Timeline of Casablanca

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Casablanca, Morocco.

Prior to 20th century

• First century CE - "Anfus" created by Romans as a port
• 11th century CE - Anfa founded by Zanata Berbers. The word Anfa means the hill in the local amazigh dialect .[1]
• 1468 - Anfa sacked by Portuguese forces.[2]
• 1770 - City walls rebuilt by the Sultan Mohammed ben Abdallah also called Mohammed III (approximate date).[1]
• 1830 - Port re-opens to commerce.[2]
• 1900 - Population: 20,000.[1]

20th century

• 1907 - 30 July: Anti-European unrest; crackdown by French forces.[3][2]
• 1912
  • French protectorate established.[1]
• 1914 - Population: 78,000.[1]
• 1915 - The Franco-Moroccan Fair runs from 5 September to 5 November
• 1918 - Public library opens.[4]
• 1927 - Population: 120,000.[1]
• 1929 - Casablanca Stock Exchange established.[5]
• 1935 - Vox Cinema opens.[6]
• 1937 : Wydad Club Athletic formed
• 1942 - American fictional movie Casablanca released.[7]
• 1943 - January: Allied Casablanca Conference held.[8][9]
• 1949 - Raja Club Athletic formed.
• 1951 - Population: 682,388.[10]
• 1952 - December: "Anti-French riots."[3]
• 1959 - Afriquia SMDC oil company headquartered in Casablanca.
• 1960 - Population: 967,000 (urban agglomeration).[11]
• 1965
  • 22 March: "Uprising of students and workers."[3]
  • September: 1965 Arab League summit held.
• 1971 - Maroc Soir newspaper begins publication.[12]
• 1973 - Population: 1,371,330 city; 1,753,400 urban agglomeration.[13]
• 1980s - City "organized into five separate prefectures."[2]
• 1980
  • Planning commission formed.[14]
  • Population: 2,109,000 (urban agglomeration).[11]
• 1981 - 6 June: "Bread riots."[3]
• 1986 - Meeting of the Association Internationale des Maires Francophones held in city.
• 1989 - 1989 Jeux de la Francophonie held in Casablanca.
• 1990 - Population: 2,682,000 (urban agglomeration).[11]
• 1993
  • Hassan II Mosque built.[3]
  • Population: 2,943,000 urban agglomeration (estimate).[15]
• 1999 - l’Boulevard des Jeunes Musicians hip hop festival begins.[16]
• 2000 - Population: 2,937,000 (urban agglomeration).[11]

21st century

Satellite view of Casablanca, circa 2005

• 2003
  • 16 May: 2003 Casablanca bombings.[17]
  • Mohamed Sajid becomes mayor.
• 2007 - March–April: 2007 Casablanca bombings.[17]
• 2012
  • May: "Trade union rally."[17]
  • Casablanca tramway begins operating.[18]
• 2014: 3,352,399 inhabitants in the city (estimate)[19] and almost seven million in the metropolitan area according to the official census of 2014. [20]
• 2015 - City becomes part and capital of the Casablanca-Settat administrative region.

See also

• History of Casablanca
• Timelines of other cities in Morocco: Fes, Marrakesh, Meknes, Rabat, Salé, Tangier
• Timeline of Morocco

References

1. Cohen 2008.
2. Miller 2005.
3. Susan Gilson Miller (2013). "Chronology". History of Modern Morocco. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-81070-8.
4. Lola Souad (1993). "Morocco". In Robert Wedgeworth (ed.). World Encyclopedia of Library and Information Services (3rd ed.). American Library Association. p. 585+. ISBN 978-0-8389-0609-5.
5. "Kingdom of Morocco". International Encyclopedia of the Stock Market. Fitzroy Dearborn. 1999. ISBN 978-1-884964-35-0.
6. "Movie Theaters in Casablanca, Morocco". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved 30 October 2014.
7. James G. Ryan and Leonard Schlup, ed. (2006). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of the 1940s. M.E. Sharpe. p. 436+. ISBN 978-0-7656-2107-8.
8. Muriel E. Chamberlain (1998). Longman Companion to European Decolonisation in the Twentieth Century. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-89744-6.
9. "On This Day", New York Times, retrieved 30 January 2015
10. "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1955. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations.
11. The State of African Cities 2014. United Nations Human Settlements Programme. 10 September 2015. ISBN 978-92-1-132598-0. Archived from the original on 10 September 2014.
12. "Casablanca (Morocco) -- Newspapers". Global Resources Network. Chicago, US: Center for Research Libraries. Retrieved 30 October 2014.
13. 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.
14. Ossman 1994.
15. United Nations Department for Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis, Statistics Division (1997). "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". 1995 Demographic Yearbook. New York. pp. 262–321.
16. Zakia Salime (28 May 2011). "Rapping the Revolution". Muftah.org.
17. "Morocco Profile: Timeline". BBC News. Retrieved 30 October 2014.
18. Petit Futé 2013.
19. "Table 8 - Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants", Demographic Yearbook – 2018, United Nations
20. https://www.hcp.ma/reg-casablanca/attachment/673830/

This article incorporates information from the French Wikipedia.

Bibliography

in English

• Leo Africanus; John Pory (1896), "Of Anfa a towne in Temesna", in Robert Brown (ed.), History and Description of Africa, 2, London: Hakluyt Society, OCLC 2649691 (written in the 16th century)
• "Casablanca", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424
• "Al-Dar al-Bayda". Encyclopedia of Islam. Leiden: Brill. 1985.
• Susan Ossman (1994). Picturing Casablanca: Portraits of Power in a Modern City. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-91431-5.
• Mark Ellingham (2001), "Casablanca", Rough Guide to Morocco (6th ed.), London: Rough Guides, p. 299+, OL 24218635M
• Jean-Louis Cohen; Monique Eleb (2003). Casablanca: colonial myths and architectural ventures. Monacelli Press. ISBN 978-1-58093-087-1.
• Paul Tiyambe Zeleza; Dickson Eyoh, eds. (2003). "Casablanca, Morocco". Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History. Routledge. ISBN 0415234794.
• James A. Miller (2005). "Casablanca". In Kevin Shillington (ed.). Encyclopedia of African History. Fitzroy Dearborn. p. 222. ISBN 978-1-135-45670-2.
• Thomas K. Park; Aomar Boum (2006). "Casablanca". Historical Dictionary of Morocco (2nd ed.). Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6511-2.
• Jean-Louis Cohen (2008). "Casablanca". The City in the Islamic World. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill. p. 1009+. ISBN 9789004162402.
• Michael R.T. Dumper; Bruce E. Stanley, eds. (2008), "Casablanca", Cities of the Middle East and North Africa, Santa Barbara, US: ABC-CLIO, p. 114+

in French

• Maurice de Périgny (1919). Au Maroc; Casablanca-Rabat-Meknes (in French).CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Albert Charton (1924). "Casablanca". Annales de géographie (in French). 33 (183): 303–307. doi:10.3406/geo.1924.9684 – via Persee.fr.

• E.B.; J. C. Santucci (1993), "Casablanca", Encyclopédie berbère (in French), 12 – via Revues.org
• "Histoire". Casablanca (in French). Petit Futé. 2013. p. 31+. ISBN 978-2-7469-6459-4.

External links

• "(Casablanca)". Directory of Open Access Journals. UK. (Bibliography of open access articles)
• "Morocco: Casablanca". Archnet. Archived from the original on 5 May 2008.
• Map of Casablanca, 1942.
• "(Articles related to Casablanca)". Connecting-Africa. Leiden, Netherlands: African Studies Centre.
• Christian Zimmermann (ed.). "(Casablanca)". Research Papers in Economics. US: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. (Bibliography)