Timeline of Tashkent explained

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

Before 20th century

• 500 BC – till 5th part of the Kushan empire
• 1210 AD – City sacked by forces of Muhammad II of Khwarezm (approximate date).^[1]
• 1220 – City sacked by forces of Genghis Khan.
• 1451 – Dzhuma Mosque built.^[2]
• 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.
• 1865
  • 15 June: City captured by Russian forces led by Mikhail Chernyayev.
  • Population: 76,000.^[3]
• 1867 – City becomes capital of Russian Turkestan, and center of the Syr-Darya Oblast.
• 1870
  • Turkistan Gaziti newspaper begins publication.^[4]
  • 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.^[5]
• 1895 – Samarkand-Tashkent railway begins operating.^[6]
• 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.^[7]
• 1905 – "Mutiny of Tsarist officers."
• 1910 – Monument to Konstantin von Kaufman dedicated.
• 1912 – Polish Church, the present Sacred Heart Cathedral, built.
• 1913 – Population: 172,300.^[8]
• 1914 – Military college established.
• 1916 – "Anti-labour conscription revolt."
• 1917
  • February Revolution.
  • 2 March: Tashkent Soviet established.^[9]
  • 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).^[10]
• 1924
  • City becomes part of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic.
  • Uthman Quran relocated to Tashkent from Ufa.^[11]
  • Tashkent Zoo founded.^[12]
• 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.^[13]
• 1964 – Tashkent Palace of Arts built.
• 1965 – Population: 1,092,000.^[14]
• 1966
  • January: City hosts signing of India-Pakistan peace agreement.^[15]
  • 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.^[16]
• 1977 – Tashkent Metro begins operating.
• 1979 – Population: 1,858,000.^[17]
• 1984 – Tashkent Tower built.
• 1985 – Population: 2,030,000 (estimate).^[18]
• 1988 – Seattle-Tashkent Peace Park dedicated.^[19]

• 1991
  • City becomes capital of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
  • Tashkent State Institute of Law and Tashkent Architectural Building Institute established.^[20]
• 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.^[21]

21st century

• 2001
  • Tashkent International Airport terminal rebuilt.
  • Population: 2,137,218.^[22]
• 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.
• 2010 – City hosts the 2010 World Sambo Championships.
• 2011 – Tashkent–Samarkand high-speed rail line begins operating.

• 2012
  • July: City hosts the 2012 Asian Karate Championships.
  • September: Milliy Stadium opened.
• 2014 – City hosts the 2014 World Wrestling Championships.
• 2016 – City hosts the 2016 Asian Weightlifting Championships.
• 2018 - Population: 2,464,933 (estimate).
• 2021
  • November: City hosts the 2021 World Sambo Championships.
  • December: City hosts the 2021 World Weightlifting Championships.
• 2022
  • October: City hosts the 2022 World Judo Championships.
  • December: City hosts the 2022 Asian Karate Championships.
• 2023 – City hosts the 2023 IBA Men's World Boxing Championships.

See also

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

References

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

Bibliography

Published in 19th century

• Book: Edinburgh Gazetteer . Edinburgh . Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green . 1822 . Tashkund . https://books.google.com/books?id=E2oDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA147 .
• Book: Cyclopaedia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia . 1871 . 2nd . Madras . . https://archive.org/stream/cyclopindiaeast03balfuoft#page/822/mode/2up . Tashkend . .
  • Book: L.F. Kostenko . 1880 . Turkestanskij . (Ташкент) . ru .
• Book: Western Turkestan . John Mowbray Trotter . 1882 . Calcutta . Superintendent of Government Printing . Tashkand . https://books.google.com/books?id=vBsPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA424 . .
• Book: . London . Russian Central Asia, including Kuldja, Bokhara, Khiva and Merv . Henry Lansdell . 1885 . https://archive.org/stream/russiancentralas01lansuoft#page/438/mode/2up . Tashkend .

Published in 20th century

• • Tashkent . 26 . 437 .
    • Book: Karl Baedeker . Leipzig . Russia . 1914 . 1328163 . https://archive.org/stream/russiawithtehera00baed#page/520/mode/2up . Tashkent . .
• Web site: 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 .
• Web site: Tashkent Is Called a Showplace of Soviet Industrial Rise in Asia . New York Times . 27 November 1961 .
• Tashkent—Past and Present . David MacKenzie . Russian Review . 28 . 1969 . .
• Toward Soviet Power in Tashkent, February–October 1917 . Richard A. Pierce . Canadian Slavonic Papers. 17 . 1975 . .
• Book: Tashkent Entsiklopediya . 1984 . ru .
• Book: Toşkent: entsiklopediya . Toşkent . Ḳomuslar Boş Tahririyati . 1992 . uz .
• Tashkent 1917: Muslim Politics in Revolutionary Turkestan . Adeeb Khalid . Slavic Review . 55 . 1996 . .
• Daniel Balland . fr . 1997 . Tachkent, metropole de l'Asie centrale? . Cahiers d'études sur la Méditerranée orientale et le monde Turco-Iranien . 24 .

Published in 21st century

• Empire of Memories: Conquest and Civilization in Imperial Russian Tashkent . Jeff Sahadeo . Canadian Slavonic Papers . 46 . 2004 . .
• Book: Historic Cities of the Islamic World . . 2007 . . Leiden . Tashkent . 978-9004153882. .
• Jeff Sahadeo, Russian Colonial Society in Tashkent, 1865–1923 (Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Press, 2010).
• Book: Paul Stronski . Tashkent: Forging a Soviet City, 1930–1966 . Pittsburgh . University of Pittsburgh Press . 2010 . 978-0822973898 . .

Notes and References

1. Web site: History of Tashkent: Chronological table . Khakimiyat of Tashkent City . 15 April 2013.
2. Web site: ArchNet.org . MIT School of Architecture and Planning . Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA . Tashkent . 15 April 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080505025414/http://archnet.org/library/places/one-place.jsp?place_id=2166 . 5 May 2008 . dmy-all .
3. Turkestan . L.F. Kostenko . Translated by F.C.H. Clarke . Journal of the Royal United Service Institution . 24 . 108 . 898–921 . 1881 . London . 10.1080/03071848109418533 .
4. Web site: Tashkent (Uzbekistan) Newspapers . USA . WorldCat . . 15 April 2013.
5. Epidemic and Empire: Ethnicity, Class, and "Civilization" in the 1892 Tashkent Cholera Riot . Jeff Sahadeo . Slavic Review . 64 . 2005 .
6. Book: Railway News . 16 December 1905 . UK .
7. Web site: Russia's New Great Railroad in Asia . 7 November 1904 . New York Times .
8. Book: Statesman's Year-Book . 1921 . London . Macmillan and Co.. Russia: Principal Towns: Central Asia . http://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101072368440?urlappend=%3Bseq=1282 . Statesman's Year-Book . 2027/njp.32101072368440?urlappend=%3Bseq=1282 .
9. News: Uzbekistan Profile: Timeline . 5 January 2012 . BBC News . 15 April 2013.
10. Book: International dictionary of library histories . 2001 . 1579582443 .
11. News: Ian MacWilliam. Tashkent's hidden Islamic relic. . 5 January 2006 .
12. Book: Vernon N. Kisling. Zoo and Aquarium History. 2000. . USA . 978-1-4200-3924-5 . Zoological Gardens of Western Europe: Russia and former Soviet Union (chronological list) . 375+ .
13. The Brother-City Project and Socialist Humanism: Haskovo, Tashkent and "Sblizhenie" . Cristofer Scarboro . Slavonic and East European Review . 85 . 2007 .
14. Book: https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/1960_round.htm . Demographic Yearbook 1965 . 1966 . . New York . Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants .
15. Web site: Old Uzbek City Is Enjoying a New Day in the Sun; Tashkent Turns Out to Stare at World Figures There for Indian-Pakistani Talks . 9 January 1966 . J. Anthony Lukas . J. Anthony Lukas . New York Times .
16. Web site: City of Seattle . 1 December 2015 . Seattle's 21 Sister Cities . USA.
17. Book: Henry W. Morton and Robert C. Stuart . The Contemporary Soviet City. registration . 4 . 1984. M.E. Sharpe . New York . 978-0-87332-248-5.
18. Book: https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/1980_round.htm . 1985 Demographic Yearbook . 1987 . United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office . New York . Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants . 247–289 .
19. Web site: HistoryLink.org . Seattle, USA . 15 April 2013.
20. http://www.taqi.uz/en/tarix.php ABOUT THE INSTITUTE
21. Web site: Tashkent . Uzbekistan . . 15 April 2013 .
22. Web site: Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants . Demographic Yearbook 2011 . 2012 . .