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Timeline of Port Said

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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Port Said, Egypt.

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Prior to 20th century

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  • 1859
  • Port Said founded.{{cite book|title=Historical Dictionary of Egypt|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QQNSAQAAQBAJ|year= 2013|publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-8025-2}}
  • Population: 150.{{cite book|title=Macro-Engineering: MIT Brunel Lectures on Global Infrastructure|year= 1997|publisher=Woodhead|isbn=978-1-78242-057-6 |author=Jean-Paul Calon |chapter=Suez Canal revisited: 19th century global infrastructure |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NbSjAgAAQBAJ |page=11 }}
  • 1861 - Population: 4,000.
  • 1863 - Sweet Water Canal built.
  • 1869
  • Port Said Lighthouse begins operating.
  • November: Suez Canal opens.
  • 1870 - Coal heaving porters guild established.{{cite journal |title=Coal Heavers of Port Sa'id: State-Making and Worker Protest, 1869-1914 |author= John Chalcraft |journal= International Labor and Working-Class History |pages= 110–124 |number= 60 |year= 2001|jstor= 27672741 }}
  • 1870s - Anti-European unrest.{{cite journal |title=Of Crowds and Empires: Afro-Asian Riots and European Expansion, 1857-1882 |author= Juan R. I. Cole |journal= Comparative Studies in Society and History |volume= 31 |issue= 1 |pages= 106–133 |year= 1989 |jstor= 178796 |author-link= Juan Cole |doi= 10.1017/S0010417500015681 |s2cid= 146461720 }}
  • 1881 - Abbas Mosque commissioned (built later).{{cite book|editor=Fassil Demissie|title=Colonial Architecture and Urbanism in Africa: Intertwined and Contested Histories|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uwewUdsdQx8C|year=2012|publisher=Ashgate |isbn=978-0-7546-7512-9}}
  • 1883 - Population: 17,000.{{Citation | publisher = Karl Baedeker | location = Leipzig | title = Egypt and the Sudan | date = 1914 | edition = 7th |chapter=Port Said |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/egyptsdnhand00karl#page/n401/mode/2up }}
  • 1895 - Headquarter of the Suez Canal Authority in Port Said built.[http://www.edmondcoignet.fr/historique.php# Edmond coignet]
  • 1896 - First Cinema Projection in the city took place.
  • 1899 - De Lesseps statue unveiled on Jetee Ouest (pier).

20th century

  • 1904 - Cairo-Port Said railway begins operating.
  • 1917 - Russian battleship Peresvet sinks offshore.
  • 1920 - Al-Masry Sporting Club founded.
  • 1926
  • Port Fouad founded on opposite side of Suez Canal.
  • {{Interlanguage link multi|Catholic Diocese of the Canal of Suez|it|3=Vicariato apostolico di Porto Said}} established.{{cite web |title=Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Egypt |url= http://www.katolsk.no/organisasjon/verden/chronology/egypt |work=www.katolsk.no |publisher=Oslo katolske bispedømme (Oslo Catholic Diocese) |location=Norway |access-date= 30 January 2015 }}
  • 1947 - Population: 177,703.{{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 }}
  • 1955 - Port Said Stadium opens.
  • 1956
  • 5 November: British and French forces arrive during Suez Crisis.
  • 23 December: British and French troops depart.{{cite web |url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5194576.stm |title=Timeline: The Suez Crisis |date=18 July 2006 |publisher=BBC News }}
  • December: Moorhouse Affair.
  • 1960 - Population: 244,000.{{cite journal |title=Urbanization in Egypt: Present State and Future Prospects |author= Janet L. Abu-Lughod |journal= Economic Development and Cultural Change |volume= 13 |issue= 3 |pages= 313–343 |year= 1965 |jstor=1152248 |doi= 10.1086/450113 |s2cid= 154169691 }}
  • 1967 - After Israeli forces occupy Sinai Peninsula, some residents begin to flee city.{{cite journal |title=War and forced migration in Egypt: the experience of evacuation from the Suez Canal cities (1967-1976)|author= Mohamed Abdel Shakur|journal=Arab Studies Quarterly |volume= 27 |issue= 3|pages= 21–39|year= 2005 |jstor=41858507 |display-authors=etal}}
  • 1974 - Population: 342,000.{{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 }}
  • 1976
  • Suez Canal University established.
  • Port Said declared a duty-free port.
  • 1992 - Population: 460,000 (estimate).{{cite book |chapter-url= https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/1990_round.htm |title=1995 Demographic Yearbook |year=1997 |author=United Nations Department for Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis, Statistics Division |location=New York |chapter=Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants |pages=262–321 }}
  • 1995 - Museum of Modern Art opens.
  • 1998 - History Gardens laid out.{{citation |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029191908/http://archnet.org/library/places/one-place.jsp?place_id=2765 |title=Egypt: Port Said |publisher=ArchNet |url-status=dead |url= http://archnet.org/library/places/one-place.jsp?place_id=2765 |archive-date= 29 October 2013 }}
  • 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.
  • 2010
  • Port Said University established.
  • Population: 603,787.
  • 2012 - 1 February: Port Said Stadium riot.{{cite book|title=Encyclopædia Britannica Book of the Year |year=2013|publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jXadAAAAQBAJ|isbn=978-1-62513-103-4}}
  • 2013
  • 26 January: Unrest begins after verdict of stadium riot.
  • 27 January: Anti-Morsi protest.
  • 17–19 February: Labor strike, protest.
  • March: Unrest.
  • 2017 - Population: 749,371 (urban agglomeration).{{citation |chapter=Table 8 - Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants |chapter-url=https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic-social/products/dyb/dyb_2018/ |title=Demographic Yearbook – 2018 |publisher=United Nations }}

See also

References

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External links

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