Timeline of Kano
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Kano, Nigeria.
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- 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
- 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
- other cities in Nigeria
References
- 1 2 3 4 Noelle Watson, ed. (1996). "Kano". International Dictionary of Historic Places: Middle East and Africa. UK: Routledge. pp. 396+. ISBN 1884964036.
- ↑ Robert F. Stock (2012). "Kano". Africa South of the Sahara: A Geographical Interpretation (3rd ed.). Guilford Press. ISBN 978-1-4625-0811-2.
- ↑ "ArchNet". Aga Khan Trust for Culture and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries.
- 1 2 3 4 C. Edmund Bosworth, ed. (2007). "Kano". Historic Cities of the Islamic World. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill. p. 272+.
- 1 2 Alaine S. Hutson (1999). "Development of Women's Authority in the Kano Tijaniyya, 1894-1963". Africa Today. 46. JSTOR 4187284.
- ↑ "Kano (Nigeria) -- Newspapers". Global Resources Network. Chicago, USA: Center for Research Libraries. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
- 1 2 Brian Larkin (2008). Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria. Duke University Press. ISBN 0-8223-8931-2.
- 1 2 "Remodelled Kano Airport Offers Hope", This Day, Lagos, March 17, 2013 – via LexisNexis Academic, (subscription required (help))
- ↑ "Kano". Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art & Architecture. Oxford University Press. 2009. ISBN 978-0-19-530991-1.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Toyin Falola; Ann Genova (2009). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of Nigeria. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6316-3.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Roman Loimeier (2011). "Chapter 2". Islamic Reform and Political Change in Northern Nigeria. Northwestern University Press. ISBN 978-0-8101-2810-1.
- ↑ 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.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "The State of African Cities 2014". United Nations Human Settlements Programme. ISBN 978-92-1-132598-0. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
- ↑ "Torrential Rain Leaves Kano Prostrate", Vanguard, Lagos, August 27, 2010 – via LexisNexis Academic, (subscription required (help))
- ↑ "Nigeria: Timeline". BBC News. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
- ↑ Encyclopaedia Britannica Book of the Year. 2013. ISBN 978-1-62513-103-4.
- ↑ "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
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- Map of Kano, 1851, by Heinrich Barth
- "(Articles related to Kano)". Connecting-Africa. Leiden, Netherlands: African Studies Centre.
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