Timeline of Tangier

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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Tangier, Morocco.

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Ancient Ages

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Middle Ages

Modern Ages

  • 1661 – English Tangier (1661–1684), English colonial rule.{{sfn|Watson|1996}}{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1677 – The English banished all Jews from Tangiers.{{sfn|Watson|1996}}
  • 1678 – City besieged by forces of Moulay Ismail.
  • 1684 – Moroccan rule begins with end of English Tangier.{{sfn|Aguiar|2005}}{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1815 – Grand Mosque of Tangier rebuilt.{{cite web |title=ArchNet |url= http://archnet.org |access-date=30 October 2014 }}
  • 1821 – American Legation building in use.
  • 1844
  • 6 August: Bombardment of Tangiers (by the French).{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • October: Treaty of Tangiers signed in city.
  • 1883 – Al-Moghreb al-Aksa newspaper begins publication.{{cite web |url= http://catalog.crl.edu/search~S35?/dTangier+%28Morocco%29+--+Newspapers |title=Tangier (Morocco) – Newspapers |publisher=Center for Research Libraries |location=Chicago, US |work= Global Resources Network |access-date=30 October 2014 }}

20th century

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  • 1904 – Journal de Tanger newspaper begins publication.{{cite book|title=Europa World Year Book 2004 |publisher=Europa Publications|isbn=978-1-85743-255-8 |chapter=Morocco: Directory |date=29 July 2004|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gP_-8rXzQs8C&pg=PA2970 }}
  • 1905
  • La Dépêche marocaine newspaper begins publication.
  • Anglican Church of St. Andrew consecrated.
  • 1905/06 - First Moroccan Crisis leading to the Algeciras Conference
  • 1910 - Population: 40,000 (approximate figure).{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1911 - Agadir Crisis & Treaty of Fes (1912)
  • 1913 – Gran Teatro Cervantes opens.{{citation |work=New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/12/travel/12Lost.html |title=Lost in Tangier |date=10 September 2010 }}
  • 1917 – Sidi Bou Abib Mosque built.
  • 1920 – Gran Cafe de Paris in business.{{sfn|Shoemake|2013}}
  • 1921 – Café Hafa opens.
  • 1925 – Tangier International Zone in effect, per Tangier Protocol.
  • 1937 – Dean's Bar in business.{{cite book|title= Rough Guide to Morocco|year=2013|publisher=Rough Guides|isbn=978-1-4093-3267-1}}
  • 1939 – Stade de Marchan (stadium) built.{{citation needed|date=October 2014}}
  • 1940 – 14 June: City occupied by Spanish forces.{{sfn|Watson|1996}}
  • 1945 – 11 October: City returned to international status.{{Cite web | title =Reestablishment of the International Regime in Tangiers | publisher =US Department of State | series =330 | pages=613–618| volume =XIII | date =October 21, 1945 | url = https://archive.org/stream/departmentofstatx1345unit/departmentofstatx1345unit_djvu.tx |location=US }}
  • 1947
  • Sultan Mohammed V of Morocco gives speech at the Grand Socco.{{cite book|author=Susan Gilson Miller|title= History of Modern Morocco|year=2013|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-81070-8 |chapter=Chronology |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=peGyku_eREkC }}
  • American writer Paul Bowles moves to Tangier.{{citation |url=http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/20/the-last-casbah/ |work=New York Times |author=Christopher Petkanas |date=20 May 2011 |title=Last Casbah }}
  • 1948 – Cinema Rif opens.{{cite web |url= http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/morocco/tangier?status=all |title=Movie Theaters in Tangier, Morocco |work=CinemaTreasures.org |publisher= Cinema Treasures LLC |location=Los Angeles |access-date=30 October 2014 }}
  • 1952 – 30 March: Political demonstration.{{sfn|Watson|1996}}
  • 1956
  • 8 October: City becomes part of independent Morocco;{{sfn|Aguiar|2005}} Tangier International Zone disestablished.
  • 1960 – Population: 141,714.{{cite book |chapter-url= https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/1960_round.htm |title=Demographic Yearbook 1965 |year=1966 |publisher=Statistical Office of the United Nations |location=New York |chapter=Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants }}
  • 1973 – Population: 185,850.{{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 }}
  • 1983 – Ittihad Riadi Tanger football club formed.
  • 1993 – Population: 307,000 urban agglomeration (estimate).{{cite book |chapter-url= https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/1990_round.htm |title=1995 Demographic Yearbook |year=1997 |publisher=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 }}

21st century

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  • 2005 – Rabat–Tangier expressway constructed.
  • 2003 - Tanger-Med (industrial port complex) supervisory board created.
  • 2006 – Cinematheque de Tanger opens.{{cite web |url= http://www.newmuseum.org/spaces/listing/country:Senegal |title= Morocco |work=Art Spaces Directory |location=New York |publisher=New Museum |access-date=30 October 2014 }}
  • 2008
  • Tanger-Med port begins operating near city.{{cite book|title=The Report: Morocco 2012|publisher=Oxford Business Group |isbn=978-1-907065-54-5|year=2012 }}
  • Tangier Ibn Battouta Airport new terminal building opens.
  • 2011
  • Grand Stade de Tanger (stadium) opens.
  • Kenitra–Tangier high-speed rail line construction begins.
  • 2014 - Population: 998,972 (estimate).{{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 }}
  • 2015 – City becomes part of the Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima administrative region.

See also

References

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Bibliography

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;Published in 19th century

  • {{Citation |publisher = John Conrad |location = Philadelphia |title = Travels of Ali Bey in Morocco, Tripoli, Cyprus, Egypt, Arabia, Syria, and Turkey, Between the Years 1803 and 1807 |date = 1816 |author=Ali Bey al-Abbasi |oclc = 754174 |chapter = Chapters 2–4 (Tangier) |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/travelsalibeyps01beygoog#page/n26/mode/2up |author-link = Ali Bey al-Abbasi }}
  • {{Cite book |publisher = Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley |location = London |title = Sketches in Spain and Morocco |author = Arthur de Capell Brooke |author-link=Arthur de Capell Brooke |year = 1831 |oclc = 13783280 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/sketchesinspain01broogoog#page/n287/mode/2up |chapter= Tangier }}
  • {{cite EB9 |wstitle = Tangiers |volume= 23 | page = 46 |short= 1}}
  • {{Cite book |publisher = Whittaker & Co. |location = London |title = Morocco: Journeys in the Kingdom of Fez and to the Court of Mulai Hassan |author = H.M.P. de la Martinière |year = 1889 |oclc = 4428176 |chapter= (Tangier) |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=FRgoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA20

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;Published in 20th century

  • {{cite book |author=S. L. Bensusan |author-link = S. L. Bensusan|year=1904 |title=Morocco |location=London |publisher= A and C Black |url=https://archive.org/details/morocco00forrgoog

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  • {{cite book

|editor=Ch. Brossard

|language= fr

|series=Géographie pittoresque et monumentale de la France

|publisher= Flammarion

|location=Paris

|title= Colonies françaises

|year=1906

|chapter= Maroc: Description des villes: Tanger

|chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=clc02B1BIkgC&pg=PA224

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  • {{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Tangier |volume= 26 | pages = 397–398 |date=1910 |ref= {{harvid|Britannica|1910}} |short= 1}}
  • {{Citation |publisher = Karl Baedeker |location = Leipzig |title = The Mediterranean |date = 1911 |oclc = 490068 |chapter-url = https://archive.org/stream/mediterraneansea00karl#page/98/mode/2up |chapter = Tangier }}
  • {{Cite book |publisher = Routledge |isbn = 978-1884964039 |title = International Dictionary of Historic Places: Middle East and Africa |date = 1996 |editor=Noelle Watson |location=UK |chapter= Tangier |pages=665+ |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R44VRnNCzAYC

|ref= {{harvid|Watson|1996}}

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;Published in 21st century

  • {{Citation |publisher = Rough Guides |location = London |title = Rough Guide to Morocco |author = Mark Ellingham |date = 2001 |edition=6th |ol=24218635M |chapter=Tangier |page=79+

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  • {{cite book |editor=Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates |title=Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience |year=2005 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-517055-9 |edition=2nd |chapter=Tangier |page=[https://archive.org/details/africanaencyclop0004unse/page/120 120] |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TMZMAgAAQBAJ |author=Marian Aguiar |ref={{harvid|Aguiar|2005}} |url=https://archive.org/details/africanaencyclop0004unse/page/120 }}
  • {{cite book|title=Encyclopedia of African History |publisher=Fitzroy Dearborn |isbn=978-1-57958-245-6 |editor= Kevin Shillington |year= 2005

|chapter= Tangier

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  • {{Cite book |publisher = ABC-CLIO |location = Santa Barbara, US |editor = Michael R.T. Dumper |editor2=Bruce E. Stanley |title = Cities of the Middle East and North Africa |year = 2008 |chapter= Tangier

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  • {{cite journal |author= Zoubir Chattou |title=Tanger à la croisée de nouvelles recompositions territoriales et de mobilités transnationales |trans-title=Tangier, transnational mobilities and territorial restructuring |journal= {{illm|Méditerranée (journal)|fr|Méditerranée (revue)|lt=Méditerranée}} |volume= 116 |issue=116 |pages=133–138 |doi= 10.4000/mediterranee.5447 |language=fr |via= Revues.org |year= 2011

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  • Martin Malcolm Elbl. Portuguese Tangier (1471-1662): Colonial Urban Fabric as Cross-Cultural Skeleton (Baywolf Press: Toronto and Peterborough, 2013) {{ISBN|978-0-921437-50-5}}.
  • {{cite book|author=Josh Shoemake|title=Tangier: A Literary Guide for Travellers |year=2013|publisher=I.B.Tauris|isbn=978-0-85773-376-4 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=XadwAwAAQBAJ

|ref= {{harvid|Shoemake|2013}}

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