Timeline of Yerevan

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Yerevan, Armenia.

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Prior to 20th century

History of Armenia

Etymology Timeline Traditional Urheimat
Prehistory Stone & Copper Age Shulaveri-Shomu culture c.6500–3400 BCE Areni-1 Cave Complex Kura–Araxes culture c.3400–2000 BCE Legend of Hayk (?) 2492 BCE Bronze & Iron Age Hayasa-Azzi c.1500–1290 BCE Arme-Shupria c.1300s–1190 BCE Ararat/Urartu Nairi Tribes 1114–860 BCE Kingdom of Van 860–590 BCE Scythian & Mede Invasions 6th Century BCE
Antiquity Achaemenid Period Satrapy of Armina 549–331 BCE Orontid Dynasty Ancient Armenia Armenia Minor 331–72 BCE Kingdom of Armenia 321 BCE–428 CE Artaxiad dynasty 189 BCE–12 CE Empire 84–34 BCE Arsacid dynasty 52–428 CE Roman–Parthian War 58–63 CE Roman Province of Armenia 114–118 CE Christianization 301 CE Kingdom of Sophene c.200–94 BCE Kingdom of Commagene 163 BCE–72 CE Marzpanate period Byzantine Armenia 387–536 Persian Armenia 428–646 Mamikonian dynasty Battle of Avarayr 451
Middle Ages Arabic Period Emirate of Armenia 653–884 Hamamshen 700s–1300s Amatuni Dynasty Medieval Armenia Bagratid Armenia 884–1045 Bagratid dynasty 861–1118 Kingdom of Vaspurakan 908–1021 Artsruni dynasty Sajid dynasty 889–929 Sallarid dynasty 919–1062 Kingdom of Tashir-Dzoraget 979–1118 Kingdom of Syunik 987–1170 Kingdom of Artsakh 1000–1261 House of Hasan-Jalalyan Battle of Manzikert 1071 Cilician & Turco-Mongol Period Seljuq rule 1071–1201 Georgian union 1201–1236 Ilkhanid rule 1236–1335 Principality of Khachen 1261–1750 Turkmen rule 1335–1508 Kingdom of Cilicia 1198–1375 Rubenid dynasty 1000–1261 Hethumid dynasty 1226–1373 Lusignan dynasty 1341–1375
Early modern age Perso-Ottoman Period Safavid & Qajar rule 1502–1828 Five Melikdoms Nakhichevan deportation 1606 Ceding of Eastern Armenia 1828 Ottoman rule 1548–1915 Six Vilayets 1878 Hamidian massacres 1895–1896 Armenian Genocide 1909–1918 Russian period Russian rule 1828–1918 Armenian Oblast 1828–1840 Western Armenia 1915–1918 National Liberation Movement Armenakan 1885 S.D. Hunchakian Party 1887 ARF (Dashnaktsutyun) 1890 Caucasus Campaign 1914–1918 Battle of Sardarapat 1918 Battle of Karakilisa 1918 Modern Armenia First Republic of Armenia 1918–1920 Treaty of Batum 1918 War with Azerbaijan 1918–1920 War with Georgia 1918 Treaty of Sèvres 1920 Wilsonian Armenia 1920 War with Turkey 1920 Treaty of Alexandropol 1920
Modern age Soviet Period Armenian S.S.R. 1920–1991 February Uprising 1921 Republic of Mountainous Armenia 1921 Treaty of Moscow 1921 Treaty of Kars 1921 Territorial claims against Turkey 1945–1953 Independence Armenian diaspora Hidden Armenians Republic of Armenia since 1991 Post-Soviet transition 1991–1995 Modern era since 1995 Nagorno-Karabakh Republic since 1994 Nagorno-Karabakh War 1989–1994
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782 BCE - Settlement founded by Argishti I of Urartu.^[1]
590s CE - Katoghike Tsiranavor Church of Avan built.
1582 - Turks in power.^[2]
1583 - Erivan Fortress built.
1604 - Town taken by Safavids of Iran.^[3]
1615 - Town besieged by Turkish forces.^[2]
1679 - 4 June: 1679 Armenia earthquake.
1736 - Town becomes capital of the Erivan Khanate.
1768 - Blue Mosque built.
1827 - 1 October: Capture of Erivan; Russians in power; Persians depart.^[3]
1828 - Town becomes part of Russia per Treaty of Turkmenchay.^[2]^[4]
1830 - Red Bridge rebuilt.
1837 - Tsarskaya Street opens.
1842 - Saint Sarkis Cathedral rebuilt.
1873 - Population: 11,938.^[2]
1877 - Yerevan Ararat Wine Factory in operation.
1879 - Hovhannes Ghorghanyan becomes mayor.^[5]
1897 - Population: 28,910.

20th century

1913 - Population: 34,000.^[6]
1915 - Refugees from Armenian Genocide begin to arrive in Erivan.^[3]
1918 - 28 May: Erivan becomes capital of the First Republic of Armenia.^[3]
1920
- 29 November: Bolsheviks in power.^[7]
- Erivan becomes capital of Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic.^[4]
- Nairi Cinema opens.
1921 - Armenian State University established.^[4]
1924 - Art school opens.^[8]
1926 - Population: 64,613.^[4]
1930 - Spartak Stadium built.
1931 - Saint Nikolai Cathedral demolished.
1933 - Opera Theater opens.
1934 - Golos Armenii Russian-language newspaper begins publication.
1936
- City renamed "Yerevan."^[4]
- Moscow Cinema opens.^[9]
- Komitas Pantheon (cemetery) established.
1939 - Population: 200,031.^[4]
1940
- Yerevan Zoo opens.
- Statue of Lenin erected in Lenin Square.
1949 - Pushkin Park designed.
1959 - Souren Spandaryan Square opens.
1965 - 24 April: 1965 Yerevan demonstrations.
1967
- Mother Armenia monument erected in Victory Park.
- Armenian Genocide memorial erected on Tsitsernakaberd.
1970s - Yerevan Museum of Contemporary Art established.^[8]
1970 - Hrazdan Stadium and Chess House open.
1977 - Yerevan TV Tower erected.
1979 - Population: 1,055,000.^[10]
1980 - Yerevan Cascade built.
1981 - Yerevan Metro begins operating; Marshal Baghramyan (metro station) opens.
1982 - House-Museum of Aram Khachaturian opens.
1983 - Karen Demirchyan Sports and Concerts Complex opens.
1987 - Garegin Nzhdeh Square (metro station) opens.
1988
- 18–26 February: Major demonstration held in Yerevan demanding the unification of Karabakh with Armenia.
- 22 March: Demonstration.
- 26 March: Demonstration.
- 7 December: Influx of refugees following the 1988 Armenian earthquake.^[11]
1991
- 21 September: Armenian independence referendum, 1991 held.
- Azg and Yerkir newspapers in publication.^[12]
1992
- Football Club Pyunik formed.
- Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art active.
1993 - Yerevan Stock Exchange established.^[12]
1994 - Food demonstration.^[13]
1996 - September: Protest following Armenian presidential election, 1996.^[13]

21st century

2001 - Hovik Hayrapetyan Equestrian Centre opens.
2003
- Yervand Zakharyan becomes mayor.^[5]
- Armenian International Policy Research Group headquartered in city.^[14]
2004
- Yerevan International Film Festival begins.
- Yerevan City Hall built.
2007 - Sister city relationship established with Los Angeles, USA.^[15]
2008 - February–March: 2008 Armenian presidential election protests.^[13]
2009 - Cafesjian Museum of Art opens.
2011
- Yerevan Velodrome and Mordechai Navi Synagogue open.
- Taron Margaryan becomes mayor.
- Population: 1,060,138.
2014 - Yerevan Mall in business.

References

↑ Adalian 2010.
1 2 3 4 Britannica 1910.
1 2 3 4 Rouben Paul Adalian (2010). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of Armenia (2nd ed.). Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7450-3.
1 2 3 4 5 6 Leon E. Seltzer, ed. (1952), "Erivan", Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, New York: Columbia University Press, p. 584, OL 6112221M
1 2 "Former mayors of Yerevan". Yerevan Municipality Official Website. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
↑ "Russia: Principal Towns: Caucasia". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921.
↑ Thomas de Waal (2010). "Chronology". The Caucasus: An Introduction. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-974620-0.
1 2 "Anatolia and the Caucasus, 1900 A.D.–present: Key Events". Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
↑ "Movie Theaters in Yerevan, Armenia". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
↑ Henry W. Morton; Robert C. Stuart, eds. (1984). The Contemporary Soviet City. New York: M.E. Sharpe. ISBN 978-0-87332-248-5.
↑ Brian E. Tucker; et al., eds. (1994). Issues in Urban Earthquake Risk. Kluwer. ISBN 978-0-7923-2914-5.
1 2 "Armenia". Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia 2003. Europa Publications. 2002. ISBN 978-1-85743-137-7.
1 2 3 "Armenia Profile: Timeline". BBC News. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
↑ "Organizations". International Relations and Security Network. Switzerland: Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
↑ "Sister Cities of Los Angeles". USA: City of Los Angeles. Retrieved 30 December 2015.

Bibliography

Published in the 19th century

Abraham Rees (1819), "Erivan", The Cyclopaedia, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown – via Hathi Trust
Robert Ker Porter (1821), "(Erivan)", Travels in Georgia, Persia, Armenia, ancient Babylonia, &c. &c, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, OCLC 5524754
William Ouseley (1823), "(Iravan)", Travels in various countries of the East; more particularly Persia, London: Rodwell and Martin, OCLC 4198311
Evliya Çelebi (1834). "Description of the Town of Erivan (Revan)". Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in the Seventeenth Century. 2. Translated by Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall. London: Oriental Translation Fund.
Douglas W. Freshfield (1869). "(Erivan)". Travels in the Central Caucasus and Bashan. London: Longmans, Green, & Co.
J. Buchan Telfer (1876). "(Erivan)". The Crimea and Transcaucasia. London: H.S. King & Company.
George Ripley; Charles A. Dana, eds. (1879). "Erivan". American Cyclopedia (2nd ed.). New York: D. Appleton and Company.
"Erivan". Hand-book for Travellers in Russia, Poland, and Finland (4th ed.). London: John Murray. 1888.
Charles Wilson, ed. (1895), "Erivan", Handbook for Travellers in Asia Minor, Transcaucasia, Persia, etc., London: John Murray, OCLC 8979039

Published in the 20th century

"Erivan", Chambers's Encyclopaedia, London: W. & R. Chambers, 1901 – via Hathi Trust
H. F. B. Lynch (1901). "At Erivan". Armenia: Travels and Studies. London: Longmans, Green, and Co.
A.V. Williams Jackson (1906), "(Erivan)", Persia Past and Present: a Book of Travel and Research, New York: Macmillan
"Erivan", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
William Eleroy Curtis (1911). "(Erivan)". Around the Black Sea. New York: Hodder & Stoughton.
"Erivan", Russia, Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1914, OCLC 1328163
William Henry Beable (1919), "Erivan", Russian Gazetteer and Guide, London: Russian Outlook

Published in the 21st century

Rouben Paul Adalian (2010). "Yerevan". Historical Dictionary of Armenia (2nd ed.). Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7450-3.
Levon Abrahamian (2011). "Yerevan Sacra". In Tsypylma Darieva; et al. Urban Spaces After Socialism: Ethnographies of Public Places in Eurasian Cities. Frankfurt: Campus-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-593-39384-1.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Yerevan.

Digital Public Library of America. Items related to Yerevan, various dates

Yerevan landmarks

Historical sites and notable landmarks	Shengavit archaeological site Erebuni Fortress Teishebaini archaeological site Tsiranavor Church of Avan Katoghike Chapel Kond settlement Zoravor Church Saint John the Baptist Church Blue Mosque Saint Sarkis Cathedral Holy Mother of God Russian Church Saint Gregory Cathedral Red Bridge Mother Armenia Tsitsernakaberd Genocide Memorial Yerevan Cascade Yerevan TV Tower Komitas Pantheon Yerablur Military Pantheon

Nature and parks	Hrazdan River Yerevan Lake Lovers' Park English Park Yerevan Botanical Garden Yerevan Zoo Khachatur Abovyan Park Circular Park Victory Park Lyon Park Tumanyan Park Buenos Aires Park

Entertainment and recreation	Royal Tulip Hotel Armenia Marriott Ani Plaza Hotel Yerevan Water World Radisson Blu Yerevan Dalma Garden Mall Yerevan Mall Rossia Mall

Culture and art	Yerevan Opera Sundukyan Academic Theatre H. Tumanyan Puppet Theatre Stanislavski Russian Theatre Paronyan Musical Comedy Theatre H. Ghaplanyan Drama Theatre Komitas Chamber Music House Moscow Cinema Nairi Cinema Yerevan Circus National Gallery of Armenia Yerevan Vernissage

Museums	History Museum of Armenia Charents Museum of Literature Yerevan History Museum Matenadaran Museum of Ancient Manuscripts Erebuni Museum Modern Art Museum of Yerevan House-Museum of A. Khachaturian Sergei Parajanov Museum Middle East Art Museum Cafesjian Museum of Art ARF History Museum Charles Aznavour Museum Komitas Museum

Education	Yerevan State University National University of Architecture and Construction Yerevan State Medical University Armenian State Pedagogical University Komitas State Conservatory Armenian National Agrarian University National Polytechnic University of Armenia Brusov University of Languages and Social Sciences Institute of Theatre and Cinematography Institute of Physical Culture Academy of Fine Arts Armenian State University of Economics American University of Armenia French University in Armenia Russian-Armenian University Mkhitar Sebastatsi Educational Complex French International School QSI School Kh. and Sh. Avedisian School Ayb School

Science, research and technology	National Library of Armenia National Archives of Armenia Khnko Aper Children's Library National Academy of Sciences Yerevan Physics Institute Yerevan Computer Research Institute CANDLE Synchrotron Institute Tumo Center for Technologies Economic Research Center International Center for Human Development Caucasus Institute Ararat Center for Strategic Research Shengavit Medical Center Nork-Marash Medical Center Izmirlian Medical Center

Sport	V. Sargsyan Republican Stadium Hrazdan Stadium Yerevan Football Academy T. Petrosian Chess House H. Hayrapetyan Equestrian Centre Karen Demirchyan Complex Yerevan Velodrome I. Rodnina Figure Skating Centre

Transportation	Yerevan Railway Station Trolleybuses in Yerevan Erebuni Airport Zvartnots International Airport Yerevan underground stations

Squares, streets and bridges	Republic Square Freedom Square Garegin Nzhdeh Square Aram Street Abovyan Street Mashtots Avenue Sayat-Nova Avenue Baghramyan Avenue Tamanyan Street Komitas Avenue Liberty Avenue Northern Avenue Victory Bridge Hrazdan Gorge Aqueduct Great Bridge of Hrazdan Davtashen Bridge

Government	Presidential Palace Government House National Assembly National Security Service Yerevan City Hall Constitutional Court Police of Armenia

Economy	Central Bank of Armenia Armenian Stock Exchange Yerevan Ararat Brandy Factory Proshyan Brandy Factory Yerevan Brandy Factory Yerevan Champagne Factory Elite Plaza Center

Precincts	Ajapnyak Arabkir Avan Davtashen Erebuni Kanaker-Zeytun Kentron Malatia-Sebastia Nork-Marash Nor Nork Nubarashen Shengavit

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Years in Armenia (1918–present)

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First Republic of Armenia (1918-1920)

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