Timeline of Tripoli
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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Tripoli, Libya.
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.
Prior to 19th century
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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
- 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
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Tripoli", The Mediterranean, Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1911, OCLC 490068
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Ludovico Micara (2008). "Ottoman Tripoli: a Mediterranean Medina". The City in the Islamic World. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 ArchNet.org. "Tripoli". Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA: MIT School of Architecture and Planning. Retrieved 26 January 2013.
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Jedidiah Morse; Richard C. Morse (1823), "Tripoli", A New Universal Gazetteer (4th ed.), New Haven: S. Converse
- 1 2 Brian L. McLaren (2006), Architecture And Tourism in Italian Colonial Libya, University of Washington Press, ISBN 9780295985428, 0295985429
- ↑ Brian L. McLaren (2002). "The Tripoli Trade Fair and the Representation of Italy's African Colonies". Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts. 24.
- 1 2 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.
- 1 2 Mia Fuller (2007), Moderns abroad: architecture, cities, and Italian imperialism, London: Routledge, ISBN 9780415194631, 0415194636
- ↑ Il Duce in Libia (in Italian). 1938.
- ↑ Charles Burdett (2007), Journeys Through Fascism: Italian Travel-Writing between the Wars, Berghahn Books, ISBN 9781571815408, 1571815406
- 1 2 Robert S. Harrison (1967). "Migrants in the City of Tripoli, Libya". Geographical Review. 57.
- ↑ "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
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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.
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