|
1839 |
British
capture Aden |
| |
Treaty of
Friendship between British and Sultan of
Lahej and other local rulers of
territory adjacent to Aden |
| |
St. Anthony's
Church built |
| |
Post Office opens in Crater (Camp) |
|
1842 |
Captain
Luke Thomas
arrived in Aden |
| |
Major flooding from rainfall 28th
December |
| 1844 |
Smallpox epidemic |
| 1846 |
Major
flooding 2nd May |
| |
Cholera
outbreak 20 Europeans & 366-480 natives
died |
| |
Civil Hospital built 1846 or earlier
(dates not certain) |
| 1848 |
Smallpox epidemic. Few casualities |
| |
Smallpox Hospital built in Tawila
Valley |
| 1850 |
St. Joseph's Church
built |
|
1853 |
Aden
declared a free port by East India
Company |
| 1854 |
First
postage stamps issued |
| |
Commander
Haines
, Moolla Jaffa & Lt. C.J. Cruttenden
removed from their posts |
|
1855 |
Cowasjee
Dinshaw
arrives in Aden |
| 1856 |
Restoration of
Tawila Tanks starts |
| |
Census |
| 1857 |
Steamer Point Post Office built |
| 1858 |
Cholera outbreak. 15 Europeans & 560
natives died |
| |
New Steamer Point Post Office opened |
| |
Construction started on Coghlans
school |
| 1859 |
Major
flooding |
| |
Cholera outbreak following floods. 1
European & 83 natives died |
| 1860 |
Port moved from Front Bay to Tawahi |
| |
Commander
Haines
died |
| |
Coghlans school closed down end of
February |
| 1863/4 |
Murrain, a cattle disease, killed
most of the animals |
| 1864 |
Christ Church
built |
|
|
Garrison church at Steamer Point consecrated
by Bishop of Bombay in February |
|
|
Construction starts on 4
infantry
barrack blocks |
|
|
Murrain continues - famine imminent |
|
1865 |
Paul Ries & Sons
business started |
| |
Cholera from May-August. 1 European
& 53 natives died |
|
1866 |
Ras
Marshag lighthouse
built |
| |
Famine |
| |
New school founded, recommended by
Col. Merewether |
| 1867 |
Italian Consulate established |
| |
Col. Merewether raised the Aden
Levy, renamed Aden Troop |
| |
Garrison church
in Crater under construction |
| |
Bombay Act III
requires registration of
prostitutes
|
| 1867/8 |
Cholera kills 57 |
| 1868 |
New, larger Steamer Point Post
Office completed and opened on 31st
March |
|
1869 |
Suez
Canal opens |
| |
Post Office opens |
| |
Smallpox. 273 cases, 103 died,
mostly Somalis |
| 1870 |
May 28th.
Major storms and flooding |
| |
Submarine cable line opened for
traffic |
| 1871 |
St. Mary’s
Garrison Church consecrated by
Bishop of Bombay |
| |
Bhicajee Cowasjee started business |
| 1872/3 |
Severe dengue fever epidemic. Almost
everyone affected but no deaths |
| |
Census |
| 1873/4 |
Cattle disease killed many animals |
| |
Metalled road was laid (just) around the
Crescent |
| 1875 |
Prince of Wales visits |
|
1880 |
Arthur
Rimbaud
arrived in Aden |
|
1883 |
Parsee
Temple
built |
|
1886 |
Protectorate treaty with Sultan of Qishn
and Socotra |
| |
Luke Thomas
Building completed |
| 1887 |
Ion
Keith-Falconer died |
|
1888 |
Oromo
slaves rescued |
| 1891 |
Sheikh Othman Post Office opened |
| |
Census |
| 1892 |
Khormaksar Post Office opened 1st
April |
|
1894/5 |
Hogg Clock
Tower
built |
| |
National
Bank of India opened |
|
1901 |
Prince of
Wales visits Aden |
|
1905/1906 |
Duke
of Connaught visits |
|
1911 |
King George V
visits
|
| 1912 |
'The King's
Cup', a polo trophy, arrived from
England |
|
1914 |
Convention with Turkey defining the
border between the Protectorate and the
Ottoman Empire |
| 1915/1916 |
Military Railway to Sheikh Othman
constructed |
| 1921 |
Prince of Wales
(later King Edward
VIII) visited |
| 1922 |
Maalla-Lahej railway opened for
public |
| 1924 |
Scott
Market opened in Maalla |
| 1927 |
April - Aden becomes an Air Command |
| 1929 |
Aden Railway closed down |
| |
Maalla Post Office closed |
| |
Selim Jewish Girl's School
founded |
| 1930 |
Aden Railway dismantled |
| 1931 |
Maalla Post Office closed 1st May |
| |
Gandhi
visits |
| |
Census |
|
1932 |
Aden
become Chief Commissionership under
control of Central Government of India |
| |
Crescent
Hotel
opened [Year not 100% certain. May have been
1920-28] |
| 1934 |
King of
Italy visits |
| |
Baden
Powell visits |
| |
King's Jubilee |
| 1936 |
Perim Post Office closed 1st October |
|
1937 |
Aden
becomes a Crown Colony, separate from
India |
| |
Aden's Centenary |
| 1940 |
11th June Italian
aircraft bombed Aden |
| 1946 |
Census held |
| |
December -
anti-Jewish riots |
| |
King
George V Jewish Boys School burned
in riots |
|
1947 |
Legislative Council formed in Aden
Colony |
| |
Start of
the Abyan agricultural and irrigation
scheme with a grant of £270,000 the
Colonial Development & Welfare Fund. |
|
1950 |
Crescent Hotel
Annexe
opened |
|
|
St. Mary’s
Garrison Church closed |
|
1949 |
Aden
Airways formed |
|
1951 |
Currency changes from the Indian Rupee
to the East African Shilling |
| |
Antonin Besse
died |
|
1953 |
Aden
College opened |
|
1954 |
Queen
Elizabeth visits Aden |
| |
Queen Elizabeth Hospital opened in
Khormaksar |
| |
Construction began on
Rock Hotel |
| |
BP Oil
Refinery opens at Little Aden |
|
1955 |
'Democratic' elections for the Aden
Colony Legislative Council |
| |
President Tito of Yugoslavia visited |
| |
Census held. The first since 1946. |
|
1956 |
Rock Hotel
opened |
| |
Lady Churchill visited |
| |
Sir Tom Hickinbotham retired |
| |
Sir William Luce
appointed Governor |
|
1958 |
New
Civil Hospital opened |
|
1959 |
Inauguration of new constitution and Legislative
Council |
| 1963 |
Sir Charles Hepburn Johnston
appointed High Commissioner |
| |
Sir Kennedy Trevaskis
appointed High Commissioner |
| 1964 |
Sir Richard Turnbull
appointed High Commissioner |
| 1965 |
Sir Arthur Charles assassinated 1st
September |
| |
26th September Aden Constitution suspended |
| 1966 |
Bombing
of Aden Airways DC3 22nd November |
|
1967 |
Sir Humphrey Trevelyan
appointed High Commissioner |
| |
British
withdraw from Aden |
| |
Queen Victoria
Statue moved to British Consulate |
| |
Aden
Airways
Viscount bombed 21st July |
|
1976 |
Parsee
Holy Flame
moved to Lonvala, India |
|
2002 |
Queen
Victoria Statue
returned to Victoria Park Gardens |
| 2008 |
St Mary's
Garrison Church demolished |
| |
Talk of relocating the minaret of
the former Manara Mosque |
