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Yemen

country in West Asia

40 dated entries naming Yemen, drawn from 36 separate years between 275 CE and 2023 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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3rd century

  • 275Approximate date – Himyar king Shammar Yahri'sh conquers Hadhramaut, Najran and Tihamah, unifying the territory later known as Yemen.source

6th century

  • 522Dhu Nuwas seizes the throne of the Himyarite Kingdom in Yemen. He attacks the Aksumite garrison at Zafar, capturing the city and burning the churches.source
  • 523Arethas, leader of the Christian community in Yemensource
  • 525Kaleb, king of Aksum, collects a fleet and crosses from Africa to conquer Yemen. He establishes better trade ports on the Red Sea.source
  • 525Yūsuf Dhū Nuwas, king of the Himyarite Kingdom (Yemen).source
  • 570Abraha, Christian ruler of coastal Yemen, who was acting as a general for the Christian kingdom in Abyssinia, begins a military expedition in Arabia against the predominantly pagan Quraysh of Mecca, known as the Year of the Elephant.source
  • 574The Persian Empire overthrows the Axumite- and Byzantine-affiliated regimes in Yemen (Arabian Peninsula).source
  • 599King Khosrau II sends a Persian expedition to South Arabia and conquers Yemen. He establishes a military base to control the sea trade with the East (approximate date).source

7th century

  • 633Ridda Wars: Abu Bakr, caliph (khalifa) of the Rashidun Caliphate, launches a military campaign against the Arab tribe of Kinda, which inhabits the region of Najran (Yemen).source

10th century

  • 966Ali al-Sulayhi, sultan of Yemen, Tihamah and Mecca (d. 1066)source
  • 987Al-Mahdi al-Husayn, Zaidi imam of Yemen (d. 1013)source

11th century

  • 1013Al-Mahdi al-Husayn, Zaidi imam of Yemen (b. 987)source
  • 1048Arwa al-Sulayhi, queen and co-ruler of Yemen (d. 1138)source
  • 1053Abu'l-Fath an-Nasir ad-Dailami, imam of Yemen, killedsource
  • 1087Asma bint Shihab, queen and co-regent of Yemensource

12th century

  • 1138Arwa al-Sulayhi, queen and co-ruler of Yemen (b. 1048)source
  • 1174February – Saladin's brother Turan-Shah sails with an army and supporting fleet to conquer the Hejaz and Yemen.source

14th century

  • 1311December 26 – Al-Mahdi Muhammad bin al-Mutahhar, the Shi'ite Muslim Imam of the Zaidiyyah state in Yemen, leads Zaidi troops to victory in a battle in the Sheref district against the Sunni Muslim Rasulid sultanate that dominates most of Yemen. A 10-year ceasefire agreement is brokered between Zaidiyyah and the Rasulid Sultan al-Mu'ayyad Da'udsultan.source
  • 1363Al-Afdal al-Abbas succeeds Al-Mujahid Ali as Rasulid Sultan of Yemen.source
  • 1391November 2 – Al-Nasir Muhammad Salah al-Din, Imam of the Zaydi sect of Shia Islam in Yemen, dies at San'a from injuries sustained from being thrown off of his mule. Nasir's death is not announced for two months while his son Al-Mansur Ali bin Salah ad-Din becomes the new Imam but three other claimants attempt to claim the office as well.source

15th century

  • 1418December 30 – The Ming Chinese explorers, commanded by Admiral Zheng He, arrive in Yemen to open trade with the Arab kingdom, and the admiral is brought to the court of the Emir Al Malik al Nasir. The Chinese stay until January 27.source
  • 1436February 14 – In Yemen, the Imam Al-Mansur Ali bin Salah ad-Din of the Zaidi state becomes of one of the victims of a plague sweeping the kingdom. His son, an-Nasir Muhammad, becomes the new Imam but dies four weeks later.source
  • 1490Merchants carry coffee from Yemen to Mecca (approximate date).source

16th century

  • 1516September 17 – Based in Kamaran, an island in the Red Sea, the Mamluk Egyptian Admiral Selman Reis leads of fleet 19 ships in an unsuccessful attempt to take Yemen and Aden.source
  • 1523February 25 – Battle of al-Shihr on the Arabian Peninsula (in what is now Yemen): Troops from Portugal fight against the Kathiri Sultanate, ruled by the Emir Mutran bin Mansur. After a battle of one day, the Portuguese sack the capital, Al-Shihr, and establish a port on the Indian Ocean.source
  • 1547November 15 – A fleet of 60 Ottoman Navy ships, commanded by Piri Reis, arrives at the port of Aden (now in Yemen) and captures the city in slightly more than three months, by February 26, 1548.source

17th century

  • 1616Dutch traders smuggle the coffee plant out of Mocha, a port in Yemen on the Red Sea, and cultivate it at the Amsterdam Botanical Gardens. The Dutch later introduce it to Java.source
  • 1635The Ottomans are expelled from Yemen.source

20th century

  • 1965December 25 – The Yemeni Nasserist Unionist People's Organisation is founded in Ta'izz.source
  • 1982December 13 – The 6.2 North Yemen earthquake shakes southwestern Yemen with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing 2,800.source
  • 1990May 22 – Cold War: The leaders of the Yemen Arab Republic and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen announce the unification of their countries as the Republic of Yemen.source
  • 1994July 7 – 1994 civil war in Yemen: Aden is occupied by troops from North Yemen.source

21st century

  • 2012February 27 – Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh formally transfers power to Vice President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi, after a year of mass protests, ending his 33-year-long reign.source
  • 2015August 23 – A UAE military intelligence operation in the country of Yemen frees one British hostage.source
  • 2015January 22 – After Houthi forces seize the presidential palace, Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi resigns after months of unrest.source
  • 2015January 7 – Two gunmen belonging to Al-Qaeda's Yemen branch kill 12 people and injure 11 more at the Paris headquarters of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, prompting an anti-terrorism demonstration attended by over a million people and more than 40 world leaders.source
  • 2017March 10 – The UN warns that the world is facing the largest humanitarian crisis since World War II, with up to 20 million people at risk of starvation and famine in Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan and Nigeria.source
  • 2020April 8 – COVID-19 pandemic: The Saudi–led coalition declares a unilateral ceasefire in its operations against Houthi forces in Yemen in accordance with United Nations-led efforts.source
  • 2023April 19 – At least 90 people are killed and another 322 injured in a crowd crush during a Ramadan charity event in Sanaa, Yemen.source
  • 2023August 21 – Saudi Arabia is accused of mass killing hundreds of African migrants attempting to cross its border with Yemen.source

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