Timeline of Casablanca

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Casablanca, Morocco.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Prior to 20th century

• 1st C. CE - "Anfus" created by Romans as a port
• 11th C. CE - Anfa founded by Zanata Berbers. The word Anfa means the hill in the local amazigh dialect . ^[1]
• 1468 - Anfa sacked by Portuguese forces. ^{[2] [3]}
• 1770 - City walls rebuilt by the Sultan Mohammed ben Abdallah also called Mohammed III (approximate date). ^[1]
• 1830 - Port re-opens to commerce. ^[2]
• 1900 - Population: 20,000. ^[1]

20th century

• 1906 - Port of Casablanca construction begins. ^[3]
• 1907
  • 30 July: Anti-European unrest; crackdown by French forces. ^{[3] [4] [2]}
  • Casa-Port Railway Terminal opens.
• 1912
  • French protectorate established. ^[1]
• 1914 - Population: 78,000. ^[1]
• 1915 - The Franco-Moroccan Fair runs from 5 September to 5 November
• 1918 - Public library opens. ^[5]
• 1923 - Casa-Voyageurs Railway Station opened. ^[3]
• 1927 - Population: 120,000. ^[1]
• 1929 - Casablanca Stock Exchange established. ^[6]
• 1931 - 1 August: Honorary Consulate of Poland opened. ^[7]
• 1935 - Vox Cinema opens. ^[8]
• 1937 - Wydad Club Athletic formed
• 1940
  • Casablanca under control of Vichy France.
  • October: Forced labour camp established by the Germans. ^[9]
• 1942
  • November: Forced labour camp dissolved. ^[9]
  • 8–16 November: Naval Battle of Casablanca.
  • 26 November: American fictional movie Casablanca released. ^[10]
• 1943 - January: Allied Casablanca Conference held. ^{[11] [12]}
• 1949 - Raja Club Athletic formed.
• 1951 - Population: 682,388. ^[13]
• 1952 - December: "Anti-French riots." ^[4]
• 1959 - Afriquia SMDC oil company headquartered in Casablanca.
• 1960 - Population: 967,000 (urban agglomeration). ^[14]
• 1965
  • 22 March: "Uprising of students and workers." ^[4]
  • September: 1965 Arab League summit held.
• 1971 - Maroc Soir newspaper begins publication. ^[15]
• 1973 - Population: 1,371,330 city; 1,753,400 urban agglomeration. ^[16]
• 1975 - University of Hassan II Casablanca established.
• 1980s - City "organized into five separate prefectures." ^[2]
• 1980
  • Planning commission formed. ^[17]
  • Population: 2,109,000 (urban agglomeration). ^[14]
• 1981 - 6 June: "Bread riots." ^[4]
• 1986 - Meeting of the Association Internationale des Maires Francophones held in city.
• 1989 - 1989 Jeux de la Francophonie held in Casablanca.
• 1990 - Population: 2,682,000 (urban agglomeration). ^[14]
• 1993
  • Hassan II Mosque built. ^[4]
  • Population: 2,943,000 urban agglomeration (estimate). ^[18]
• 1999 - l’Boulevard des Jeunes Musicians hip hop festival begins. ^[19]
• 2000 - Population: 2,937,000 (urban agglomeration). ^[14]

21st century

Satellite view of Casablanca, circa 2005

• 2003
  • 16 May: 2003 Casablanca bombings. ^[20]
  • Mohamed Sajid becomes mayor.
• 2007 - March–April: 2007 Casablanca bombings. ^[20]
• 2012
  • May: "Trade union rally." ^[20]
  • Casablanca tramway begins operating. ^[21]
• 2014: 3,352,399 inhabitants in the city (estimate) ^[22] and almost seven million in the metropolitan area according to the official census of 2014. ^[23]
• 2015 - City becomes part and capital of the Casablanca-Settat administrative region.

See also

• History of Casablanca
• Timelines of other cities in Morocco: Fes, Marrakesh, Meknes, Rabat, Salé  [ fr ], Tangier
• Timeline of Morocco  [ fr ]

References

1. Cohen 2008.
2. Miller 2005.
3. Britannica 1910.
4. Susan Gilson Miller (2013). "Chronology". History of Modern Morocco. Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-0-521-81070-8.
5. Lola Souad (1993). "Morocco". In Robert Wedgeworth (ed.). World Encyclopedia of Library and Information Services (3rd ed.). American Library Association. p. 585+. ISBN   978-0-8389-0609-5.
6. "Kingdom of Morocco". International Encyclopedia of the Stock Market. Fitzroy Dearborn. 1999. ISBN   978-1-884964-35-0.
7. Ceranka, Paweł; Szczepanik, Krzysztof (2020). Urzędy konsularne Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej 1918–1945. Informator archiwalny (in Polish). Warszawa: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych, Ministerstwo Spraw Zagranicznych. p. 97. ISBN   978-83-65681-93-5.
8. "Movie Theaters in Casablanca, Morocco". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved 30 October 2014.
9. "Arbeitslager Casablanca". Bundesarchiv.de (in German). Retrieved 11 December 2023.
10. James G. Ryan and Leonard Schlup, ed. (2006). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of the 1940s. M.E. Sharpe. p. 436+. ISBN   978-0-7656-2107-8.
11. Muriel E. Chamberlain (1998). Longman Companion to European Decolonisation in the Twentieth Century. Routledge. ISBN   978-1-317-89744-6.
12. "On This Day", New York Times, retrieved 30 January 2015
13. "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1955. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations.
14. The State of African Cities 2014. United Nations Human Settlements Programme. 10 September 2015. ISBN   978-92-1-132598-0. Archived from the original on 10 September 2014.
15. "Casablanca (Morocco) -- Newspapers". Global Resources Network. Chicago, US: Center for Research Libraries . Retrieved 30 October 2014.
16. 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.
17. Ossman 1994.
18. 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.{{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)
19. Zakia Salime (28 May 2011). "Rapping the Revolution". Muftah.org.
20. "Morocco Profile: Timeline". BBC News. 12 July 2011. Retrieved 30 October 2014.
21. Petit Futé 2013.
22. "Table 8 - Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants", Demographic Yearbook – 2018, United Nations
23. "RECENSEMENT GENERAL DE LA POPULATION ET DE L'HABITAT 2014 Note de présentation des premiers résultats REGION DU GRAND CASABLANCA". www.hcp.ma.

Bibliography

in English

• Leo Africanus; John Pory (1896), "Of Anfa a towne in Temesna", in Robert Brown (ed.), History and Description of Africa, vol. 2, London: Hakluyt Society, OCLC   2649691 (written in the 16th century)
• "Casablanca"  . Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 5 (11th ed.). 1910. p. 440.
• "Al-Dar al-Bayda". Encyclopedia of Islam. Leiden: Brill. 1985.
• Susan Ossman (1994). Picturing Casablanca: Portraits of Power in a Modern City . University of California Press. ISBN   978-0-520-91431-5.
• Mark Ellingham (2001), "Casablanca", Rough Guide to Morocco (6th ed.), London: Rough Guides, p. 299+, OL   24218635M
• Jean-Louis Cohen; Monique Eleb (2003). Casablanca: colonial myths and architectural ventures. Monacelli Press. ISBN   978-1-58093-087-1.
• Paul Tiyambe Zeleza; Dickson Eyoh, eds. (2003). "Casablanca, Morocco". Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History. Routledge. ISBN   0415234794.
• James A. Miller (2005). "Casablanca". In Kevin Shillington (ed.). Encyclopedia of African History. Fitzroy Dearborn. p. 222. ISBN   978-1-135-45670-2.
• Thomas K. Park; Aomar Boum (2006). "Casablanca". Historical Dictionary of Morocco (2nd ed.). Scarecrow Press. ISBN   978-0-8108-6511-2.
• Jean-Louis Cohen (2008). "Casablanca". The City in the Islamic World. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill. p. 1009+. ISBN   9789004162402.
• Michael R.T. Dumper; Bruce E. Stanley, eds. (2008), "Casablanca", Cities of the Middle East and North Africa, Santa Barbara, US: ABC-CLIO, p. 114+

in French

• Maurice de Périgny [in French] (1919). Au Maroc; Casablanca-Rabat-Meknes (in French). Paris P. Roger.
• Albert Charton (1924). "Casablanca". Annales de géographie (in French). 33 (183): 303–307. doi:10.3406/geo.1924.9684 – via Persee.fr.

• E.B.; J. C. Santucci (1993), "Casablanca", Encyclopédie berbère (in French), 12 (12): 1812–1822, doi: 10.4000/encyclopedieberbere.2096 – via Revues.org
• "Histoire". Casablanca (in French). Petit Futé. 2013. p. 31+. ISBN   978-2-7469-6459-4.

External links

• "(Casablanca)". Directory of Open Access Journals . UK. (Bibliography of open access articles)
• "Morocco: Casablanca". Archnet. Archived from the original on 5 May 2008.
• Map of Casablanca, 1942.
• "(Articles related to Casablanca)". Connecting-Africa. Leiden, Netherlands: African Studies Centre.
• Christian Zimmermann (ed.). "(Casablanca)". Research Papers in Economics . US: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. (Bibliography)

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