Timeline of Port Said
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Port Said, Egypt.
Prior to 20th century
- 1859
- * Port Said founded.
- * Population: 150.
- 1861 - Population: 4,000.
- 1863 - Sweet Water Canal built.
- 1869
- * Port Said Lighthouse begins operating.
- * November: Suez Canal opens.
- 1870 - Coal heaving porters guild established.
- 1870s - Anti-European unrest.
- 1881 - Abbas Mosque commissioned.
- 1883 - Population: 17,000.
- 1895 - Headquarter of the Suez Canal Authority in Port Said built.
- 1896 - First Cinema Projection in the city took place.
- 1899 - De Lesseps statue unveiled on Jetee Ouest.
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.
- * established.
- 1947 - Population: 177,703.
- 1955 - Port Said Stadium opens.
- 1956
- * 5 November: British and French forces arrive during Suez Crisis.
- * 23 December: British and French troops depart.
- * December: Moorhouse Affair.
- 1960 - Population: 244,000.
- 1967 - After Israeli forces occupy Sinai Peninsula, some residents begin to flee city.
- 1974 - Population: 342,000.
- 1976
- * Suez Canal University established.
- * Port Said declared a duty-free port.
- 1992 - Population: 460,000.
- 1995 - Museum of Modern Art opens.
- 1998 - History Gardens laid out.
- 1999 - Port Said Hall 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.
- 2010
- * Port Said University established.
- * Population: 603,787.
- 2012 - 1 February: Port Said Stadium riot.
- 2013
- * 26 January: Unrest begins after verdict of stadium riot.
- * 27 January: Anti-Morsi protest.
- * 17–19 February: Labor strike, protest.
- * March: Unrest.
- 2017 - Population: 749,371.