Timeline of Kano

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Kano, Nigeria.

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Prior to 20th century

• 999 CE - Bagauda in power.^[1]
• 1095 - City wall construction begins.^[2]
• 1349 - Yaji I in power.
• 1430 - Kano becomes capital of the Sultanate of Kano.
• 1463 - Muhammad Rumfa in power.^[1]
• 1480 - Gidan Rumfa (palace) built (approximate date).^[3]
• 1807 - Sokoto jihad active; Kano becomes capital of the Kano Emirate.^[4]
• 1819 - Ibrahim Dabo in power.^[4]
• 1890s - Kano Chronicle compiled.^[1]
• 1893 - Tukur-Yusufu succession conflict.^[4]

20th century

Kano city, Nigeria, circa 1910s

• 1903 - February: British in power.^[4]
• 1905 - Kano becomes capital of British colonial Northern Nigeria Protectorate.^[1]
• 1909 - Nassarawa School established.^[5]
• 1911 - Lagos-Kano railway begins operating.
• 1930 - Kano Girls' School established.^[5]
• 1931 - Daily Comet newspaper begins publication.^[6]
• 1932 - Water and Electric Light Works inaugurated.^[7]
• 1936 - Airport begins operating.^[8]
• 1937 - Rex cinema opens.^[7]
• 1951 - Masalla cin Jumma'an (mosque) built.^[9]
• 1952 - Palace cinema opens.^[10]
• 1953 - 1 May: Kano riot of 1953.^[11]
• 1967 - City becomes capital of the newly established Kano State.
• 1970 - Murtala Muhammad Mosque built in Fagge.^[12]
• 1977 - Bayero University Kano established.
• 1980
  • Yan Tatsine religious unrest.^[13]
  • Triumph newspaper begins publication.
  • Hausawa mosque built.^[12]
• 1982 - No Man's Land mosque and Yar Akwa mosque built.^[12]
• 1985 - Population: 1,861,000 (urban agglomeration).^[14]
• 1986 - Hotoro mosque built.^[12]
• 1987 - Goron Dutse mosque built.^[12]
• 1988 - Goron Dutse Islamiyya secondary school opens.
• 1990
  • Kano Pillars Football Club formed.
  • Population: 2,095,000 (urban agglomeration).^[14]
• 1995 - Population: 2,339,000 (urban agglomeration).^[14]
• 1998 - Sani Abacha Stadium opens.

21st century

• 2000 - Population: 2,602,000 (urban agglomeration).^[14]
• 2006 - Population: 2,163,225 city; 2,828,861 metro.
• 2010
  • August: Flood.^[15]
  • Population: 3,271,000 (urban agglomeration).^[14]
• 2012 - 20 January: Boko Haram attack.^[16][17]
• 2013
  • Northwest University Kano opens.
  • Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport remodelled.^[8]
• 2014 - 18 May: Boko Haram attack.^[18]

See also

• History of Kano
• List of Governors of Kano State

other cities in Nigeria

• Timeline of Ibadan
• Timeline of Lagos

References

1. Noelle Watson, ed. (1996). "Kano". International Dictionary of Historic Places: Middle East and Africa. UK: Routledge. pp. 396+. ISBN 1884964036.
2. Robert F. Stock (2012). "Kano". Africa South of the Sahara: A Geographical Interpretation (3rd ed.). Guilford Press. ISBN 978-1-4625-0811-2.
3. "ArchNet". Aga Khan Trust for Culture and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries.
4. C. Edmund Bosworth, ed. (2007). "Kano". Historic Cities of the Islamic World. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill. p. 272+.
5. Alaine S. Hutson (1999). "Development of Women's Authority in the Kano Tijaniyya, 1894-1963". Africa Today 46. JSTOR 4187284.
6. "Kano (Nigeria) -- Newspapers". Global Resources Network. Chicago, USA: Center for Research Libraries. Retrieved September 2014.
7. Brian Larkin (2008). Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria. Duke University Press. ISBN 0-8223-8931-2.
8. "Remodelled Kano Airport Offers Hope", This Day (Lagos), March 17, 2013 – via LexisNexis Academic, (subscription required (help))
9. "Kano". Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art & Architecture. Oxford University Press. 2009. ISBN 978-0-19-530991-1.
10. Brian Larkin (2002). "Materiality of Cinema Theaters in Northern Nigeria". Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain. University of California Press. p. 319+. ISBN 978-0-520-22448-3.
11. Toyin Falola; Ann Genova (2009). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of Nigeria. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6316-3.
12. Roman Loimeier (2011). "Chapter 2". Islamic Reform and Political Change in Northern Nigeria. Northwestern University Press. ISBN 978-0-8101-2810-1.
13. Paul M. Lubeck (1985). "Islamic Protest Under Semi-Industrial Capitalism: Yan Tatsine Explained". In John David Yeadon Peel and Charles Cameron Stewart. Popular Islam South of the Sahara. Manchester University Press. p. 369+. ISBN 978-0-7190-1975-3.
14. "The State of African Cities 2014". United Nations Human Settlements Programme. ISBN 978-92-1-132598-0. Retrieved September 2014.
15. "Torrential Rain Leaves Kano Prostrate", Vanguard (Lagos), August 27, 2010 – via LexisNexis Academic, (subscription required (help))
16. "Nigeria: Timeline". BBC News. Retrieved September 2014.
17. Encyclopaedia Britannica Book of the Year. 2013. ISBN 978-1-62513-103-4.
18. "Nigeria's Boko Haram crisis". BBC News. 19 May 2014.

Further reading

Published in the 19th-20th century

• Josiah Conder (1830), "Kano", The Modern Traveller, London: J.Duncan
• H. R. Palmer, ed. (1908), "The Kano Chronicle", Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 38 – via Internet Archive; via Google Books
• B. A. Trevallion (1963). Metropolitan Kano. Pergamon Press.
• Paul M. Lubeck (2013) [1977]. "Contrasts and Continuity in a Dependent City: Kano, Nigeria". In J. Abu-Lughod and R. Hay. Third World Urbanization. Routledge. p. 281+. ISBN 978-1-135-68640-6.
• Economic Crisis, Structural Adjustment and the Coping Strategies of Manufacturers in Kano, Nigeria, Geneva: United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, 1996 – via International Relations and Security Network
• John Paxton, ed. (1999). "Kano, Nigeria". Penguin Encyclopedia of Places (3rd ed.). ISBN 9780140512755.

Published in the 21st century

• Rasheed Olaniyi (2004). "Yoruba Commercial Diaspora and Settlement Patterns in Pre-Colonial Kano". In Toyin Falola; et al. Nigerian Cities. Africa World Press. ISBN 978-1-59221-169-2.
• Kevin Shillington, ed. (2004), "Kano", Encyclopedia of African History, London: Routledge
• Akachi Odoemene (2008). "Contexts of Colonialism ... Two Nigerian Cities". In Bahru Zewde. Society, State, and Identity in African History. African Books Collective. ISBN 978-99944-50-25-1. (about Kano)

External links

• Map of Kano, 1851, by Heinrich Barth
• "(Articles related to Kano)". Connecting-Africa. Leiden, Netherlands: African Studies Centre.