Timeline of Benghazi

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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Benghazi, Libya.[nb 1]

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Prior to 20th century[]

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Ancient history 3200–146 BC
Roman era 146 BC – 640 AD
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Spanish Tripoli 1510–1530
Hospitaller Tripoli 1530–1551
Ottoman Tripolitania 1551–1911
Italian colonization 1911–1934
Italian Libya 1934–1943
Allied occupation 1943–1951
Kingdom of Libya 1951–1969
Libya under Muammar Gaddafi 1969–2011
First Civil War 2011
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  • 7th century BCE - Euesperides founded by Cyrenians near site of present-day Benghazi.[1]
  • 1517 CE - Cyrenaica becomes part of Ottoman Tripolitania.[chronology citation needed]
  • 1577 - Atiq Mosque built.[chronology citation needed]
  • 1816/1817 -  [ar] occurs at the  [ar].[citation needed]
  • 1820 - Alhadadp Mosque founded.(ar)[citation needed]
  • 1827 - British consulate established.
  • 1858 - Plague outbreak.[2]
  • 1869 - Administrative Benghazi mutessariflik (province) created.[1]
  • 1874 - Plague outbreak.[2]
  • 1895
    •  [ar] built in Al-Berka.[citation needed]
    • Italian "Società d'Esplorazione Commerciale in Africa" active in Benghazi.[2]

20th century[]

See also:

1900s-1940s[]

  • 1906 -  [ar] burns down.[citation needed]
  • 1911
  • 1913 - Albergo Italia (hotel) built.[citation needed]
  • 1914 -  [it] begins operating.
  • 1916 -  [it] built.[4]
  • 1922 - Benghazi Lighthouse built.[citation needed]
  • 1924 - City Hall built.
  • 1926 -  [it] begins operating.
  • 1927
  • 1928 -  [ar] opens.[citation needed]
  • 1931 - September: Trial of Omar Mukhtar, leading to his execution on 16 September in nearby Suluq.
  • 1934
  • 1936 -  [ar] built.[7]
  • 1937 - March: Mussolini visits Benghazi.
  • 1939 - Benghazi Cathedral built.
  • 1942
    • November: British forces take city during the Battle of El Agheila in World War II.[8]
    • Italian rule ends.
    • Omar al-Mukhtar Society formed.[9][chronology citation needed]
  • 1945 - Population: 60,000 (approximate).[10]
  • 1947 - Ahly Benghazi football club active.

1950s-1990s[]

21st century[]

See also: Timeline of the Libyan Civil War (2014–present)
  • 2005 - Population: 685,367 (estimate).[8]
  • 2006 - 15 February: Protest against Muhammad cartoons.[15]
  • 2007 - Quryna newspaper begins publication.
  • 2008 -  [de] construction begins.
  • 2009 - Martyrs of February Stadium opens in nearby Benina.
  • 2011
    • 15 February: Arab Spring-related protest; Libyan Civil War (2011) begins.[15]
    • Al Kalima newspaper begins publication.
  • 2012
    • 19 May: Local election held.
    • June: "Pro-autonomy mob ransacks the election commission building."[15]
    • September: United States consulate attacked.[15]
  • 2014
  • 2017
    • 18 April: Abdelrahman Alabbar becomes mayor.[20]
    • 15 July: Benina Airport reopens.
    • 27 July: Battle of Benghazi officially concludes.

See also[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ The city of Benghazi is also called: Banghāzī, Bengasi, Bengazi, Benghasi, Berenice, Bernîk, Bingazi, Binghāzī, Euesperides, and Hesperides

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Baedeker 1911.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c Britannica 1910.
  3. ^ "Italy: Tripoli and Cyrenaica". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921 – via HathiTrust.
  4. ^ "Stazione Ferroviaria di Bengasi", Rivista Mensile (in Italian), Touring Club Italiano, 1916, archived from the original on 2015-01-08
  5. ^ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Libya". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
  6. ^ Marthelot 1964.
  7. ^ Brian McLaren (2006). Architecture and Tourism in Italian Colonial Libya: An Ambivalent Modernism. University of Washington Press. ISBN 978-0-295-98542-8.
  8. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Benghazi". Britannica.com. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
  9. ^ Mattawa 2007.
  10. ^ Jump up to: a b c Saad Khalil Kezeiri (1986). "Growth and change in Libya's settlements system". Ekistics. Athens. 53 (316/317): 34–41. JSTOR 43620696.
  11. ^ Vickers 1994.
  12. ^ Bulugma 1964.
  13. ^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1965. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations. 1966. pp. 140–161.
  14. ^ Jump up to: a b "Libya". Political Chronology of Africa. Political Chronologies of the World. Europa Publications. 2001. ISBN 0203409957.
  15. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e "Libya Profile: Timeline". BBC News. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
  16. ^ Jump up to: a b "Libya: Benghazi". Emporis.com. Hamburg: Emporis GmbH. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
  17. ^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants" (PDF). Demographic Yearbook 2010. United Nations Statistics Division. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-07-10.
  18. ^ "Libya's thirst for 'fossil water'", BBC News, 18 March 2006
  19. ^ "Libya: A donkey taunt, the Gaddafis and a fatal footballing rivalry", The Guardian, UK, 25 May 2011
  20. ^ "مراسم التسليم والاستلام المستشار عبدالرحمن العبار عميدآ لبلدية بنغازي" [Ceremony for Abdelrahman Alabbar, Mayor of Benghazi Municipality]. Benghazimun.ly (in Arabic). 18 April 2017. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
This article incorporates information from the Arabic Wikipedia, German Wikipedia, and Italian Wikipedia.

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  • Berenice Theatre, Benghazi, opened in 1928; designed by Marcello Piacentini

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