Timeline of Kano

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

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Prior to 20th century

• 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

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
  • 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

• 2006 - Population: 2,163,225 city; 2,828,861 metro.
• 2010
  • August: Flood.[17]
  • Population: 3,271,000 (urban agglomeration).[16]
• 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

• Kano history
• List of rulers of Kano
• List of governors of Kano State
• Timelines of other cities in Nigeria: Ibadan, Lagos, Port Harcourt

Bibliography

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

• Paul Tiyambe Zeleza; Dickson Eyoh, eds. (2003). "Kano, Nigeria". Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History. Routledge. ISBN 0415234794.
• Rasheed Olaniyi (2004). "Yoruba Commercial Diaspora and Settlement Patterns in Pre-Colonial Kano". In Toyin Falola; et al. (eds.). Nigerian Cities. Africa World Press. p. 80+. ISBN 978-1-59221-169-2.
• Kevin Shillington, ed. (2004), "Kano", Encyclopedia of African History, London: Routledge
• C. Edmund Bosworth, ed. (2007). "Kano". Historic Cities of the Islamic World. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill. p. 272+. ISBN 978-9004153882.
• Akachi Odoemene (2008). "Contexts of Colonialism ... Two Nigerian Cities". In Bahru Zewde (ed.). Society, State, and Identity in African History. African Books Collective. p. 231+. ISBN 978-99944-50-25-1. (about Kano)
• "Kano". Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art & Architecture. Oxford University Press. 2009. p. 369+. ISBN 978-0-19-530991-1.
• Robert F. Stock (2012). "Urban Economies and Societies: Kano". Africa South of the Sahara: A Geographical Interpretation (3rd ed.). Guilford Press. p. 403+. ISBN 978-1-4625-0811-2.

References

1. 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. 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. 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.

External links

• Map of Kano, 1851, by Heinrich Barth
• "(Kano)". Directory of Open Access Journals. UK. (Bibliography of open access articles)
• "(Kano)" – via Europeana. (Images, etc.)
• "(Kano)" – via Digital Public Library of America. (Images, etc.)
• "(Kano)". Internet Library Sub-Saharan Africa. Germany: Frankfurt University Library. (Bibliography)
• "(Kano)". Connecting-Africa. Leiden, Netherlands: African Studies Centre. (Bibliography)
• "(Kano)". AfricaBib.org. (Bibliography)
• Kano Archive