Timeline of Benghazi
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Benghazi, Libya.[nb 1]
Prior to 20th century[edit]
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- 7th century BCE - Euesperides founded by Cyrenians near 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 occurs at the Ottoman fortress.[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 built in Al-Berka.[citation needed]
- Italian "Società d'Esplorazione Commerciale in Africa" active in Benghazi.[2]
20th century[edit]
1900s-1940s[edit]
- 1906 - Market 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 begins operating.
- 1916 - Benghazi Central Station built.[4]
- 1922 - Benghazi Lighthouse built.[citation needed]
- 1924 - City Hall built.
- 1926 - Benghazi-Suluq Railway begins operating.
- 1927
- Benghazi–Marj railway begins operating.
- Catholic Apostolic Vicariate of Cyrenaica established.[5]
- 1928 - Berenice Theatre 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 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[edit]
- 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 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
21st century[edit]
- 2005 - Population: 685,367 (estimate).[8]
- 2006 - 15 February: Protest against Muhammad cartoons.[15]
- 2007 - Quryna newspaper begins publication.
- 2008 - Sirt–Benghazi Railway 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[edit]
Notes[edit]
- ^ The city of Benghazi is also called: Banghāzī, Bengasi, Bengazi, Benghasi, Berenice, Bernîk, Bingazi, Binghāzī, Euesperides, and Hesperides
References[edit]
- ^ a b Baedeker 1911.
- ^ a b c Britannica 1910.
- ^ "Italy: Tripoli and Cyrenaica". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368440 – via HathiTrust.
- ^ "Stazione Ferroviaria di Bengasi", Rivista Mensile (in Italian), Touring Club Italiano, 1916, archived from the original on 2015-01-08
- ^ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Libya". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
- ^ Marthelot 1964.
- ^ Brian McLaren (2006). Architecture and Tourism in Italian Colonial Libya: An Ambivalent Modernism. University of Washington Press. ISBN 978-0-295-98542-8.
- ^ a b c "Benghazi". Britannica.com. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
- ^ Mattawa 2007.
- ^ a b c Saad Khalil Kezeiri (1986). "Growth and change in Libya's settlements system". Ekistics. 53 (316/317). Athens: 34–41. JSTOR 43620696.
- ^ Vickers 1994.
- ^ Bulugma 1964.
- ^ "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.
- ^ a b "Libya". Political Chronology of Africa. Political Chronologies of the World. Europa Publications. 2001. ISBN 0203409957.
- ^ a b c d e "Libya Profile: Timeline". BBC News. 13 June 2011. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
- ^ a b "Libya: Benghazi". Emporis.com. Hamburg: Emporis GmbH. Archived from the original on August 2, 2017. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Libya's thirst for 'fossil water'", BBC News, 18 March 2006
- ^ "Libya: A donkey taunt, the Gaddafis and a fatal footballing rivalry", The Guardian, UK, 25 May 2011
- ^ "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[edit]
- Ferdinando Borsari (1888), "Evesperide o Berenice (Bengasi)", Geografia etnologica e storica della Tripolitania, Cirenaica e Fezzan (in Italian), Turin: Ermanno Loescher
- Giacomo De Martino (1908). "Bengasi". Cirene e Cartagine (in Italian). Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli. pp. 85–110.
- Hogarth, David George (1910). . 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.
- Ewald Banse (1913). "Beng̲hāzī". Encyclopaedia of Islam. E.J. Brill.
- Richard George Goodchild [in French] (1954). Benghazi, the story of a city. OCLC 822712914.
- Hadi M.R. Bulugma (1964). Urban Geography of Benghazi (Ph.D.). Durham University.
- Pierre Marthelot (1964). "Une ville aux chances successives: Benghazi". Bulletin de l'Association de géographes français (in French). 41 (328): 32–41. doi:10.3406/bagf.1964.5705. OCLC 876706131 – via Persee.fr.
- Hadi M. Bulugma (1968). Benghazi through the Ages. Tripoli. OCLC 28490247.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - 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.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - 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[edit]
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- "(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[edit]
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Berenice Theatre, Benghazi, opened in 1928; designed by Marcello Piacentini
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