Timeline of Bandar Abbas

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Bandar Abbas, Iran.

Prior to 20th century

1514 – Portuguese in power; settlement named "Comorão".
1614 – Shah Abbas the Great expels the Portuguese.^[1]
1622
- Settlement renamed "Bandar Abbas".^[2]^[1]
- Bandar Abbas economy affected by capture of nearby Hormuz by Persian/English forces.^[1]
1623 – Dutch East India Company trade mission established.
1664 – French East India Company conducts business in town (approximate date).^[2]
1727 – Town sacked by Afghan forces.^[3]
1741 – "Cannon foundry" established.^[3]
1762 – British and Dutch businesspeople relocate to Bushire.^[3]
1790s – Population: 12,000 (approximate estimate).^[2]
1793 – Bandar Abbas "leased to the sultan of Oman" (approximate date).^[2]^[1]
1830 – Population: 5,000 (approximate estimate).^[2]
1852 – Persians expelled the Muscat authorities.^[1]
1868 – Salim bin Thuwaini expelled and Qajars in power.^[3]^[1]
1872 – Gwadur-Jask-Bandar Abbas telegraph begins operating (approximate date).^[4]
1879 – مسجد گله‌داری [fa] (mosque) built.
1892 – مسجد صحراباغی [fa] (mosque) built.^[5]
1900 – Population: 10,000. (approximate estimate).^[1]

20th century

1902 – Earthquake.^[6]
1925 – مسجد ناصری (بندر عباس) [fa] (mosque) built.
1930s – Population: 8,000 (approximate estimate).^[2]
1947 – "Fish canning plant" built.^[3]
1956 – Population: 17,710.^[3]
1959 – حمام گله‌داری [fa] (bath house) refurbished.
1966 – Population: 34,627.^[3]
1967 – Deepwater port opens.^[3]
1973 – "Iranian naval headquarters" relocated to Bandar Abbas from Khorramshahr.^[3]
1976 – Population: 89,103.^[3]
1982 – Population: 175,000 (estimate).^[7]
1988 – 3 July: United States military shoots down civilian Iran Air Flight 655 in vicinity of Bandar Abbas during the Iran–Iraq War.^[2]
1996 – Population: 273,578.^[8]

21st century

2006 – Aluminium Hormozgan F.C. (football club) formed.
2008
- 10 September: 2008 Qeshm earthquake.
- موزه مردم شناسی خلیج فارس [fa] (museum) opens.^[9]
2010 – Takhti Stadium (Bandar Abbas) opens.
2011 – Population: 435,751.^[10]
2013
- June: Local election held.
- Abbas Aminizadeh becomes mayor.^[11]
2014 – City becomes part of newly formed national administrative Region 2.
2021 - 2021 Hormozgan earthquakes
2022 - 2022 Hormozgan earthquakes

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Britannica 1910.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Holliday 2008.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Planhol 1988.
^ Hooshang Amirahmadi (2012). Political Economy of Iran under the Qajars: Society, Politics, Economics and Foreign Relations 1796–1936. I.B.Tauris. ISBN 978-0-85772-258-4.
^ "ایگاه واحدهای پژوهشی مراکز استانها". iribresearch.ir. Retrieved 2021-09-19.
^ N. N. Ambraseys; C. P. Melville (1982). History of Persian Earthquakes. Cambridge University Press. p. 164. ISBN 978-0-521-02187-6.
^ 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.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ "Countries of the World: Iran". Statesman's Yearbook 2003. UK: Palgrave Macmillan. 2002. ISBN 978-0-333-98096-5.
^ "موزه مردم‌شناسی خلیج‌فارس در غرب شهر بندرعباس - دوستداران ایران". دوستداران ایران - معرفی جاذبه های گردشگری ایران (in Persian). 2021-04-26. Retrieved 2021-09-20.
^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2015. United Nations Statistics Division. 2016.
^ "شهرداران بندرعباس از سال 1337 تا کنون" [Mayors of Bandar Abbas, 1957 to Present] (in Persian). Bandar Abbas Municipality. Retrieved 4 February 2017.

This article incorporates information from the Persian Wikipedia.

Bibliography

William Milburn; Thomas Thornton (1825). "Gulph of Persia: Gombroon, or Bender Abassi". Oriental Commerce. London: Kingsbury, Parbury, and Allen.
J. R. Wellsted (1840), "(Gambrun)", Travels to the City of the Caliphs, along the Shores of the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean, London: H. Colburn, OCLC 5395027
James Horsburgh (1852). "Persian Gulf: Bunder Abbas". India Directory: Or, Directions for Sailing to and from the East Indies, China, Australia, and the Interjacent Ports of Africa and South America (6th ed.). London: William H. Allen & Co. – via Google Books.
Lewis Pelly (1864). "Visit to Lingah, Kishm and Bunder Abbass". Journal of the Royal Geographical Society. 34: 251–258. hdl:2027/uc1.$b530482 – via HathiTrust.
Edward Balfour (1885), "Bandar Abbas", Cyclopaedia of India (3rd ed.), London: B. Quaritch, hdl:2027/mdp.39015068610990
Arthur W. Stiffe (1900). "Ancient Trading Centres of the Persian Gulf. VI. Bandar Abbas". Geographical Journal. 16 (2): 211–215. doi:10.2307/1774559. hdl:2027/inu.30000099853925. JSTOR 1774559.
John Gordon Lorimer (1908). "Abbas (Bandar)". Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India. hdl:2027/uc1.31158009868174.
Houtum-Schindler, Albert (1910). "Bander Abbāsi" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). pp. 311–312.
"Bandar Abbas". Persian Gulf Pilot. Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 1920.
Xavier de Planhol (1988). "Bandar Abbas: the City". Encyclopædia Iranica.
Shabnam Holliday (2008), "Bandar Abbas", in Michael R.T. Dumper; Bruce E. Stanley (eds.), Cities of the Middle East and North Africa, Santa Barbara, USA: ABC-CLIO, pp. 69+, ISBN 9781576079195

External links

Houchang E. Chehabi (ed.). "Cities: Bandar Abbas". Bibliographia Iranica. USA: Iranian Studies Group at MIT. (Bibliography)
Items related to Bandar Abbas, various dates (via Europeana)
"History of Bandar Abbas Municipality". Bandar Abbas Municipality.

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[FOOTNOTEBritannica1910-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Britannica 1910.

[FOOTNOTEHolliday2008-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Holliday 2008.

[FOOTNOTEPlanhol1988-3] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Planhol 1988.

[Amirahmadi2012-4] Hooshang Amirahmadi (2012). Political Economy of Iran under the Qajars: Society, Politics, Economics and Foreign Relations 1796–1936. I.B.Tauris. ISBN 978-0-85772-258-4.

[5] "ایگاه واحدهای پژوهشی مراکز استانها". iribresearch.ir. Retrieved 2021-09-19.

[6] N. N. Ambraseys; C. P. Melville (1982). History of Persian Earthquakes. Cambridge University Press. p. 164. ISBN 978-0-521-02187-6.

[7] 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.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

[8] "Countries of the World: Iran". Statesman's Yearbook 2003. UK: Palgrave Macmillan. 2002. ISBN 978-0-333-98096-5.

[9] "موزه مردم‌شناسی خلیج‌فارس در غرب شهر بندرعباس - دوستداران ایران". دوستداران ایران - معرفی جاذبه های گردشگری ایران (in Persian). 2021-04-26. Retrieved 2021-09-20.

[10] "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2015. United Nations Statistics Division. 2016.

[mayors-11] "شهرداران بندرعباس از سال 1337 تا کنون" [Mayors of Bandar Abbas, 1957 to Present] (in Persian). Bandar Abbas Municipality. Retrieved 4 February 2017.

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