Timeline of Sana'a

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Sana'a, Yemen.

Prior to 20th century

• 530 CE - Abraha in power, with Sana'a as his capital (approximate date).^[1]
• 570 - Siege of Sana'a (570); Sassanids in power.
• 715 - Great Mosque of Sana'a building expanded.
• 869 - Hiwali Yufirids in power (approximate date).^[2]
• 901 - Town occupied by forces of Zaidi Yahya bin al-Husain.^[2]
• 905 - Karmatian Ali bin al-Fadl in power.^[2]
• 915 - Yufirid As'ad bin Ibrahim in power.^[2]
• 956 - Town taken by Zaidi Mukhtar.^[2]
• 1062 - Ali al-Sulayhi in power.^[2]
• 1067 - Sulayhid capital relocated from Sana'a to Jibla by Arwa al-Sulayhi (approximate date).
• 1221 - Rasulid Badr al-Din Hasan in power.^[3]
• 1259 - Earthquake.^[2]
• 1538 - Ottomans in power.^[4]
• 1602 - Ottomans ousted.^[4]
• 1872 - Ottomans in power;^[5] Sana'a becomes capital of the Yemen Vilayet.
• 1891
  • Uprising against Turkish rule.
  • Population: 50,000 (estimate).^[1]

20th century

• 1902 - Dar as-Sanay built.^[6]
• 1905 - Uprising against Turkish rule.^[7]
• 1911 - Political unrest.
• 1918 - Turkish rule ends.^[8]
• 1921 - Population: 25,000 (approximate estimate).^[9]
• 1948
  • 17 February: Imam Yahya assassinated.^[10]
  • Alwaziri coup.
• 1952 - Al-Ahli Club Sana'a (football club) formed.
• 1954 - Al-Wehda Club (football club) formed.
• 1962
  • September: Military coup;^[10]
  • City becomes capital of the Yemen Arab Republic.
  • Al-Thawra newspaper begins publication.^[11]
• 1967 - November: Siege of Sana'a (1967) begins.^[5]
• 1970 - Sana'a University established.
• 1971 - National Museum of Yemen established in Dar al-Shukr.
• 1974 - June: Military coup; Ibrahim al-Hamdi in power.^[12]
• 1975
  • Installation of water supply system begins.^[13]
  • Population: 134,600.
• 1981 - 280,000.
• 1982 - French Center for Archaeology and Social Sciences established.
• 1983 - Sana'a University Museum built.^[6]
• 1984 - Military Museum^[6] and General Organisation for the Preservation of Old Sana'a^[14] established.
• 1986
  • Ali Mohsen Al-Muraisi Stadium and Althawra Sports City Stadium open.
  • Old City designated an UNESCO World Heritage Site.^[15]
  • Population: 427,505.
• 1987 - Sultan Palace Hotel in business.
• 1988 - Women's Technical School built.^[16]
• 1990
  • City becomes capital of the Republic of Yemen.^[17]
  • Central Bank of Yemen headquartered in city.
• 1991 - Yemen Times newspaper begins publication.
• 1994 - Population: 973,548.^[18]
• 1995 - San'a Institute for the Arabic Language established.
• 1996 - Yemen Observer newspaper begins publication.^[19]

21st century

2000s

• 2004 - House of Folklore museum established.
• 2008
  • Saleh Mosque built.
  • 17 September: 2008 attack on the American Embassy in Yemen.^[20]
  • November: Political demonstration.^[20]
  • Al-Oruba football club formed.
• 2009 - Population: 1,976,286.^[21]

2010s

• 2011
  • 23 May-7 June: Battle of Sana'a (2011) (first phase).
  • 18 September-25 November: Battle of Sana'a (2011) (second phase).
  • 2011 Yemeni protests.^[20]
• 2012 - 21 May: 2012 Sana'a bombing.^[20]
• 2014
  • 16–21 September: Battle of Sana'a (2014).
  • 21 September: 2014–15 Yemeni coup d'état begins.
  • 9 October: Bombing in Tahrir Square.
• 2015
  • January 2015 Sana'a bombing
  • 20 January: Houthis take Presidential Palace.
  • 20 March: 2015 Sana'a mosque bombings.
  • April: Airstrike.^[22]
• 2016 - Yemen Supreme Political Council headquartered in city.^[23]

See also

• Sana'a history
• Timeline of Yemeni history
• Timeline of Aden

References

1. "Sana", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424
2. R. Strothmann (1936). "Sana". Encyclopædia of Islam. Leiden: E.J. Brill. p. 143+.
3. Noelle Watson, ed. (1996). "San'a". International Dictionary of Historic Places: Middle East and Africa. UK: Routledge. pp. 629+. ISBN 1884964036.
4. Michael R.T. Dumper; Bruce E. Stanley, eds. (2008), "Sanaa", Cities of the Middle East and North Africa, Santa Barbara, USA: ABC-CLIO, p. 329+
5. Paul Dresch (2000). "Brief Chronology". History of Modern Yemen. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-79482-4.
6. "Museums: Yemen". Arabia Antica. University of Pisa. Retrieved 30 April 2015.
7. Benjamin Vincent (1910), "Turkey", Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.), London: Ward, Lock & Co.
8. Leon E. Seltzer, ed. (1952), "Sana", Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, New York: Columbia University Press, p. 1659, OL 6112221M
9. "Arabia: Imamate of Yemen". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921.
10. "Yemen Time Line", Atlas of the Middle East, Washington DC: US Central Intelligence Agency, 1993 – via University of Texas, Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
11. William A. Rugh (2004). Arab Mass Media: Newspapers, Radio, and Television in Arab Politics. USA: Praeger. ISBN 978-0-275-98212-6.
12. Ruth Lapidoth-Eschelbacher (1982). "Arab Yemen Republic (North Yemen)". The Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. International Straits of the World. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. ISBN 90-247-2501-1.
13. Michele Lamprakos (2005). "Rethinking Cultural Heritage: Lessons from Sana'a, Yemen". Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review. International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments. 16. JSTOR 41747744 – via University of California, Berkeley.
14. Aga Khan Development Network (1995). "Conservation of Old Sana'a". Aga Khan Award for Architecture. Retrieved 30 April 2015.
15. "Old City of Sana'a". World Heritage Centre. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. Retrieved 30 April 2015.
16. Yemen: Sana'a, ArchNet, archived from the original on November 2013
17. C. Edmund Bosworth, ed. (2007). "Sanaa". Historic Cities of the Islamic World. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill.
18. "Population of Yemen, 1994 census". Al-Bab.com. Retrieved 30 April 2015.
19. "Yemen: Directory". Europa World Year Book. Europa Publications. 2004. ISBN 978-1-85743-255-8.
20. BBC News. "Yemen Profile: Timeline". Retrieved 30 April 2015.
21. "Population of Capital Cities and Cities of 100,000 or More Inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2013. United Nations Statistics Division.
22. Air strike on missile base in Yemen capital kills 25, wounds hundreds, Reuters, 20 April 2015
23. "Plight of Houthi Rebels Is Clear in Visit to Yemen's Capital", New York Times, November 26, 2016

This article incorporates information from the Arabic Wikipedia.

Further reading

Published in the 18th-19th century

• Carsten Niebuhr (1792). "Of the City of Sana". Travels through Arabia. Translated by Robert Heron. Edinburgh: R. Morison and Son – via Hathi Trust.
• R.L. Playfair (1859). "Sanaa". History of Arabia Felix or Yemen. Bombay.
• Edward Balfour (1885), "Sana", Cyclopaedia of India (3rd ed.), London: B. Quaritch

Published in the 20th century

• British Admiralty (1916). "Yemen: Districts and Towns: San'a". Handbook of Arabia. 1. London: British War Office.
• R.B. Serjeant and R. Lewcock, eds., San'a: An Arabian-Islamic City (London: World of Islam Festival Trust, 1983).
• R. Lewcock, The Old Walled City of San'a (Paris: UNESCO, 1986)
• "Modernization of an Islamic City: the Case of Sanaa". Middle East City: Ancient Traditions Confront a Modern World. New York: Paragon. 1987.
• H. Kopp & E. Wirth (1994), Sana'a: Développement et Organisation de l'Espace d'une Ville Arabe, Cahiers de l'Institut de Recherches et d'Etudes sur le Monde Arabe et Musulman (in French), CNRS-Universites d'Aix Marseilles
• G. Grandguillaume; et al., eds. (1995), Sanaa hors les Murs: Une Ville Arabe Contemporaine, Collection Villes du Monde Arabe (in French), Tours: URBAMA
• Paul Bonnenfant, ed. (1995), Sanaa: Architecture Domestique et Société (in French), Paris: CNRS Editions

Published in the 21st century

• Inventory of the historic city of Sana'a: a tool for urban conservation, UNESCO, 2008
• Franck Mermier (2012). "Suqs of Sanaa: changing functions and symbolic centrality". In Mohammad Gharipour. The Bazaar in the Islamic City: Design, Culture, and History. American University in Cairo Press. ISBN 978-1-61797-346-8.

External links

• Map of San'a, 1946
• Pier Paolo Pasolini (Director) (1971). Le mura di Sana'a [Walls of Sana'a] (in Italian).
• "Geographical Index: Sanaa". Arabian Humanities (in French). Sana'a. ISSN 2308-6122.
• Europeana. Items related to Sana'a, various dates.
• Safa Al Ahmad (7 April 2015). "The Fight for Yemen". Frontline. USA: Public Broadcasting Service. (Television documentary filmed in Sana'a in 2015, and also in Saada, Jaʿār, Rada'a, Aden)