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* 1868 – [[Constitution House of Tabriz]] built.
* 1868 – [[Constitution House of Tabriz]] built.
[[File:Tabriz 66381395.jpg|thumbnail|Hail to the King [[Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar]] ceremony, during his residence in Tabriz, late 1800s.]]
[[File:Tabriz 66381395.jpg|thumbnail|Hail cermony to the King [[Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar]], during his residence in Tabriz as Crown Prince, late 1800s.]]
[[File:Tabriz memorial highschool 00.jpg|thumbnail|Teachers of Memorial School of Tabriz, photographed on 1923.]]
[[File:Tabriz memorial highschool 00.jpg|thumbnail|Teachers of Memorial School of Tabriz, photographed on 1923.]]
* 1881
* 1881

Revision as of 21:19, 20 May 2013

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Tabriz, capital of East Azerbaijan Province in Iran.

Earliest account

  • 714 B.C. - Mentioned in Assyrian King Sargon II's epigraph in 714 B.C

Prior to 14th century

  • 858 – A devastating earthquake happened in Tabriz.[2]
  • 1041 – A devastating earthquake happened in Tabriz.[2]
  • 1298 – Sham-i Ghazan built (approximate date).[3]

14th century

  • 1305 – Ghazaniyya (tomb) built.[5]
  • 1311 – Masjid-i Alishah built (approximate date).[3]
  • 1314 – Madrasa of Sayyid Hamza built.[3]
  • 1330 – Dimishqiyya built (approximate date).[3]
  • 1340 – Masjid-i Ustad-Shagird and Alaiyya built.[3]
  • 1370 – Imarat-i Shaikh Uvais built (approximate date).[3]
  • 1392 – City besieged by Timur.[2]

15th century

  • 1468 – Uzun Hasan in power.[6]
  • 1469 – City becomes part of Aq Qoyunlu territory.
  • 1472 – Capital relocates to Tabriz from Amid.[7]
  • 1475 – Masjid-i Hasan Padshah and Maqsudiyya built (approximate date).[3]
  • 1478 – Nasiriyya built.[3]
  • 1483 – Hasht Bihisht palace built.[6]

16th century

  • 1500 – Population: 300,000 (approximate).[7]
  • 1571 – Uprising.[8]

17th century

Tauris, 1673
  • 1641 – Earthquake.[6]
  • 1655 – Madrasa Sadiqiyya built.[3]
  • 1673 – Population: 550,000.[7]
  • 1676 – Madrasa Talibiyya built.[3]

18th century

  • 1736 – City becomes part of Afshar territory.
  • 1747 – City becomes part of Khanate of Tabriz.
  • 1762 – City incorporated into Zand realm.[10]
  • 1775 – Earthquake.[7]
  • 1780 – 7 January: Earthquake.[4]

19th century

Ruins of Blue Mosque, a painting of Jules Laurens, 1872.
  • 1808 – Population: 250,000 (estimate).[11]
  • 1830 – Cholera outbreak.[6]
  • 1860 – Tehran-Tabriz telegraph begins operating.[12]
Hail cermony to the King Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar, during his residence in Tabriz as Crown Prince, late 1800s.
Teachers of Memorial School of Tabriz, photographed on 1923.

20th century

  • 1908 - Sardar Homayun Vali Qasem appointed as Tabriz first mayor.
  • 1909
    • April 29: Russians take city.[8]
    • April 29: Monarchists siege of the city failed.
  • 1910 – Population: 200,000 (approximate).[9]
  • 1914 – Jolfa-Tabriz railway constructed.
  • 1920 – 4 September: Iranian Cossacks take city.[8]
  • 1937 – City becomes capital of Eastern Azerbaijan province.[8]
Soviet troops in the streets of Tabriz, 1945.
  • 1946
    • Soviet troops retreat from the city.
    • November - Azerbaijan People's Government collapsed by Iranian Imperial Army.
File:Təbriz Universiteti.jpg
Tabriz University 1947.
  • 1951 – Azarbayijan-i ayandah newspaper begins publication.[15]
  • 1967 - As a beginning point to industrialization of the city Machine Sazi Tabriz factory is established.
  • 1978
    • February: As part of Iranian refinery complexes Tabriz oil refinery is established.[16]
  • 1979
  • 1980
    • March - Protest in support of grand ayatollah Shariatmadari suppressed brutally by central government.
  • 1995
    • May 21 - Student protest against unfair treatment of Azerbaijani minority by IRIB.
  • 1998
    • Hossein Farhangpour becomes mayor.
    • Tabriz Petrochemical Co is established.[20]

21st century

  • 2001 – Ehtesham Hajipour becomes mayor.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Tabriz". Islamic Cultural Heritage Database. Istanbul: Organization of Islamic Cooperation, Research Centre for Islamic History, Art and Culture. Retrieved 6 February 2013.
  2. ^ a b c Edward Balfour (1885), "Tabreez", Cyclopaedia of India (3rd ed.), London: B. Quaritch {{citation}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Charles Melville (1981). "Historical Monuments and Earthquakes in Tabriz". Iran. 19. British Institute of Persian Studies.
  4. ^ a b c d "Tabriz". Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art & Architecture. Oxford University Press. 2009. {{cite book}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)
  5. ^ a b c ArchNet.org. "Tabriz". Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA: MIT School of Architecture and Planning. Retrieved 6 February 2013.
  6. ^ a b c d C. Edmund Bosworth, ed. (2007). "Tabriz". Historic Cities of the Islamic World. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill. {{cite book}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)
  7. ^ a b c d Michael R.T. Dumper; Bruce E. Stanley, eds. (2008), "Tabriz", Cities of the Middle East and North Africa, Santa Barbara, USA: ABC-CLIO
  8. ^ a b c d Tadeusz Swietochowski; Brian C. Collins (1999). Historical Dictionary of Azerbaijan. USA: Scarecrow Press.
  9. ^ a b c "Tabriz", The Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1910, OCLC 14782424 {{citation}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)
  10. ^ a b c Christoph Werner (2000). An Iranian Town in Transition: A Social and Economic History of the Elites of Tabriz, 1747–1848. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag.
  11. ^ Jedidiah Morse; Richard C. Morse (1823), "Tauris", A New Universal Gazetteer (4th ed.), New Haven: S. Converse {{citation}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)
  12. ^ George Nathaniel Curzon (1892), Persia and the Persian Question, London: Longmans, Green & Co., OCLC 3444074
  13. ^ Hasanbeyghi, Mohammadreza, Alo125, Hamshahribook, 2007 [ISBN 978-964-2924-39-4].
  14. ^ http://www.tavakolimatches.com/About.htm
  15. ^ "WorldCat". USA: Online Computer Library Center. Retrieved 6 February 2013.
  16. ^ http://www.tbzrefinery.co.ir/page/aboutus.aspx
  17. ^ http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/713687484
  18. ^ http://www.azaruniv.ac.ir/Uploads/2/cms/user/File/2/1391/pdf%20files/%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%87%20%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B4%DA%AF%D8%A7%D9%87/darbare%20daneshgah.pdf
  19. ^ "Tabriz International Exhibition Co". Retrieved 6 February 2013.
  20. ^ http://www.tpco.ir/HomePage.aspx?TabID=4350&Site=DouranPortal&Lang=en-US
  21. ^ "Amir Nezam House Museum". Tehran Times. 22 February 2012. Retrieved 6 February 2013.
  22. ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/24/world/middleeast/24iran.html
  23. ^ http://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AC_%D8%A8%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B1
  24. ^ "Hundreds killed in northwest Iran earthquakes". Al Jazeera. 12 August 2012. Retrieved 6 February 2013.

This article incorporates information from the Azerbaijani Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, and Croatian Wikipedia.

Further reading

  • Jean Chardin (1691), The travels of Sir John Chardin into Persia and the East-Indies, through the Black Sea, and the country of Colchis, London: Christopher Bateman, p. 352+
  • William Ouseley (1823), "(Tabriz)", Travels in various countries of the East; more particularly Persia, London: Rodwell and Martin, OCLC 4198311 {{citation}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)
  • A.V. Williams Jackson (1906), "Tabriz", Persia Past and Present: a Book of Travel and Research, New York: Macmillan {{citation}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)
  • Christoph Werner (2000). "The Amazon, the Sources of the Nile, and Tabriz: Nadir Mirza's Tarikh Va Jughrafi-yi Dar Al-saltana-yi Tabriz and the Local Historiography of Tabriz and Azerbaijan". Iranian Studies. 33.