Timeline of Jeddah

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

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Prior to 20th century

• 500 BCE - Quda'a settle.
• 703 CE - Axum pirate occupation
• 969 CE - Fatimids in power.
• 1177 - Jeddah becomes part of the Ayyubid Empire.
• 1254 - City becomes part of the Mamluk Sultanate.
• 1517 - City besieged by Ottomans.
• 1525 - Barracks built; city walls rebuilt with six watchtowers and six city gates.
• 1541 - City besieged by Portuguese.^[1]
• 1804 - Town besieged by Wahabis.^[2]
• 1811 - Ottomans in power.^[1]
• 1813 - Battle of Jeddah (1813).
• 1814 - Population: 15,000 (approximate).^[1]
• 1820 - European cemetery established (approximate date).^[1]
• 1858 - 15 June: "Massacre."^[1]
• 1881 - Nasseef House built.^[3]

20th century

• 1910 - Population: 20,000 (approximate).^[4]
• 1916 - Sharifians in power.^[1]
• 1924 - Capital of Kingdom of Hejaz relocates to Jeddah from Mecca.^[1]
• 1925 - Battle of Jeddah (1925), House of Saud in power.
• 1927 - Ittihad Football Club formed.
• 1932 - Khozam Palace built.
• 1937
  • Al Madina (newspaper) begins publication.
  • Al-Ahli Saudi Sports Club formed.
• 1938 - Al-Ahli Jeddah (basketball) club formed.
• 1946 - Jeddah Chamber of Commerce & Industry established.
• 1947 - City wall dismantled.^[5]
• 1953 - National Commercial Bank headquartered in Jeddah.
• 1960 - Okaz newspaper begins publication.^[6]
• 1961 - Population: 150,000.^[5]
• 1967 - King Abdulaziz University established.^[7]
• 1970 - Prince Abdullah al-Faisal Stadium opens.
• 1971 - Organization of the Islamic Conference headquartered in city.^[8]
• 1972 - International Islamic News Agency headquartered in Jeddah.
• 1975
  • Islamic Development Bank headquartered in Jeddah.^[9]
  • Hajj Research Centre founded at King Abdul Aziz University.
  • Arab News begins publication.^[10]
• 1976 - Saudi Gazette begins publication.
• 1977 - British International School established.
• 1981 - King Abdulaziz International Airport begins operating.
• 1983 - Corniche Road constructed.^[5]
• 1984 - Dallah Al-Baraka in business.
• 1985 - King Fahd's Fountain begins operating.
• 1987
  • Jufali Mosque, King Saud Mosque,^[11] and Al-Mahmal Center built.^[3]
  • King Abdul Aziz Public Library^[12] and Prince Sultan bin Fahd Stadium open.
  • Population: 1,312,000.^[5]
• 1988 - Azizeyah Mosque,^[3] Binladen Mosque, and Suleiman Mosque built.^[11]
• 1990
  • Jeddah Light (lighthouse) constructed.
  • Jeddah Historical Preservation Society organized.^[13]
• 1993 - Arab Radio and Television Network established.
• 1998
  • Iqraa TV headquartered in Jeddah.
  • Al-Ittihad Jeddah (basketball) club formed.
• 1999
  • Jeddah Economic Forum begins.
  • Saudi Geological Survey headquartered in Jeddah.

21st century

• 2003 - Jeddah United women's basketball team formed.^[14]

• 2005
  • Adel Fakeih becomes mayor.
  • Population: 2,800,000 (estimate).^[1]
  • Serafi Mega Mall in business.
• 2006
  • Jeddah Film Festival begins.^[15]
  • Jeddah TV Tower built.
• 2008 - Mall of Arabia and Red Sea Mall in business.
• 2009 - 25 November: Flood.^[16]
• 2010 - Hani Mohammad Aburas becomes mayor.^[17]
• 2011
  • 26 January: Flood.^[18]
  • King Road Tower built.
  • Women to drive demonstrations.^[19]
• 2012 - Population: 5,112,018.

See also

• List of universities and colleges in Jeddah

Other cities in Saudi Arabia

• Timeline of Mecca
• Timeline of Medina
• Timeline of Riyadh

References

1. Clifford Edmund Bosworth, ed. (2007). "Jeddah". Historic Cities of the Islamic World. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill.
2. William Milburn (1813), "Judda", Oriental Commerce, London: Black, Parry & Co., OCLC 6856418
3. Saudi Arabia: Jeddah, ArchNet, archived from the original on March 2012
4. "Jidda", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424
5. Abdal-Majeed Ismail Daghistani (1993), A Case Study in Planning Implementation: Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Global Urban Research Unit
6. "Spreading the Word: Who's Who in the Arab Media", New York Times, 6 February 2005
7. Ayman Shabana (2010), "Saudi Arabia: Libraries, Archives and Museums", in Marcia J. Bates, Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press, ISBN 9780849397127
8. Richard Green (2004). "Major Non-UN Organizations". Chronology of International Organizations. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-35590-6.
9. M. Kabir Hassan and Mervyn Lewis, ed. (2007). Handbook of Islamic Banking. Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84720-541-4.
10. "Organizations". International Relations and Security Network. Switzerland: Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich. Retrieved April 2015.
11. Andrea L. Stanton, ed. (2012). Middle East. Cultural Sociology of the Middle East, Africa, and Asia: an Encyclopedia. Sage. ISBN 9781412981767.
12. "About the Library". King Abdulaziz Public Library. Retrieved 30 January 2013.
13. Nancy Um (2012). "Reflections on the Red Sea Style: Beyond the Surface of Coastal Architecture". Northeast African Studies 12.
14. "Saudi Women And the Right To Play Sports". New York Times. 20 November 2010. Retrieved 30 January 2013.
15. Ali Jaafar (20 July 2009). "Saudi Arabia nixes Jeddah festival". Variety. Los Angeles. Retrieved 30 January 2013.
16. Karen Elliott House (2013). On Saudi Arabia. Vintage Books. ISBN 978-0-307-47328-8.
17. "Jeddah Municipality". Retrieved 30 January 2013.
18. "Floods inundate Saudi city". Al Jazeera.com. 27 January 2011.
19. "Saudi Women Defy Driving Ban". New York Times. 17 June 2011.

Further reading

Published in the 18th-19th century

• Carsten Niebuhr (1792). "Of the City of Jidda and its Vicinity". Travels through Arabia. Translated by Robert Heron. Edinburgh: R. Morison and Son – via Hathi Trust.
• Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (1829). "(Djidda)". Travels in Arabia. London: H. Colburn.
• James Horsburgh (1852). "Red Sea, East Side: Jiddah". India Directory: Or, Directions for Sailing to and from the East Indies, China, Australia, and the Interjacent Ports of Africa and South America (6th ed.). London: William H. Allen & Co. – via Google Books.
• Richard Burton (1857), "To Jeddah", Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to el Medinah and Meccah (2nd ed.), London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, OCLC 5778233
• Heinrich Freiherrn von Maltzan (1865), "Dschedda", Meine Wallfahrt nach Mekka (in German), Leipzig: Dyk'sche Buchhandlung, OCLC 72240504

Published in the 20th century

• A. Pesce. Jiddah: Portrait of an Arabian City. London, 1974.
• Madge Pendleton (1984), "Jeddah", Green Book Guide for Living in Saudi Arabia (4th ed.), Washington DC: Middle East Editorial Associates, OL 8342230M
• Tawfiq M. Abu-Ghazzeh (1994). "Built Form and Religion: Underlying Structures of Jeddah Al-Qademah". Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review (International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments) 5 – via University of California, Berkeley.
• "Jeddah", Arab Gulf States, Lonely Planet, 1993, OL 8314448M

Published in the 21st century

• Gabor Agoston; Bruce Alan Masters (2009). "Jeddah". Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire. Facts on File. ISBN 978-1-4381-1025-7.

External links

• "Jeddah History". Jeddah Municipality.
• Paul Salopek (May 2013). "Walking Jeddah". Out of Eden Walk. USA: Knight Foundation.