Timeline of Tabriz

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

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• 1500 B.C. - The earliest signs of civilization in the city (Iron Age grave yard in Iron Age museum).^[1]

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

Prior to 13th century

• 8th century – Tabriz Bazaar construction begins.^[2]
• 858 – A devastating earthquake happened in Tabriz.^[3]
• 1041 – A devastating earthquake happened in Tabriz.^[3]

13th century

• 1275 - Marco Polo traveled through Tabriz on his way to China.^[4]
• 1298 – Sham-i Ghazan built (approximate date).^[5]
• 1299 – City becomes Ilkhanid capital.^[6]

14th century

• 1300 – Rab'-e Rashidi (academic center) built.^[7]
• 1305 – Ghazaniyya (tomb) built.^[7]
• 1311 – Masjid-i Alishah built (approximate date).^[5]
• 1314 – Madrasa of Sayyid Hamza built.^[5]
• 1320 – Arg of Tabriz built.^[7]

• 1330 – Dimishqiyya built (approximate date).^[5]
• 1340 – Masjid-i Ustad-Shagird and Alaiyya built.^[5]
• 1356/1357 - City is briefly occupied by the Muzafarrids^[8]
• 1370 – Imarat-i Shaikh Uvais built (approximate date).^[5]
• 1375 – City becomes capital of Kara Koyunlu territory.
• 1392 – City besieged by Timur.^[3]

15th century

• 1406 – Kara Koyunlu in power.
• 1465 – Blue Mosque and Muzaffariyya built.^[5]
• 1468 – Uzun Hasan in power.^[9]
• 1469 – City becomes part of Ak Koyunlu territory.
• 1472 – Capital relocates to Tabriz from Amid.^[10]
• 1475 – Masjid-i Hasan Padshah and Maqsudiyya built (approximate date).^[5]
• 1478 – Nasiriyya built.^[5]
• 1483 – Hasht Bihisht palace built.^[9]

16th century

• 1500 – Population: 300,000 (approximate).^[10] The fifth most populated city on in the world.^[11]
• 1501 – Safavid Ismail I in power.
• 1514
  • 5 September: City taken by Ottoman Selim I.^[6]
  • Safavids in power.
• 1534 – Ottomans in power.
• 1535 – Safavids in power.
• 1548
  • Ottomans in power, succeeded by Safavids.
  • Capital relocates from Tabriz to Qazvin.^[6]
• 1555 – Persians in power per Treaty of Amasya.^[5]
• 1571 – Uprising.^[12]
• 1585 – Ottomans in power.

17th century

• 1603 – Safavids in power.
• 1610 – Ottomans in power.
• 1611 – Safavids in power.
• 1635 – City sacked by Ottoman Murad IV.^[5]
• 1636 – Saheb-ol-Amr Mosque built.^[2]
• 1641 – Earthquake.^[9]
• 1655 – Madrasa Sadiqiyya built.^[5]
• 1673 – Population: 550,000.^[10]
• 1676 – Madrasa Talibiyya built.^[5]

18th century

• 1721 – Earthquake kills eighty thousands.^[13]
• 1724 – Ottomans in power.
  • 1724–1725 Ottoman invaders killed about two hundred thousands of city residents.
• 1730 – Safavids in power.
• 1736 – City becomes part of Afshar territory.
• 1747 – City becomes part of Khanate of Tabriz.
• 1757 – Mohammad Hasan Khan Qajar takes city.^[14]
• 1762 – City incorporated into Zand realm.^[14]
• 1775 – Earthquake.^[10]
• 1780 – 28 February: Earthquake kills about two hundred thousands of the city residents.^[6]
  • Population: about thirty thousands.
• 1785 – Qajars in power.
• 1799 - Qajar prince Abbas Mirza appointed as the governor of the city.

19th century

• 1808 – Population: 250,000 (estimate).^[15]
• 1826 – Russians take city.^[14]
• 1827 – City becomes part of Russian Empire.
• 1828 – Qajars took power in the city.
• 1830 – Cholera outbreak.^[9]
• 1860 – Tehran-Tabriz telegraph begins operating.^[16]
• 1868 – Constitution House of Tabriz built.
• 1881
  • Population: 165,000 (estimate).^[13]
  • American Memorial School in Tabriz established.

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  Tabriz map drawn on 1827.

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  Ruins of Ark castle, Eugène Flandin 1841.

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  Ruins of Blue Mosque, Eugène Flandin 1841.

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  Saheb-ol-Amr Mosque and Quru river, Eugène Flandin 1841

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  A house in Tabriz, Eugène Flandin 1841.

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  A house in Tabriz, Eugène Flandin 1841.

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  Ruins of Blue Mosque, a painting of Jules Laurens, 1872.

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  Weding ceremony of Etezad-ol-Saltaneh in Aali Qapu.

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  Hail ceremony to the King Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar, during his residence in Tabriz as Crown Prince, Aali Qapu, late 1800s.

20th century

• 1908 - Sardar Homayun Vali Qasem appointed as Tabriz first mayor.
• 1909
  • April 19: Howard Baskerville, the American teacher in Tabriz and a supporter of constitutionals, got killed in battle.
  • April 29: Russians Cossacks take city.^[12]
  • April 29: Monarchists siege of the city failed with arrival of Russian forces.

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  Map of the siege of Tabriz during Constitutional Revolution, on September 27, 1908.

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  An sketch of revolutionists defending Davachi bridge in London News, Tabriz (May 1, 1909).

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  Constitutionals in Tabriz.

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  Constitutional forces in Tabriz.

• 1910 – Population: 200,000 (approximate).^[13]
• 1911:
  • December 30: Seqat-ol-Eslam executed with 10 other constitutionals and nationalists by Russian Cossacks.^[17]

• 1914 – Jolfa-Tabriz railway constructed.
• 1917
  • Tabriz Fire Fighting Tower built.^[18]
  • Tavakoli matches factory established as one of the first private factories.^[19]
• 1920
  • 4 September: Iranian Cossacks take city.^[12]
  • Late summer: Khiyabani's revolution suppressed with help of Cossacks.^[20]
• 1921 – Tarbiat library established.
• 1925 – City becomes part of Imperial State of Persia.
• 1934 –
  • Tabriz Municipality Palace built.
  • A major flood caused a lot of damages to central parts of the city, including Ali Qapu.^[21]
• 1937 – City becomes capital of Eastern Azerbaijan province.^[12]
• 1941
  • Tabriz occupied by Red Army as part of Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran.
• 1945
  • November - City becomes capital of Azerbaijan People's Government.

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  Soviet artillery units in passing through Tabriz.

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  Soviet Tank and troops marching through Tabriz.

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  Soviet T-26 Tank passing through main street of Tabriz.

• 1946
  • Soviet troops retreat from the city.
  • November - Azerbaijan People's Government collapsed by Iranian Imperial Army.
• 1947
  • June - University of Azerbaijan established.
• 1950 – Tabriz International Airport begins operating.
• 1951 – Azarbayijan-i ayandah newspaper begins publication.^[22]
• 1956
  • Tabriz National Library founded.
  • Takhti Stadium (Tabriz) opens.
• 1958 – Azerbaijan Museum established.
• 1967 - As a beginning point to industrialization of the city Mashin Sazi Tabriz factory is established.
• 1968 – Iran Tractor Manufacturing Company (the biggest industrial complex in northwest of Iran at the time) established in Tabriz.
• 1969 – Machine Sazi Football Club formed.
• 1970 – Tractor Sazi Tabriz Football Club formed.
• 1973 – Reconstruction of Blue Mosque is accomplished.^[23]
• 1976
  • June: Part of 1976 AFC Asian Cup's final tournament held in Baghe Shomal stadium, Tabriz.^[24]
• 1977
  • December 12: students' protest in University of Tabriz in anniversary of establishment of provincial government of Azerbaijan, was brutally attacked by the military units.^[25]
• 1978
  • February: As part of Iranian refinery complexes Tabriz oil refinery is established.^[26]
  • February 18: The protest against shah became violent after one of the protesters shot dead. This incidence intensified the rise up of people through the country for revolution of 1979.^[25]
• 1979
  • February - City becomes part of Islamic Republic of Iran
  • December - large protest against unfair treatment of Azerbaijani minorities.^[27]
  • Varliq, a quarterly publication Azerbaijani magazine established.^[28]
• 1980
  • March - Protest in support challenging the new constitution suppressed brutally by central government.
  • September - Air strike on Tabriz Airport and Tabriz Oil Refinery by Iraqi Air force at the first day of Iran–Iraq War.^[29]
• 1986
  • Azerbaijan Cycling Tour (race) begins.
  • Shahrdari Tabriz Cultural and Athletic Club formed.
• 1989
  • Sahand University of Technology established.
  • Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University established.^[30]
  • Tiz'houshan high schools established.
• 1992
  • Tabriz International Exhibition begins.^[31]
  • East Azerbaijan province split into a smaller East Azerbaijan province, and Ardabil province.
• 1995
  • May 21 - Student protest against unfair treatment of Azerbaijani minority by IRIB.
• 1996
  • Yadegar-e Emam Stadium opens.
  • Museum of Constitution opens.
• 1998
  • Hossein Farhangpour becomes mayor.
  • Tabriz Petrochemical Co is established.^[32]
• 1999
  • Student protest to support Tehran University's student movement for more political freedom.
  • Tabriz Art University established.

21st century

• 2000 – Provincial TV station of Sahand begins broadcasting.
• 2001 – Ehtesham Hajipour selected as new mayor of the city.
• 2002
  • April: Tabriz Cartoon, an international annual cartoon contest started.
• 2006
  • Alireza Navin selected as new mayor of Tabriz.
  • Amir Nezam House museum^[33] and Iron Age Museum open.^[34]
  • May - Thousands of ethnic Azeris demonstrated in Tabriz against government official newspaper's (Iran) cartoon insulting Azerbaijani minority.^[35]
• 2009 – Gostaresh Foolad Football Club formed.
• 2010 - Bazaar Complex is inscribed as World Heritage Site.
• 2011
  • August: A protest for saving Lake Urmia is suppressed by police.^[36]
• 2012
  • February 18: Construction of the highest building in city, Bloor Tower, is accomplished.^[37]
  • August 11: A major earthquake in Varzaqan shocked Tabriz.^[38]
• 2013
  • June 15: Thousands of city residents came to streets to celebrate the victory of Iranian moderate presidential candidate, Hassan Rowhani.^[39][40]
  • November: Sadegh Najafi-Khazarlou is selected as the 55th mayor of Tabriz.^[41]
• 2014
  • March 29: Tabriz celebrated the earth hour for the first time by turning off Saat Tower's lights.^[42]
  • December 25: Tabriz Soccer Museum is established.^[43]

References

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 
• Evliya Çelebi (1834). "(Tabriz)". Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in the Seventeenth Century 2. Translated by Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall. London: Oriental Translation Fund. 
• A.V. Williams Jackson (1906), "Tabriz", Persia Past and Present: a Book of Travel and Research, New York: Macmillan 
• 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. 

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