Timeline of Port Said

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

Prior to 20th century

• 1859
  • Port Said founded.^[1]
  • Population: 150.^[2]
• 1861 - Population: 4,000.^[2]
• 1863 - Sweet Water Canal built.
• 1869
  • Lighthouse of Port Said begins operating.
  • November: Suez Canal opens.
• 1870 - Coal heaving porters guild established.^[3]
• 1870s - Anti-European unrest.^[4]
• 1881 - Abbas Mosque commissioned (built later).^[5]
• 1883 - Population: 17,000.^[6]
• 1895 - Headquarter of the Suez Canal Authority in Port Said built.^[7]
• 1899 - De Lesseps statue unveiled on Jetee Ouest (pier).^[6]

20th century

• 1904 - Cairo-Port Said railway begins operating.
• 1917 - Russian battleship Peresvet sinks offshore.
• 1920 - Al-Masry Sporting Club formed.
• 1926
  • Port Fouad founded on opposite side of Suez Canal.
  • Catholic Diocese of the Canal of Suez established.^[8]
• 1947 - Population: 177,703.^[9]
• 1955 - Port Said Stadium opens.
• 1956
  • 5 November: British and French forces arrive during Suez Crisis.^[10]
  • 23 December: British and French troops depart.^[10]
  • December: Moorhouse Affair.
• 1960 - Population: 244,000.^[9]
• 1967 - After Israeli forces occupy Sinai Peninsula, some residents begin to flee city.^[11]
• 1976
  • Suez Canal University established.
  • Port Said declared a duty-free port.
• 1995 - Museum of Modern Art opens.
• 1998 - History Gardens laid out.^[12]
• 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.^[1]
• 2010
  • Port Said University established.
  • Population: 603,787.
• 2012 - 1 February: Port Said Stadium riot.^[13]
• 2013
  • 26 January: Unrest begins after verdict of stadium riot.^[1]
  • 27 January: Anti-Morsi protest.^[1]
  • 17–19 February: Labor strike, protest.^[1]
  • March: Unrest.^[1]

See also

• History of Port Said
• Timeline of Alexandria
• Timeline of Cairo

References

1. Historical Dictionary of Egypt. Scarecrow Press. 2013. ISBN 978-0-8108-8025-2.
2. Jean-Paul Calon (1997). "Suez Canal revisited: 19th century global infrastructure". Macro-Engineering: MIT Brunel Lectures on Global Infrastructure. Woodhead. ISBN 978-1-78242-057-6.
3. John Chalcraft (2001). "Coal Heavers of Port Sa'id: State-Making and Worker Protest, 1869-1914". International Labor and Working-Class History (60). JSTOR 27672741.
4. Juan R. I. Cole (1989). "Of Crowds and Empires: Afro-Asian Riots and European Expansion, 1857-1882". Comparative Studies in Society and History. 31. JSTOR 178796.
5. Fassil Demissie, ed. (2012). Colonial Architecture and Urbanism in Africa: Intertwined and Contested Histories. Ashgate. ISBN 978-0-7546-7512-9.
6. "Port Said", Egypt and the Sudan (7th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1914
7. Edmond coignet
8. "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Egypt". www.katolsk.no. Norway: Oslo katolske bispedømme (Oslo Catholic Diocese). Retrieved 30 January 2015.
9. Janet L. Abu-Lughod (1965). "Urbanization in Egypt: Present State and Future Prospects". Economic Development and Cultural Change. 13. JSTOR 1152248.
10. "Timeline: The Suez Crisis". BBC News. 18 July 2006.
11. Mohamed Abdel Shakur; et al. (2005). "War and forced migration in Egypt: the experience of evacuation from the Suez Canal cities (1967-1976)". Arab Studies Quarterly. 27. JSTOR 41858507.
12. Egypt: Port Said, ArchNet, archived from the original on 29 October 2013
13. Encyclopaedia Britannica Book of the Year. 2013. ISBN 978-1-62513-103-4.

This article incorporates information from the Spanish Wikipedia.

External links

• Digital Public Library of America. Items related to Port Said, various dates