Timeline of Kano
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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Kano, Nigeria.
Prior to 20th century
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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.[citation needed]
- 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
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- 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
- 1953 - 1 May: Kano riot of 1953.[12]
- 1967 - City becomes capital of the newly established Kano State.
- 1970 - Murtala Muhammad Mosque built in Fagge.[13]
- 1975 - Population: 399,000.[14]
- 1977 - Bayero University Kano established.
- 1980
- Yan Tatsine religious unrest.[15]
- Triumph newspaper begins publication.
- Hausawa mosque built.[13]
- 1982 - No Man's Land mosque and Yar Akwa mosque built.[13]
- 1985 - Population: 1,861,000 (urban agglomeration).[16]
- 1986 - Hotoro mosque built.[13]
- 1987 - Goron Dutse mosque built.[13]
- 1988 - Goron Dutse Islamiyya secondary school opens.
- 1990
- Kano Pillars Football Club formed.
- Population: 2,095,000 (urban agglomeration).[16]
- 1995 - Population: 2,339,000 (urban agglomeration).[16]
- 1998 - Sani Abacha Stadium opens.
- 2000 - Population: 2,602,000 (urban agglomeration).[16]
21st century
[edit | edit source]- 2006 - Population: 2,163,225 city; 2,828,861 metro.
- 2010
- 2012 - 20 January: Boko Haram attack.[18][19]
- 2013
- Northwest University Kano opens.
- Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport remodelled.[8]
- 2014 - 18 May: Boko Haram attack.[20]
See also
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- Kano history
- List of rulers of Kano
- List of governors of Kano State
- Timelines of other cities in Nigeria: Ibadan, Lagos, Port Harcourt
Bibliography
[edit | edit source]- Arabic manuscripts
Arabic manuscripts documenting the history of Kano:[21]
- Tarikh Arbab Hadha al-balad al-Musamma Kano (The Kano Chronicle) (18th century)
- Asl al-Wangariyin (The Wangara Chronicle) (1650)
- Taqyid al-Akbar (The Jihad Chronicle) (1863)
- Al Eelan fi Tarikh Kano (1933)
- Wakar Bagauda (The Song of Bagauda) (oral narrative, written in Hausa Ajami script)
- Published in 19th-20th centuries
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References
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- ^ Stock 2012.
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- ^ a b Hutson 1999.
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- ^ Grove 2009.
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- ^ Abdalla Uba Adamu. The City At the Edge of Forever – Archiving and Digitizing Arabic Sources on the History of Kano, Nigeria.
External links
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- Map of Kano, 1851, by Heinrich Barth
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- Kano Archive
