page_title: Timeline of Khartoum
section_title: 20th century
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of Khartoum / 20th century
caption_attribution_description: English: Sudan. Khartoum. River in foreground
context_page_description: The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Khartoum, Sudan.
context_section_description: 1902
  Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratories and Coptic Girls School open.
  Population: 25,000.
  1903 - Gordon Memorial College opens.
  1905 - Military academy opens.
  1909 - Blue Nile Road and Railway Bridge built to Halfaya.
  1911 - Sudan Herald newspaper begins publication.
  1912 - Cathedral Church of All Saints consecrated.
  1913 - Famine.
  1924
  Demonstrations.
  Flood.
  Kitchener School of Medicine established.
  1926 - White Nile Bridge to Omdurman built.
  1928 - Unity High School for Girls founded.
  1946 - Flood.
  1950 - Al Khartoum Sports Club formed.
  1952 - Acropole Hotel in business.
  1954 - Population: 100,000 (approximate).
  1955 - Area of city: 7.9 square kilometers.
  1956
  1 January: City becomes capital of independent Republic of Sudan.
  University of Khartoum established.
  1957
  Municipal Stadium opens.
  Khartoum American School established.
  1960 - Bank of Sudan headquartered in Khartoum.
  1962 - Industrial Bank of Sudan opens.
  1964 - Population: 173,500.
  1967 - August: Arab League summit held.
  1970
  Area of city: 13.3 square kilometers.
  Bank of Khartoum established.
  1971
  National Museum of Sudan established.
  Population: 261,840.
  1973
  August: Anti-government unrest.
  Saudi embassy held by Palestinian militants.
  1974 - Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Khartoum formed.
  1976 - Friendship Hall built.
  1977 - Oil pipeline to Port Sudan completed.
  1978 - July - Organisation of African Unity summit held.
  1980 - Area of city: 101.3 square kilometers.
  1983
  September: Islamic law in effect.
  University of Juba relocates to Khartoum (approximate date).
  1984
  March: Teacher/doctor strike begins.
  El-Sheikh Mosque built.
  1985
  March: Economic protest.
  Population: 1,611,000 (urban agglomeration).
  1988 - Flood.
  1990 - Population: 2,360,000 (urban agglomeration).
  1991
  City becomes part of Khartoum federal state (administrative region).
  Popular Arab and Islamic Congress held in city.
  1992 - Khartoum International Airport terminal opens.
  1993
  Khartoum Bank Group formed.
  Sudatel headquartered in Khartoum.
  Population: 924,505 city.
  1994 - Venezuelan criminal Carlos the Jackal arrested in Khartoum.
  1995
  Khartoum Stock Exchange begins trading.
  Population: 3,088,000 (urban agglomeration).
  1997 - Greater Nile Petroleum Operating Company incorporated.
  1998
  August: Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Khartoum North bombed by U.S. forces.
  Area of city: 343.8 square kilometers.
  1999
  Ibrahim Malik Islamic Center built.
  Republican Palace Museum opens.
  Greater Nile Oil Pipeline in operation.
  2000
  Khartoum Monitor newspaper begins publication.
  Population: 3,505,000 (urban agglomeration).
caption: Aerial view of Khartoum, 1936
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