Timeline of Tashkent
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
Before 20th century[]
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Sheikhantaur Mosque, ca.1870s
Street in Tashkent, 1890s
- 500 BC – till 5th part of the Kushan empire[clarification needed]
- 1210 AD – City sacked by forces of Muhammad II of Khwarezm (approximate date).[1]
- 1220 – City sacked by forces of Genghis Khan.[2]
- 1451 – Dzhuma Mosque built.[3]
- 1485 – Yunus Khan in power.[4]
- 1569 – Kukeltash Madrasa built.[3]
- 1611 – Uprising; crackdown by forces of Imam-Quli Khan of Bukhara.[2]
- 1809 – City becomes part of the Khanate of Kokand.[4]
- 1840 – Cholera outbreak.[5]
- 1842 – Ak Mosque built.
- 1865
- 15 June: City captured by Russian forces led by Mikhail Chernyayev.[6]
- Population: 76,000.[7]
- 1867 – City becomes capital of Russian Turkestan, and center of the Syr-Darya Oblast.
- 1870
- 1871 – Population: 120,000 (estimate).[9]
- 1872 – Cholera outbreak.[5]
- 1874 – Turkestan Military District headquartered in Tashkent.
- 1876 – National Museum of Turkestan founded.[citation needed]
- 1877 – City government reorganized.[2]
- 1889 – Trans-Caspian Railway begins operating.[10]
- 1892 – 24 June: Demonstration related to public health.[11]
- 1895 – Samarkand-Tashkent railway begins operating.[12]
- 1896 – Lutheran Church built.[6]
- 1897 – Population: 156,506.
- 1898 – Russian Orthodox church built in Amir Temur Square.[citation needed]
20th century[]
- 1901 – Horsecar trams begin operating.[citation needed]
- 1904 – Orenburg-Tashkent Railway begins operating.[13]
- 1905 – "Mutiny of Tsarist officers."[4]
- 1910 – Monument to Konstantin von Kaufman dedicated.[14]
- 1913 – Population: 172,300.[15]
- 1914 – Military college established.[citation needed]
- 1916 – "Anti-labour conscription revolt."[4]
- 1917
- February Revolution.[16]
- 2 March: Tashkent Soviet established.[17]
- April: Turkestan Muslim Congress held.[18]
- Pravda Vostoka newspaper begins publication.[8]
- 1918
- April: City becomes capital of the Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
- Turkestan People's University and Turkestan People's Conservatory founded.[19]
- 1920 – National Public Library of Uzbekistan established (approximate date).[20]
- 1924
- City becomes part of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic.[4]
- Uthman Quran relocated to Tashkent from Ufa.[21]
- Tashkent Zoo founded.[22]
- 1925 – Sharq Yulduzi film studio established.
- 1926 – Population: 323,000.[2]
- 1930
- Capital of Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic relocated to Tashkent from Samarkand.[17]
- Central Asian Construction Institute[23] and Tashkent Communication Polytechnic founded.[citation needed]
- 1931 – Central Asian Institute of Railway Engineers and Central Asian Institute of Economics founded.
- 1932 – Arts Study Institute founded.[24]
- 1938 – City becomes capital of Tashkent Province.[citation needed]
- 1939 – Komsomol Lake in Stalin Park.[23]
- 1943 – Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR established.
- 1947 – Navoi Theatre built.[23]
- 1955 – Tashkent Electro Technical Institute of Communication founded.
- 1956
- Pakhtakor football club formed.
- Pakhtakor Markaziy Stadium opens.
- 1962 – Haskovo (Bulgaria)-Tashkent brother-city program established.[25]
- 1964 – Tashkent Palace of Arts built.[3]
- 1965 – Population: 1,092,000.[26]
- 1966
- January: City hosts signing of India-Pakistan peace agreement.[27]
- 26 April: The M5.1 Tashkent earthquake destroys much of the city, leaving between 15 and 200 people dead, and around 300,000 homeless.
- 1971 – Spartak Tashkent ice hockey team formed.
- 1973 – Sister city relationship established with Seattle, USA.[28]
- 1977 – Tashkent Metro begins operating.
- 1979 – Population: 1,858,000.[29]
- 1984 – Tashkent Tower built.
- 1985 – Population: 2,030,000 (estimate).[30]
- 1988 – Seattle-Tashkent Peace Park dedicated.[31]
- 1991
- City becomes capital of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
- Tashkent State Institute of Law and Tashkent Architectural Building Institute established.[32][citation needed]
- 1992 – Statue of Vladimir Lenin in Independence Square removed.
- 1994 – Tashkent Stock Exchange and Tashkent International School established.[citation needed]
- 1996
- Amir Timur Museum established.
- Kuyluk Market built.[3]
- 1998 – JAR Stadium opens.
- 1999
- 16 February: Bombings.
- Tashkent Open tennis tournament begins.
- Crying Mother Monument erected.[33]
21st century[]
- 2001
- Tashkent International Airport terminal rebuilt.
- Population: 2,137,218.[34]
- 2003 – May: City hosts meeting of European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.[17]
- 2004 – July: Bombings.[17]
- 2005 – Bunyodkor PFK football club formed.
- 2008 – Tashkent Challenger tennis tournament begins.
- 2011 – Tashkent–Samarkand high-speed rail line begins operating.
- 2018 - Population: 2,464,933 (estimate).[35]
See also[]
- Tashkent history
- History of Tashkent
- Districts of Tashkent
- Other names of Tashkent
- Timeline of Samarkand
References[]
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- ^ Jump up to: a b c d ArchNet.org. "Tashkent". Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA: MIT School of Architecture and Planning. Archived from the original on 5 May 2008. Retrieved 15 April 2013.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e Bosworth 2007.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Trotter 1882.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Baedeker 1914.
- ^ L.F. Kostenko (1881). Translated by F.C.H. Clarke. "Turkestan". Journal of the Royal United Service Institution. London. 24 (108): 898–921. doi:10.1080/03071848109418533.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Tashkent (Uzbekistan) Newspapers". WorldCat. USA: Online Computer Library Center. Retrieved 15 April 2013.
- ^ Balfour 1871.
- ^ Dilip Hiro (2009), Inside Central Asia, New York: Overlook Duckworth, ISBN 9781590203781
- ^ Jeff Sahadeo (2005). "Epidemic and Empire: Ethnicity, Class, and "Civilization" in the 1892 Tashkent Cholera Riot". Slavic Review. 64.
- ^ Railway News. UK. 16 December 1905.
- ^ "Russia's New Great Railroad in Asia". New York Times. 7 November 1904.
- ^ Sahadeo 2004.
- ^ "Russia: Principal Towns: Central Asia". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921.
- ^ Pierce 1975.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Uzbekistan Profile: Timeline". BBC News. Retrieved 15 April 2013.
- ^ Khalid 1996.
- ^ Theodore Levin (1996), The Hundred Thousand Fools of God: Musical Travels in Central Asia, Indiana University Press, ISBN 9780253332066
- ^ International dictionary of library histories. 2001. ISBN 1579582443.
- ^ Ian MacWilliam (5 January 2006). "Tashkent's hidden Islamic relic". BBC News.
- ^ Vernon N. Kisling, ed. (2000). "Zoological Gardens of Western Europe: Russia and former Soviet Union (chronological list)". Zoo and Aquarium History. USA: CRC Press. p. 375+. ISBN 978-1-4200-3924-5.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Stronski 2010.
- ^ David Ward MacFadyen (2006), Russian Culture in Uzbekistan, New York: Routledge, ISBN 0415341345
- ^ Cristofer Scarboro (2007). "The Brother-City Project and Socialist Humanism: Haskovo, Tashkent and "Sblizhenie"". Slavonic and East European Review. 85.
- ^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1965. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations. 1966.
- ^ J. Anthony Lukas (9 January 1966). "Old Uzbek City Is Enjoying a New Day in the Sun; Tashkent Turns Out to Stare at World Figures There for Indian-Pakistani Talks". New York Times. Missing or empty
|url=(help) - ^ "Seattle's 21 Sister Cities". USA: City of Seattle. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
- ^ Henry W. Morton and Robert C. Stuart, ed. (1984). The Contemporary Soviet City. New York: M.E. Sharpe. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-87332-248-5.
- ^ United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1987). "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". 1985 Demographic Yearbook. New York. pp. 247–289.
- ^ "HistoryLink.org". Seattle, USA. Retrieved 15 April 2013.
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- ^ "Tashkent". Uzbekistan. Lonely Planet. Retrieved 15 April 2013.
- ^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2011. United Nations Statistics Division. 2012.
- ^ "Table 8 - Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants", Demographic Yearbook – 2018, United Nations
This article incorporates information from the Russian Wikipedia and the Ukrainian Wikipedia.
Bibliography[]
Published in 19th century[]
- "Tashkund". Edinburgh Gazetteer. Edinburgh: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green. 1822.
- Edward Balfour, ed. (1871). "Tashkend". Cyclopaedia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia (2nd ed.). Madras.
- Eugene Schuyler (1877), "Tashkent", Turkistan, New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Co.
- L.F. Kostenko (1880). "(Ташкент)". Turkestanskij (in Russian).
- John Mowbray Trotter (1882). "Tashkand". Western Turkestan. Calcutta: Superintendent of Government Printing.
- Henry Lansdell (1885). "Tashkend". Russian Central Asia, including Kuldja, Bokhara, Khiva and Merv. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington.
Published in 20th century[]
- Michael Myers Shoemaker (1904), "By Tarantass to Tashkendt", Heart of the Orient: Saunterings through Georgia, Armenia, Persia, Turkomania, and Turkestan, to the Vale of Paradise, New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons
- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. 26 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 437.
- William Eleroy Curtis (1911), "Tashkend", Turkestan, New York: Hodder & Stoughton
- E.G. Kemp (1911), "Tashkent", The Face of Manchuria, Korea, Russian Turkestan, New York: Duffield
- "Tashkent". Russia. Leipzig: Karl Baedeker. 1914. OCLC 1328163.
- "Islam Is Neglected in Tashkent, Visitor to Soviet Asian City Finds; One Mosque Padlocked and in Disrepair, Another Converted Into Warehouse". New York Times. 15 August 1955. Missing or empty
|url=(help) - "Tashkent Is Called a Showplace of Soviet Industrial Rise in Asia". New York Times. 27 November 1961. Missing or empty
|url=(help) - David MacKenzie (1969). "Tashkent—Past and Present". Russian Review. 28.
- Richard A. Pierce (1975). "Toward Soviet Power in Tashkent, February–October 1917". Canadian Slavonic Papers. 17.
- Tashkent Entsiklopediya (in Russian). 1984.
- Toşkent: entsiklopediya (in Uzbek). Toşkent: Ḳomuslar Boş Tahririyati. 1992.
- Adeeb Khalid (1996). "Tashkent 1917: Muslim Politics in Revolutionary Turkestan". Slavic Review. 55.
- Daniel Balland (1997). "Tachkent, metropole de l'Asie centrale?". Cahiers d'études sur la Méditerranée orientale et le monde Turco-Iranien (in French). 24.
Published in 21st century[]
- Jeff Sahadeo (2004). "Empire of Memories: Conquest and Civilization in Imperial Russian Tashkent". Canadian Slavonic Papers. 46.
- C. Edmund Bosworth, ed. (2007). "Tashkent". Historic Cities of the Islamic World. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill. ISBN 978-9004153882.
- Jeff Sahadeo, Russian Colonial Society in Tashkent, 1865–1923 (Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Press, 2010).
- Paul Stronski (2010). Tashkent: Forging a Soviet City, 1930–1966. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 978-0822973898.
- Artyom Kosmarski (2011), "Grandeur and Decay of the Soviet Byzantium: Spaces, Peoples, and Memories of Tashkent, Uzbekistan", in Tsypylma Darieva; et al. (eds.), Urban Spaces after Socialism, Frankfurt am Main: Campus, ISBN 9783593393841
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