The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Port Said , Egypt .
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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.
[it ] 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.[11]
1967 - After Israeli forces occupy Sinai Peninsula, some residents begin to flee city.[12]
1974 - Population: 342,000.[13]
1976
Suez Canal University established.
Port Said declared a duty-free port.
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 [ ]
See also [ ]
History of Port Said
Timelines of other cities in Egypt: Alexandria , Cairo
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References [ ]
^ a b c d e f Historical Dictionary of Egypt . Scarecrow Press . 2013. ISBN 978-0-8108-8025-2 .
^ a b 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 .
^ 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 .
^ 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 .
^ Fassil Demissie, ed. (2012). Colonial Architecture and Urbanism in Africa: Intertwined and Contested Histories . Ashgate. ISBN 978-0-7546-7512-9 .
^ a b "Port Said" , Egypt and the Sudan (7th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker , 1914
^ Edmond coignet
^ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Egypt" . www.katolsk.no . Norway: Oslo katolske bispedømme (Oslo Catholic Diocese). Retrieved 30 January 2015 .
^ "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants" . Demographic Yearbook 1955 . New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations .
^ a b "Timeline: The Suez Crisis" . BBC News. 18 July 2006.
^ 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 . S2CID 154169691 .
^ 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 .
^ 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.
^ 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.
^ Egypt: Port Said , ArchNet , archived from the original on 29 October 2013
^ Encyclopædia Britannica Book of the Year . 2013. ISBN 978-1-62513-103-4 .
^ "Table 8 - Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants" , Demographic Yearbook – 2018 , United Nations
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