The Trucial Coast · event 4 of 5

1958

Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed succeeds. He will govern Dubai until 1990 and is the architect of nearly everything that follows.

The The Trucial Coast era

  1. 1901
  2. 1929–1930s
  3. 1937
  4. 1958
  5. 1961

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