Timeline of Port Said

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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Prehistoric Egyptpre–3150 BC
Ancient Egypt
Early Dynastic Period3150–2686 BC
Old Kingdom2686–2181 BC
1st Intermediate Period2181–2055 BC
Middle Kingdom2055–1650 BC
2nd Intermediate Period1650–1550 BC
New Kingdom1550–1069 BC
3rd Intermediate Period1069–664 BC
Late Period664–332 BC
Greco-Roman Egypt
Argead and Ptolemaic dynasties332–30 BC
Roman and Byzantine Egypt30 BC–641 AD
Sasanian Egypt619–629
Medieval Egypt
Rashidun Egypt641–661
Umayyad Egypt661–750
Abbasid Egypt750–935
Tulunid dynasty868–905
Ikhshidid dynasty935–969
Fatimid dynasty969–1171
Ayyubid dynasty1171–1250
Mamluk dynasties1250–1517
Early modern Egypt
Ottoman Egypt1517–1867
French occupation1798–1801
Muhammad Ali dynasty1805–1953
Khedivate of Egypt1867–1914
Late Modern Egypt
British occupation1882–1922
Sultanate of Egypt1914–1922
Kingdom of Egypt1922–1953
Republic1953–present
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  • 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
  • 1960 - Population: 244,000.[11]
  • 1967 - After Israeli forces occupy Sinai Peninsula, some residents begin to flee city.[12]
  • 1974 - Population: 342,000.[13]
  • 1976
  • 1992 - Population: 460,000 (estimate).[14]
  • 1995 - Museum of Modern Art opens.
  • 1998 - History Gardens laid out.[15]
  • 1999 - Port Said Hall (arena) opens.

21st century
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See also

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. p. 11. 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): 110–124. 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 (1): 106–133. doi:10.1017/S0010417500015681. 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. "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1955. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations.
  10. "Timeline: The Suez Crisis". BBC News. 18 July 2006.
  11. Janet L. Abu-Lughod (1965). "Urbanization in Egypt: Present State and Future Prospects". Economic Development and Cultural Change. 13 (3): 313–343. doi:10.1086/450113. JSTOR 1152248.
  12. 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 (3): 21–39. JSTOR 41858507.
  13. United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1976). "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1975. New York. pp. 253–279.
  14. United Nations Department for Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis, Statistics Division (1997). "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". 1995 Demographic Yearbook. New York. pp. 262–321.
  15. Egypt: Port Said, ArchNet, archived from the original on 29 October 2013
  16. Encyclopædia Britannica Book of the Year. 2013. ISBN 978-1-62513-103-4.
  17. "Table 8 - Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants", Demographic Yearbook – 2018, United Nations

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