1810 - Wazir Bagh (garden) laid out.{{citation needed|date=August 2013}}
  • 1825 - Sikh Ranjit Singh in power.{{Citation |publisher = C. Cox |location = London |title = Oriental Interpreter and Treasury of East India Knowledge |author = Jocquim Hayward Stocqueler |date = 1848 |oclc = 3145677 |ol = 13521975M |author-link = Jocquim Hayward Stocqueler }}
  • 1834
  • Hari Singh Nalwa in power.
  • Bala Hissar (fort) rebuilt.
  • 1838 - Italian Paolo Avitabile in power.{{sfn|Ross|1883}}{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1849
  • British in power.{{Citation |publisher = Columbia University Press |location = New York |editor = Leon E. Seltzer |title = Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World |date = 1952 | ol=6112221M }}{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • Gorak Nath Temple built.{{cite news |title= Life and times of Peshawar's Kaka Ram |date=21 June 2012 |work=Qissa Khwani |quote=Originally published by The News on Sunday, 17 June 2012 }}
  • 1850s - Grand Trunk Road Lahore-Peshawar extension constructed (approximate date).{{citation |title=Memorandum of the Improvements in the Administration of India During the Last Thirty Years: And the Petition of the East-India Company to Parliament |year=1858 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=SICBzx3h7OsC |publisher=East India Company |last=Mill |first=John Stuart }}
  • 1851 - Peshawar cemetery established.
  • 1860 - Flood.{{sfn|Gazetteer|1883}}
  • 1867 - Municipality constituted.{{sfn|Gazetteer of India|1908}}
  • 1868
  • British Peshawar Cantonment laid out near city.
  • Population: 56,589 (city); 58,555 (municipality).{{sfn|Gazetteer|1883}}
  • 1881 - Population: 79,982.{{sfn|Thornton|1886}}
  • 1882 - Sethi Mohallah residence built.{{cite web |url=http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006%5C05%5C06%5Cstory_6-5-2006_pg7_20 |title=Forgotten in the 'lost-and-found' of our heritage |date=6 May 2006 |work=Daily Times }}
  • 1883 - All Saints Church opens in cantonment.{{cite web |url= http://www.lonelyplanet.com/pakistan/north-west-frontier-province/peshawar |title=Peshawar |work=Pakistan |publisher=Lonely Planet |accessdate=17 August 2013 }}
  • 1891 - Population: 54,191.{{sfn|Gazetteer of India|1908}}
  • 1900
  • Cunningham clock tower built.
  • Edwardes College established.

20th century

  • 1901
  • City becomes capital of the North-West Frontier Province.{{sfn|Gazetteer of India|1908}}
  • Population: 95,147.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1906 - Victoria Hall built.
  • 1907 - Peshawar Museum founded.
  • 1909 - Ancient Buddhist Kanishka casket discovered by archaeologists in Shah-ji-Dheri near city.
  • 1913 - Islamia College established.{{sfn|Schellinger|1996}}
  • 1922 - Kapoor Haveli (residence) built.
  • 1925 - Khaiber railway built.{{sfn|Encyclopaedia of Islam|1927}}
  • 1930
  • 23 April: Qissa Khwani Bazaar massacre.
  • Novelty cinema opens.{{cite web |url=http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009%5C02%5C02%5Cstory_2-2-2009_pg7_28 |title=Curtain going down on cinema culture in Peshawar |date= 2 February 2009 |work=Daily Times |location=Pakistan }}
  • 1932 - Khyber Mail newspaper begins publication.
  • 1934 - Landsdowne cinema opens.
  • 1936 - Radio station begins broadcasting.{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-20440607 |title=Bollywood's Shah Rukh Khan, Dilip Kumar and the Peshawar club |date=28 November 2012 |work=BBC News }}
  • 1939 - Al Falah newspaper begins publication.{{cite book |title=Far East and Australasia 2003 |chapter=Pakistan |page=1160+ |series=Regional Surveys of the World |publisher=Europa Publications |isbn=9781857431339 |year=2002 }}
  • 1941
  • Al-Jamiat-e-Sarhad newspaper begins publication.
  • Population: 130,967.

=Independence: since 1947=

  • 1947 - City becomes part of the Dominion of Pakistan.
  • 1948 - City becomes capital of the Peshawar province.{{sfn|Davies|2007}}
  • 1949 - Frontier Corps military reserve headquartered in Bala Hissar (fort).{{cite web |url=http://www.khyberpakhtunkhwa.gov.pk/aboutus/Town-Places.php |title=About Us: Town & Places |work=Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: Official Gateway to Government |author=Directorate of Information Technology, Web Portal Management Cell |publisher=Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa |accessdate=17 August 2013}}
  • 1950
  • University of Peshawar established.
  • Shahab-e-saqib and Qallandar Urdu-language newspapers begin publication.
  • 1951 - Population: 151,776.{{cite web |url= https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/1950_round.htm |work=Demographic Yearbook 1955 |publisher=Statistical Office of the United Nations |location=New York |title=Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants }}
  • 1954 - Khyber Medical College established.
  • 1955
  • City becomes part of West Pakistan.{{sfn|Davies|2007}}
  • The Statesman English-language newspaper begins publication.
  • Abasin Arts Society established.
  • 1956 - City becomes part of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
  • 1958 - Amal newspaper begins publication.
  • 1964 - Peshawar Press Club founded.
  • 1965 - Bacha Khan International Airport in operation.
  • 1972 - Population: 268,366.{{cite book |chapter-url= https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/1970_round.htm |title=Demographic Yearbook 1975 |year=1976 |author=United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office |location=New York |chapter=Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants |pages=253–279 }}
  • 1975
  • Qayyum Stadium opens.
  • Hayatabad suburb established.{{citation |series=Case Study Series |title=Afghans in Peshawar: Migration, settlements and social networks |year=2006 |author=Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit |publisher=United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees |url=http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home/opendocPDFViewer.html?docid=43e754da2&query=peshawar%20city }}
  • 1976 - Wahdat Pashto-language newspaper begins publication.
  • 1977 - Shahādat newspaper begins publication.
  • 1980 - May: Explosion at Jamiat Islami Afghanistan headquarters.{{cite web |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1309&dat=19801102&id=IuNLAAAAIBAJ&pg=4221,311128 |title=Peshawar a hot-bed of spies and plotters |date=2 November 1980 |work=New Sunday Times |location=Malaysia }}
  • 1981
  • Population: 555,000.{{sfn|Davies|2007}}
  • Kacha Garhi refugee camp established near city.
  • 1982
  • Jalozai Afghan refugee camp in operation.
  • Afghan Islamic Press news agency established.
  • 1984 - Mujāhid Wulas newspaper begins publication.{{cite web |url= http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=su%3APeshawar+%28Pakistan%29+Newspapers.&qt=hot_subject |title=Peshawar (Pakistan) Newspapers |location=USA |work=WorldCat |publisher=Online Computer Library Center |accessdate=17 August 2013}}
  • 1985
  • Karkhano Market and Nishtar Hall{{cite news|title=Nishtar Hall to host musical concert today after five years|url=http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008%5C05%5C27%5Cstory_27-5-2008_pg7_54 |newspaper=Daily Times |location=Lahore |date=May 27, 2008}} established.
  • The Frontier Post (English-language) newspaper begins publication.
  • 1987 - Frontier Times in publication (approximate date).
  • 1994 - Bus hijacking.
  • 1995 - Bombing.
  • 1996 - Qalb-e-Asia Cultural Centre established.
  • 1998 - Population: 982,816.{{cite web |url=http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/dyb2011.htm |work=Demographic Yearbook 2011 |year=2012 |publisher=United Nations Statistics Division |title=Population of Capital Cities and Cities of 100,000 or More Inhabitants }}

21st century

See also

References

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Bibliography

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;Published in 19th century

  • {{Citation |publisher = W.H. Allen |location = London |title = Gazetteer of the Countries Adjacent to India on the Northwest |author = Edward Thornton |date = 1844 |oclc = 6141828 |chapter=Peshawer |hdl = 2027/nyp.33433000638944 }}
  • {{citation |author=E.G.G. Hastings |title=Report on the Settlement of the Peshawar District of the Punjab |location=Lahore |year=1878 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jmEBAAAAQAAJ

}}

  • {{cite book |title=Gazetteer of the Peshawar District |oclc=663560992 |year=1883 |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=LpwIAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA3-PT29 |chapter= Towns, Municipalities, and Cantonments |page=287+

|ref= {{harvid|Gazetteer|1883}}

}}

  • {{Citation |publisher = Chapman and Hall |date = 1883 |author = David Ross |title = Land of the Five Rivers and Sindh: Sketches Historical and Descriptive |location=London |chapter=Peshawar |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/landfiveriversa01rossgoog#page/n191/mode/2up

|ref= {{harvid|Ross|1883}}

}}

  • {{Citation |publisher = B. Quaritch |location = London |author = Edward Balfour |author-link=Edward Balfour |title = Cyclopaedia of India |edition=3rd |date = 1885 |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/cyclopindiaeast03balfuoft#page/189/mode/1up|chapter= Peshawur

|ref= {{harvid|Balfour|1885}}

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  • {{Citation |publisher = W. H. Allen & Co. |location = London |title = Gazetteer of the Territories under the Government of the Viceroy of India |author = Edward Thornton |date = 1886 |oclc = 710600 |chapter=Peshawar |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/gazetteerofterri00thorrich#page/715/mode/1up |editor=Roper Lethbridge and Arthur N. Wollaston

|ref= {{harvid|Thornton|1886}}

}}

;Published in 20th century

  • {{cite book |series=Census of India, 1901 |volume=17, Part 2 |title=The Punjab, its Feudatories, and the North-West Frontier Province |location=Simla |year=1902

}} [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101031585654 Part 1]

  • {{Citation |publisher =Clarendon Press |location = Oxford |title = Imperial Gazetteer of India |date = 1908 |edition=New |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/imperialgazettee20grea#page/124/mode/2up |chapter=Peshawar City

|ref= {{harvid|Gazetteer of India|1908}}

}}

  • {{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Peshawar |volume= 21 | pages = 282–283 |date=1910 |ref= {{harvid|Britannica|1910}} |short= 1}}
  • {{Citation |publisher = J. Murray |date = 1911 |location = London |title = Handbook for Travellers in India, Burma, and Ceylon |edition=8th |chapter=Peshawar |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/handbooktravelle00john#page/n419/mode/2up

}}

  • {{cite book |title=Encyclopaedia of Islam |year=1927 |location=Leiden |publisher=E.J. Brill |oclc=39715711 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fWNpIGNFz0IC |page=1066 |chapter= Peshawar

|isbn=9789004097926 |ref= {{harvid|Encyclopaedia of Islam|1927}}

}}

  • {{citation |title=Peshawar District Gazetteer |location=Lahore |year=1933

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  • {{cite book |author=Ahmad Hasan Dani |title= Peshawar, Historic City of the Frontier |oclc=556485417 |location= Peshawar |year= 1969

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  • {{Cite book |publisher = Routledge |isbn = 9781884964046 |title = International Dictionary of Historic Places: Asia and Oceania |date = 1996 |editor=Schellinger and Salkin |location=UK |chapter=Peshawar |page=669+

|ref= {{harvid|Schellinger|1996}}

}}

;Published in 21st century

  • {{Citation |publisher = Promilla & Co. in association with Bibliophile South Asia, New Jersey |isbn = 8185002347 |location = New Delhi |title = Across the Wagah: an Indian's sojourn in Pakistan |author = Maneesha Tikekar |date = 2004 |chapter=Peshawar

}}

  • {{cite book |title=Historic Cities of the Islamic World |editor=C. E. Bosworth |year=2007 |publisher=Koninklijke Brill |location=Leiden |isbn=9789004153882 |chapter=Peshawar |page=426+ |author1=C.C. Davies |author2=C.E. Bosworth

|ref= {{harvid|Davies|2007}}

}}

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