Timeline of Baku

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Baku, Azerbaijan.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Prior to the 20th century

• 12th century CE – Maiden Tower (Baku) built.
• 1169 – Lezgi Mosque built.^{[citation needed]}
• 1378 – Juma Mosque built.^[1]
• 1442 – Palatial mosque of Palace of the Shirvanshahs built.
• 1509 – Persians in power.^[2]
• 1578 – Ottomans in power.^[3]
• 1603 – Persians in power again.^[4]
• 1723 – Town taken by Russians.^[2]
• 1732 – Oil refinery in operation.^[5]
• 1735 – Persians in power again.^[4][2]
• 1747 – Baku Khanate established.^{[citation needed]}
• 1806 – Town taken by Russian forces.^[2]
• 1813 – Town becomes part of Russia per Gulistan Treaty.^[6]
• 1817 – Cholera outbreak.^[4]
• 1823 – Paraffin factory begins operating.^[4]
• 1832 – "First secular Russian school" opens.^[3]
• 1846 – Baku becomes part of the Shemakh province.^[3]
• 1859
  • Oil refineries begin operating on the outskirts of town.^[4]
  • Town becomes capital of the newly established Baku Governorate.^[3]
• 1860 – Population: 13,381.^[2]
• 1868
  • Tbilisi-Baku telegraph begins operating.^[4]
  • Fountains Square constructed.
• 1875 – Ekinchi begins publication.^[7]
• 1878 – Iosif Dzahkerli becomes mayor.
• 1883 – Batum-Baku railway built.^[8]
• 1884
  • Baku Railway Station [ru] built.^{[citation needed]}
  • Oil Extractors Congress Council established.^[4]
• 1886 – Population: 45,679.^[9]
• 1887
  • Baku Polytechnicum established.
  • Armenian Saint Gregory the Illuminator's Church, Baku built.
• 1897 – Population: 112,253.^[2]
• 1900 – Population: 179,133.^[2]

20th century

• 1901 – Synagogue built.^[10]
• 1902 – Baku International Sea Trade Port opens.
• 1903 – July: Labor strike.^[11][12]
• 1904
  • Balakhany and Bibi-Eibat Workers Organisation founded.^[13]
  • City hall built.^{[citation needed]}
• 1905
  • Armenian–Tatar massacre.^[2]
  • Irshad newspaper begins publication.^[7]
• 1907 – Batumi-Baku oil pipeline constructed.^[4][14]
• 1909 – Baku Boulevard constructed.
• 1910 – Phenomenon cinema built.
• 1912 – Philharmonic Hall built.
• 1913
  • Ismailiyya building constructed.
  • Population: 237,000.^[15]
• 1914 – Taza Pir Mosque built.
• 1917 – Iranian communist Edalat Party founded in Baku.^[16]
• 1918
  • March Days interethnic conflict.
  • September Days massacre of Armenians.
  • Baku becomes capital of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic.^[3]
• 1919
  • Baku State University founded.^[17]
  • Molodezh Azerbaijana newspaper begins publication.^[17]
• 1920
  • 28 April: 11th Army (Soviet Union) takes city.
  • Baku becomes capital of Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic.^[18]
  • Azerbaijan State Symphony Orchestra and Baku Polytechnic Institute founded.
  • Azerbaijan State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater active.^[19]
  • Kirov raion created.^{[citation needed]}
• 1922
  • 7 November: Avraamov's Symphony of Sirens performed.^[20]
  • State Drama Theatre opens.^[19]
• 1923
  • National Library of Azerbaijan opens on Torgovaya.
  • Baku Theatre Technical School founded.^[19]
• 1925 – Baku Workers' and Peasants Theatre opens.^[19]
• 1928 – Theatre of Young Spectators founded.^[19]
• 1931 – Baku Puppet Theatre established.^[19]
• 1939 – Population: 809,347 metro.^[21]
• 1940 – Baku Museum of Education founded.^[17]
• 1941 – Kishlinsky district created.^{[citation needed]}
• 1945 – Azerbaijan State Institute for the Arts active.^[19]
• 1949 – Sumqayit developed near city.^[21]
• 1951 – Stalin Stadium opens.
• 1952 – Government House built.
• 1965 – Population: 737,000 city; 1,137,000 urban agglomeration.^[22]
• 1967
  • Baku Metro begins operating.
  • Azerbaijan Carpet Museum established.
• 1979 – Population: 1,046,000.^[23]
• 1985 – Population: 1,693,000 (estimate).^[24]
• 1989
  • Azadliq newspaper begins publication.^[17]
  • Baku Islamic Madrasa established.^[25][26]
• 1990
  • January:
    • Baku pogrom of Armenians.^[27]
    • Black January.^[28]
  • Sanan Alizade becomes mayor.
• 1991
  • City becomes capital of Azerbaijan Republic.^[6]
• 1993
  • Rafael Allahverdiyev becomes mayor.
• 1994
  • 1994 Baku Metro bombings.
  • Azerbaijan State Pantomime Theatre founded.
• 1995
  • October: 1995 Baku Metro fire.
• 2000 – 25 November: The 6.8 M_w Baku earthquake affected the region.

21st century

• 2001 – Hajibala Abutalybov becomes mayor.
• 2005 – Center for Economic and Social Development established.^[29]
• 2006
  • Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan pipeline in operation.^[27]
  • State Maritime Administration (Azerbaijan) headquartered in city.
• 2008
  • December: International Mugham Center of Azerbaijan opens.
• 2009 – Uzeyir Hajibeyov International Music Festival begins.
• 2010
  • National Flag Square opens in Bayil.
  • SOCAR Tower construction begins.
• 2012
  • Baku Crystal Hall built.
  • Heydar Aliyev Center opens.
  • May: Eurovision Song Contest 2012 held in city.
  • Population: 2,122,300.
• 2013
  • Flame Towers opens.
• 2014
  • Lycée français de Bakou opened. Ilham Aliyev and his wife participated in the opening ceremony.^[30]
• 2015
  • Baku National Stadium opens.
  • March: Baku Olympic Stadium opens.
  • June: 2015 European Games held in city.

See also

• History of Baku
• Other names of Baku