Timeline of Kano

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Kano, Nigeria.

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Prior to 20th century
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Prehistory
Early history pre-1500
Nok Civilization 1500 BC-500 AD
Pre-colonial period 1500–1800
British period 1800–1960
First Republic 1960–1979
Civil War 1967–1970
Second Republic 1979–1983
Third Republic 1993–1999
Fourth Republic 1999–present
See also
 Nigeria portal

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]
    • Population: 130,173.[11]
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1995 - Population: 2,339,000 (urban agglomeration).[16]
  • 1998 - Sani Abacha Stadium opens.
  • 2000 - Population: 2,602,000 (urban agglomeration).[16]

21st century

See also

References
  1. Watson 1996.
  2. Stock 2012.
  3. "ArchNet". Aga Khan Trust for Culture and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries. Missing or empty |url= (help)
  4. Bosworth 2007.
  5. Hutson 1999.
  6. "Kano (Nigeria) -- Newspapers". Global Resources Network. Chicago, US: Center for Research Libraries. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
  7. Brian Larkin (2008). Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria. Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-8931-6.
  8. "Remodelled Kano Airport Offers Hope", This Day, Lagos, March 17, 2013 – via LexisNexis Academic
  9. Grove 2009.
  10. 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.
  11. "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1955. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations.
  12. Toyin Falola; Ann Genova (2009). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of Nigeria. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6316-3.
  13. Roman Loimeier (2011). "Chapter 2". Islamic Reform and Political Change in Northern Nigeria. Northwestern University Press. p. 96+. ISBN 978-0-8101-2810-1.
  14. 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.
  15. Paul M. Lubeck (1985). "Islamic Protest Under Semi-Industrial Capitalism: Yan Tatsine Explained". In John David Yeadon Peel and Charles Cameron Stewart (ed.). Popular Islam South of the Sahara. Manchester University Press. p. 369+. ISBN 978-0-7190-1975-3.
  16. The State of African Cities 2014. United Nations Human Settlements Programme. 2015-09-10. ISBN 978-92-1-132598-0. Archived from the original on 2014-09-10.
  17. "Torrential Rain Leaves Kano Prostrate", Vanguard, Lagos, August 27, 2010 – via LexisNexis Academic
  18. "Nigeria: Timeline". BBC News. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
  19. Encyclopædia Britannica Book of the Year. 2013. ISBN 978-1-62513-103-4.
  20. "Nigeria's Boko Haram crisis". BBC News. 19 May 2014.

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