Timeline of Yazd

{{History of Iran}}

• 749 - Abu-Moslem Khorasani in power.{{sfn|Modarres|2012}}
• 1051 - Kakuyid Faramurz in power.{{sfn|Bosworth|2007}}
• 1070 - Ali ibn Faramurz in power (approximate date).
• 1119 - Masjed-e ʿAtiq (Friday Mosque) built by ʿAlāʿ-al-Dawla Garšāsp.
• 1141 - Atabegs of Yazd in power.
• 1228/1229 - Mahmud Shah in power.{{sfn|Bosworth|2007}}
• 1271/1272 - Ala al-Dawla in power.{{sfn|Bosworth|2007}}
• 1274/1275 - Flood.{{sfn|Bosworth|2007}}
• 14th century CE - Muin al-Din Yazdi writes history of Yazd.{{sfn|Miller|1989}}
• 1307/1308 - Duvazdah Imam (tomb) built.{{cite web |work=Oxford Art Online |title= Yazd }} Retrieved 18 February 2017
• 1318 - Muzaffarid Mubariz al-Din Muhammad becomes governor.{{cite encyclopedia |encyclopedia= Encyclopædia Iranica |author=Patrick Wing |url= http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/mozaffarids |title= Mozaffarids |access-date= 18 February 2017 }}
• 1320 - Shah Kamal madrasa built.
• 1324 - Jame Mosque of Yazd built.
• 1325
• Madrasa-ye Rokniya built.
• Italian traveller Odoric of Pordenone visits city.{{sfn|Modarres|2012}}
• 1346/1347 - City walls expanded.{{cite web |url= http://archnet.org |title=(Yazd) |work=ArchNet |via=MIT Libraries |access-date=18 February 2017 }} (See also 2012 [https://web.archive.org/web/20121103204329/http://archnet.org/library/places/one-place.jsp?place_id=2232 archived version])
• 1365 - Tomb of Šams-al-Din Moḥammad built (approximate date).
• 1368/1369 - Masjed-e Rig (mosque) built.{{sfn|Bonine|1987}}
• 1385/1386 - Mosque of Ḵᵛāja Ḥāji Abu’l-Maʿāli{{which lang|date=June 2022}} built.
• 1395 - Fortifications built.
• 15th century CE - Historians Ahmad ibn Husain Ali Katib and Jafar ibn Muhammad ibn Hasan Jafari each write histories of Yazd.{{sfn|Miller|1989}}
• 1405/1406 - Iskandar b. Umar Shaykh becomes governor.{{sfn|Bosworth|2007}}
• 1421/1422 - Bazaar built near Mehriz gate.{{sfn|Bonine|1987}}
• 1456 - Flood.
• 1457 - Haji-Qanbar Bazaar built.{{sfn|Modarres|2012}}
• 1720s - Ghalzai Afghans in power.
• 1742/1743 - Mirza Husayn becomes governor.{{sfn|Bosworth|2007}}
• 1747 - Mohammad Taqi Khan becomes governor (until 1798).{{sfn|Bonine|1987}}

• 1903 - Anti-Baháʼí unrest.{{sfn|Bosworth|2007}}
• 1920 - Population: 45,000 (approximate estimate).{{cite book |title= Statesman's Year-Book |year=1921 |location=London |publisher= Macmillan and Co.|chapter= Persia |chapter-url= https://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101072368440?urlappend=%3Bseq=1219 |via=HathiTrust |quote= Yezd |title-link=Statesman's Year-Book |hdl=2027/njp.32101072368440?urlappend=%3Bseq=1219 }}
• 1931 - Factory in business.{{sfn|Modarres|2006}}
• 1935 - Pahlavi Street constructed.{{sfn|Modarres|2012}}
• 1940 - Yazd Ateshkade (Zoroastrian building) opens.{{sfn|Green|2000}}
• 1976 - City Hall built.{{sfn|Modarres|2012}}
• 1982 - Population: 193,000 (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 }}
• 1986 - Population: 234,003.{{sfn|Modarres|2012}}
• 1991 - Shahid Ghandi Yazd (football club) formed.
• 1996 - Population: 326,776.{{cite book |title= Statesman's Yearbook 2003 |year=2002 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7XXQDQAAQBAJ |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |location=UK |isbn= 978-0-333-98096-5 |chapter=Countries of the World: Iran }}

• 2004 - Foolad Yazd F.C. (football club) formed.
• 2009 - Yazd Solar Power Station commissioned near city.
• 2011 - Population: 486,152.{{cite web |url= http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/dyb2015.htm |work=Demographic Yearbook 2015 |year=2016 |publisher=United Nations Statistics Division |title= Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants }}
• 2013 - 14 June: Local election held.
• 2014 - Tarbiat Yazd F.C. (football club) active.

• Yazd history (fa)
• List of mayors of Yazd
• Timelines of other cities in Iran: Bandar Abbas, Hamadan, Isfahan, Kerman, Mashhad, Qom, Shiraz, Tabriz, Tehran

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• {{cite journal |title= Dailamīs in Central Iran: The Kākūyids of Jibāl and Yazd |author= C. E. Bosworth |journal= Iran |publisher= British Institute of Persian Studies |volume= 8 |pages= 73–95 |jstor= 4299634 |year=1970 |doi= 10.2307/4299634 }}
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• {{cite journal |title=Local History in Ninth/Fifteenth Century Yaẓd: The 'Tārākh-i Jadīd-i Yazd' |author= Isabel Miller |journal= Iran |publisher= British Institute of Persian Studies |volume= 27 |pages= 75–79 |jstor=4299819 |year=1989

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• {{cite journal |title= Qanāts of Yazd |author= A. K. S. Lambton |journal= Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society |volume= 2; 3rd series |issue= 1 |pages= 21–35 |jstor=25182446 |year= 1992 |author-link= A. K. S. Lambton |doi= 10.1017/S1356186300001784 |s2cid= 162258668 }} (History of qanat water technology in the city)
• {{Citation |title=International Dictionary of Historic Places |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R44VRnNCzAYC |editor= Noelle Watson |publisher=Fitzroy Dearborn |isbn=9781884964039 |year= 1996

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• {{cite journal |title= Survival of Zoroastrianism in Yazd |author= Nile Green |journal=Iran |publisher=British Institute of Persian Studies |volume= 38 |pages= 115–122 |jstor=4300587 |year= 2000

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• {{cite book|author=Ali Modarres |title=Modernizing Yazd: Selective Historical Memory and the Fate of Vernacular Architecture |publisher= Mazda Publishers |series= Bibliotheca Iranica |isbn= 978-1-56859-140-7 |year= 2006

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• {{cite book|editor=Mohammad Gharipour |title=The Bazaar in the Islamic City: Design, Culture, and History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=44vnCwAAQBAJ|year=2012|publisher=American University in Cairo |isbn=978-977-416-529-0

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• {{cite journal |author1=Albert Houtum-Schindler |author2-link= Heinrich Kiepert |author2= Heinrich Kiepert |title= Reisen im Südlichen Persien 1879 |language=de |publisher={{illm|Dietrich Reimer Verlag|de}} |journal= Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin |volume=16 |year= 1881

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• {{cite book |author= Mahmud Mahini |title= Jughrafiya-yi Tarikhi-yi Yazd |trans-title=Historical Geography of Yazd |language=fa |year= 1934 }}
• {{cite book |title= Kitāb-i Tārīkh-i Yazd |language=fa |author= ʻAbd al-Ḥusayn Āyatī |oclc= 123446613 |year=1938 }}
• {{citation |author= Jaʿfar b. Moḥammad Jaʿfārī |title= Tārīḵ-e Yazd |editor= Iraj Afshar |language=fa |location= Tehran |oclc=776485057 |year=1960 }} (Written in 15th century CE)
• {{cite book |author= Iraj Afshar |title= Yādgārhā-ye Yazd |trans-title=Monuments of Yazd |language=fa |location= Tehran }} 1969-1975 (3 volumes)
• {{cite book |author= Iraj Afshar |title= Yazd Nameh |language=fa |location= Tehran |year=1992 }}
• {{citation |title= Tarikh-i-jedid-i-Yazd |trans-title= New History of Yazd |author= Ahmad ibn Husayn ibn 'Ali al-Kateb |language=fa |isbn=978-9640010655 |location=Tehran |year= 2007 }} (Written in 15th century CE?)

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• {{cite web |url=http://yazd.ir/شهرداران-قبلی |language=fa |title=شهرداران يزد پس از انقلاب اسلامي |trans-title= Mayors of Yazd since 1979 |publisher=Municipality of Yazd }}
• {{cite web |editor = Houchang E. Chehabi |work= Bibliographia Iranica |title=Cities: Yazd |url= http://web.mit.edu/isg/iranica.html |publisher= Iranian Studies Group at MIT |location=USA }} (Bibliography)
• [http://www.qdl.qa/en/search/site/Yazd Items related to Yazd], various dates (via Qatar Digital Library)
• {{cite web |work= Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran |url= http://search.qajarwomen.org/search?query=Yazd&lang=en |title=(Yazd) |publisher=Harvard University |quote=Primary-source materials related to the social and cultural history of women's worlds in Qajar Iran }}
• [https://www.europeana.eu/portal/search.html?query=Yazd+Iran&rows=96 Items related to Yazd], various dates (via Europeana)
• [http://dp.la/search?page_size=100&q=Yazd+Iran&utf8=✓ Items related to Yazd], various dates (via Digital Public Library of America)
• {{citation |url=http://www.asnad.org/en/browse/key/place/en/236/ |title= (Yazd) |work=Asnad.org: Digital Persian Archive |publisher=Philipps-Universität Marburg |quote= Image Database of Persian Historical Documents from Iran and Central Asia up to the 20th Century }}
• {{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030510100819/http://www.irania.tv/city/yazd/ |url= http://www.irania.tv/city/yazd/ |archive-date=10 May 2003 |url-status=dead |title=Yazd |work=List of Cities and Buildings |publisher=www.irania.tv |quote=Historical Iranian Architecture }}

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