Timeline of Hamadan

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Hamadan, Iran.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

Prior to 20th century

• 640s - Arabs in power.[1]
• 806 - City besieged by forces of al-Amin.[1]
• 931 - City besieged by forces of Ziyarid Mardāvij.[1]
• 956 - Earthquake.[1]
• 976 - Buyid Mu'ayyad al-Dawla in power.
• 997 - Shams al-Dawla in power.[1]
• 1021 - Sama' al-Dawla in power.
• 1221 - City sacked by Mongols.[1]
• 1224 - City sacked by Mongols again.[1]
• 1315 - Gunbad-i Alayvian built (approximate date).[2]
• 1724 - City sacked by forces of Ahmad Pasha of Baghdad.[1]
• 1732 - City taken by forces of Nāder Shah Afšār; Ottomans ousted.[1]
• 1789 - Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar takes Hamadan.[1]
• 1838 - Congregational mosque built.[3]
• 1883 - Imamzadeh Hossein, Hamadan (shrine) built.

20th century

• 1920 - Population: 30,000-40,000 (approximate estimate).[4]
• 1932 - Hamadan power plant built.
• 1933 - City redesigned to accommodate motorcars; central Meidun-e Emam Khomeini and 6 radiating boulevards laid out.[5]
• 1940 - Population: 103,874.[6]
• 1952 - Avicenna Mausoleum erected.[2]
• 1963 - Population: 114,610 (estimate).[7]
• 1970 - Baba Taher Mausoleum erected.[2]
• 1973 - Bu-Ali Sina University established.
• 1976 - Population: 164,785 city;[6] 229,977 urban agglomeration.[8]
• 1986 - Population: 272,499.[6]
• 1996 - Population: 401,281.[9]

21st century

• 2007 - PAS Hamedan F.C. (football club) formed.
• 2009 - Shahid Mofatteh Stadium opens.
• 2011 - Population: 525,794.[10]
• 2013 - 14 June: Local election held.
• 2014 - Syed Mustafa Rasul becomes mayor.[11]

See also

• History of Hamadan (de)
• Ecbatana, ancient city at site of present-day Hamadan[12]
• Hamadan Province history
• Timelines of other cities in Iran: Bandar Abbas, Isfahan, Kerman, Mashhad, Qom, Shiraz, Tabriz, Tehran, Yazd

References

1. Aḏkāʾi 2012.
2. "(Hamadan)". ArchNet. Retrieved 19 February 2017 – via MIT Libraries. (See also 2012 archived version)
3. Mousavi 2012.
4. "Persia". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921 – via HathiTrust.
5. Eshragh 2012.
6. Zanjani 2012.
7. "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1965. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations. 1966.
8. United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1987). "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". 1985 Demographic Yearbook. New York. pp. 247–289.
9. "Countries of the World: Iran". Statesman's Yearbook 2003. UK: Palgrave Macmillan. 2002. ISBN 978-0-333-98096-5.
10. "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2015. United Nations Statistics Division. 2016.
11. "معارفه سرپرست شهرداري همدان". Municipality.hamedan.ir (in Persian). Hamedan Municipality. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
12. Watson 1996.

This article incorporates information from the Persian Wikipedia and German Wikipedia.

Bibliography

in English

• "Hamadan", Persia: Report for the Year 1903-04 on the Trade of Kermanshah and District, Diplomatic and Consular Reports, London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1904
• Guy Le Strange (1905). "Jibal: (Hamadan)". Lands of the Eastern Caliphate. Cambridge University Press. pp. 194–196.
• A.V. Williams Jackson (1906), "(Hamadan)", Persia Past and Present: a Book of Travel and Research, New York: Macmillan, pp. 146–150
• W. Barthold (1984). "Ray and Hamadan". An Historical Geography of Iran. Translated by Svat Soucek. Princeton University Press. pp. 121–132. ISBN 978-1-4008-5322-9.
• Noelle Watson, ed. (1996), "Hamadan", International Dictionary of Historic Places, Fitzroy Dearborn, pp. 319+, ISBN 9781884964039 (Mostly about ancient Ecbatana)
• Parviz Aḏkāʾi (2012). "Hamadan: History, Islamic Period". Encyclopædia Iranica.
• Abdolhamid Eshragh (2012). "Hamadan: Urban Plan". Encyclopædia Iranica.
• Ali Mousavi (2012). "Hamadan: Monuments". Encyclopædia Iranica.
• Habibollah Zanjani (2012). "Hamadan: Population". Encyclopædia Iranica.

in other languages

• Farhad Khosrokhavar (1979). "Le Comité dans la révolution iranienne: le cas d'une ville moyenne, Hamadan". Peuples Méditerranéens (in French) (9): 85–100. ISSN 0399-1253 – via Internet Archive.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Parviz Aḏkāʾi (1994). Ketābšenāsi-e Hamadān (in Persian). Hamadān. OCLC 863471613. (Bibliography)

External links

• "Hamadan". Encyclopædia Iranica.
• Items related to Hamadan, various dates (via Qatar Digital Library)
• "(Hamadan)". Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran. Harvard University. Primary-source materials related to the social and cultural history of women's worlds in Qajar Iran
• "(Hamadan)", Asnad.org: Digital Persian Archive, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Image Database of Persian Historical Documents from Iran and Central Asia up to the 20th Century
• Items related to Hamadan, various dates (via Europeana)

Images

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  Imam Khomeini Square, Hamadan, laid out in 1933