Pearls & the Creek · event 2 of 7

1580

Dubai appears in a Venetian record. The pearl merchant Gasparo Balbi lists it among the pearling centres of the Gulf — the first known written mention of the name.

The Pearls & the Creek era

  1. c. 900 AD
  2. 1580
  3. 1820
  4. 1833
  5. 1853
  6. 1892
  7. 1894

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