Timeline of Tashkent

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

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## Before 20th century

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* Teshiktash| 70,000 BC
Neolithic|
* Kelteminar culture| 5,500–3,500 BC
Bronze Age|
* BMAC| 2400–1950 BC
* Andronovo culture| 2,000–1,150 BC
* Tazabagyab culture| 1850–1500 BC
* Chust culture| 1500–900 BC
* Scythians| 900–300 BC

Early History

|  Sogdia|

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Transoxiana|
Bactria|
Kushan Empire|
Kangju|
Kidarites|
Hephthalites|

Medieval history

|  Turkic Khaganate|

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Onoq|
Türgesh|
Tang Protectorate|
Muslim conquest|
Umayyad Caliphate|
Abbasid Caliphate|
Samanid Empire|
Ghaznavids|
Kara-Khanid Khanate|
Anushtegin dynasty|
Khwarazmian Empire|
Mongol conquest|
Chagatai|

Timurid Era

* Rise of Timur
* capital Samarkand
* Siege of Balkh (1370)
* Period of expansion
* Timurid Renaissance
* Timurid art
* Timurid architecture
* Stagnation and decline

| 1370–1507

Uzbek khanates

Uzbek Khanate

* Consolidating Uzbek tribes
* Conquest of Urganj (1431)
* Conquest of Sighnaq (1448)
* Özbek-Qazaqs (separated Uzbeks)
* Conquest of Samarkand (1500)
* Shaybanid Architecture

| 1428–1471

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Khanate of Khiva

* Shaybanid-Arabshahid dynasty (1511–1804)
* Khivan slave trade
* Qungrat dynasty (1804–1920)
* Abolition of slavery in Khwarezm (1873)
* First Uzbek documentary (1910)
* Turkoman Revolt of 1912–1913

| 1511–1920

Khanate of Bukhara

* Shaybanid dynasty
* Janid dynasty
* Bukhara slave trade

| 1501–1785

Emirate of Bukhara

* Reconstruction of Samarkand
* Khitoy-Qipchoq rebellion
* Battle of Ura-Tyube (1861)
* Abolition of slavery in Bukhara
* Bukhara operation (1920)
* Bukharan Revolution

| 1785–1920

Khanate of Kokand

* Legitimization of Ming dynasty
* Foundation of Tepaqurghon
* Establishment of Istanbul embassy (1819)
* Annexation of the Kokand Khanate (1876)

| 1709–1876

Tashkent State

| 1784–1808

Colonial period

|  Russian conquest of Central Asia|

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Great Game|
Khivan campaign of 1839–1840|
Siege of Tashkent|
Siege of Samarkand| 1868
Russian conquest of Bukhara|
Khivan campaign of 1873|
Russian Turkestan|

National Awakening

|  Basmachi movement|

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Turkestan Autonomy|
Young Bukharans|
Young Khivans|
Jadidism|

Modern Uzbekistan

| Khorezm People's Soviet Republic|

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Bukharan People's Soviet Republic|
Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic|
Republic of Uzbekistan|
Commonwealth of Independent States|

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Sheikhantaur Mosque, ca.1870s Street in Tashkent, 1890s

* 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

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* 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]

Kukeldash Madrasah in the 1990s

* 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

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* 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.

Milliy Stadium in 2013

* 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.

## See also

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* Tashkent portal

* Tashkent history
* History of Tashkent [uz]
* Districts of Tashkent
* Other names of Tashkent
* Timeline of Samarkand

## References

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1. ^ "History of Tashkent: Chronological table". Khakimiyat of Tashkent City. Retrieved 15 April 2013.
2. ^ a b c d MacKenzie 1969.
3. ^ 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.
4. ^ a b c d e Bosworth 2007.
5. ^ a b c Trotter 1882.
6. ^ a b 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.
8. ^ a b "Tashkent (Uzbekistan) Newspapers". WorldCat. USA: Online Computer Library Center. Retrieved 15 April 2013.
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.
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.
14. ^ Sahadeo 2004.
15. ^ "Russia: Principal Towns: Central Asia". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368440.
16. ^ Pierce 1975.
17. ^ a b c d "Uzbekistan Profile: Timeline". BBC News. 5 January 2012. Retrieved 15 April 2013.
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.
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.
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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.
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)
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32. ^ ABOUT THE INSTITUTE
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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

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

## Bibliography

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### Published in 19th century

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* "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

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* 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

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* 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

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