Timeline of Tabriz

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Tabriz, capital of East Azerbaijan Province in Iran.

Prior to 15th century

* 714 BCE. – Mentioned in Assyrian King Sargon II's epigraph
* 2nd to 7th C. BCE The earliest elements of the present Tabriz are claimed to be built either at the time of the early Sassanids in the 3rd or 4th century AD, or later in the 7th century. The Middle Persian name of the city was ''T'awrēš''.
* 8th C. CE – Tabriz Bazaar construction begins.
* 858 CE – A devastating earthquake happened in Tabriz.
* 1041 – A devastating earthquake happened in Tabriz.
* 1208 – Annexed by the army of Kingdom of Georgia under command of brothers Ivane and Zakaria Mkhargrdzeli.
* 1275 – Marco Polo traveled through Tabriz on his way to China.
* 1298 – Sham-i Ghazan built (approximate date).
* 1299 – City becomes Ilkhanid capital.
* 1300 – Rab'-e Rashidi (academic center) built.
* 1305 – Ghazaniyya (tomb) built.
* 1311 – Masjid-i Alishah built (approximate date).
* 1314 – Madrasa of Sayyid Hamza built.
* 1320 – Arg of Tabriz built.
* 1330 – Dimishqiyya built (approximate date).
* 1340 – Masjid-i Ustad-Shagird and Alaiyya built.
* 1356/1357 – City is briefly occupied by the Muzafarrids
* 1370 – Imarat-i Shaikh Uvais built (approximate date).
* 1375 – City becomes capital of Kara Koyunlu territory.
* 1392 – City besieged by Timur.

15th–16th centuries

* 1406 – Kara Koyunlu in power.
* 1465 – Blue Mosque and Muzaffariyya built.
* 1468 – Uzun Hasan in power.
* 1469 – City becomes part of Ak Koyunlu territory.
* 1472 – Capital relocates to Tabriz from Amid.
* 1475 – Masjid-i Hasan Padshah and Maqsudiyya built (approximate date).
* 1478 – Nasiriyya built.
* 1483 – Hasht Bihisht palace built.
* 1500 – Population: 300,000 (approximate). The fifth most populated city in the world.
* 1501 – Safavid Ismail I in power.
* 1514
** 5 September: City taken by Ottoman Selim I.
** Safavids in power.
* 1534 – Ottomans in power.
* 1535 – Safavids in power.
* 1548
** Ottomans in power, succeeded by Safavids.
** Capital relocates from Tabriz to Qazvin.
* 1555 – Persians in power per Treaty of Amasya.
* 1571 – Uprising.
* 1585 – Ottomans in power.

17th–18th centuries

* 1603 – Safavids in power.
* 1610 – Ottomans in power.
* 1611 – Safavids in power.
* 1635 – City sacked by Ottoman Murad IV.
* 1636 – Saheb-ol-Amr Mosque built.
* 1641 – Earthquake kills thousands and destroys the city.
* 1655 – Madrasa Sadiqiyya built.
* 1673 – Population: 550,000.
* 1676 – Madrasa Talibiyya built.
* 1721 – Earthquake kills eighty thousands.
* 1724 – Ottomans in power.
* 1724/25 Ottoman invaders killed about 200,000 city residents.
* 1730 – Safavids in power.
* 1736 – City becomes part of Afshar territory.
* 1747 – City becomes part of Khanate of Tabriz.
* 1757 – Mohammad Hasan Khan Qajar takes city.
* 1762 – City incorporated into Zand realm.
* 1775 – Earthquake.
* 1780 – 28 February: Earthquake kills about 200,000 city residents.
** Population: about 30,000.
* 1785 – Qajars in power.
* 1799 – Qajar prince Abbas Mirza appointed as the governor of the city.

19th century

* 1808 – Population: 250,000 (estimate).
* 1817 – Printing press in operation.
* 1826 – Russians take city.
* 1827 – City becomes part of Russian Empire.
* 1828 – Qajars took power in the city.
* 1830 – Cholera outbreak.
* 1860 – Tehran-Tabriz telegraph begins operating.
* 1868 – Constitution House of Tabriz built.
* 1881
** Population: 165,000 (estimate).
** American Memorial School in Tabriz established.

20th century

1900s–1940s

* 1908 – Sardar Homayun Vali Qasem appointed as Tabriz first mayor.
* 1909
** 19 April: Howard Baskerville, the American teacher in Tabriz and a supporter of constitutionals, got killed in battle.
** 29 April: Russians Cossacks take city.
** 29 April: Monarchists siege of the city failed with arrival of Russian forces.
* 1910 – Population: 200,000 (approximate).
* 1911:
** December: Occupation of Tabriz by Russian army in 1911.
** 30 December: Seqat-ol-Eslam executed with 10 other constitutionals and nationalists by Russian Cossacks.
* 1915 – Tabriz Occupied by Ottoman forces during Invasion of Tabriz, World War I
* 1916 – Jolfa-Tabriz railway begins operating.
* 1917
** Tabriz Fire Fighting Tower built.
** Tavakoli matches factory established as one of the first private factories.
*1918
** 28 February: Russian retreat from Tabriz completed.
** 28 February: Ismaeil Nowbari head of local Democrat party took control of the city.
** 18 June: Tabriz occupied by Ottoman forces.
* 1920
** 4 September: Iranian Cossacks take control of the city after retreating of Ottoman forces.
** Late summer: Khiyabani's revolution suppressed with help of Cossacks.
* 1921 – Tarbiat library established.
* 1922
** 1 February: Major Lahuti's revolt take control of Tabriz.
** 7 February: Major Lahuti's revolt crashed. Persian Cossacks take control of the city.
* 1925 – City becomes part of Imperial State of Persia.
* 1934 –
** Tabriz Municipality Palace built.
** A major flood caused a lot of damages to central parts of the city, including Ali Qapu.
* 1937 – City becomes capital of Eastern Azerbaijan province.
* 1941 – Tabriz occupied by Red Army as part of Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran.
* 1945 – November – City becomes capital of Azerbaijan People's Government.
University of Azerbaijan established
* 1946
** Soviet troops retreat from the city.
** November: Azerbaijan People's Government collapsed by Iranian Imperial Army.
* 1947 - Tabriz University of Medical Sciences established.

1950s–1990s

* 1950 – Tabriz International Airport begins operating.
* 1951 – ''Azarbayijan-i ayandah'' newspaper begins publication.
* 1956
** Tabriz National Library founded.
** Takhti Stadium (Tabriz) opens.
* 1958 – Azerbaijan Museum established.
* 1963 – Population: 387,803 (estimate).
* 1967 – As a beginning point to industrialization of the city Mashin Sazi Tabriz factory is established.
* 1968 – Iran Tractor Manufacturing Company

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