Timeline of Amman

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Amman, Kingdom of Jordan. {{Dynamic list}} {{TOC right}}

==Prior to 20th century== {{History of Jordan}}

* 7250 BCE - 'Ain Ghazal Neolithic settlement was built spanning over an area of 15 hectares. * 800 BCE - Amman Citadel Inscription * 2nd century CE - Roman theatre and Nymphaeum built (approximate date).<ref name=mwnf2000 /> * 3rd century CE - Rujm Al-Malfouf (tower) in use.<ref>{{cite journal |title=American Schools of Oriental Research Newsletter |number= 4 |date= December 1969 }}</ref> * 8th century - Al-Masjid al-Umawi (mosque) and Al-Qasr Umawi (palace) built.<ref name=archnet>{{cite web |url= http://archnet.org/library/places/one-place.jsp?place_id=1463&collection_id=23 |title= Amman |author= ArchNet |access-date= 29 January 2013 |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://archive.today/20130226001944/http://archnet.org/library/places/one-place.jsp?place_id=1463&collection_id=23 |archive-date= 26 February 2013 |author-link= ArchNet }}</ref> * 1879 - Population: 150. English traveller Laurence Oliphant wrote of a visit in 1879 in his ''The Land of Gilead'', suggesting that the area was uninhabited prior to the arrival of the Circassians.{{refn|group=nb|[https://archive.org/stream/landofgileadwith00oliprich#page/256/mode/2up Oliphant, Land of Gilead], quote: "...we were quickly surrounded by a group of Circassians who have been settled by the order of the Government amidst these ruins... They said that 500 of them had arrived here about three months previously, but that the majority had speedily become discontented with their prospects and had gone away; 150, including women and children, were all that remained, and these had decided to settle here. The spot had been selected, in the first instance, on account of the shelter which the caverns and old rock-cut tombs afforded... It seems never to have been occupied either by the Saracens or Turks, and consequently from the date of the Arab wars in the seventh century has remained a desolation and a wilderness. It has been reserved for the Circassians to be the first settled population, after an interval of more than a thousand years, to take possession of these crumbling remains of former greatness. It is marvellous that during all that time Ammon should have resisted all attempts permanently to change its name, and be known among the Arabs of the present day by the identical appellation it bore when we first heard of it, 1500 years before the Christian era, as being the repository of the great iron bedstead of Og the king of Bashan..."}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ammancity100.gov.jo/en/content/story-amman/end-ummayad-era-till-1878 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100212032543/http://ammancity100.gov.jo/en/content/story-amman/end-ummayad-era-till-1878 |archive-date=2010-02-12 |title=Amman Centennial | From the end of the Umayyad era till 1878 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ammaneguide.com/orientation.php |title=Amman USA. About Amman, Amman Tourism |access-date=2015-09-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150811071048/http://ammaneguide.com/orientation.php |archive-date=2015-08-11 |url-status=dead }}</ref> * 1890 - Population: 1,000.{{sfn|Ricca|2008}}

==20th century== * 1908 - Hejaz Railway in operation.<ref>{{cite journal |journal=Geographical Journal |year=1908 |location=London |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MqgMAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA570 |title=Hejaz Railway }}</ref> * 1909 ** Municipal council formed.{{sfn|Ricca|2008}} ** Population: 2,000 (approximate).{{sfn|Ricca|2008}} * 1918 ** March: First Battle of Amman.<ref>{{cite book|author1= Stephen Pope |author2=Elizabeth-Anne Wheal|title=Dictionary of the First World War|year= 1995 |publisher=Macmillan |isbn=978-0-85052-979-1 |chapter=Select Chronology |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=fOrNAwAAQBAJ |page=523+ }}</ref> ** 25 September: Second Battle of Amman. * 1923 - {{Interlanguage link multi|Al-Husseini Mosque|ar|3=المسجد الحسيني}} built.<ref name=mwnf2000>{{cite book |title=The Umayyads: The Rise of Islamic Art |year=2000 |publisher= Museum With No Frontiers |location=Vienna }}</ref> * 1926 - Raghadan Palace built. * 1928 - Amman becomes capital of the Emirate of Transjordan.{{sfn|Ricca|2008}} * 1932 - Al-Faisaly Football Club formed. * 1938 - National electricity company founded.{{sfn|Dieterich|2003}} * 1946 - City becomes capital of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.{{sfn|Ricca|2008}} * 1947 - Population: 33,110.{{sfn|Doan|1992}} * 1948 - Palestinian population expands.{{sfn|Ricca|2008}} * 1949 - Cornerstone of Church of the Redeemer, Amman is laid. * 1951 - Jordan Archaeological Museum established. * 1952 - Population: 103,304.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/1950_round.htm |work=Demographic Yearbook 1955 |publisher=Statistical Office of the United Nations |location=New York |title=Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants }}</ref> * 1956 - Al-Wehdat Sports Club formed. * 1958 - Amman Surgical Hospital built.<ref name=archnet /> * 1961 ** Abu Darweesh Mosque built. ** Population: 246,475.{{sfn|Jones|1969}} * 1962 - University of Jordan established. * 1963 - Amman International Stadium opens. * 1966 - Population: 330,000.{{sfn|Jones|1969}} * 1967 ** Palestinian war refugee population expands.{{sfn|Ricca|2008}} ** ''Ad-Dustour'' newspaper begins publication. * 1970 - September: Conflict begins between Jordanian Armed Forces and Palestine Liberation Organisation. * 1974 - Population: 598,000 (approximate).<ref>{{cite book |chapter-url= https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/1970_round.htm |title=Demographic Yearbook 1975 |year=1976 |author=United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office |location=New York |chapter=Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants |pages=253–279 }}</ref> * 1975 - ''The Jordan Times'' newspaper begins publication. * 1981 - Jordan Rally (automotive race) begins. * 1983 - Queen Alia International Airport built. * 1985 - Population: 812,500 (estimate).<ref>{{cite book |chapter-url= https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/1980_round.htm |title=1985 Demographic Yearbook |year=1987 |author=United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office |location=New York |chapter=Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants |pages=247–289 }}</ref> * 1989 ** Ali Suheimat becomes mayor. ** King Abdullah I Mosque and Kan Zaman Tourist Village<ref name=archnet /> constructed. * 1991 - Palestinian war refugee population expands.{{sfn|Ricca|2008}} * 1993 - Jordan Hospital and Jubilee School established. * 1994 - Arab Medical Center in business. * 1997 - Amanat 'Amman al-Kubra (city hall) built.<ref name=archnet /> * 1998 - King Abdullah Stadium opens. * 1999 - Amman Stock Exchange founded. * 2000 - Al-Hussein Cultural Center inaugurated.<ref name=gam>{{cite web |url=http://www.ammancity.gov.jo/en/services |title=Greater Amman Municipality |access-date=29 January 2013 }}{{Dead link|date=July 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=no }}</ref>

==21st century==

* 2001 - Jordan Media City established. * 2002 ** Broadcasting of Arab Radio and Television Network relocated to Amman.<ref name="ratta2015">{{cite book|editor=Donatella Della Ratta|title=Arab Media Moguls|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7agZCAAAQBAJ|year= 2015|publisher=I.B.Tauris|isbn=978-1-78076-732-1 |chapter=Saleh Kamel: Investing in Islam |author= Ehab Galal |display-editors=etal}}</ref> ** City designated an Arab Capital of Culture. * 2003 ** ''Alghad'' newspaper begins publication. ** Iraqi war refugee population expands.{{sfn|Ricca|2008}} ** Mecca Mall opens. ** Le Royal Hotel built. ** Raghadan Flagpole in use. * 2004 - ''Al Ghad'' newspaper begins publication.<ref name=nyt2005>{{citation |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/06/weekinreview/06fatt.html |work=New York Times |date= 6 February 2005 |title= Spreading the Word: Who's Who in the Arab Media }}</ref> * 2005 ** Souk Jara begins in Jabal Amman. ** 9 November: Hotel bombings. * 2006 ** Omar Maani becomes mayor. ** Abdoun Bridge and King Hussein Ben Talal Mosque built.{{citation needed|date=January 2013}} ** City Mall opens. * 2007 - Children's Museum established. * 2008 ** Amman Stand-up Comedy Festival begins. ** Rainbow Street renovated.<ref name=archnet /> * 2010 - Population: 1,919,000. * 2011 ** Protests.<ref name=WorldBook>{{citation |title=Timelines: History of Jordan from 1917 to 2011 |encyclopedia=World Book |location=USA }}</ref> ** Abdul Halim Al Kilani becomes mayor. * 2012 ** Prophet Mohammad Museum opens. ** TAJ Lifestyle Center opens * 2015 - 9 November: Amman shooting attack. * 2018 - June: Economic protests.<ref>{{citation |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-44345136 |work=BBC News |title=Jordanians in third night of tax rise protests |date= 3 June 2018 }}</ref>

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==Bibliography== {{Refbegin}} ;Published in 19th century * {{Citation |publisher = S. Converse |location = New Haven |author1 = Jedidiah Morse |author-link1=Jedidiah Morse |author2=Richard C. Morse |title = A New Universal Gazetteer |date = 1823 |edition= 4th |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/newuniversalgaze00morsrich#page/36/mode/1up |chapter=Ammon }} * {{Citation |publisher = J. Murray |location = London |title = Handbook for Travellers in Syria and Palestine |date = 1858 |oclc = 2300777 |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=3kNTAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA304 |chapter= Rabbath-Ammon |title-link = Murray's Handbooks for Travellers }} * {{Citation |publisher = Karl Baedeker |location = Leipsig |title = Palestine and Syria |date = 1876 |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=qoIDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA305 |chapter=Amman }}. [https://books.google.com/books?id=8QdZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA170 1898 ed.] * {{Citation |publisher = T. Cook & Son |location = London |title = Cook's Tourists' Handbook for Palestine and Syria |date = 1876 |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/cookstouristsha13ltdgoog#page/n473/mode/2up |chapter= Rabbath Ammon |title-link = Cook's Travellers Handbooks }} * {{cite book |title=Itinéraire descriptif, historique et archéologique de l'Orient |author= Èmile Isambert |year =1881 |language =fr |series = Guides Joanne |volume=3: Syrie, Palestine |chapter= Amman |chapter-url= http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433002689614?urlappend=%3Bseq=592 |publisher= Paris |hdl= 2027/nyp.33433002689614?urlappend=%3Bseq=592 }}

;Published in 20th century * {{cite journal |title=Rapid Population Growth in Baghdad and Amman |author= L. W. Jones |journal= Middle East Journal |volume=23 |issue= 2 |pages= 209–215 |year=1969 |jstor=4324436 |ref= {{harvid|Jones|1969}} }} * {{cite journal |title=Class Differentiation and the Informal Sector in Amman, Jordan |author=Rebecca Miles Doan |journal= International Journal of Middle East Studies |volume= 24 |year=1992 |ref= {{harvid|Doan|1992}} }}

;Published in 21st century * {{cite journal |title=Electrical Current and Nationalist Trends in Transjordan: Pinhas Rutenberg and the Electrification of Amman |author=Renate Dieterich |journal= Die Welt des Islams |volume=43 |issue=1 |pages=88–101 |year=2003 |jstor=20140649 |ref= {{harvid|Dieterich|2003}} |doi=10.1163/157006003763317795 }} * {{Citation |publisher = ABC-CLIO |location = Santa Barbara, USA |editor1 = Michael R.T. Dumper |editor2=Bruce E. Stanley |author=Simone Ricca |chapter=Amman |title = Cities of the Middle East and North Africa |date = 2008 |ref= {{harvid|Ricca|2008}} }}

==External links== {{commons category|History of Amman}} * {{cite web |url=http://www.princeton.edu/researchphotographs/archaeological-archives/ |publisher=Princeton University, Department of Art & Archaeology |work=Archaeological Archives |title=Butler Archive: Catalogue of Photographs }} (Includes depictions of Amman collected by the American Archaeological Expeditions to Syria, etc., 1899-1909)

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