Chronography of Yemen
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2023
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Choropleth map, % growth Islamic
population by country 1960 � 2000.
11/2019, Separatists and the Yemen
Govermnent signed a power-sharing agreement to end the conflict.
1/2018, Yemeni separatists backed
by the United Arab Emirates took control of Aden.
31
December 2017,
Cholera cases in Yemen, since April 2017, now stood at 994,751, with 2,226
cholera deaths, out of a total population of 28 million. Worst hit was the
Yemeni port city of Al Hodeida, with nearly 150,000 cholera cases in a population
of 400,000.
12/2017, Houthi rebels turned against Saleh.
11/2017, Saudi forces tightened
their blockade after a rocket from Yemen fell near Riyadh.
1/2017, The UN estimated the death
toll in Yemen as 10,000.
2015, Houthi forces, backed by Iran
and against Saudi Arabia, captured the Yemeni port of Al Hodeida.
3/2015, Saudi-led coalition forces
bombed Houthi
forces, in support of Hadi�s government.
26
January 2015,
Saudi Arabia led air strikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen. Houthi forces seized the
Presidential Palace and Hadi fled to Aden, Yemen�s
second city.
9/2014, Houthi rebels took control of most
of Sana�a and allied with pro-Saleh forces.
8/2014, Fuel process rose sharply,
provoking protests against Hadi.
27
February 2012,
Protests
in Yemen connected with the Arab Spring forced the resignation of President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
3 June� 2011, Yemeni
President Ali Abdullah
Saleh fled the country.
3 February 2011, Arab Spring protests in Yemen. Adb Rabbu Mansour Hadi, Saleh�s former
deputy, took over control.
1/2011, Protests
against President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who had been in power since 1978.
3
January 2010,
The UK and USA closed their embassies in Yemen due to threats of civilian
unrest and Al Quaeda activity.
2009, Yemeni Army began a new offensive against Houthi
rebels in sorthern� Saada Province.
11/2008, Opposition rally in Sanaa,
warning shots fored by police.
9/2008, Al Quaeda attacked the US
Embassy in Sanaa, killimg 12 people.
1/2007, Houthi rebellion began in the north.
2006, President Saleh was
re-elected.
2004, A rebellion by supporters of dissident
cleric Hussein
al Houthi began in the north. The rebellion ended in 2005 with a
pardon for the rebels.
12
October� 2000, Suicide bombers rammed a
dinghy full of explosives into the side of the US warship USS Cole in Aden,
killing 17 sailors.
1997, President Saleh�s General
People�s Congress (GPC) won an absolute majority in general elections.
7 July� 1994, Troops from North Yemen
occupied Aden in the south. The civil war ended, with the North triumphant.
5 May 1994, In Yemen, after preliminary skirmishes, fulol
scale hostilities began between President Abdullah Saleh, representing
conservative northern interests, and Vice President Ali Saleh al Beidh,
representing the Marxist south. The conflict was mostly a power struggle
between these two men, whereas most Yemenis welcomed the unification of the
country. However Saudi Arabia began supporting President Saleh, whereas al Beidh
allied with Iraq.
3 February 1992, The discovery of the lost city of Ubar,
dated around 2000 BC, in the Arabian desert on the Omar-Yemen border, was
announced.
1991, The Yemeni Government
opposed US-led action in Iraq. As a result, Yemeni workers were expelled from
Saudi Arabia.
22 May 1990, The leaders of the Yemen Arab
Republic and the People�s Democratic Republic of Yemen agreed to merge their
two countries.
1987, Oil production began in
Yemen.
1980, Ismail was replaced by the more
moderate Ali
Nasir Muhammad.
19 March 1979, Ceasefire in hostilities between North and South
Yemen.
24 February 1979, Border guards in North and South Yemen began
firing on each other.
24 June� 1978, The President of North Yemen was
killed by a bomb as he received the credentials of a new ambassador from South
Yemen. The radical Abdalfarrah Ismail came to power.
1974, Army coup in the Yemen Arab
Republic.
28 November 1972, North and South Yemen agreed to unify.
27/9/1972, Border fighting between North and South Yemen.
1970, South Yemen was renamed
the People�s Democratic Republic of Yemen, after a Marxist coup.
30 November 1967. The British withdrew from Aden, and the Republic of South Yemen was formed. Frontier
fighting between Aden and (North) Yemen had been a drain on the British
military since 1964.
21 March 1963, Aden joined the South Arabian Federation.
9/1962, Brigadier Adbullah-al-Sallal
seized power from the autocratic Imam Ahmad of North Yemen. In subsequent
fighting, Egypt
backed him against Saudi forces who supported the Imam. However Yemen proved to be �Egypt�s
Vietnam�, requiring 70,000 Egypotian soldiers, of whom 10,000 died there.
Egyptian involvement in Yemen was reduced when the 1967 war with Israel
became a greater priority.
2 May 1958, State of Emergency declared in Aden.
9 March 1958, Yemen merged with the United Arab
Republic to form the United Arab States.
16 January 1957. UK forces repelled an attempted invasion of the colony of Aden by
Yemeni forces.
Aden was annexed from Yemeni territory by the British in 1839 as a military
stronghold and naval fuelling station. Yemeni forces managed to overrun some
villages just inside Aden but were repelled by ground based rockets and air
fire.
1 November 1955, Yemen signed a five year
treaty of friendship with the USSR, in Cairo.
2 December 1947, Anti-Jewish riots broke out in the British
colony of Aden (90% Muslim, 5% Jewish, 5% other). 82 Jews, 38 Arabs and 3
others were killed.
1
April 1937,
Aden, administered by the British Government in India since 16 January 1839, became a Crown
Colony.� Aden was useful to Britain as a
coaling station on the way to India, and there was an oil refinery there.
See Saudi
Arabia for 1934 Saudi-Yemen War
1918,
North Yemen gained indeoendence as the Ottoman Empire was dissolved. Imam Yahya was the first ruler.
1849,
The North Yemen area came under Ottoman rule.
16 January 1839. The British
took over Aden, annexing it to British India.� This followed the mistreatment of a British
crew shipwrecked there in 1837 and the Sultan�s failure to sell the town to the
British as promised by his father.
630,
Muslim forces occupied the Yemen area.
525,
Ethiopia conquered Yemen.
