Timeline of Port Said

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Port Said, Egypt.

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

• 1859
  • Port Said founded.^[1]
  • Population: 150.^[2]
• 1861 - Population: 4,000.^[2]
• 1863 - Sweet Water Canal built.
• 1869
  • Port Said Lighthouse begins operating.
  • November: Suez Canal opens.
• 1870 - Coal heaving porters guild established.^[3]
• 1870s - Anti-European unrest.^[4]
• 1881 - Abbas Mosque commissioned (built later).^[5]
• 1883 - Population: 17,000.^[6]
• 1895 - Headquarter of the Suez Canal Authority in Port Said built.^[7]
• 1896 - First Cinema Projection in the city took place.
• 1899 - De Lesseps statue unveiled on Jetee Ouest (pier).^[6]

20th century

• 1904 - Cairo-Port Said railway begins operating.
• 1917 - Russian battleship Peresvet sinks offshore.
• 1920 - Al-Masry Sporting Club founded.
• 1926
  • Port Fouad founded on opposite side of Suez Canal.
  • Catholic Diocese of the Canal of Suez [it] established.^[8]
• 1947 - Population: 177,703.^[9]
• 1955 - Port Said Stadium opens.
• 1956
  • 5 November: British and French forces arrive during Suez Crisis.^[10]
  • 23 December: British and French troops depart.^[10]
  • December: Moorhouse Affair.
• 1960 - Population: 244,000.^[11]
• 1967 - After Israeli forces occupy Sinai Peninsula, some residents begin to flee city.^[12]
• 1974 - Population: 342,000.^[13]
• 1976
  • Suez Canal University established.
  • Port Said declared a duty-free port.
• 1992 - Population: 460,000 (estimate).^[14]
• 1995 - Museum of Modern Art opens.
• 1998 - History Gardens laid out.^[15]
• 1999 - Port Said Hall (arena) opens.

21st century

• 2004
  • Suez Canal Container Terminal begins operating.
  • Misr Public Library inaugurated.
• 2005 - Port Said International School opens.
• 2008
  • December: 2008 Arab Futsal Championship held.
  • Population: 588,938.^[1]
• 2010
  • Port Said University established.
  • Population: 603,787.
• 2012 - 1 February: Port Said Stadium riot.^[16]
• 2013
  • 26 January: Unrest begins after verdict of stadium riot.^[1]
  • 27 January: Anti-Morsi protest.^[1]
  • 17–19 February: Labor strike, protest.^[1]
  • March: Unrest.^[1]
• 2017 - Population: 749,371 (urban agglomeration).^[17]

See also

• History of Port Said
• Timelines of other cities in Egypt: Alexandria, Cairo
• Timeline of Egypt [fr]