Timeline of Tripoli

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Tripoli, Libya.

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Prior to 19th century

View of Tripoli in Barbary, 1675

• 7th century B.C. - Oea founded by Phoenicians.
• 2nd century B.C. - Romans in power.
• 163 C.E. - Roman Triumphal Arch built (approximate date).^[1]
• 434 -Taken by Vandals
• 533- Successful recovered by Byzantines of Egypt
• 643 - Muslims in power.
• 1140 - Normans in power in Tripolitania.^[1]
• 1510 - 25 July: Spanish in power.^[2]
• 1530 - Maltese Knights in power in Tripolitania.^[1]
• 1551 - August: City besieged by Ottoman forces led by Sinan Pasha, Turgut Reis, and Murad Agha.^[2]
• 1556 - Cathedral mosque built.^[2]
• 1559 - St. Peter fortress built.^[2]
• 1604 - Iskandar Pasha hammam built.^[2]
• 1610 - Jama'a al-Naqa'a (mosque of the camel) restored.^[2]
• 1654 - Uthman Pasha Madrasa built.^[3]
• 1670 - Sidi Salem (building) restored.^[2]
• 1671 - Darghouth Turkish Bath established.
• 1675 - Conflict between Barbary corsairs and British naval forces.^[4]
• 1680 - Mosque of Mahmud Khaznadar built.^[2][3]
• 1699 - Mosque of Muhammad Pasha built.^[3]
• 1711 - Ahmed Karamanli in power.
• 1736 - Ahmad Pasha al-Qarahmanli mosque built.^[3]

19th century

• 1801 - First Barbary War begins.
• 1804 - Second Battle of Tripoli Harbor.
• 1815 - Second Barbary War.
• 1823 - Population: 15,000.^[5]
• 1825 - August: Battle of Tripoli.
• 1834 - Gurgi Mosque built.^[3]
• 1835 - Ottomans in power.^[2]
• 1846 - Santa Maria degli Angeli church built.^[1]
• 1858 - Arab demonstrations.^[2]
• 1859 - Technical school established.^[2]
• 1860 - Bab el-Jedid (gate) opens.^[1]
• 1870 - Torre dell'Orologio built.^[1]
• 1879 - Primary schools open.^[2]
• 1882 - Population: 25,000.^[2]
• 1883 - Royal Italian School opens.^[2]

20th century

• 1911
  • Italians in power.
  • Population: 29,869.^[2]
• 1919 - Archaeological Museum established.
• 1924 - Lungomare Conte Volpi constructed.^[6]
• 1925
  • Tripoli Grand Prix begins.
  • Grand Hotel built.^[6]
• 1927 - Tripoli International Fair begins.^[7]
• 1928 - Tripoli Cathedral, Miramare Theatre,^[8] and Bank of Italy building^[9] constructed.
• 1929 - Governor's Palace built.^[9]
• 1935 - Suq al-Mushir reconstructed.^[8]
• 1937 - March: Mussolini visits city.^[10][11]
• 1938
  • Population: 108,240.
  • Italian military airfield built.
• 1939 - 7 October Stadium built.
• 1943
  • Allied forces in power; British occupation begins.
  • British military airport Castel Benito in operation.
• 1944
  • Al-Ittihad Sport, Cultural and Social Club formed.
  • United States military base built at Wheelus Field.^[12]
• 1950 - Al-Ahly Sports Club formed.
• 1951 - City becomes capital of United Libyan Kingdom.
• 1953 - Almadina Sporting Club formed.
• 1964 - Population: 212,577.^[12]
• 1973 - University of Tripoli established.
• 1978 - Tripoli International Airport renovated.
• 1982
  • June 11 Stadium opens.
  • Grand Hotel Tripoli built.^[3]
• 1986 - 15 April - Aerial bombing by United States forces.
• 1990 - That El Emad Towers built.

21st century

• 2000 - GMR Stadium opens.
• 2011
  • 17–25 February: Tripoli protests and clashes.
  • 20–28 August: Battle of Tripoli.
  • 11 October: Tripoli International Airport re-opens.
  • 14 October: Tripoli clashes.
  • Population: 1,127,000.^[13]
• 2012 - General National Congress begins meeting in Ghabat Al Nasr Convention Centre.

See also

• History of Tripoli
• Pasha of Tripoli
• Tripolitania

References

1. "Tripoli", The Mediterranean, Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1911, OCLC 490068
2. Ludovico Micara (2008). "Ottoman Tripoli: a Mediterranean Medina". The City in the Islamic World. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill.
3. ArchNet.org. "Tripoli". Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA: MIT School of Architecture and Planning. Retrieved 26 January 2013.
4. Henry Teonge (1825), The diary of Henry Teonge, chaplain on board His Majesty's ships Assistance, Bristol, and Royal Oak, anno 1675 to 1679, London: Charles Knight
5. Jedidiah Morse; Richard C. Morse (1823), "Tripoli", A New Universal Gazetteer (4th ed.), New Haven: S. Converse
6. Brian L. McLaren (2006), Architecture And Tourism in Italian Colonial Libya, University of Washington Press, ISBN 9780295985428, 0295985429
7. Brian L. McLaren (2002). "The Tripoli Trade Fair and the Representation of Italy's African Colonies". Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts 24.
8. Krystyna von Henneberg (1994). "Tripoli: Piazza Castello and the Making of a Fascist Colonial Capital". In Zeynep Çelik, Diane Favro, Richard Ingersoll. Streets: Critical Perspectives on Public Space. University of California Press.
9. Mia Fuller (2007), Moderns abroad: architecture, cities, and Italian imperialism, London: Routledge, ISBN 9780415194631, 0415194636
10. Il Duce in Libia (in Italian). 1938.
11. Charles Burdett (2007), Journeys Through Fascism: Italian Travel-Writing between the Wars, Berghahn Books, ISBN 9781571815408, 1571815406
12. Robert S. Harrison (1967). "Migrants in the City of Tripoli, Libya". Geographical Review 57.
13. "The State of African Cities 2014". United Nations Human Settlements Programme. ISBN 978-92-1-132598-0.

This article incorporates information from the Italian Wikipedia.

Further reading

Published in the 19th century

• Ali Bey (1816), "Chapter 22 (Tripoli)", Travels of Ali Bey in Morocco, Tripoli, Cyprus, Egypt, Arabia, Syria, and Turkey, Between the Years 1803 and 1807, Philadelphia: John Conrad, OCLC 754174
• Richard Tully (1819), Letters Written During a Ten Years' Residence at the Court of Tripoli (3rd ed.), London: H. Colburn. v.1
• Josiah Conder (1830), "Tripoli", The Modern Traveller, London: J.Duncan
• R. Lambert Playfair (1889), Bibliography of the Barbary States, Part 1: Tripoli and the Cyrenaica, London, OCLC 12038289
• R. Lambert Playfair (1892), "Tripoli", Handbook to the Mediterranean (3rd ed.), London: John Murray
• Leo Africanus; John Pory (1896), "Tripolis in Barbarie", in Robert Brown, History and Description of Africa 3, London: Hakluyt Society, OCLC 2649691

Published in the 20th century

• "Tripoli". Guide to the Western Mediterranean. London: Macmillan and Co. 1906.
• "Tripoli", The Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1910, OCLC 14782424
• Charles Wellington Furlong (1914), Gateway to the Sahara: Observations and Experiences in Tripoli (2nd ed.), New York: C. Scribner's Sons, OCLC 4904661
• "Tripoli". Encyclopaedia of Islam. E.J. Brill. 1936. p. 814+.
• Ward, Philip. 1969. Tripoli: Portrait of a City. Cambridge, England: The Oleander Press,
• Warfelli, Muhammad. 1976. The Old City of Tripoli. Art and Archaeology Research Papers.
• M. Brett (1986). "The City-State in Medieval Ifriqiya: the Case of Tripoli". Les Cahiers de Tunisie 34.