Timeline of Tashkent

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

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Prior to 20th century

Sheikhantaur Mosque, ca.1870s

Street in Tashkent, 1890s

• 500 BCE – till 5th part of the Kushan empire
• 1210 CE – City sacked by forces of Muhammad II of Khwarezm (approximate date).[1]
• 1220 – City sacked by forces of Genghis Khan.[2]
• 1451 – Dzhuma Mosque built.[3]
• 1485 – Yunus Khan in power.[4]
• 1569 – Kukeltash Madrasa built.[3]
• 1611 – Uprising; crackdown by forces of Imam-Quli Khan of Bukhara.[2]
• 1809 – City becomes part of the Khanate of Kokand.[4]
• 1840 – Cholera outbreak.[5]
• 1842 – Ak Mosque built.
• 1865
  • 15 June: City captured by Russian forces led by Mikhail Chernyayev.[6]
  • Population: 76,000.[7]
• 1867 – City becomes capital of Russian Turkestan, and center of the Syr-Darya Oblast.
• 1870
  • Turkistan Gaziti newspaper begins publication.[8]
  • Trade fair held.[5]
  • Kaufmann Library founded.
• 1871 – Population: 120,000 (estimate).[9]
• 1872 – Cholera outbreak.[5]
• 1874 – Turkestan Military District headquartered in Tashkent.
• 1876 – National Museum of Turkestan founded.
• 1877 – City government reorganized.[2]
• 1889 – Trans-Caspian Railway begins operating.[10]
• 1892 – 24 June: Demonstration related to public health.[11]
• 1895 – Samarkand-Tashkent railway begins operating.[12]
• 1896 – Lutheran Church built.[6]
• 1897 – Population: 156,506.
• 1898 – Russian Orthodox church built in Amir Temur Square.

20th century

• 1901 – Horsecar trams begin operating.
• 1904 – Orenburg-Tashkent Railway begins operating.[13]
• 1905 – "Mutiny of Tsarist officers."[4]
• 1910 – Monument to Konstantin von Kaufman dedicated.[14]
• 1913 – Population: 172,300.[15]
• 1914 – Military college established.
• 1916 – "Anti-labour conscription revolt."[4]
• 1917
  • February Revolution.[16]
  • 2 March: Tashkent Soviet established.[17]
  • April: Turkestan Muslim Congress held.[18]
  • Pravda Vostoka newspaper begins publication.[8]
• 1918
  • April: City becomes capital of the Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
  • Turkestan People's University and Turkestan People's Conservatory founded.[19]
• 1920 – National Public Library of Uzbekistan established (approximate date).[20]
• 1924
  • City becomes part of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic.[4]
  • Uthman Quran relocated to Tashkent from Ufa.[21]
  • Tashkent Zoo founded.[22]
• 1925 – Sharq Yulduzi film studio established.
• 1926 – Population: 323,000.[2]
• 1930
  • Capital of Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic relocated to Tashkent from Samarkand.[17]
  • Central Asian Construction Institute[23] and Tashkent Communication Polytechnic founded.
• 1931 – Central Asian Institute of Railway Engineers and Central Asian Institute of Economics founded.
• 1932 – Arts Study Institute founded.[24]
• 1938 – City becomes capital of Tashkent Province.
• 1939 – Komsomol Lake in Stalin Park.[23]
• 1943 – Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR established.
• 1947 – Navoi Theatre built.[23]
• 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.[25]
• 1964 – Tashkent Palace of Arts built.[3]
• 1965 – Population: 1,092,000.[26]
• 1966
  • January: City hosts signing of India-Pakistan peace agreement.[27]
  • 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.[28]
• 1977 – Tashkent Metro begins operating.
• 1979 – Population: 1,858,000.[29]
• 1984 – Tashkent Tower built.
• 1985 – Population: 2,030,000 (estimate).[30]
• 1988 – Seattle-Tashkent Peace Park dedicated.[31]
• 1991
  • City becomes capital of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
  • Tashkent State Institute of Law and Tashkent Architectural Building Institute established.[32]
• 1992 – Statue of Vladimir Lenin in Independence Square removed.
• 1994 – Tashkent Stock Exchange and Tashkent International School established.
• 1996
  • Amir Timur Museum established.
  • Kuyluk Market built.[3]
• 1998 – JAR Stadium opens.
• 1999
  • 16 February: Bombings.
  • Tashkent Open tennis tournament begins.
  • Crying Mother Monument erected.[33]

21st century

• 2001
  • Tashkent International Airport terminal rebuilt.
  • Population: 2,137,218.[34]
• 2003 – May: City hosts meeting of European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.[17]
• 2004 – July: Bombings.[17]
• 2005 – Bunyodkor PFK football club formed.
• 2008 – Tashkent Challenger tennis tournament begins.
• 2011 – Tashkent–Samarkand high-speed rail line begins operating.
• 2018 - Population: 2,464,933 (estimate).[35]

See also

• Tashkent history
• History of Tashkent
• Districts of Tashkent
• Other names of Tashkent
• Timeline of Samarkand

References

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2. MacKenzie 1969.
3. ArchNet.org. "Tashkent". Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA: MIT School of Architecture and Planning. Archived from the original on 5 May 2008. Retrieved 15 April 2013.
4. Bosworth 2007.
5. Trotter 1882.
6. Baedeker 1914.
7. L.F. Kostenko (1881). Translated by F.C.H. Clarke. "Turkestan". Journal of the Royal United Service Institution. London. 24 (108): 898–921. doi:10.1080/03071848109418533.
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9. Balfour 1871.
10. Dilip Hiro (2009), Inside Central Asia, New York: Overlook Duckworth, ISBN 9781590203781
11. Jeff Sahadeo (2005). "Epidemic and Empire: Ethnicity, Class, and "Civilization" in the 1892 Tashkent Cholera Riot". Slavic Review. 64.
12. Railway News. UK. 16 December 1905.
13. "Russia's New Great Railroad in Asia". New York Times. 7 November 1904.
14. Sahadeo 2004.
15. "Russia: Principal Towns: Central Asia". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921.
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17. "Uzbekistan Profile: Timeline". BBC News. Retrieved 15 April 2013.
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19. Theodore Levin (1996), The Hundred Thousand Fools of God: Musical Travels in Central Asia, Indiana University Press, ISBN 9780253332066
20. International dictionary of library histories. 2001. ISBN 1579582443.
21. Ian MacWilliam (5 January 2006). "Tashkent's hidden Islamic relic". BBC News.
22. Vernon N. Kisling, ed. (2000). "Zoological Gardens of Western Europe: Russia and former Soviet Union (chronological list)". Zoo and Aquarium History. USA: CRC Press. p. 375+. ISBN 978-1-4200-3924-5.
23. Stronski 2010.
24. David Ward MacFadyen (2006), Russian Culture in Uzbekistan, New York: Routledge, ISBN 0415341345
25. Cristofer Scarboro (2007). "The Brother-City Project and Socialist Humanism: Haskovo, Tashkent and "Sblizhenie"". Slavonic and East European Review. 85.
26. "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1965. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations. 1966.
27. J. Anthony Lukas (9 January 1966). "Old Uzbek City Is Enjoying a New Day in the Sun; Tashkent Turns Out to Stare at World Figures There for Indian-Pakistani Talks". New York Times. Missing or empty |url= (help)
28. "Seattle's 21 Sister Cities". USA: City of Seattle. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
29. Henry W. Morton and Robert C. Stuart, ed. (1984). The Contemporary Soviet City. New York: M.E. Sharpe. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-87332-248-5.
30. 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.
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33. "Tashkent". Uzbekistan. Lonely Planet. Retrieved 15 April 2013.
34. "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2011. United Nations Statistics Division. 2012.
35. "Table 8 - Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants", Demographic Yearbook – 2018, United Nations

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

Bibliography

Published in 19th century

• "Tashkund". Edinburgh Gazetteer. Edinburgh: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green. 1822.
• Edward Balfour, ed. (1871). "Tashkend". Cyclopaedia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia (2nd ed.). Madras.
• Eugene Schuyler (1877), "Tashkent", Turkistan, New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Co.
• L.F. Kostenko (1880). "(Ташкент)". Turkestanskij (in Russian).
• John Mowbray Trotter (1882). "Tashkand". Western Turkestan. Calcutta: Superintendent of Government Printing.
• Henry Lansdell (1885). "Tashkend". Russian Central Asia, including Kuldja, Bokhara, Khiva and Merv. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington.

Published in 20th century

• Michael Myers Shoemaker (1904), "By Tarantass to Tashkendt", Heart of the Orient: Saunterings through Georgia, Armenia, Persia, Turkomania, and Turkestan, to the Vale of Paradise, New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons
• "Tashkent". The Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). New York: Encyclopædia Britannica. 1910. OCLC 14782424.
• William Eleroy Curtis (1911), "Tashkend", Turkestan, New York: Hodder & Stoughton
• E.G. Kemp (1911), "Tashkent", The Face of Manchuria, Korea, Russian Turkestan, New York: Duffield
• "Tashkent". Russia. Leipzig: Karl Baedeker. 1914. OCLC 1328163.
• "Islam Is Neglected in Tashkent, Visitor to Soviet Asian City Finds; One Mosque Padlocked and in Disrepair, Another Converted Into Warehouse". New York Times. 15 August 1955. Missing or empty |url= (help)
• "Tashkent Is Called a Showplace of Soviet Industrial Rise in Asia". New York Times. 27 November 1961. Missing or empty |url= (help)
• David MacKenzie (1969). "Tashkent—Past and Present". Russian Review. 28.
• Richard A. Pierce (1975). "Toward Soviet Power in Tashkent, February–October 1917". Canadian Slavonic Papers. 17.
• Tashkent Entsiklopediya (in Russian). 1984.
• Toşkent: entsiklopediya (in Uzbek). Toşkent: Ḳomuslar Boş Tahririyati. 1992.
• Adeeb Khalid (1996). "Tashkent 1917: Muslim Politics in Revolutionary Turkestan". Slavic Review. 55.
• Daniel Balland (1997). "Tachkent, metropole de l'Asie centrale?". Cahiers d'etudes sur la Mediterranee orientale et le monde Turco-Iranien (in French). 24.

Published in 21st century

• Jeff Sahadeo (2004). "Empire of Memories: Conquest and Civilization in Imperial Russian Tashkent". Canadian Slavonic Papers. 46.
• C. Edmund Bosworth, ed. (2007). "Tashkent". Historic Cities of the Islamic World. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill. ISBN 978-9004153882.
• Jeff Sahadeo, Russian Colonial Society in Tashkent, 1865–1923 (Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Press, 2010).
• Paul Stronski (2010). Tashkent: Forging a Soviet City, 1930–1966. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 978-0822973898.
• Artyom Kosmarski (2011), "Grandeur and Decay of the Soviet Byzantium: Spaces, Peoples, and Memories of Tashkent, Uzbekistan", in Tsypylma Darieva; et al. (eds.), Urban Spaces after Socialism, Frankfurt am Main: Campus, ISBN 9783593393841

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