Timeline of Baku
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Baku, Azerbaijan.
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Prior to 20th century
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- 12th century CE: Maiden Tower (Baku) built.
- 1169 - Lezgi Mosque built.
- 1378 - Juma Mosque built.[1]
- 1442 - Palatial mosque of Palace of the Shirvanshahs built.
- 1509 - Persians in power.[2]
- 1578 - Ottomans in power.[3]
- 1603 - Persians in power again.[4]
- 1723 - Town taken by Russians.[2]
- 1732 - Oil refinery in operation.[5]
- 1735 - Persians in power again.[4]
- 1747 - Baku Khanate established.
- 1806 - Town taken by Russian forces.[2]
- 1813 - Town becomes part of Russia per Gulistan Treaty.[6]
- 1817 - Cholera outbreak.[4]
- 1823 - Paraffin factory begins operating.[4]
- 1832 - "First secular Russian school" opens.[3]
- 1846 - Baku becomes part of the Shemakh province.[3]
- 1859
- Oil refineries begin operating on outskirts of town.[4]
- Town becomes capital of the newly established Baku Governorate.[3]
- 1860 - Population: 13,381.[2]
- 1868
- Tbilisi-Baku telegraph begins operating.[4]
- Fountains Square constructed.
- 1875 - Ekinchi begins publication.[7]
- 1878 - Iosif Dzahkerli becomes mayor.
- 1883 - Batum-Baku railway built.[8]
- 1884
- Baku Railway Station built.
- Oil Extractors Congress Council established.[4]
- 1886 - Population: 45,679.[9]
- 1887
- Baku Polytechnicum established.
- Armenian Saint Gregory the Illuminator's Church, Baku built.
- 1897 - Population: 112,253.[2]
20th century
- 1900 - Population: 179,133.[2]
- 1901 - Synagogue built.[10]
- 1902 - Baku International Sea Trade Port opens.
- 1903 - July: Labor strike.[11][12]
- 1904
- 1905
- Armenian–Tatar massacre.[2]
- Irshad newspaper begins publication.[7]
- 1907 - Batumi-Baku oil pipeline constructed.[4][14]
- 1909 - Baku Boulevard constructed.
- 1910 - Phenomenon cinema built.
- 1912 - Philharmonic Hall built.
- 1913
- Ismailiyya building constructed.
- Population: 237,000.[15]
- 1914 - Taza Pir Mosque built.
- 1917 - Iranian communist Edalat Party founded in Baku.[16]
- 1918
- March Days inter-ethnic conflict.
- September Days massacre of Armenians.
- Baku becomes capital of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic.[3]
- 1919
- Baku State University founded.[17]
- Molodezh Azerbaijana newspaper begins publication.[17]
- 1920
- 28 April: 11th Army (Soviet Union) takes city.
- Baku becomes capital of Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic.[18]
- Azerbaijan State Symphony Orchestra and Baku Polytechnic Institute founded.
- Azerbaijan State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater active.[19]
- Kirov raion created.
- 1922
- 7 November: Avraamov's Symphony of Sirens performed.[20]
- State Drama Theatre opens.[19]
- 1923
- National Library of Azerbaijan opens on Torgovaya.
- Baku Theatre Technical School founded.[19]
- 1925 - Baku Workers' and Peasants Theatre opens.[19]
- 1928 - Theatre of Young Spectators founded.[19]
- 1931 - Baku Puppet Theatre established.[19]
- 1939 - Population: 809,347 metro.[21]
- 1940 - Baku Museum of Education founded.[17]
- 1941 - Kishlinsky district created.
- 1945 - Azerbaijan State Institute for the Arts active.[19]
- 1949 - Sumqayit developed near city.[21]
- 1951 - Stalin Stadium opens.
- 1952 - Government House built.
- 1967
- Baku Metro begins operating.
- Azerbaijan Carpet Museum established.
- 1979 - Population: 1,046,000.[22]
- 1989
- 1990
- January: Baku pogrom of Armenians.[25]
- Sanan Alizade becomes mayor.
- 1991 - City becomes capital of Azerbaijan Republic.[6]
- 1993 - Rafael Allahverdiyev becomes mayor.
- 1994
- 1995 - October: 1995 Baku Metro fire.
21st century
- 2000 - 25 November: 2000 Baku earthquake.
- 2001 - Hajibala Abutalybov becomes mayor.
- 2005 - Center for Economic and Social Development established.[26]
- 2006
- Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan pipeline in operation.[25]
- State Maritime Administration (Azerbaijan) headquartered in city.
- 2008 - International Mugham Center of Azerbaijan opens.
- 2009 - Uzeyir Hajibeyov International Music Festival begins.
- 2010
- National Flag Square opens in Bayil.
- SOCAR Tower construction begins.
- 2012
- Baku Crystal Hall built.
- Heydar Aliyev Center opens.
- May: Eurovision Song Contest 2012 held in city.
- Population: 2,122,300.
- 2013 - Flame Towers built.
- 2015
- Baku National Stadium opens.
- June: 2015 European Games held in city.
See also
References
- ↑ ArchNet. "Baku". Archived from the original on October 2012.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Britannica 1910.
- 1 2 3 4 5 S. Soucek; R. G. Suny. "Baku". Encyclopædia Iranica. New York: Columbia University, Center for Iranian Studies. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Dumper and Stanley 2008.
- ↑ M. S. Vassiliou (2009). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of the Petroleum Industry. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6288-3.
- 1 2 Bosworth 2007.
- 1 2 Shirin Akiner (2010). Islamic Peoples Of The Soviet Union. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-136-14274-1.
- ↑ Thomas de Waal (2010). "Chronology". The Caucasus: An Introduction. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-974620-0.
- ↑ "Russia: Principal Towns". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1890.
- ↑ Jewish Encyclopedia 1907.
- ↑ Firouzeh Mostashari (2006). On the Religious Frontier: Tsarist Russia and Islam in the Caucasus. I.B.Tauris. ISBN 978-1-85043-771-0.
- ↑ Chris Cook; John Stevenson (2003). "Russian Revolution (chronology)". Longman Handbook of Twentieth Century Europe. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-89224-3.
- ↑ Tadeusz Swietochowski (2004). Russian Azerbaijan, 1905-1920: The Shaping of a National Identity in a Muslim Community. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-52245-8.
- ↑ "A Russian Petroleum Pipe Line Carrying Oil from Baku to Batoum", Cassier's Magazine, New York, 19, November 1900
- ↑ "Russia: Principal Towns: Caucasia". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921.
- ↑ Touraj Atabaki (2013). "Comintern, the Soviet Union and Labour Militancy in Interwar Iran". In Stephanie Cronin. Iranian-Russian Encounters: Empires and Revolutions Since 1800. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-62433-6.
- 1 2 3 4 "Azerbaijan: Directory". Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia 2003. Europa Publications. 2002. ISBN 978-1-85743-137-7.
- ↑ Igor S. Zonn; et al., eds. (2010). Caspian Sea Encyclopedia. Springer. ISBN 978-3-642-11524-0.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Ron Rubin, ed. (1994). "Azerbaijan". World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-136-11804-3.
- ↑ Adrian Curtin (2014). Avant-Garde Theatre Sound: Staging Sonic Modernity. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-137-32479-5.
- 1 2 Leon E. Seltzer, ed. (1952), "Baku", Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, New York: Columbia University Press, p. 146, OL 6112221M
- ↑ Henry W. Morton and Robert C. Stuart, ed. (1984). The Contemporary Soviet City. New York: M.E. Sharpe. ISBN 978-0-87332-248-5.
- ↑ "Azerbaijan". Yearbook of Muslims in Europe. Brill. 2014. ISBN 978-90-04-28305-3.
- ↑ Michael Kemper; et al., eds. (2010). Islamic Education in the Soviet Union and Its Successor States. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-20731-2.
- 1 2 "Azerbaijan Profile: Timeline". BBC News. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
- ↑ "Organizations". International Relations and Security Network. Switzerland: Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
This article incorporates information from the Azerbaijani Wikipedia and Russian Wikipedia.
Bibliography
- Published in the 19th century
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- Edward Balfour, ed. (1871). "Bakoh". Cyclopaedia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia (2nd ed.). Madras.
- Charles Marvin (1883). Baku: the Petrolia of Europe. London: R. Anderson & Co.
- F. H. Trevithick (1886), A Sketchy Report on the Petroleum Industry at Baku, Cairo: National Printing Office
- "Baku", Hand-book for Travellers in Russia, Poland, and Finland (4th ed.), London: J. Murray, 1888
- Published in the 20th century
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- William Eleroy Curtis (1911). "(Baku)". Around the Black Sea. New York: Hodder & Stoughton.
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- Alstadt, Audrey L. The Azerbaijani Bourgeoisie and the Cultural-Enlightenment Movement in Baku: First Steps Toward Nationalism. 1983
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