Timeline of Mashhad
Prior to 20th century
- 818 - Death of Ali al-Ridha (8th Imam of Twelver Shia Islam) at Sanābādh; Imam Reza shrine established.[1]
- 970s-990s - Imam Reza shrine demolished "in an act of fanaticism" by Ghaznavid Nāṣer-al-dawla Sübüktigin.[2]
- 1009 - Imam Reza shrine rebuilt.[2]
- 1121 - Town wall built.[1]
- 1161 - Mashhad sacked by Ghuzz Turks.[1]
- 1389 - Nearby Tus besieged and "left a heap of ruins" by forces of Timurid Miran Shah; refugees flee to Mashhad.[1]
- 1418 - Goharshad Mosque built.[3]
- 1426 - Bala-yi sar madrasa built at the Imam Reza shrine.[3]
- 1439 - Du-dar madrasa built at the Imam Reza shrine.[3]
- 1501 - Twelver Shia Islam declared official state religion in Iran, a development beneficial to Mashhad as a holy city (approximate date).[1][4]
- 1507 - Mashhad taken by forces of Uzbek Muhammad Shaybani.[1]
- 1544 - Mashhad sacked by Uzbek forces.[1]
- 1589 - Mashhad besieged by forces of Shaybanid Abd al-Mumin.[1]
- 1598 - Mashhad taken by forces of Abbas I of Persia; Uzbeks defeated.[1]
- 1722 - Afghan Abdalis in power.[1]
- 1726 - Mashhad besieged by Persian forces.[1]
- 1753 - Mashhad besieged by forces of Afghan Ahmad Shah Durrani.[1]
- 1803 - Mashhad besieged by forces of Fath Ali Shah.[1]
- 1849 - Mashhad taken by forces of Husam al-Saltana.[5]
- 1876 - Palace of Abbas Mirza built.[5]
20th century
- 1912 - 29 March: Bombing of city by Russians.[5]
- 1918
- 1920 - Population: 70,000-80,000 (approximate estimate).[7]
- 1925 / 1304 SH - 31 March: Solar Hijri calendar legally adopted in Iran.
- 1949 - Razavi University established.
- 1959 - Nader Shah Mausoleum erected.[8]
- 1963 - Population: 312,186 (estimate).[9]
- 1964 - Astan Quds Razavi Central Museum inaugurated.
- 1966 - Mashhad railway station opens.
- 1968 - سینما هویزه (cinema) established.
- 1970 - سینما قدس (مشهد) (cinema) established.
- 1971 - سینما آفریقا (مشهد) (cinema) established.
- 1980 - باغوحش وکیلآباد (zoo) established.
- 1982 - Population: 1,120,000 (estimate).[10]
- 1983 - Samen Stadium opens.
- 1995 - Central Library of Astan Quds Razavi new building opens.
- 1996 - Population: 1,887,405.[11]
21st century
- 2004
- Proma Hypermarket in business.
- City becomes part of the newly formed Razavi Khorasan Province.
- 2011
- Mashhad Urban Railway begins operating.
- Siah Jamegan Aboumoslem Khorasan F.C. (football club) formed.
- پیست دوچرخهسواری مشهد (velodrome) opens.
- Imam Reza Stadium construction begins.
- Population: 2,766,258.[12]
- 2013 - 14 June: Local election held.
- 2014
- Sowlat Mortazavi becomes mayor.[6]
- City becomes part of newly formed national administrative Region 5.
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See also
References
- Bosworth 2007.
- Mawlawī 2011.
- Massumeh Farhad. "Mashhad". Oxford Art Online. Missing or empty
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- Streck 1934.
- "Mashhad Municipality Portal". Retrieved 9 February 2017.
- "Persia". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921 – via HathiTrust.
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- "City: Mashhad, Iran". ArchNet. MIT Libraries. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
- "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1965. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations. 1966. pp. 140–161.
- 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.
- "Countries of the World: Iran". Statesman's Yearbook 2003. UK: Palgrave Macmillan. 2002. ISBN 978-0-333-98096-5.
- "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2015. United Nations Statistics Division. 2016.
This article incorporates information from the Persian Wikipedia.
Bibliography
in English
- James Baillie Fraser (1825). "(Mushed)". Narrative of a Journey into Khorasan in the Years 1821 and 1822. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green.
- Edward Balfour (1885), "Meshed", Cyclopaedia of India (3rd ed.), London: B. Quaritch
- Guy Le Strange (1905). "Khurasan: (Mashhad)". Lands of the Eastern Caliphate. Cambridge University Press.
- "Meshed", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424
- M. Streck (1934). "Meshhed". In M.T. Houtsma; et al. (eds.). Encyclopaedia of Islam. Brill. pp. 467–477.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) 1993 reprint
- Noelle Watson, ed. (1996), "Mashhad", International Dictionary of Historic Places, Fitzroy Dearborn, ISBN 9781884964039
- C. Edmund Bosworth, ed. (2007). "Mashhad". Historic Cities of the Islamic World. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill. pp. 332–338. ISBN 978-9004153882.
- ʿA.-Ḥ. Mawlawī, M. T. Moṣṭafawī, and E. Šakūrzāda (2011). "Āstān-e Qods-e Rażawī". Encyclopædia Iranica.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) (Article about the shrine)
- Aḥmad Monzawī; ʿAlī Naqī Monzawī (2012). "Bibliographies and Catalogues in Iran: Mašhad". Encyclopædia Iranica.
in other languages
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