Timeline of Tashkent

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

Before 20th century[edit]

500 BC – till 5th part of the Kushan empire^{[clarification needed]}
1210 AD – City sacked by forces of Muhammad II of Khwarezm (approximate date).^[1]
1220 – City sacked by forces of Genghis Khan.^[2]
1451 – Dzhuma Mosque built.^[3]
1485 – Yunus Khan in power.^[4]
1569 – Kukeltash Madrasa built.^[3]
1611 – Uprising; crackdown by forces of Imam Quli Khan of Bukhara.^[2]
1809 – City becomes part of the Khanate of Kokand.^[4]
1840 – Cholera outbreak.^[5]
1865
- 15 June: City captured by Russian forces led by Mikhail Chernyayev.^[6]
- Population: 76,000.^[7]
1867 – City becomes capital of Russian Turkestan, and center of the Syr-Darya Oblast.
1870
- Turkistan Gaziti newspaper begins publication.^[8]
- Trade fair held.^[5]
- Kaufmann Library founded.
1871 – Population: 120,000 (estimate).^[9]
1872 – Cholera outbreak.^[5]
1874 – Turkestan Military District headquartered in Tashkent.
1876 – National Museum of Turkestan founded.^{[citation needed]}
1877 – City government reorganized.^[2]
1889 – Trans-Caspian Railway begins operating.^[10]
1892 – 24 June: Demonstration related to public health.^[11]
1895 – Samarkand-Tashkent railway begins operating.^[12]
1896 – Lutheran Church built.^[6]
1897 – Population: 156,506.
1898 – Russian Orthodox church built in Amir Temur Square.^{[citation needed]}

20th century[edit]

1901 – Horsecar trams begin operating.^{[citation needed]}
1904 – Orenburg-Tashkent Railway begins operating.^[13]
1905 – "Mutiny of Tsarist officers."^[4]
1910 – Monument to Konstantin von Kaufman dedicated.^[14]
1912 – Polish Church, the present Sacred Heart Cathedral, built.
1913 – Population: 172,300.^[15]
1914 – Military college established.^{[citation needed]}
1916 – "Anti-labour conscription revolt."^[4]
1917
- February Revolution.^[16]
- 2 March: Tashkent Soviet established.^[17]
- April: Turkestan Muslim Congress held.^[18]
- Pravda Vostoka newspaper begins publication.^[8]
1918
- April: City becomes capital of the Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
- Turkestan People's University and Turkestan People's Conservatory founded.^[19]
1920 – National Public Library of Uzbekistan established (approximate date).^[20]
1924
- City becomes part of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic.^[4]
- Uthman Quran relocated to Tashkent from Ufa.^[21]
- Tashkent Zoo founded.^[22]
1925 – Sharq Yulduzi film studio established.
1926 – Population: 323,000.^[2]
1930
- Capital of Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic relocated to Tashkent from Samarkand.^[17]
- Central Asian Construction Institute^[23] and Tashkent Communication Polytechnic founded.^{[citation needed]}
1931 – Central Asian Institute of Railway Engineers and Central Asian Institute of Economics founded.
1932 – Arts Study Institute founded.^[24]
1938 – City becomes capital of Tashkent Province.^{[citation needed]}
1939 – Komsomol Lake in Stalin Park.^[23]
1943 – Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR established.
1947 – Navoi Theatre built.^[23]
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.^[25]
1964 – Tashkent Palace of Arts built.^[3]
1965 – Population: 1,092,000.^[26]
1966
- January: City hosts signing of India-Pakistan peace agreement.^[27]
- 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.^[28]
1977 – Tashkent Metro begins operating.
1979 – Population: 1,858,000.^[29]
1984 – Tashkent Tower built.
1985 – Population: 2,030,000 (estimate).^[30]
1988 – Seattle-Tashkent Peace Park dedicated.^[31]

1991
- City becomes capital of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
- Tashkent State Institute of Law and Tashkent Architectural Building Institute established.^[32] ^{[citation needed]}
1992 – Statue of Vladimir Lenin in Independence Square removed.
1994 – Tashkent Stock Exchange and Tashkent International School established.^{[citation needed]}
1996
- Amir Timur Museum established.
- Kuyluk Market built.^[3]
1998 – JAR Stadium opens.
1999
- 16 February: Bombings.
- Tashkent Open tennis tournament begins.
- Crying Mother Monument erected.^[33]

21st century[edit]

2001
- Tashkent International Airport terminal rebuilt.
- Population: 2,137,218.^[34]
2003 – May: City hosts meeting of European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.^[17]
2004 – July: Bombings.^[17]
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).^[35]
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.

References[edit]

^ "History of Tashkent: Chronological table". Khakimiyat of Tashkent City. Retrieved 15 April 2013.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d MacKenzie 1969.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ArchNet.org. "Tashkent". Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA: MIT School of Architecture and Planning. Archived from the original on 5 May 2008. Retrieved 15 April 2013.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Bosworth 2007.
^ ^a ^b ^c Trotter 1882.
^ ^a ^b Baedeker 1914.
^ L.F. Kostenko (1881). "Turkestan" (PDF). Journal of the Royal United Service Institution. 24 (108). Translated by F.C.H. Clarke. London: 898–921. doi:10.1080/03071848109418533.
^ ^a ^b "Tashkent (Uzbekistan) Newspapers". WorldCat. USA: Online Computer Library Center. Retrieved 15 April 2013.
^ Balfour 1871.
^ Dilip Hiro (2009), Inside Central Asia, New York: Overlook Duckworth, ISBN 9781590203781
^ Jeff Sahadeo (2005). "Epidemic and Empire: Ethnicity, Class, and "Civilization" in the 1892 Tashkent Cholera Riot". Slavic Review. 64.
^ Railway News. UK. 16 December 1905.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ "Russia's New Great Railroad in Asia". New York Times. 7 November 1904.
^ Sahadeo 2004.
^ "Russia: Principal Towns: Central Asia". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368440.
^ Pierce 1975.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Uzbekistan Profile: Timeline". BBC News. 5 January 2012. Retrieved 15 April 2013.
^ Khalid 1996.
^ Theodore Levin (1996), The Hundred Thousand Fools of God: Musical Travels in Central Asia, Indiana University Press, ISBN 9780253332066
^ International dictionary of library histories. 2001. ISBN 1579582443.
^ Ian MacWilliam (5 January 2006). "Tashkent's hidden Islamic relic". BBC News.
^ Vernon N. Kisling, ed. (2000). "Zoological Gardens of Western Europe: Russia and former Soviet Union (chronological list)". Zoo and Aquarium History. USA: CRC Press. p. 375+. ISBN 978-1-4200-3924-5.
^ ^a ^b ^c Stronski 2010.
^ David Ward MacFadyen (2006), Russian Culture in Uzbekistan, New York: Routledge, ISBN 0415341345
^ Cristofer Scarboro (2007). "The Brother-City Project and Socialist Humanism: Haskovo, Tashkent and "Sblizhenie"". Slavonic and East European Review. 85.
^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1965. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations. 1966.
^ J. Anthony Lukas (9 January 1966). "Old Uzbek City Is Enjoying a New Day in the Sun; Tashkent Turns Out to Stare at World Figures There for Indian-Pakistani Talks". New York Times. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
^ "Seattle's 21 Sister Cities". USA: City of Seattle. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
^ Henry W. Morton and Robert C. Stuart, ed. (1984). The Contemporary Soviet City. New York: M.E. Sharpe. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-87332-248-5.
^ United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1987). "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". 1985 Demographic Yearbook. New York. pp. 247–289.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ "HistoryLink.org". Seattle, USA. Retrieved 15 April 2013.
^ ABOUT THE INSTITUTE
^ "Tashkent". Uzbekistan. Lonely Planet. Retrieved 15 April 2013.
^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2011. United Nations Statistics Division. 2012.
^ "Table 8 - Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants", Demographic Yearbook – 2018, United Nations

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

Bibliography[edit]

Published in 19th century[edit]

"Tashkund". Edinburgh Gazetteer. Edinburgh: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green. 1822.
Edward Balfour, ed. (1871). "Tashkend". Cyclopaedia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia (2nd ed.). Madras.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
Eugene Schuyler (1877), "Tashkent", Turkistan, New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Co.
L.F. Kostenko (1880). "(Ташкент)". Turkestanskij (in Russian).
John Mowbray Trotter (1882). "Tashkand". Western Turkestan. Calcutta: Superintendent of Government Printing.
Henry Lansdell (1885). "Tashkend". Russian Central Asia, including Kuldja, Bokhara, Khiva and Merv. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington.

Published in 20th century[edit]

Michael Myers Shoemaker (1904), "By Tarantass to Tashkendt", Heart of the Orient: Saunterings through Georgia, Armenia, Persia, Turkomania, and Turkestan, to the Vale of Paradise, New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Tashkent" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 26 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 437.
William Eleroy Curtis (1911), "Tashkend", Turkestan, New York: Hodder & Stoughton
E.G. Kemp (1911), "Tashkent", The Face of Manchuria, Korea, Russian Turkestan, New York: Duffield
"Tashkent". Russia. Leipzig: Karl Baedeker. 1914. OCLC 1328163.
"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. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
"Tashkent Is Called a Showplace of Soviet Industrial Rise in Asia". New York Times. 27 November 1961. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
David MacKenzie (1969). "Tashkent—Past and Present". Russian Review. 28.
Richard A. Pierce (1975). "Toward Soviet Power in Tashkent, February–October 1917". Canadian Slavonic Papers. 17.
Tashkent Entsiklopediya (in Russian). 1984.
Toşkent: entsiklopediya (in Uzbek). Toşkent: Ḳomuslar Boş Tahririyati. 1992.
Adeeb Khalid (1996). "Tashkent 1917: Muslim Politics in Revolutionary Turkestan". Slavic Review. 55.
Daniel Balland (1997). "Tachkent, metropole de l'Asie centrale?". Cahiers d'études sur la Méditerranée orientale et le monde Turco-Iranien (in French). 24.

Published in 21st century[edit]

Jeff Sahadeo (2004). "Empire of Memories: Conquest and Civilization in Imperial Russian Tashkent". Canadian Slavonic Papers. 46.
C. Edmund Bosworth, ed. (2007). "Tashkent". Historic Cities of the Islamic World. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill. ISBN 978-9004153882.
Jeff Sahadeo, Russian Colonial Society in Tashkent, 1865–1923 (Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Press, 2010).
Paul Stronski (2010). Tashkent: Forging a Soviet City, 1930–1966. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 978-0822973898.
Artyom Kosmarski (2011), "Grandeur and Decay of the Soviet Byzantium: Spaces, Peoples, and Memories of Tashkent, Uzbekistan", in Tsypylma Darieva; et al. (eds.), Urban Spaces after Socialism, Frankfurt am Main: Campus, ISBN 9783593393841

External links[edit]

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[1] "History of Tashkent: Chronological table". Khakimiyat of Tashkent City. Retrieved 15 April 2013.

[FOOTNOTEMacKenzie1969-2] MacKenzie 1969.

[archnet-3] ArchNet.org. "Tashkent". Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA: MIT School of Architecture and Planning. Archived from the original on 5 May 2008. Retrieved 15 April 2013.

[FOOTNOTEBosworth2007-4] Bosworth 2007.

[FOOTNOTETrotter1882-5] Trotter 1882.

[FOOTNOTEBaedeker1914-6] Baedeker 1914.

[7] L.F. Kostenko (1881). "Turkestan" (PDF). Journal of the Royal United Service Institution. 24 (108). Translated by F.C.H. Clarke. London: 898–921. doi:10.1080/03071848109418533.

[worldcat-8] "Tashkent (Uzbekistan) Newspapers". WorldCat. USA: Online Computer Library Center. Retrieved 15 April 2013.

[FOOTNOTEBalfour1871-9] Balfour 1871.

[10] Dilip Hiro (2009), Inside Central Asia, New York: Overlook Duckworth, ISBN 9781590203781

[11] Jeff Sahadeo (2005). "Epidemic and Empire: Ethnicity, Class, and "Civilization" in the 1892 Tashkent Cholera Riot". Slavic Review. 64.

[railway1905-12] Railway News. UK. 16 December 1905.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

[13] "Russia's New Great Railroad in Asia". New York Times. 7 November 1904.

[FOOTNOTESahadeo2004-14] Sahadeo 2004.

[15] "Russia: Principal Towns: Central Asia". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368440.

[FOOTNOTEPierce1975-16] Pierce 1975.

[bbc-timeline-17] "Uzbekistan Profile: Timeline". BBC News. 5 January 2012. Retrieved 15 April 2013.

[FOOTNOTEKhalid1996-18] Khalid 1996.

[19] Theodore Levin (1996), The Hundred Thousand Fools of God: Musical Travels in Central Asia, Indiana University Press, ISBN 9780253332066

[20] International dictionary of library histories. 2001. ISBN 1579582443.

[21] Ian MacWilliam (5 January 2006). "Tashkent's hidden Islamic relic". BBC News.

[Kisling2000-22] Vernon N. Kisling, ed. (2000). "Zoological Gardens of Western Europe: Russia and former Soviet Union (chronological list)". Zoo and Aquarium History. USA: CRC Press. p. 375+. ISBN 978-1-4200-3924-5.

[FOOTNOTEStronski2010-23] Stronski 2010.

[24] David Ward MacFadyen (2006), Russian Culture in Uzbekistan, New York: Routledge, ISBN 0415341345

[25] Cristofer Scarboro (2007). "The Brother-City Project and Socialist Humanism: Haskovo, Tashkent and "Sblizhenie"". Slavonic and East European Review. 85.

[26] "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1965. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations. 1966.

[27] J. Anthony Lukas (9 January 1966). "Old Uzbek City Is Enjoying a New Day in the Sun; Tashkent Turns Out to Stare at World Figures There for Indian-Pakistani Talks". New York Times. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)

[28] "Seattle's 21 Sister Cities". USA: City of Seattle. Retrieved 1 December 2015.

[Morton1984-29] Henry W. Morton and Robert C. Stuart, ed. (1984). The Contemporary Soviet City. New York: M.E. Sharpe. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-87332-248-5.

[30] United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1987). "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". 1985 Demographic Yearbook. New York. pp. 247–289.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

[31] "HistoryLink.org". Seattle, USA. Retrieved 15 April 2013.

[32] ABOUT THE INSTITUTE

[planet-33] "Tashkent". Uzbekistan. Lonely Planet. Retrieved 15 April 2013.

[34] "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2011. United Nations Statistics Division. 2012.

[35] "Table 8 - Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants", Demographic Yearbook – 2018, United Nations

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