Timeline of Bandar Abbas
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Bandar Abbas, Iran.
Prior to 20th century
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- 1514 – Portuguese in power; settlement named "Comorão".
- 1622
- 1623 – Dutch East India Company trade mission established.
- 1664 – French East India Company conducts business in town (approximate date).[1]
- 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).[1]
- 1793 – Bandar Abbas "leased to the sultan of Oman" (approximate date).[1]
- 1830 – Population: 5,000 (approximate estimate).[1]
- 1868 – Qajars in power.[3]
- 1872 – Gwadur-Jask-Bandar Abbas telegraph begins operating (approximate date).[4]
20th century
- 1902 – Earthquake.[5]
- 1917 – مسجد گلهداری (mosque) built.[citation needed]
- 1925 – مسجد ناصری (بندر عباس) (mosque) built.(fa)[citation needed]
- 1930s – Population: 8,000 (approximate estimate).[1]
- 1931 – مسجد صحراباغی (mosque) built.[citation needed]
- 1947 – "Fish canning plant" built.[3]
- 1951 – حمام گلهداری (bath house) refurbished.[citation needed]
- 1956 – Population: 17,710.[3]
- 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).[6]
- 1988 – 3 July: United States military shoots down civilian Iran Air Flight 655 in vicinity of Bandar Abbas during the Iran–Iraq War.[1]
- 1996 – Population: 273,578.[7]
21st century
- 2006 – Aluminium Hormozgan F.C. (football club) formed.
- 2008
- 10 September: 2008 Qeshm earthquake.
- موزه مردم شناسی خلیج فارس (museum) opens (approximate date.[citation needed]
- 2010 – Takhti Stadium (Bandar Abbas) opens.
- 2011 – Population: 435,751.[8]
- 2013
- June: Local election held.
- Abbas Aminizadeh becomes mayor.[9]
- 2014 – City becomes part of newly formed national administrative Region 2.
See also
- Bandar Abbas history
- Other names of Bandar Abbas
- List of mayors of Bandar Abbas
- Hormozgan Province history
- Timelines of other cities in Iran: Hamadan, Isfahan, Kerman, Mashhad, Qom, Shiraz, Tabriz, Tehran, Yazd
References
- ^ a b c d e f g Holliday 2008.
- ^ Britannica 1910.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
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- ^ "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
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- William Milburn; Thomas Thornton (1825). "Gulph of Persia: Gombroon, or Bender Abassi". Oriental Commerce. London: Kingsbury, Parbury, and Allen.
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- Edward Balfour (1885), "Bandar Abbas", Cyclopaedia of India (3rd ed.), London: B. Quaritch
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- John Gordon Lorimer (1908). "Abbas (Bandar)". Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India.
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- 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
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- 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.