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). 1220 – City sacked by forces of Genghis Khan. 1451 – Dzhuma Mosque built. 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. 1867 – City becomes capital of Russian Turkestan, and center of the Syr-Darya Oblast. 1870 Turkistan Gaziti newspaper begins publication. 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. 1895 – Samarkand-Tashkent railway begins operating. 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. 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. 1914 28 October – A group of Polish civilians from Warsaw imprisoned by the Russians in Tashkent. Military college established. 1915 – 3 March: Polish civilians from Warsaw released from prison; however, they were still required to remain in the city. 1916 – "Anti-labour conscription revolt." 1917 February Revolution. 2 March: Tashkent Soviet established. 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). 1924 City becomes part of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic. Uthman Quran relocated to Tashkent from Ufa. Tashkent Zoo founded. 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. 1964 – Tashkent Palace of Arts built. 1965 – Population: 1,092,000. 1966 January: City hosts signing of India-Pakistan peace agreement. 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. 1977 – Tashkent Metro begins operating. 1979 – Population: 1,858,000. 1984 – Tashkent Tower built. 1985 – Population: 2,030,000 (estimate). 1988 – Seattle-Tashkent Peace Park dedicated.
1991 City becomes capital of the Republic of Uzbekistan. Tashkent State Institute of Law and Tashkent Architectural Building Institute established.ABOUT THE INSTITUTE 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.
21st century 2001 Tashkent International Airport terminal rebuilt. Population: 2,137,218. 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
Published in 20th century
Published in 21st century
Jeff Sahadeo, Russian Colonial Society in Tashkent, 1865–1923 (Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Press, 2010).
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