Timeline of Lahore

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Lahore, Pakistan.

Prior to 11th century

  • 682 CE – City besieged by Muslim forces.[1]

11th–15th centuries

16th–17th centuries

18th century

19th century

20th century

Independence

  • 1947
    • Riots.[27]
    • 15 August: City becomes part of West Punjab province of Pakistan.
  • 1948 - Chatan newspaper begins publication.[26]
  • 1951
    • Institute of Islamic Culture established.[19]
    • Population: 849,476.[28]
  • 1952 – Lahore newspaper begins publication.[26]
  • 1953 – 6 March: Martial Law promulgated in Lahore to control disturbances against Ahmadis.
  • 1955 – City becomes capital of West Pakistan.[10]
  • 1959 – Gaddafi Stadium built.
  • 1964 – 26 November: Pakistan Television Lahore Station inaugurated.
  • 1965 – Indo-Pakistani War.
  • 1968 – Minar-e-Pakistan constructed in Iqbal Park.
  • 1970
  • 1972 – Population: 2,165,372.[29]
  • 1974 – City hosts Islamic Summit Conference. Recognized former East Pakistan as Bangladesh.
  • 1975 – Lahore Development Authority established.
  • 1976 – Samjhota Express Amritsar-Lahore train begins operating.
  • 1977 – Allama Iqbal Museum inaugurated.[24][30]
  • 1981
  • 1983 – Ajoka (theatre group) formed.[33]
  • 1984 – Lahore University of Management Sciences and Lahore Conservation Society[34] established.
  • 1985 – Punjab Lok Rehas (theatre group) formed.[33]
  • 1986 – The Nation newspaper begins publication.[26]
  • 1989 – The Friday Times begins publication.
  • 1990
  • 1991 – Pearl Mosque built.[8]
  • 1992 – Alhamra Arts Council building constructed.
  • 1993 – Zahoor ul Akhlaq Gallery established at the National College of Arts Lahore.[35]
  • 1996 – Lahore Post begins publication.
  • 1997 – Lahore-Islamabad Motorway completed.
  • 1998 – Population: 5,143,495.[36]
  • 1999: 21 February: City hosts signing of the India-Pakistan Lahore Declaration regarding nuclear armaments.

21st century

See also

References

  1. Schellinger and Salkin, ed. (1996). "Lahore". International Dictionary of Historic Places: Asia and Oceania. UK: Routledge. p. 522+. ISBN 9781884964046.
  2. "Lahore Profile: History". City Government Lahore. City District Government Lahore. Archived from the original on 29 December 2008. Retrieved 18 August 2013.
  3. Cyril Glasse (2008), New Encyclopedia of Islam (3rd ed.), Rowman & Littlefield, ISBN 978-0742562967
  4. Michael Brand (c. 2002). "Lahore Chronology". Gardens of the Mughal Empire. Washington DC: Smithsonian Productions. Retrieved 18 August 2013.
  5. "Lahore", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York: Encyclopædia Britannica Co., 1910, OCLC 14782424
  6. World Heritage Centre. "Fort and Shalamar Gardens in Lahore". World Heritage List. UNESCO. Retrieved 18 August 2013.
  7. J. Thomas; T. Baldwin, eds. (1868), "Lahore", Lippincott's Pronouncing Gazetteer (2nd ed.), Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co.
  8. ArchNet.org. "Lahore". Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA: MIT School of Architecture and Planning. Retrieved 18 August 2013.
  9. "Marathas and the English Company 1707–1818 by Sanderson Beck". san.beck.org. Retrieved 2015-04-10.
  10. Webster's Geographical Dictionary, Springfield, Mass., USA: G. & C. Merriam Co., 1960, OCLC 3832886, OL 5812502M
  11. "Lahore", Chambers's Encyclopaedia, London: W. & R. Chambers, 1901
  12. John F. Riddick (2006), History of British India, Praeger Publishers, ISBN 9780313322808
  13. "Lahore (Pakistan) Newspapers". WorldCat. USA: Online Computer Library Center. Retrieved 18 August 2013.
  14. Company, East India; Mill, John Stuart (1858), Memorandum of the Improvements in the Administration of India During the Last Thirty Years: And the Petition of the East-India Company to Parliament
  15. Syad Muhammad Latif (1892). Lahore: its history, architectural remains and antiquities, with an account of its modern institutions, inhabitants, their trade, customs, &c. Lahore: Printed at the New Imperial Press.
  16. Edward Balfour (1885), "Lahore", Cyclopaedia of India (3rd ed.), London: B. Quaritch
  17. Leon E. Seltzer, ed. (1952), Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, New York: Columbia University Press, OL 6112221M
  18. "Pakistan". World Encyclopedia of Library and Information Services (3rd ed.). Chicago: American Library Association. 1993. ISBN 0838906095.
  19. "Information and Culture: Institutions". Punjab Portal. Government of the Punjab. Retrieved 18 August 2013.
  20. Percy Brown (1908), Lahore Museum, Punjab: A Descriptive Guide to the Department of Archaeology & Antiquities, Lahore: Printed at the Civil and Military Gazette Press, OCLC 44611240, OL 23293985M
  21. "About Assembly". Lahore: Provincial Assembly of The Punjab. Retrieved 18 August 2013.
  22. Partap Singh (1911), The Punjab Chiefs' Association, Lahore: Tribune Press, OL 7066214M
  23. "Services and General Administration Department: Frequently Asked Questions". Punjab Portal. Government of the Punjab. Retrieved 18 August 2013.
  24. "Museums and Galleries in Pakistan". Islamabad: National Fund for Cultural Heritage. Retrieved 18 August 2013.
  25. "Building of the Assembly". Lahore: Provincial Assembly of The Punjab. Retrieved 18 August 2013.
  26. "Pakistan". Far East and Australasia 2003. Regional Surveys of the World. Europa Publications. 2002. p. 1160+. ISBN 9781857431339.
  27. Ian Talbot (2007), "A Tale of Two Cities: The Aftermath of Partition for Lahore and Amritsar 1947–1957", Modern Asian Studies, 41 (1): 151–185, doi:10.1017/s0026749x05002337, JSTOR 4132347
  28. "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1955. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations.
  29. 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.
  30. Raza Noor. "Lahore Sites of Interest". Lahore. Edmonton, Canada. Retrieved 18 August 2013.
  31. John L. Esposito (2011), What everyone needs to know about Islam (2nd ed.), New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780199794133
  32. United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1987). "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". 1985 Demographic Yearbook. New York. pp. 247–289.
  33. Don Rubin; et al., eds. (2001), "Pakistan", World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre: Asia/Pacific, Routledge, ISBN 9780415260879
  34. "With Lahore in his Veins". Dawn. 6 December 2003.
  35. "Gallery". National College of Arts Lahore. Retrieved 18 August 2013.
  36. "Population of Capital Cities and Cities of 100,000 or More Inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2011. United Nations Statistics Division. 2012. Retrieved 18 August 2013.
  37. "About the Pakistan Fashion Design Council". Lahore: Pakistan Fashion Design Council. Retrieved 18 August 2013.
  38. James Traub (1 June 2008). "Lawyer's Crusade". New York Times. Retrieved 18 August 2013.
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  40. World Health Organization (2016), Global Urban Ambient Air Pollution Database, Geneva
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  42. Declan Walsh (6 March 2013). "Pakistan, Under Cultural Siege, Is Buoyed by Book Festivals". New York Times. Retrieved 18 August 2013.
  43. "Pakistan arrests scores over Lahore anti-Christian riot". BBC News. 10 March 2013. Retrieved 18 August 2013.
  44. "Table 8 - Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants", Demographic Yearbook – 2018, United Nations
  45. Pakistan - Events in 2018, Human Rights Watch
  46. "Statue of Maharaja Ranjit Singh in Lahore vandalised by a man because Singh had converted a mosque into a horse stable". 12 December 2020. Retrieved 13 December 2020.
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  48. "Heer Ranjha icon Firdous Begum passes away at 73". 16 December 2020. Retrieved 16 December 2020.

Bibliography

Published in 19th century

  • David Brewster, ed. (1830). "Lahore". Edinburgh Encyclopaedia. Edinburgh: William Blackwood.
  • C. Masson (September–November 1840), "Memorandum on Lahore, the Sikhs, their Kingdom and its Dependencies", Proceedings of the Bombay Geographical Society
  • Charles Masson (1842), "Lahore", Narrative of Various Journeys in Balochistan, Afghanistan, and the Panjab, London: Richard Bentley
  • J.H. Stocqueler (1854), "Lahore", Hand-book of British India (3rd ed.), London: Allen and Co.
  • "Lahore". Street's Indian and Colonial Mercantile Directory for 1870. London: Street. 1870.
  • Thornton, Thomas Henry. A Brief Account of the History and Antiquities of Lahore. Lahore: Government Civil Secretariat Press, 1873.
  • Thomas Henry Thornton; John Lockwood Kipling (1876). Lahore. Lahore: Printed at the Government Civil Secretariat Press.
  • Kanhaiya Lal. (1884) Tarikh-e-Lahore. Lahore, Pakistan: Aslam Asmat Printers.
  • Edward Thornton (1886), "Lahore", in Roper Lethbridge and Arthur N. Wollaston (ed.), Gazetteer of the Territories under the Government of the Viceroy of India, London: W. H. Allen & Co., OCLC 710600
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Published in 20th century

1900s–1940s
1950s–1990s
  • Muhammad Baqir (1952). Lahore, past and present; being an account of Lahore compiled from original sources. Lahore: Panjab University Press. OCLC 8816775.
  • Lahore Development Authority. Lahore Urban Development and Traffic Study. 5 vols. Lahore, 1980.
  • Lahore Development Authority. The Walled City of Lahore. Lahore, 1981.
  • Samuel V. Noe. “Old Lahore and Old Delhi: Variations on a Mughal Theme.” Ekistics XLIX (1982), pp. 306–19.
  • Mohammed A. Qadeer. Lahore, Urban Development in the Third World. Lahore: Vanguard Books, 1983.
  • Ahmad Nabi Khan. “Lahore: the Darus Saltanat of the Moghul Empire under Akbar (1556–1605).” Journal of the Research Society of Pakistan XXI, no.3 (1984), pp. 1–22.
  • Muhammad Saeed (1989). Lahore, A Memoir. Lahore: Vanguard. ISBN 9694020085.
  • F.S. Aijazuddin. Lahore: Illustrated Views of the 19th Century. Lahore: Vanguard Books, Ltd., 1991.
  • Ajaz Anwar (1996). Old Lahore (3rd ed.). Lahore.
  • Ajaz Anwar (1997), "Lahore and Delhi: Two Sides of a Mirror", India International Centre Quarterly, 24 (2/3): 274–283, JSTOR 23005453
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  • Nazir Ahmad Chaudhry. A Short History of Lahore and Some of Its Monuments. Lahore: Sang-e-Meel Publications, 2000.

Published in 21st century

  • Journal of Asian Civilizations XXIV, no. 2 (2001). Special issue on Lahore in the Ghaznavid period.
  • F.S. Aijazuddin. Lahore Recollected: An Album. Lahore: Sang-e-Meel Publishers, 2003.
  • Y. Lari. Lahore – Illustrated City Guide. Karachi, Pakistan: Heritage Foundation Pakistan 2003.
  • Mohammad Rafiq Khan (2006), "Banning Two-stroke Auto-rickshaws in Lahore: Policy Implications", Pakistan Development Review, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, 45 (4): 1169–1185, doi:10.30541/v45i4IIpp.1169-1185, JSTOR 41260675
  • P. Jackson; P.A. Andrews (2007). "Lahore (Lahawr)". In C.E. Bosworth (ed.). Historic Cities of the Islamic World. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill. p. 299+. ISBN 9789004153882.
  • Ian Talbot. Divided Cities: Partition and Its aftermath in Lahore and Amritsar, 1947–1957. Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2006.
  • William J. Glover (2007), Making Lahore Modern: Constructing and Imagining a Colonial City, USA: Univ of Minnesota Press, ISBN 9780816650217
  • Abdul Rehman (2009), "Changing Concepts of Garden Design in Lahore from Mughal to Contemporary Times", Garden History, 37 (2): 205–217, JSTOR 27821596
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