Timeline of Kano

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

Prior to 20th century

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20th century

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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

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See also

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Bibliography

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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
  • Josiah Conder (1830), "Kano", The Modern Traveller, London: J.Duncan
  • H. R. Palmer, ed. (1908), "The Kano Chronicle", Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, vol. 38 – via Internet Archive; via Google Books
  • B. A. Trevallion (1967). Metropolitan Kano: report on the twenty year development plan 1963-1983. Pergamon Press. OCLC 514199.
  • Paul M. Lubeck (2013) [1977]. "Contrasts and Continuity in a Dependent City: Kano, Nigeria". In J. Abu-Lughod and R. Hay (ed.). Third World Urbanization. Routledge. p. 281+. ISBN 978-1-135-68640-6.
  • Economic Crisis, Structural Adjustment and the Coping Strategies of Manufacturers in Kano, Nigeria, Geneva: United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, 1996 – via International Relations and Security Network
  • Noelle Watson, ed. (1996). "Kano". International Dictionary of Historic Places: Middle East and Africa. UK: Routledge. pp. 396+. ISBN 1884964036.
  • Alaine S. Hutson (1999). "Development of Women's Authority in the Kano Tijaniyya, 1894-1963". Africa Today. 46 (3/4): 43–64. doi:10.1353/at.2003.0093. JSTOR 4187284.
  • John Paxton, ed. (1999). "Kano, Nigeria". Penguin Encyclopedia of Places (3rd ed.). Penguin. ISBN 9780140512755.
Published in 21st century

References

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  1. ^ a b c d Watson 1996.
  2. ^ Stock 2012.
  3. ^ "ArchNet". Aga Khan Trust for Culture and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
  4. ^ a b c d Bosworth 2007.
  5. ^ a b Hutson 1999.
  6. ^ "Kano (Nigeria) -- Newspapers". Global Resources Network. Chicago, US: Center for Research Libraries. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
  7. ^ a b Brian Larkin (2008). Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria. Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-8931-6.
  8. ^ a b "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. ^ a b c d e 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.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  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. ^ a b c d e 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. 28 June 2011. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
  19. ^ Encyclopædia Britannica Book of the Year. Encyclopaedia Britannica. 2013. ISBN 978-1-62513-103-4.
  20. ^ "Nigeria's Boko Haram crisis". BBC News. 19 May 2014.
  21. ^ Abdalla Uba Adamu. The City At the Edge of Forever – Archiving and Digitizing Arabic Sources on the History of Kano, Nigeria.
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