Timeline of Tashkent

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

Prior to 20th century

Sheikhantaur Mosque, ca.1870s

Street in Tashkent, 1890s

• 500BC - till 5th part of the Kushan empire
• 1210 - City sacked by forces of Muhammad II of Khwarezm (approximate date).^[1]
• 1220 - City sacked by forces of Genghis Khan.^[2]
• 1451 - Dzhuma Mosque built.^[3]
• 1485 - Yunus Khan in power.^[4]
• 1569 - Kukeltash Madrasa built.^[3]
• 1611 - Uprising; crackdown by forces of Imam-Quli Khan of Bukhara.^[2]
• 1809 - City becomes part of the Khanate of Kokand.^[4]
• 1840 - Cholera outbreak.^[5]
• 1842 - Ak Mosque built.
• 1865
  • 15 June: City captured by Russian forces led by Mikhail Chernyayev.^[6]
  • Population: 76,000.^[7]
• 1867 - City becomes capital of Russian Turkestan, and center of the Syr-Darya Oblast.
• 1870
  • Turkistan Gaziti newspaper begins publication.^[8]
  • Trade fair held.^[5]
  • Kaufmann Library founded.
• 1871 - Population: 120,000 (estimate).^[9]
• 1872 - Cholera outbreak.^[5]
• 1874 - Turkestan Military District headquartered in Tashkent.
• 1876 - National Museum of Turkestan founded.
• 1877 - City government reorganized.^[2]
• 1889 - Trans-Caspian Railway begins operating.^[10]
• 1892 - 24 June: Demonstration related to public health.^[11]
• 1895 - Samarkand-Tashkent railway begins operating.^[12]
• 1896 - Lutheran Church built.^[6]
• 1897 - Population: 156,506.
• 1898 - Russian Orthodox church built in Amir Temur Square.

20th century

• 1901 - Horsecar trams begin operating.
• 1904 - Orenburg-Tashkent Railway begins operating.^[13]
• 1905 - "Mutiny of Tsarist officers."^[4]
• 1910 - Monument to Konstantin von Kaufman dedicated.^[14]
• 1913 - Population: 172,300.^[15]
• 1914 - Military college established.
• 1916 - "Anti-labour conscription revolt."^[4]
• 1917
  • February Revolution.^[16]
  • 2 March: Tashkent Soviet established.^[17]
  • April: Turkestan Muslim Congress held.^[18]
  • Pravda Vostoka newspaper begins publication.^[8]
• 1918
  • April: City becomes capital of the Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
  • Turkestan People's University and Turkestan People's Conservatory founded.^[19]
• 1920 - National Public Library of Uzbekistan established (approximate date).^[20]
• 1924
  • City becomes part of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic.^[4]
  • Uthman Quran relocated to Tashkent from Ufa.^[21]
  • Tashkent Zoo founded.^[22]
• 1925 - Sharq Yulduzi film studio established.
• 1926 - Population: 323,000.^[2]
• 1930
  • Capital of Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic relocated to Tashkent from Samarkand.^[17]
  • Central Asian Construction Institute^[23] and Tashkent Communication Polytechnic founded.
• 1931 - Central Asian Institute of Railway Engineers and Central Asian Institute of Economics founded.
• 1932 - Arts Study Institute founded.^[24]
• 1938 - City becomes capital of Tashkent Province.
• 1939 - Komsomol Lake in Stalin Park.^[23]
• 1943 - Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR established.
• 1947 - Navoi Theatre built.^[23]
• 1955 - Tashkent Electro Technical Institute of Communication founded.
• 1956
  • Pakhtakor football club formed.
  • Pakhtakor Markaziy Stadium opens.
• 1962 - Haskovo (Bulgaria)-Tashkent brother-city program established.^[25]
• 1964 - Tashkent Palace of Arts built.^[3]
• 1966
  • January: City hosts signing of India-Pakistan peace agreement.^[26]
  • 26 April:Earthquake.^[27]
• 1967 - Population: 1,200,000 (estimate).^[2]
• 1971 - Spartak Tashkent ice hockey team formed.
• 1973 - Sister city relationship established with Seattle, USA.^[28]
• 1977 - Tashkent Metro begins operating.
• 1979 - Population: 1,858,000.^[29]
• 1984 - Tashkent Tower built.
• 1988 - Seattle-Tashkent Peace Park dedicated.^[30]
• 1991
  • City becomes capital of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
  • Tashkent State Institute of Law and Tashkent Architectural Building Institute established.^[31]
• 1992 - Statue of Vladimir Lenin in Independence Square removed.
• 1994 - Tashkent Stock Exchange and Tashkent International School established.
• 1996
  • Amir Timur Museum established.
  • Kuyluk Market built.^[3]
• 1998 - JAR Stadium opens.
• 1999
  • 16 February: Bombings.
  • Tashkent Open tennis tournament begins.
  • Crying Mother Monument erected.^[32]

21st century

• 2001
  • Tashkent International Airport terminal rebuilt.
  • Population: 2,137,218.^[33]
• 2003 - May: City hosts meeting of European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.^[17]
• 2004 - July: Bombings.^[17]
• 2005 - Bunyodkor PFK football club formed.
• 2008 - Tashkent Challenger tennis tournament begins.
• 2011 - Tashkent–Samarkand high-speed rail line begins operating.

See also

• Tashkent history
• Districts of Tashkent
• Other names of Tashkent
• Timeline of Samarkand

References

1. "History of Tashkent: Chronological table". Khakimiyat of Tashkent City. Retrieved 15 April 2013.
2. David MacKenzie (1969). "Tashkent--Past and Present". Russian Review. 28.
3. ArchNet.org. "Tashkent". Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA: MIT School of Architecture and Planning. Retrieved 15 April 2013.
4. C. Edmund Bosworth, ed. (2007). "Tashkent". Historic Cities of the Islamic World. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill. ISBN 9004153888.
5. John Mowbray Trotter (1882). "Tashkand". Western Turkestan. Calcutta: Superintendent of Government Printing.
6. "Tashkent". Russia. Leipzig: Karl Baedeker. 1914. OCLC 1328163.
7. L.F. Kostenko (1881). Translated by F.C.H. Clarke. "Turkestan". Journal of the Royal United Service Institution. London.
8. "Tashkent (Uzbekistan) Newspapers". WorldCat. USA: Online Computer Library Center. Retrieved 15 April 2013.
9. Edward Balfour, ed. (1871). "Tashkend". Cyclopaedia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia (2nd ed.). Madras.
10. Dilip Hiro (2009), Inside Central Asia, New York: Overlook Duckworth, ISBN 9781590203781
11. Jeff Sahadeo (2005). "Epidemic and Empire: Ethnicity, Class, and "Civilization" in the 1892 Tashkent Cholera Riot". Slavic Review. 64.
12. Railway News. UK. 16 December 1905.
13. "Russia's New Great Railroad in Asia". New York Times. 7 November 1904. Retrieved 15 April 2013.
14. Jeff Sahadeo (2004). "Empire of Memories: Conquest and Civilization in Imperial Russian Tashkent". Canadian Slavonic Papers. 46.
15. "Russia: Principal Towns: Central Asia". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921.
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18. Adeeb Khalid (1996). "Tashkent 1917: Muslim Politics in Revolutionary Turkestan". Slavic Review. 55.
19. Theodore Levin (1996), The Hundred Thousand Fools of God: Musical Travels in Central Asia, Indiana University Press, ISBN 9780253332066
20. International dictionary of library histories. 2001. ISBN 1579582443.
21. Ian MacWilliam (5 January 2006). "Tashkent's hidden Islamic relic". BBC News. Retrieved 15 April 2013.
22. Vernon N. Kisling, ed. (2000). "Zoological Gardens of Western Europe: Russia and former Soviet Union (chronological list)". Zoo and Aquarium History. USA: CRC Press. ISBN 978-1-4200-3924-5.
23. Paul Stronski (2010). Tashkent: Forging a Soviet City, 1930–1966. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 0822973898.
24. David Ward MacFadyen (2006), Russian Culture in Uzbekistan, New York: Routledge, ISBN 0415341345
25. Cristofer Scarboro (2007). "The Brother-City Project and Socialist Humanism: Haskovo, Tashkent and "Sblizhenie"". Slavonic and East European Review. 85.
26. J. Anthony Lukas (9 January 1966). "Old Uzbek City Is Enjoying a New Day in the Sun; Tashkent Turns Out to Stare at World Figures There for Indian-Pakistani Talks". New York Times.
27. "Tashkent Is Rocked By a Fourth Quake; Fifth of City Ruined". New York Times. 6 June 1966.
28. "Seattle's 21 Sister Cities". USA: City of Seattle. Retrieved December 2015. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
29. Henry W. Morton and Robert C. Stuart, ed. (1984). The Contemporary Soviet City. New York: M.E. Sharpe. ISBN 978-0-87332-248-5.
30. "HistoryLink.org". Seattle, USA. Retrieved 15 April 2013.
31. ABOUT THE INSTITUTE
32. "Tashkent". Uzbekistan. Lonely Planet. Retrieved 15 April 2013.
33. "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2011. United Nations Statistics Division. 2012.

This article incorporates information from the Russian Wikipedia and the Ukrainian Wikipedia.

Further reading

Published in the 19th century

• "Tashkund". Edinburgh Gazetteer. Edinburgh: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green. 1822.
• Eugene Schuyler (1877), "Tashkent", Turkistan, New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Co.
• L.F. Kostenko (1880). "(Ташкент)". Turkestanskij (in Russian).
• Henry Lansdell (1885). "Tashkend". Russian Central Asia, including Kuldja, Bokhara, Khiva and Merv. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington.

Published in the 20th century

• Michael Myers Shoemaker (1904), "By Tarantass to Tashkendt", Heart of the Orient: Saunterings through Georgia, Armenia, Persia, Turkomania, and Turkestan, to the Vale of Paradise, New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons
• William Eleroy Curtis (1911), "Tashkend", Turkestan, New York: Hodder & Stoughton
• E.G. Kemp (1911), "Tashkent", The Face of Manchuria, Korea, Russian Turkestan, New York: Duffield
• "Tashkent". The Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.). New York: Encyclopaedia Britannica. 1910. OCLC 14782424.
• "Islam Is Neglected in Tashkent, Visitor to Soviet Asian City Finds; One Mosque Padlocked and in Disrepair, Another Converted Into Warehouse". New York Times. 15 August 1955.
• "Tashkent Is Called a Showplace of Soviet Industrial Rise in Asia". New York Times. 27 November 1961.
• Tashkent Entsiklopediya (in Russian). 1984.
• Toşkent: entsiklopediya (in Uzbek). Toşkent: Ḳomuslar Boş Tahririyati. 1992.
• Daniel Balland (1997). "Tachkent, metropole de l'Asie centrale?". Cahiers d'etudes sur la Mediterranee orientale et le monde Turco-Iranien (in French). 24.

Published in the 21st century

• Jeff Sahadeo, Russian Colonial Society in Tashkent, 1865–1923 (Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Press, 2010).
• Artyom Kosmarski (2011), "Grandeur and Decay of the Soviet Byzantium: Spaces, Peoples, and Memories of Tashkent, Uzbekistan", in Tsypylma Darieva; et al., Urban Spaces after Socialism, Frankfurt am Main: Campus, ISBN 9783593393841

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