Timeline of Tbilisi explained

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Tbilisi, Georgia.

Prior to 13th century

• 4th C. CE – Narikala Fortress built.
• – First Sasanian officials with the title marzban ("margrave") take up residence in Tbilisi.^[1]
• 534 CE – Anchiskhati Basilica built (approximate date).
• 6th C. – Capital of Caucasian Iberia moves to Tbilisi from Mtskheta.
• 570 – Persians in power.
• 626 – Town besieged by Greeks.
• 627 – Town sacked by Byzantine/Khazar forces.
• 639 – Sioni Cathedral built (approximate date).
• 653 – Occupation by Arab leader Khabib Ibn-Maslama.
• 736 – Arab Emirate of Tbilisi is established.
• 764 – Town sacked by Khazars.
• 828 – Town besieged by Khazars.
• 851 – Town besieged by Arabs.
• 853 – Town besieged by forces of Arab Bugha Al-Turki.
• 1029 - Svetitskhoveli Cathedral rebuilt.
• 1068 – Town sacked by forces of Seljuk Turk Alp Arslan.
• 1122 – David IV of Georgia comes to power; relocates capital to Tbilisi from Kutaisi.

13th–17th centuries

• 1226 – City sacked by forces of Khwarazmian Jalal ad-Din Mingburnu.
• 1236 – Mongols in power.
• 1251 – Cathedral of Saint George built.
• 1284 – Metekhi Church of Assumption built.
• 1329 – Catholic diocese established.^[2]
• 1366 – Plague.
• 1395 – City besieged by Timur.
• 1444 – City sacked by forces of Turcoman Jahan Shah.
• 1467 – Norashen Church founded.
• 1477 – Aq Qoyunlu in power.
• 1480 – Armenian Cathedral rebuilt.
• 1522 – Persians in power.
• 1655 – Khojivank church built.
• 1668 – Earthquake.

18th century

• 1711 – Church of the Holy Seal built.
• 1717 – Zrkinyants St. Gevorg (church) built.
• 1727 – Upper Betlemi Church built.
• 1729 – Jigrashen Avetyats Church built (approximate date).
• 1737 – Saint Sargis Church built.
• 1753 – Church of Saint George (Kldisubani) built.
• 1756 – Saint Gevorg of Mughni Church rebuilt.
• 1775 – Church of the Red Gospel built (approximate date).
• 1778 – Krtsanis Tsiranavor Surb Astvatsatsin (church) rebuilt.
• 1788 – Kamoyants St. Gevorg (church) built.
• 1793 – Armenian school opens.
• 1795 – City sacked by forces of Persian Mohammad Khan Qajar.
• 1799 – Russians in power.

19th century

• 1801 – City becomes part of Russia.
• 1808 - Cathedral of the Assumption of the Virgin building completed.
• 1817 – Tbilisi Spiritual Seminary established.
• 1824 – Nersisyan School established.
• 1830 – (school) founded.
• 1840 – Ivan Izmiryants becomes mayor.
• 1845 – Botanical Garden established.^[3]
• 1846 – National Parliamentary Library of Georgia established.
• 1848 – City becomes part of Tiflis Governorate.

• 1851 – Opera house and built.
• 1858 – Mushthaid Garden opens.
• 1866 – Droeba newspaper begins publication.
• 1867 – Caucasian Museum founded.
• 1868 – Population: 61,000.
• 1870 – Lower Bethlehemi Church built.
• 1872
  • Railway station built.
  • Mshak newspaper begins publication.
  • Alexander Nevsky Cathedral built.
• 1877 – St. Peter and St. Paul's Church completed.
• 1879 – City Assembly building remodelled.
• 1883 – Population: 104,024.
• 1885 – Military Museum built.
• 1887 – Rustaveli Theatre completed.
• 1890 – Armenian Revolutionary Federation founded in Tiflis.^[4]
• 1894 – Supreme Court of Georgia building built.
• 1897
  • Garrison Cathedral built.
  • Population: 159,862.
• 1899 – Alexandropol-Tiflis railway begins operating.

20th century

• 1902 – Erivan-Tiflis railway begins operating.
• 1907 – 26 June: Bank robbery.
• 1909
  • opens.
  • Alexander Khatisyan becomes mayor.
• 1913 – Population: 327,800.^[5]
• 1917
  • Tiflis Governorate abolished.^[6]
  • Conservatoire and Armenian National Council of Tiflis founded.

• 1918
  • February–May: City becomes capital of Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic.
  • May: City becomes capital of Democratic Republic of Georgia.
  • Tbilisi State University and Tbilisi Medical Institute established.
  • Benia Chkhikvishvili becomes mayor.
  • National Archives of Georgia headquartered in Tbilisi.^[7]
• 1919 – Museum of Georgia active.
• 1920 – National Art Gallery opens.
• 1921 – February: City besieged by Bolshevist Russian Red Army.
• 1922
  • City becomes capital of Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic.
  • Art Academy founded.
• 1925 – FC Dinamo Tbilisi (football club) formed.
• 1927 – Tiflis Zoopark founded.^[8]
• 1928 – Georgian Politechnical Institute established.
• 1929 – Mtatsminda Pantheon (cemetery) established.
• 1930
  • Museum of Literature founded.
  • Marjanishvili Theater relocates to Tbilisi.
• 1931 – Zarya Vostoka building constructed.
• 1933 – Jewish Historic-Ethnographic Museum founded.
• 1935 – Central Stadium opens.
• 1936
  • City becomes capital of Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic.
  • City name changed from "Tiflis" to "Tbilisi."^[9]
• 1939
  • Rustaveli cinema opens.
  • Didube Pantheon (cemetery) established.
• 1941
  • Georgian SSR Academy of Sciences and Tbilisi Aircraft State Association established.
• 1946 – Vake Park opens.
• 1950 – Art Museum of Georgia active.
• 1951 – rebuilt.
• 1952 – Airport and built.
• 1953 – built.
• 1956 – March: Anti-de-Stalinization demonstrations.
• 1958 – Institute of Manuscripts established.

• 1961 – Tbilisi Sports Palace opens.
• 1965 – Tbilisi co-hosts the EuroBasket 1965.
• 1966
  • Tbilisi Metro begins operating.
  • Baratashvili Bridge constructed.
  • Open Air Museum of Ethnography founded.
• 1967 – Hotel Iveria built.
• 1970 – Saburtalo Pantheon (cemetery) established.
• 1972 – Tbilisi TV Broadcasting Tower erected.
• 1973 - Tbilisi National Park established
• 1974 – Human Rights Defence Group formed.^[10]
• 1975
  • Tbilisi Roads Ministry Building constructed.
  • Bank of Georgia headquarters built.
• 1976 – Boris Paichadze Stadium opens.
• 1978 – April: Demonstrations about constitutional status of Georgian language.
• 1979
  • Tbilisoba begins.
  • Population: 1,052,734.
• 1980 – March: Rock music festival held.
• 1983 – Republic Square constructed.
• 1984
  • Wedding Palace built.
  • December: Gas explosion.
• 1989
  • 9 April: Anti-Soviet Demonstration quashed.^[11]
  • 13 April: Church of the Red Gospel destroyed.

1990s

• 1990
  • June: Aerial tramway accident.
  • Population: 1,268,000 (estimate).^[12]
• 1991
  • April: Georgia declares independence from USSR.
  • December: Conflict between pro-Gamsakhurdia and Opposition forces.
  • Georgian Academy of Agrarian Sciences founded.
  • Ordzhonikidze Square renamed "."
• 1992
  • January: Conflict between pro-Gamsakhurdia and Opposition forces.
  • Otar Litanishvili becomes mayor.
• 1993
  • Konstantine Gabashvili becomes mayor, succeeded by Nikoloz Lekishvili.
  • Apostolic Administration of the Caucasus established and headquartered in Tbilisi.
• 1995
  • Abkhazian Regional Academy of Sciences founded.
  • Badri Shoshitaishvili becomes mayor.
• 1996 – National Parliamentary Library of Georgia headquartered in city.^[13]
• 1998
  • Vano Zodelava becomes mayor.
  • Telasi privatized.
• 2000 – Basiani choir formed.^[14]

21st century

• 2001
  • Mikheil Meskhi Stadium built.
  • TbilAviaMsheni airline based in Tbilisi.
• 2002
  • April 25: The 4.8 Tbilisi earthquake shook the area with a maximum MSK intensity of VII–VIII (Very strong – Damaging), causing 5–6 deaths and 52–70 injuries. Damage was estimated at $160–350 million.
  • Tbilisi Aircraft Manufacturing privatized.
  • Population: 1,081,679.
• 2003 – November: Rose Revolution.
• 2004
  • Holy Trinity Cathedral (Sameba) built.
  • Zurab Tchiaberashvili becomes mayor.
  • Caucasus University established.
• 2005 – Giorgi Ugulava becomes mayor.
• 2006
  • March: Protest against 2006 Russian ban of Moldovan and Georgian wines.
  • Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan pipeline in operation.
  • National Science Library (Georgia), Scouts of Tbilisi, and Museum of Soviet Occupation^[15] established.
  • Freedom Monument erected in Freedom Square.
• 2007
  • Demonstrations against Saakashvili regime.
  • Old Tbilisi raion established.
  • Free University of Tbilisi and founded.
• 2008 – August: Bombing by Russian Air Force during Russo-Georgian War.
• 2009
  • Demonstrations against Saakashvili regime.
  • Tbilisi Open Air (music festival), Tbilisi International Festival of Theatre, and Tbilisi Fashion Week begin.^[16]
  • April: Tbilisi hosts the 2009 European Judo Championships.
• 2010 – Bridge of Peace (pedestrian bridge) built.
• 2011 – May: Demonstration against Saakashvili regime.
• 2012
  • 13 February: Bomb attempt foiled.^[17]
  • April: Lech Kaczyński monument unveiled.^[18]
  • May: Anti-government demonstration.
  • Population: 1,473,551.
• 2013 – Tbilisi hosts the 2013 European Wrestling Championships.
• 2014 – Sister city partnership signed between Tbilisi and Lublin, Poland.^[19]

• 2015
  • April: Tbilisi hosts the 2015 European Weightlifting Championships.
  • 14 June: Flooding in the Vere river results in at least 12 deaths and devastates the city's zoo.
• 2017
  • Tbilisi International Airport established.
  • June: Tbilisi hosts the 2017 European Fencing Championships.
  • September-October: Tbilisi co-hosts the 2017 Women's European Volleyball Championship.
• 2018 – 5 November: Polish Library and Polish Institute in Tbilisi opened (see also Georgia–Poland relations).^[20]
• 2022 – Tbilisi co-hosts the EuroBasket 2022.

See also

• History of Tbilisi
• Other names of Tbilisi
• List of mayors of Tbilisi
• List of museums in Tbilisi
• Timeline of Georgian history

References

This article incorporates information from the Georgian Wikipedia and German Wikipedia.

Bibliography

Published in 19th century

• • • Book: John Murray. 1868. London . Hand-book for Travellers in Russia, Poland, and Finland . 2nd . https://books.google.com/books?id=4GNEAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA322 . Tiflis. .

Published in 20th century

• Tiflis (town) . 26 . Kropotkin. Peter Alexeivitch. Bealby . John Thomas . 966 - 967 . 1910 . . 1.
  • Book: Around the Black Sea . William Eleroy Curtis. William Eleroy Curtis . New York . Hodder & Stoughton. 1911. City of Tiflis . 2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t3222tf2d .
    • Book: Trudy Ring . International Dictionary of Historic Places: Northern Europe. 1995. Routledge . 978-1-136-63944-9 . Tbilisi . https://books.google.com/books?id=uWjYAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA1092. .

Published in 21st century

Notes and References

1. Book: Rapp. Stephen H.. The Sasanian World through Georgian Eyes: Caucasia and the Iranian Commonwealth in Late Antique Georgian Literature. 2014. Routledge. 978-1472425522. 182. Sasanian marzbāns resided in Partaw from the early 460s. Officials with this title first took up residence in Tp‛ilisi around 517..
2. Web site: Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Georgia . Oslo katolske bispedømme (Oslo Catholic Diocese) . Norway . 30 June 2015 .
3. Web site: Garden Search: Georgia . . London . 30 June 2015 .
4. Book: Rouben Paul Adalian. Rouben Paul Adalian. Historical Dictionary of Armenia . 2010 . 2nd . . USA . 978-0-8108-7450-3.
5. Book: Statesman's Year-Book . Statesman's Year-Book . 1921 . London . Macmillan and Co.. Russia: Principal Towns: Caucasia . 2027/njp.32101072368440?urlappend=%3Bseq=1282 . http://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101072368440?urlappend=%3Bseq=1282 .
6. Book: Thomas de Waal. Thomas de Waal. The Caucasus: An Introduction . 2010. Oxford University Press. 978-0-19-974620-0 . Chronology . 229+ .
7. Web site: Central Historical Archive of Georgia . 2014 . Hazine: a Guide to Researching the Middle East and Beyond . Christopher Markiewicz and Nir Shafir .
8. Book: Vernon N. Kisling. Zoo and Aquarium History. 2000. . USA . 978-1-4200-3924-5 . Zoos and Aquariums of the World (chronological list) . 369+ .
9. Web site: Tbilisi,Tiflis . . 30 June 2015 .
10. National Integration in Soviet Georgia . J. W. R. Parsons . Soviet Studies . 34 . 1982 . 4 . 547–569 . 10.1080/09668138208411444 . 151907 .
11. News: Georgia Profile: Timeline . 14 March 2012 . BBC News . 30 March 2015 .
12. Book: 1995 Demographic Yearbook . 1997 . United Nations Department for Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis, Statistics Division . New York . Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants . 262–321 .
13. Web site: History . National Parliamentary Library of Georgia . 30 June 2015 .
14. Web site: Sacred Chants Reverberating Once Again . August 4, 2010 . New York Times .
15. Web site: Tbilisi . Georgian Museums . 30 June 2015 . .
16. Web site: Tbilisi Fashion Week . December 1, 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120203173458/http://tbilisifashionweek.com/tbilisi.asp . 3 February 2012 . dmy-all .
17. Book: Encyclopædia Britannica Book of the Year . 2013. Encyclopaedia Britannica . 978-1-62513-103-4.
18. Web site: Popiersie i skwer Lecha Kaczyńskiego w Tbilisi. PolskieRadio24.pl. 31 July 2022. pl.
19. Web site: Tbilisi. lublin.eu. 31 July 2022. pl.
20. Web site: Wizyta polskiej delegacji i inauguracja Instytutu Polskiego w Tbilisi. 31 July 2022. pl.