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Timeline of Tashkent

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

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Before 20th century

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  • 500 BC – till 5th part of the Kushan empire{{clarify|date=June 2017}}
  • 1210 AD – City sacked by forces of Muhammad II of Khwarezm (approximate date).{{cite web |url=http://toshkent.uz/eng/article/101/ |title= History of Tashkent: Chronological table |publisher= Khakimiyat of Tashkent City |access-date=15 April 2013}}
  • 1220 – City sacked by forces of Genghis Khan.{{sfn|MacKenzie|1969}}
  • 1451 – Dzhuma Mosque built.{{cite web |author=ArchNet.org |publisher=MIT School of Architecture and Planning |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA |url=http://archnet.org/library/places/one-place.jsp?place_id=2166 |title=Tashkent |access-date=15 April 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080505025414/http://archnet.org/library/places/one-place.jsp?place_id=2166 |archive-date=5 May 2008 |df=dmy-all }}
  • 1485 – Yunus Khan in power.{{sfn|Bosworth|2007}}
  • 1569 – Kukeltash Madrasa built.
  • 1611 – Uprising; crackdown by forces of Imam Quli Khan of Bukhara.{{sfn|MacKenzie|1969}}
  • 1809 – City becomes part of the Khanate of Kokand.{{sfn|Bosworth|2007}}
  • 1840 – Cholera outbreak.{{sfn|Trotter|1882}}
  • 1865
  • 15 June: City captured by Russian forces led by Mikhail Chernyayev.{{sfn|Baedeker|1914}}
  • Population: 76,000.{{cite journal |title=Turkestan |author=L.F. Kostenko |others=Translated by F.C.H. Clarke |journal=Journal of the Royal United Service Institution |volume=24 |issue=108 |pages=898–921 |url= https://zenodo.org/records/2023557/files/article.pdf |year=1881 |location=London |doi=10.1080/03071848109418533 }}
  • 1867 – City becomes capital of Russian Turkestan, and center of the Syr-Darya Oblast.
  • 1870
  • Turkistan Gaziti newspaper begins publication.{{cite web |url= http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=su%3ATashkent+%28Uzbekistan%29+Newspapers.&qt=hot_subject |title= Tashkent (Uzbekistan) Newspapers |location=USA |work=WorldCat |publisher=Online Computer Library Center |access-date=15 April 2013}}
  • Trade fair held.{{sfn|Trotter|1882}}
  • Kaufmann Library founded.
  • 1871 – Population: 120,000 (estimate).{{sfn|Balfour|1871}}
  • 1872 – Cholera outbreak.{{sfn|Trotter|1882}}
  • 1874 – Turkestan Military District headquartered in Tashkent.
  • 1876 – National Museum of Turkestan founded.{{citation needed|date=April 2013}}
  • 1877 – City government reorganized.{{sfn|MacKenzie|1969}}
  • 1889 – Trans-Caspian Railway begins operating.{{Citation |publisher = Overlook Duckworth |location = New York |author = Dilip Hiro |title = Inside Central Asia |date = 2009 |isbn=9781590203781 }}
  • 1892 – 24 June: Demonstration related to public health.{{cite journal |title=Epidemic and Empire: Ethnicity, Class, and "Civilization" in the 1892 Tashkent Cholera Riot |author= Jeff Sahadeo |journal= Slavic Review |volume= 64 |year=2005 }}
  • 1895 – Samarkand-Tashkent railway begins operating.{{cite book |title=Railway News |date=16 December 1905 |location= UK |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fwk1AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA995 }}
  • 1896 – Lutheran Church built.{{sfn|Baedeker|1914}}
  • 1897 – Population: 156,506.
  • 1898 – Russian Orthodox church built in Amir Temur Square.{{citation needed|date=April 2013}}

20th century

  • 1901 – Horsecar trams begin operating.{{citation needed|date=April 2013}}
  • 1904 – Orenburg-Tashkent Railway begins operating.{{cite web |url= http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10D10F6395E12738DDDAE0894D9415B848CF1D3 |title=Russia's New Great Railroad in Asia |date= 7 November 1904 |work= New York Times }}
  • 1905 – "Mutiny of Tsarist officers."{{sfn|Bosworth|2007}}
  • 1910 – Monument to Konstantin von Kaufman dedicated.{{sfn|Sahadeo|2004}}
  • 1912 – Polish Church, the present Sacred Heart Cathedral, built.
  • 1913 – Population: 172,300.{{cite book |title=Statesman's Year-Book |year=1921 |location=London |publisher= Macmillan and Co.|chapter= Russia: Principal Towns: Central Asia |chapter-url= http://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101072368440?urlappend=%3Bseq=1282 |title-link=Statesman's Year-Book |hdl=2027/njp.32101072368440?urlappend=%3Bseq=1282 }}
  • 1914 – Military college established.{{citation needed|date=April 2013}}
  • 1916 – "Anti-labour conscription revolt."{{sfn|Bosworth|2007}}
  • 1917
  • February Revolution.{{sfn|Pierce|1975}}
  • 2 March: Tashkent Soviet established.{{cite news |url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16218972 |title=Uzbekistan Profile: Timeline |date=5 January 2012 |publisher=BBC News |access-date=15 April 2013}}
  • April: Turkestan Muslim Congress held.{{sfn|Khalid|1996}}
  • Pravda Vostoka newspaper begins publication.
  • 1918
  • April: City becomes capital of the Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
  • Turkestan People's University and Turkestan People's Conservatory founded.{{Citation |publisher = Indiana University Press |isbn = 9780253332066 |url = https://archive.org/details/hundredthousandf00levi |title = The Hundred Thousand Fools of God: Musical Travels in Central Asia |date = 1996 |author = Theodore Levin |url-access = registration }}
  • 1920 – National Public Library of Uzbekistan established (approximate date).{{cite book |title=International dictionary of library histories |year=2001 |isbn=1579582443 }}
  • 1924
  • City becomes part of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic.{{sfn|Bosworth|2007}}
  • Uthman Quran relocated to Tashkent from Ufa.{{cite news|author=Ian MacWilliam|title=Tashkent's hidden Islamic relic|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4581684.stm|publisher=BBC News | date=5 January 2006 }}
  • Tashkent Zoo founded.{{cite book|editor=Vernon N. Kisling|title=Zoo and Aquarium History|year= 2000|publisher=CRC Press |location=USA |isbn=978-1-4200-3924-5 |chapter=Zoological Gardens of Western Europe: Russia and former Soviet Union (chronological list) |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=dxTrR5nOE0UC |page=375+ }}
  • 1925 – Sharq Yulduzi film studio established.
  • 1926 – Population: 323,000.{{sfn|MacKenzie|1969}}
  • 1930
  • Capital of Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic relocated to Tashkent from Samarkand.
  • Central Asian Construction Institute{{sfn|Stronski|2010}} and Tashkent Communication Polytechnic founded.{{citation needed|date=April 2013}}
  • 1931 – Central Asian Institute of Railway Engineers and Central Asian Institute of Economics founded.
  • 1932 – Arts Study Institute founded.{{Citation |publisher = Routledge |isbn = 0415341345 |location = New York |title = Russian Culture in Uzbekistan |author = David Ward MacFadyen |date = 2006 }}
  • 1938 – City becomes capital of Tashkent Province.{{citation needed|date=April 2013}}
  • 1939 – Komsomol Lake in Stalin Park.{{sfn|Stronski|2010}}
  • 1943 – Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR established.
  • 1947 – Navoi Theatre built.{{sfn|Stronski|2010}}
  • 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.{{cite journal |title=The Brother-City Project and Socialist Humanism: Haskovo, Tashkent and "Sblizhenie" |author= Cristofer Scarboro |journal= Slavonic and East European Review |volume=85 |year=2007 }}
  • 1964 – Tashkent Palace of Arts built.
  • 1965 – Population: 1,092,000.{{cite book |chapter-url= https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/1960_round.htm |title=Demographic Yearbook 1965 |year=1966 |publisher=Statistical Office of the United Nations |location=New York |chapter=Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants }}
  • 1966
  • January: City hosts signing of India-Pakistan peace agreement.{{cite web |title=Old Uzbek City Is Enjoying a New Day in the Sun; Tashkent Turns Out to Stare at World Figures There for Indian-Pakistani Talks |date=9 January 1966 |author=J. Anthony Lukas |author-link=J. Anthony Lukas |work=New York Times }}
  • 26 April: The M5.1 Tashkent earthquake destroys much of the city, leaving between 15 and 200 people dead, and around 300,000 homeless.
  • 1971 – Spartak Tashkent ice hockey team formed.
  • 1973 – Sister city relationship established with Seattle, USA.{{cite web |publisher=City of Seattle |access-date=1 December 2015 |title=Seattle's 21 Sister Cities |url=http://www.seattle.gov/oir/sister-cities/seattles-21-sister-cities |location=USA}}
  • 1977 – Tashkent Metro begins operating.
  • 1979 – Population: 1,858,000.{{cite book|editor=Henry W. Morton and Robert C. Stuart |title=The Contemporary Soviet City|url=https://archive.org/details/contemporarysovi00mort |url-access=registration |page=[https://archive.org/details/contemporarysovi00mort/page/4 4] |year=1984|publisher=M.E. Sharpe |location=New York |isbn=978-0-87332-248-5}}
  • 1984 – Tashkent Tower built.
  • 1985 – Population: 2,030,000 (estimate).{{cite book |chapter-url= https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/1980_round.htm |title=1985 Demographic Yearbook |year=1987 |author=United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office |location=New York |chapter=Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants |pages=247–289 }}
  • 1988 – Seattle-Tashkent Peace Park dedicated.{{cite web |url=http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=3595 |title=HistoryLink.org |location=Seattle, USA |access-date=15 April 2013}}

File:MATaschkentMedreseKukeldash1.jpg in the 1990s]]

21st century

File:Bunyodkor stadium.jpg in 2013]]

See also

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References

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

Bibliography

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=Published in 19th century=

  • {{cite book |title=Edinburgh Gazetteer |location=Edinburgh |publisher=Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green |year=1822 |chapter=Tashkund |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E2oDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA147

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  • {{cite book |title=Cyclopaedia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia |year=1871 |edition=2nd |location=Madras |editor=Edward Balfour |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/cyclopindiaeast03balfuoft#page/822/mode/2up |chapter= Tashkend

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  • {{Citation |publisher = Scribner, Armstrong & Co. |location = New York |author = Eugene Schuyler |author-link=Eugene Schuyler |title = Turkistan |date = 1877 |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/turkistannotesof01schu#page/76/mode/2up |chapter=Tashkent

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  • {{cite book |author=L.F. Kostenko |year=1880 |title=Turkestanskij |chapter=(Ташкент) |language=ru

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  • {{cite book |title=Western Turkestan |author= John Mowbray Trotter |year=1882 |location=Calcutta |publisher=Superintendent of Government Printing |chapter=Tashkand |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=vBsPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA424

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  • {{Cite book |publisher = Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington |location = London |title = Russian Central Asia, including Kuldja, Bokhara, Khiva and Merv |author = Henry Lansdell |date = 1885 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/russiancentralas01lansuoft#page/438/mode/2up |chapter=Tashkend

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=Published in 20th century=

  • {{Citation |publisher = G.P. Putnam's Sons |location = New York |author = Michael Myers Shoemaker |title = Heart of the Orient: Saunterings through Georgia, Armenia, Persia, Turkomania, and Turkestan, to the Vale of Paradise |date = 1904 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/heartorientsaun00shoegoog#page/n330/mode/2up |chapter=By Tarantass to Tashkendt

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  • {{cite EB1911|wstitle= Tashkent |volume= 26 | page = 437 }}
  • {{Citation |publisher = Hodder & Stoughton |location = New York |author = William Eleroy Curtis | author-link=William Eleroy Curtis |title = Turkestan |date = 1911 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/turkestanthehear00curtuoft#page/278/mode/2up |chapter=Tashkend

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  • {{Citation |publisher = Duffield |location = New York |title = The Face of Manchuria, Korea, Russian Turkestan |author=E.G. Kemp |date = 1911 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/faceofmanchuriak00kemp#page/178/mode/2up |chapter=Tashkent

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  • {{Cite book |publisher = Karl Baedeker |location = Leipzig |title = Russia |date = 1914 |oclc = 1328163 |chapter-url = https://archive.org/stream/russiawithtehera00baed#page/520/mode/2up |chapter= Tashkent

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  • {{cite web |title=Islam Is Neglected in Tashkent, Visitor to Soviet Asian City Finds; One Mosque Padlocked and in Disrepair, Another Converted Into Warehouse |work=New York Times |date=15 August 1955

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  • {{cite web |title=Tashkent Is Called a Showplace of Soviet Industrial Rise in Asia |work=New York Times |date=27 November 1961

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  • {{cite journal |title=Tashkent—Past and Present |author= David MacKenzie |journal= Russian Review |volume= 28 |year= 1969

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  • {{cite journal |title=Toward Soviet Power in Tashkent, February–October 1917 |author=Richard A. Pierce |journal= Canadian Slavonic Papers|volume=17 |year= 1975

|ref= {{harvid|Pierce|1975}}

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  • {{cite book |title=Tashkent Entsiklopediya |year=1984 |language=ru }}
  • {{cite book |title=Toşkent: entsiklopediya |location=Toşkent |publisher= Ḳomuslar Boş Tahririyati |year=1992 |language=uz

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  • {{cite journal |title=Tashkent 1917: Muslim Politics in Revolutionary Turkestan |author= Adeeb Khalid |journal= Slavic Review |volume= 55 |year= 1996

|ref= {{harvid|Khalid|1996}}

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  • {{cite journal |author=Daniel Balland |language=fr |year=1997 |title=Tachkent, metropole de l'Asie centrale? |journal=Cahiers d'études sur la Méditerranée orientale et le monde Turco-Iranien |volume=24

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=Published in 21st century=

  • {{cite journal |title=Empire of Memories: Conquest and Civilization in Imperial Russian Tashkent |author= Jeff Sahadeo |journal= Canadian Slavonic Papers |volume= 46 |year= 2004

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  • {{cite book |title=Historic Cities of the Islamic World |editor=C. Edmund Bosworth |year=2007 |publisher=Koninklijke Brill |location=Leiden |chapter=Tashkent |isbn=978-9004153882

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  • Jeff Sahadeo, Russian Colonial Society in Tashkent, 1865–1923 (Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Press, 2010).
  • {{cite book |author=Paul Stronski |title=Tashkent: Forging a Soviet City, 1930–1966 |location=Pittsburgh |publisher=University of Pittsburgh Press |year= 2010 |isbn=978-0822973898

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  • {{Citation |publisher = Campus |location = Frankfurt am Main |title = Urban Spaces after Socialism |date = 2011 |editor = Tsypylma Darieva|isbn=9783593393841 |chapter= Grandeur and Decay of the Soviet Byzantium: Spaces, Peoples, and Memories of Tashkent, Uzbekistan |author=Artyom Kosmarski |display-editors=etal

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