Timeline of Yerevan

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Yerevan, Armenia.

Prior to 20th century[]

782 BCE - Settlement founded by Argishti I of Urartu.^[1]
590s CE - Katoghike Tsiranavor Church of Avan built.
1582 - Turks in power.^[2]
1583 - Erivan Fortress built.
1604 - Town taken by Safavids of Iran.^[3]
1615 - Town besieged by Turkish forces.^[2]
1679 - 4 June: 1679 Armenia earthquake.
1736 - Town becomes capital of the Erivan Khanate.^{[citation needed]}
1768 - Blue Mosque built.
1827 - 1 October: Capture of Erivan; Russians in power; Persians depart.^[3]
1828 - Town becomes part of Russia per Treaty of Turkmenchay.^[2]^[4]
1830 - Red Bridge rebuilt.
1837 - Tsarskaya Street opens.^{[citation needed]}
1842 - Saint Sarkis Cathedral rebuilt.
1873 - Population: 11,938.^[2]
1877 - Yerevan Ararat Wine Factory in operation.
1879 - Hovhannes Ghorghanyan becomes mayor.^[5]
1897 - Population: 28,910.

20th century[]

1913 - Population: 34,000.^[6]
1915 - Refugees from Armenian genocide begin to arrive in Erivan.^[3]
1918 - 28 May: Erivan becomes capital of the First Republic of Armenia.^[3]
1920
- 29 November: Bolsheviks in power.^[7]
- Erivan becomes capital of Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic.^[4]
- Nairi Cinema opens.
1921 - Armenian State University established.^[4]
1924 - Art school opens.^[8]
1926 - Population: 64,613.^[4]
1930 - Spartak Stadium built.
1931 - Saint Nikolai Cathedral demolished.
1933 - Opera Theater opens.
1934 - Golos Armenii Russian-language newspaper begins publication.
1936
- City renamed "Yerevan."^[4]
- Moscow Cinema opens.^[9]
- Komitas Pantheon (cemetery) established.
1939 - Population: 200,031.^[4]
1940
- Yerevan Zoo opens.
- Statue of Lenin erected in Lenin Square.
1949 - Pushkin Park designed.
1959 - Souren Spandaryan Square opens.
1965
- 24 April: 1965 Yerevan demonstrations.
- Population: 623,000.^[10]
1967
- Mother Armenia monument erected in Victory Park.
- Armenian Genocide memorial erected on Tsitsernakaberd.
1970s - Yerevan Museum of Contemporary Art established.^[8]
1970 - Hrazdan Stadium and Chess House open.
1977 - Yerevan TV Tower erected.
1979 - Population: 1,055,000.^[11]
1980 - Yerevan Cascade built.
1981 - Yerevan Metro begins operating; Marshal Baghramyan (metro station) opens.
1982 - House-Museum of Aram Khachaturian opens.
1983 - Karen Demirchyan Sports and Concerts Complex opens.
1985 - Population: 1,133,000 (estimate).^[12]
1987 - Garegin Nzhdeh Square (metro station) opens.
1988
- 18–26 February: Major demonstration held in Yerevan demanding the unification of Karabakh with Armenia.
- 22 March: Demonstration.
- 26 March: Demonstration.
- 7 December: Influx of refugees following the 1988 Armenian earthquake.^[13]
1991
- 21 September: Armenian independence referendum, 1991 held.
- Azg and Yerkir newspapers in publication.^[14]
1992
- Football Club Pyunik formed.
- Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art active.
1993 - Yerevan Stock Exchange established.^[14]
1994 - Food demonstration.^[15]
1996 - September: Protest following Armenian presidential election, 1996.^[15]

21st century[]

2001 - Hovik Hayrapetyan Equestrian Centre opens.
2003
- Yervand Zakharyan becomes mayor.^[5]
- Armenian International Policy Research Group headquartered in city.^[16]
2004
- Yerevan International Film Festival begins.
- Yerevan City Hall built.
2007 - Sister city relationship established with Los Angeles, USA.^[17]
2008 - February–March: 2008 Armenian presidential election protests.^[15]
2009 - Cafesjian Museum of Art opens.
2011
- Yerevan Velodrome and Mordechai Navi Synagogue open.
- Taron Margaryan becomes mayor.
- Population: 1,060,138.
2012 - City named World Book Capital by UNESCO.
2014 - Yerevan Mall in business.
2018 - April: 2018 Armenian protests.^[18]

References[]

^ Adalian 2010.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d Britannica 1910.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d Rouben Paul Adalian (2010). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of Armenia (2nd ed.). Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7450-3.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Leon E. Seltzer, ed. (1952), "Erivan", Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, New York: Columbia University Press, p. 584, OL 6112221M
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "Former mayors of Yerevan". Yerevan Municipality Official Website. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
^ "Russia: Principal Towns: Caucasia". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921.
^ Thomas de Waal (2010). "Chronology". The Caucasus: An Introduction. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-974620-0.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "Anatolia and the Caucasus, 1900 A.D.–present: Key Events". Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
^ "Movie Theaters in Yerevan, Armenia". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1965. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations. 1966.
^ Henry W. Morton; Robert C. Stuart, eds. (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. Erevan
^ Brian E. Tucker; et al., eds. (1994). Issues in Urban Earthquake Risk. Kluwer. ISBN 978-0-7923-2914-5.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "Armenia". Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia 2003. Europa Publications. 2002. ISBN 978-1-85743-137-7.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c "Armenia Profile: Timeline". BBC News. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
^ "Organizations". International Relations and Security Network. Switzerland: Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
^ "Sister Cities of Los Angeles". USA: City of Los Angeles. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
^ "Armenian PM resigns after days of protests", BBC News, 23 April 2018

Bibliography[]

Published in 19th century

Abraham Rees (1819), "Erivan", The Cyclopaedia, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown – via Hathi Trust
Robert Ker Porter (1821), "(Erivan)", Travels in Georgia, Persia, Armenia, ancient Babylonia, &c. &c, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, OCLC 5524754
William Ouseley (1823), "(Iravan)", Travels in various countries of the East; more particularly Persia, London: Rodwell and Martin, OCLC 4198311
Evliya Çelebi (1834). "Description of the Town of Erivan (Revan)". Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in the Seventeenth Century. 2. Translated by Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall. London: Oriental Translation Fund.
Douglas W. Freshfield (1869). "(Erivan)". Travels in the Central Caucasus and Bashan. London: Longmans, Green, & Co.
J. Buchan Telfer (1876). "(Erivan)". The Crimea and Transcaucasia. London: H.S. King & Company.
George Ripley; Charles A. Dana, eds. (1879). "Erivan". American Cyclopedia (2nd ed.). New York: D. Appleton and Company.
"Erivan". Hand-book for Travellers in Russia, Poland, and Finland (4th ed.). London: John Murray. 1888.
Charles Wilson, ed. (1895), "Erivan", Handbook for Travellers in Asia Minor, Transcaucasia, Persia, etc., London: John Murray, OCLC 8979039

Published in 20th century

"Erivan", Chambers's Encyclopaedia, London: W. & R. Chambers, 1901 – via Hathi Trust
H. F. B. Lynch (1901). "At Erivan". Armenia: Travels and Studies. London: Longmans, Green, and Co.
A.V. Williams Jackson (1906), "(Erivan)", Persia Past and Present: a Book of Travel and Research, New York: Macmillan
"Erivan", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
William Eleroy Curtis (1911). "(Erivan)". Around the Black Sea. New York: Hodder & Stoughton.
"Erivan", Russia, Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1914, OCLC 1328163
William Henry Beable (1919), "Erivan", Russian Gazetteer and Guide, London: Russian Outlook

Published in 21st century

Rouben Paul Adalian (2010). "Yerevan". Historical Dictionary of Armenia (2nd ed.). Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7450-3.
Levon Abrahamian (2011). "Yerevan Sacra". In Tsypylma Darieva; et al. (eds.). Urban Spaces After Socialism: Ethnographies of Public Places in Eurasian Cities. Frankfurt: [de]. ISBN 978-3-593-39384-1.

External links[]

Digital Public Library of America. Items related to Yerevan, various dates

[FOOTNOTEAdalian2010-1] Adalian 2010.

[FOOTNOTEBritannica1910-2] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d Britannica 1910.

[Adalian-chronology2010-3] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d Rouben Paul Adalian (2010). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of Armenia (2nd ed.). Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7450-3.

[seltzer1952-4] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Leon E. Seltzer, ed. (1952), "Erivan", Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, New York: Columbia University Press, p. 584, OL 6112221M

[FormerMayors-5] Jump up to: ^a ^b "Former mayors of Yerevan". Yerevan Municipality Official Website. Retrieved 30 March 2015.

[6] "Russia: Principal Towns: Caucasia". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921.

[Waal2010-7] Thomas de Waal (2010). "Chronology". The Caucasus: An Introduction. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-974620-0.

[MMA-waa11-8] Jump up to: ^a ^b "Anatolia and the Caucasus, 1900 A.D.–present: Key Events". Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 30 March 2015.

[cinema-9] "Movie Theaters in Yerevan, Armenia". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved 30 March 2015.

[10] "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1965. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations. 1966.

[Morton1984-11] Henry W. Morton; Robert C. Stuart, eds. (1984). The Contemporary Soviet City. New York: M.E. Sharpe. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-87332-248-5.

[12] 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. Erevan

[Tucker1994-13] Brian E. Tucker; et al., eds. (1994). Issues in Urban Earthquake Risk. Kluwer. ISBN 978-0-7923-2914-5.

[europa2002-14] Jump up to: ^a ^b "Armenia". Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia 2003. Europa Publications. 2002. ISBN 978-1-85743-137-7.

[bbc-timeline-15] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c "Armenia Profile: Timeline". BBC News. Retrieved 30 March 2015.

[ISN-16] "Organizations". International Relations and Security Network. Switzerland: Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich. Retrieved 30 March 2015.

[17] "Sister Cities of Los Angeles". USA: City of Los Angeles. Retrieved 30 December 2015.

[18] "Armenian PM resigns after days of protests", BBC News, 23 April 2018

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show v t Yerevan landmarks
Historical sites and notable landmarks	Shengavit archaeological site Erebuni Fortress Teishebaini archaeological site Tsiranavor Church of Avan Katoghike Church Red Bridge Zoravor Church Saint John the Baptist Church Blue Mosque Mordechai Navi Synagogue Saint Sarkis Cathedral Holy Mother of God Russian Church Saint Gregory Cathedral Yerevan Ararat Brandy Factory Yerevan Brandy Factory Mother Armenia Tsitsernakaberd Genocide Memorial Yerevan Cascade Yerevan TV Tower Komitas Pantheon Yerablur Military Pantheon Elite Plaza Center
Nature and parks	Hrazdan River Yerevan Lake Lovers' Park English Park Yerevan Botanical Garden Yerevan Zoo Khachatur Abovyan Park Circular Park Victory Park Lyon Park Tumanyan Park Buenos Aires Park Yerevan 2800th Anniversary Park
Entertainment and recreation	Grand Hotel Yerevan Children's railway Armenia Marriott Ani Plaza Hotel Water World Radisson Blu Yerevan Dalma Garden Mall Yerevan Mall Rossia Mall
Culture and art	National Library National Archives Khnko Aper Children's Library Avetik Isahakyan Central Library Yerevan Opera Sundukyan Theatre H. Tumanyan Puppet Theatre Stanislavski Russian Theatre Paronyan Musical Comedy Theatre H. Ghaplanyan Drama Theatre Komitas Chamber Music House Moscow Cinema Nairi Cinema Yerevan Circus National Gallery of Armenia Yerevan Vernissage
Museums	History Museum of Armenia Charents Museum of Literature Yerevan History Museum Matenadaran Erebuni Museum Modern Art Museum House-Museum of A. Khachaturian Silva Kaputikyan House-Museum Yeghishe Charents Memorial Museum Sergei Parajanov Museum Ara Sargsyan and Hakob Kojoyan Museum Near East Art Museum Cafesjian Museum of Art ARF History Museum Aznavour Center Komitas Museum Armenian Railways Museum
Education	Yerevan State University National University of Architecture and Construction State Medical University State Pedagogical University Komitas State Conservatory National Agrarian University National Polytechnic University Brusov State University of Languages State Institute of Theatre and Cinematography Institute of Physical Culture and Sport State Academy of Fine Arts State University of Economics Crisis Management State Academy Haybusak University American University of Armenia Fondation Université Française en Arménie Russian-Armenian University Vazgen Sargsyan Military University PhysMath School Mkhitar Sebastatsi School Anatole France French School QSI School Avedisian School Ayb School Chinese-Armenian Friendship School
Science and technology	Yerevan Physics Institute National Academy of Sciences Institute of Mathematics of National Academy Yerevan Computer Research Institute CANDLE Synchrotron Institute Tumo Center for Technologies
Sport	Vazgen Sargsyan Rep. Stadium Hrazdan Stadium Yerevan Football Academy Tigran Petrosian Chess House H. Hayrapetyan Equestrian Centre Karen Demirchyan Complex Mika Sports Arena Urartu Stadium Yerevan Velodrome Yerevan Figure Skating and Hockey Sports School
Transportation	Yerevan railway station Trolleybuses in Yerevan Erebuni Airport Zvartnots International Airport Yerevan Underground
Squares, streets and bridges	Republic Square Freedom Square Garegin Nzhdeh Square Charles Aznavour Square Aram Street Abovyan Street Mashtots Avenue Sayat-Nova Avenue Baghramyan Avenue Tamanyan Street Komitas Avenue Liberty Avenue Northern Avenue Victory Bridge Hrazdan Gorge Aqueduct Great Bridge of Hrazdan Davtashen Bridge
Government	President's Residence Government House National Assembly Building National Security Service Yerevan City Hall Constitutional Court Police of Armenia Central Bank of Armenia
Precincts	Ajapnyak Arabkir Avan Davtashen Erebuni Kanaker-Zeytun Kentron Malatia-Sebastia Nork-Marash Nor Nork Nubarashen Shengavit
Category:Yerevan

show v t Years in Armenia (1901–present)
20th century (1901-1917)	1904 1905 1906 1907 1910 1914 1915 1916
20th century in the First Republic of Armenia (1918-1920)	1918 1919 1920
20th century in Soviet Armenia (1921-1991)	1921 1922 1923 1924 1927 1930 1932 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1941 1942 1944 1947 1950 1954 1955 1956 1958 1960 1961 1963 1964 1965 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1974 1975 1977 1981 1982 1985 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991
20th century in Armenia (1992-2000)	1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000
21st century	2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021

Timeline of Yerevan

Contents

Prior to 20th century[]

20th century[]

21st century[]

See also[]

References[]

Bibliography[]

External links[]