Timeline of Benghazi

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

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Prior to 20th century

• 7th century BCE - Euesperides founded by Cyrenians near the 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 - Massacre  [ ar ] occurs at the Ottoman fortress  [ 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
  • Barracks  [ ar ] built in Al-Berka.^{[ citation needed ]}
  • Italian "Società d'Esplorazione Commerciale in Africa" active in Benghazi. ^[2]

20th century

1900s-1940s

• 1906 - Market  [ ar ] burns down.^{[ citation needed ]}
• 1911
  • 19 October: Town occupied by Italian forces during the Italo-Turkish War.
  • Population: 35,000. ^[3]
• 1913 - Albergo Italia (hotel) built.^{[ citation needed ]}
• 1914 - Benghazi–Benina railway  [ it ] begins operating.
• 1916 - Benghazi Central Station  [ it ] built. ^[4]
• 1922 - Benghazi Lighthouse built.^{[ citation needed ]}
• 1924 - City Hall built.
• 1926 - Benghazi-Suluq Railway  [ it ] begins operating.
• 1927
  • Benghazi–Marj railway  [ it ] begins operating.
  • Catholic Apostolic Vicariate of Cyrenaica established. ^[5]
• 1928 - Berenice Theatre  [ ar ] opens.^{[ citation needed ]}
• 1931 - September: Trial of Omar Mukhtar, leading to his execution on 16 September in nearby Suluq.
• 1934
  • Pier built in the Port of Benghazi. ^[6]
  • Administrative Benghazi Province created.^{[ chronology citation needed ]}
• 1936 - Hotel Berenice  [ 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

• 1952
  • Al-Hilal SC (sport club) formed.
  • University of Oxford's Ashmolean Expedition to Cyrenaica begins its archaeological excavation of Euesperides site. ^[11]
• 1953 - City boundary established. ^[12]
• 1954 - Al Tahaddy SC (football club) formed.
• 1955 - University of Libya founded. ^[8]
• 1956 - Benghazi Zoo founded.^{[ citation needed ]}
• 1957 - Benghazi Military University Academy established.
• 1964 - Population: 137,295. ^[13]
• 1967 - Stadium and Suliman Ad-Dharrath Arena ^{[ citation needed ]} open.
• 1970s - Giuliana Bridge opens.
• 1973
  • University of Benghazi active.
  • Population: 266,000. ^[10]
• 1980 - February: Protest at French consulate. ^[14]
• 1982
  • March: Part of 1982 African Cup of Nations football contest held in Benghazi.
  • Convention centre  [ ar ] built.^{[ citation needed ]}
• 1984 - Population: 442,860. ^[10]
• 1986 - 15 April: Aerial bombing of city by United States forces. ^[15]
• 1989 - Tibesti Hotel (hi-rise) built. ^[16]
• 1990 - Population: 800,000 (estimate). ^[17]
• 1991 - "Administrative Office Complex" (hi-rise) built. ^[16]
• 1993 - September: Great Man-Made River constructed; water begins flowing to Benghazi. ^[18]
• 2000
  • 1 September: Al-Ahly football stadium demolished. ^[19]
  • September: Unrest. ^[14]

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 - Sirt–Benghazi Railway  [ 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
  • 16 May: Benina International Airport closes due to fighting.
  • 15 October: Battle of Benghazi begins.
• 2017
  • 18 April: Abdelrahman Alabbar becomes mayor. ^[20]
  • 15 July: Benina Airport reopens.
  • 27 July: Battle of Benghazi officially concludes.

See also

• History of Benghazi
• Timeline of Tripoli, Libya
• Timeline of the Italian Empire  [ it ]

Notes

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

References

1. Baedeker 1911.
2. Britannica 1910.
3. "Italy: Tripoli and Cyrenaica". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368440 – 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. "Benghazi". Britannica.com. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
9. Mattawa 2007.
10. Saad Khalil Kezeiri (1986). "Growth and change in Libya's settlements system". Ekistics. 53 (316/317). Athens: 34–41. JSTOR   43620696.
11. Vickers 1994. sfn error: no target: CITEREFVickers1994 (help)
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. "Libya". Political Chronology of Africa. Political Chronologies of the World. Europa Publications. 2001. ISBN   0203409957.
15. "Libya Profile: Timeline". BBC News. 13 June 2011. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
16. "Libya: Benghazi". Emporis.com . Hamburg: Emporis GmbH. Archived from the original on August 2, 2017. 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.

Bibliography

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• Giacomo De Martino (1908). "Bengasi". Cirene e Cartagine (in Italian). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli. pp. 85–110.
• Hogarth, David George (1910). "Bengazi"  . Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 3 (11th ed.). p. 736.
• "Benghazi", The Mediterranean, Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1911, OCLC   490068
• "Bengasi", Enciclopedia Italiana (Treccani) (in Italian), 1930
• "Cirenaica: Rossa di sangue, verde di piante". Varietas (in Italian). Vol. 30. Milan. 1934. (Includes information about Benghazi)
• J. Despois [in French] (1960). "Beng̲hāzī". Encyclopaedia of Islam (2nd ed.). E.J. Brill.
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• John Wright (1992). "Wadai-Benghazi Slave Route". Slavery & Abolition. 13. ISSN   0144-039X.
• Francesco Prestopino (1999). Una città e il suo fotografo: la Bengasi coloniale, 1912-1941 (in Italian). Milan. ISBN   8877998423.
• Khaled Mattawa (2007). "Dispatches from Benghazi". PMLA . 122 (1). US: Modern Language Association: 264–270. doi:10.1632/pmla.2007.122.1.264. JSTOR   25501686. S2CID   162208623.
• Frederic Wehrey (1 July 2017). "'Whoever Controls Benghazi Controls Libya': A revolutionary city rises in the shadow of strongman Khalifa Haftar". The Atlantic . US.

External links

• "(Benghazi)". Directory of Open Access Journals . UK. (Bibliography of open access articles)
• Items related to Benghazi, various dates (via Europeana)
• Items related to Benghazi, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America)
• "(Benghazi)". AfricaBib.org . (Bibliography)

Images

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