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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.

Contents

Prior to 20th century

  • 500BC – till 5th part of the Kushan empire
  • 1210 – City sacked by forces of Muhammad II of Khwarezm (approximate date).
  • 1220 – City sacked by forces of Genghis Khan.
  • 1451 – Dzhuma Mosque built.
  • 1485 – Yunus Khan in power.
  • 1569 – Kukeltash Madrasa built.
  • 1611 – Uprising; crackdown by forces of Imam-Quli Khan of Bukhara.
  • 1809 – City becomes part of the Khanate of Kokand.
  • 1840 – Cholera outbreak.
  • 1842 – Ak Mosque built.
  • 1865
  • 15 June: City captured by Russian forces led by Mikhail Chernyayev.
  • Population: 76,000.
  • 1867 – City becomes capital of Russian Turkestan, and center of the Syr-Darya Oblast.
  • 1870
  • Turkistan Gaziti newspaper begins publication.
  • Trade fair held.
  • Kaufmann Library founded.
  • 1871 – Population: 120,000 (estimate).
  • 1872 – Cholera outbreak.
  • 1874 – Turkestan Military District headquartered in Tashkent.
  • 1876 – National Museum of Turkestan founded.
  • 1877 – City government reorganized.
  • 1889 – Trans-Caspian Railway begins operating.
  • 1892 – 24 June: Demonstration related to public health.
  • 1895 – Samarkand-Tashkent railway begins operating.
  • 1896 – Lutheran Church built.
  • 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.
  • 1905 – "Mutiny of Tsarist officers."
  • 1910 – Monument to Konstantin von Kaufman dedicated.
  • 1913 – Population: 172,300.
  • 1914 – Military college established.
  • 1916 – "Anti-labour conscription revolt."
  • 1917
  • February Revolution.
  • 2 March: Tashkent Soviet established.
  • April: Turkestan Muslim Congress held.
  • 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.
  • 1920 – National Public Library of Uzbekistan established (approximate date).
  • 1924
  • City becomes part of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic.
  • Uthman Quran relocated to Tashkent from Ufa.
  • Tashkent Zoo founded.
  • 1925 – Sharq Yulduzi film studio established.
  • 1926 – Population: 323,000.
  • 1930
  • Capital of Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic relocated to Tashkent from Samarkand.
  • Central Asian Construction Institute and Tashkent Communication Polytechnic founded.
  • 1931 – Central Asian Institute of Railway Engineers and Central Asian Institute of Economics founded.
  • 1932 – Arts Study Institute founded.
  • 1938 – City becomes capital of Tashkent Province.
  • 1939 – Komsomol Lake in Stalin Park.
  • 1943 – Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR established.
  • 1947 – Navoi Theatre built.
  • 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.
  • 1964 – Tashkent Palace of Arts built.
  • 1966
  • January: City hosts signing of India-Pakistan peace agreement.
  • 26 April: The M5.1 Tashkent earthquake destroys much of the city, leaving between 15 and 200 people dead, and around 300,000 homeless.
  • 1967 – Population: 1,200,000 (estimate).
  • 1971 – Spartak Tashkent ice hockey team formed.
  • 1973 – Sister city relationship established with Seattle, USA.
  • 1977 – Tashkent Metro begins operating.
  • 1979 – Population: 1,858,000.
  • 1984 – Tashkent Tower built.
  • 1988 – Seattle-Tashkent Peace Park dedicated.
  • 1991
  • City becomes capital of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
  • Tashkent State Institute of Law and Tashkent Architectural Building Institute established.
  • 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.
  • 1998 – JAR Stadium opens.
  • 1999
  • 16 February: Bombings.
  • Tashkent Open tennis tournament begins.
  • Crying Mother Monument erected.

    • 21st century

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

    • References

    Timeline of Tashkent Wikipedia
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