The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Tabriz , capital of East Azerbaijan Province in Iran .
One of the unearthed thumb in Blue mosque excavation site, 1500 B.C.
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.[1] The Middle Persian name of the city was T'awrēš (similar in etymological roots as the name of city of Tafresh , some distance away.)
8th C. CE – Tabriz Bazaar construction begins.[2]
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 .[5]
1275 – Marco Polo traveled through Tabriz on his way to China.[6]
1298 – Sham-i Ghazan built (approximate date).
1299 – City becomes Ilkhanid capital.
1300 – Rab'-e Rashidi (academic center) built.[9]
1305 – Ghazaniyya (tomb) built.[9]
1311 – Masjid-i Alishah built (approximate date).
1314 – Madrasa of Sayyid Hamza built.
1320 – Arg of Tabriz built.[9]
1330 – Dimishqiyya built (approximate date).
1340 – Masjid-i Ustad-Shagird and Alaiyya built.
1356/1357 – City is briefly occupied by the Muzafarrids [10]
1370 – Imarat-i Shaikh Uvais built (approximate date).
1375 – City becomes capital of Kara Koyunlu territory.[ citation needed ]
1392 – City besieged by Timur.
A 16th-century map of Tabriz, sketched by Matrakçı Nasuh (Ottoman polymath).
A miniature depicted of 2nd Shah of the Safavid dynasty Tahmasp I in Tabriz.
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.[13]
1501 – Safavid Ismail I in power.[14]
1514
1534 – Ottomans in power.
1535 – Safavids in power.
1548
1555 – Persians in power per Treaty of Amasya .
1571 – Uprising.[15]
1585 – Ottomans in power.[14]
Tauris sketched by Jean Chardin , 1673.
Sketch of Tabriz in 1690.
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.[2]
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.
1900s–1940s
Teachers of Memorial School of Tabriz, photographed in 1923.
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.[15]
29 April: Monarchists siege of the city failed with arrival of Russian forces.
1910 – Population: 200,000 (approximate).
1911:
1915 – Tabriz Occupied by Ottoman forces during Invasion of Tabriz, World War I
1916 – Jolfa -Tabriz railway begins operating.[20]
1917
1918
28 February: Russian retreat from Tabriz completed. : 496
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.[15]
Late summer: Khiyabani 's revolution suppressed with help of Cossacks.[23]
1921 – Tarbiat library established.
1922
1 February: Major Lahuti's revolt take control of Tabriz.[24] : 134–142
7 February: Major Lahuti's revolt crashed. Persian Cossacks take control of the city.
1925 – City becomes part of Imperial State of Persia .
1934 –
1937 – City becomes capital of Eastern Azerbaijan province.[15]
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
1950s–1990s
1950 – Tabriz International Airport begins operating.
1951 – Azarbayijan-i ayandah newspaper begins publication.[26]
1956
1958 – Azerbaijan Museum established.
1963 – Population: 387,803 (estimate).[27]
1967 – As a beginning point to industrialization of the city Mashin Sazi Tabriz factory is established.
1968 – Iran Tractor Manufacturing Company (the biggest industrial complex in northwest of Iran at the time) established in Tabriz.
1969 – Machine Sazi Football Club formed.
1970 – Tractor Sazi Tabriz Football Club formed.
1973 – Reconstruction of Blue Mosque is accomplished.[28]
1976 – June: Part of 1976 AFC Asian Cup 's final tournament held in Baghe Shomal stadium, Tabriz.
1977 – 12 December: students' protest in University of Tabriz in anniversary of establishment of provincial government of Azerbaijan, was brutally attacked by the military units.[30]
1978
February: As part of Iranian refinery complexes Tabriz oil refinery is established.[31]
18 February: The protest against shah became violent after one of the protesters shot dead. This incidence intensified the rise up of people through the country for revolution of 1979.[30]
1979
February: City becomes part of Islamic Republic of Iran
December: large protest against unfair treatment of Azerbaijani minorities.[32]
Varliq , a quarterly publication Azerbaijani magazine established.[33]
1980
March: Protest in support challenging the new constitution suppressed brutally by central government.
September: Air strike on Tabriz Airport and Tabriz Oil Refinery by Iraqi Air force at the first day of Iran–Iraq War .[34]
1982 – Population: 852,000 (estimate).[35]
1986
1989
1992
1995 – 21 May: Student protest against unfair treatment of Azerbaijani minority by IRIB .
1996
1997 - Tabriz Islamic Arts University established.
1998
Hossein Farhangpour becomes mayor.
Tabriz Petrochemical Co is established.[39]
1999
2000 – Provincial TV station of Sahand begins broadcasting.
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This article incorporates information from the Azerbaijani Wikipedia , Turkish Wikipedia , and Croatian Wikipedia .
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Tabriz during constitutional revolution
Map of the siege of Tabriz during
Constitutional Revolution , on 27 September 1908.
A sketch of revolutionists defending Davachi bridge in London News, Tabriz (1 May 1909).
Constitutionals in Tabriz, early 20th century.
Constitutional forces in Tabriz, early 20th century.
Ark of Tabriz and US Flag in the days after constitutional revolution, 1911.
Tabriz invasion during WWII
Soviet artillery units in passing through Tabriz, 1940s
Soviet Tank and troops marching through Tabriz, 1940s
Soviet T-26 Tank passing through main street of Tabriz, 1940s