Timeline of Yerevan

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Yerevan, Armenia.

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 20th century

• 782 BCE - Settlement founded by Argishti I of Urartu.^[1]
• 590s CE - Katoghike Tsiranavor Church of Avan built.
• 1582 - Turks in power.^[2]
• 1583 - Yerevan Fortress built.^[1]
• 1615 - Town besieged by Turkish forces.^[2]
• 1679 - 4 June: 1679 Armenia earthquake
• 1830 - Red Bridge rebuilt.
• 1837 - Tsarskaya Street opens.^{[citation needed]}
• 1842 - Saint Sarkis Cathedral rebuilt.
• 1873 - Population: 11,938.^[2]
• 1877 - Yerevan Ararat Wine Factory in operation.
• 1879 - Hovhannes Ghorghanyan becomes mayor.^[3]
• 1897 - Population: 28,910.

20th century

• 1913 - Population: 34,000.^[4]
• 1915 - Refugees from Armenian genocide begin to arrive in yerevan.^[5]
• 1918 - 28 May: Yerevan becomes capital of the First Republic of Armenia.^[5]
• 1920
  • 29 November: Bolsheviks in power.^[6]
  • Yerevan becomes capital of Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic.^[7]
  • Nairi Cinema opens.
• 1921 - Armenian State University established.^[7]
• 1924 - Art school opens.^[8]
• 1926 - Population: 64,613.^[7]
• 1930 - Spartak Stadium built.
• 1931 - Saint Nikolai Cathedral demolished.
• 1933 - Opera Theater opens.
• 1934 - Golos Armenii Russian-language newspaper begins publication.
• 1936
  • City renamed "Yerevan."^[7]
  • Moscow Cinema opens.^[9]
  • Komitas Pantheon (cemetery) established.
• 1939 - Population: 200,031.^[7]
• 1940
  • Yerevan Zoo opens.
  • Statue of Lenin erected in Lenin Square.

Yerevan in 1947

• 1949 - Pushkin Park designed.
• 1959 - Souren Spandaryan Square opens.
• 1965
  • 24 April: 1965 Yerevan demonstrations.
  • Population: 623,000.^[10]
• 1967
  • Mother Armenia monument erected in Victory Park.
  • Armenian Genocide memorial erected on Tsitsernakaberd.
• 1970s - Yerevan Museum of Contemporary Art established.^[8]
• 1970 - Hrazdan Stadium and Chess House open.
• 1977 - Yerevan TV Tower erected.
• 1979 - Population: 1,055,000.^[11]
• 1980 - Yerevan Cascade built.
• 1981 - Yerevan Metro begins operating; Marshal Baghramyan (metro station) opens.
• 1982 - House-Museum of Aram Khachaturian opens.
• 1983 - Karen Demirchyan Sports and Concerts Complex opens.
• 1985 - Population: 1,133,000 (estimate).^[12]
• 1987 - Garegin Nzhdeh Square (metro station) opens.
• 1988
  • 18–26 February: Major demonstration held in Yerevan demanding the unification of Karabakh with Armenia.
  • 22 March: Demonstration.
  • 26 March: Demonstration.
  • 7 December: Influx of refugees following the 1988 Armenian earthquake.^[13]
• 1991
  • 21 September: Armenian independence referendum, 1991 held.
  • Azg and Yerkir newspapers in publication.^[14]
• 1992
  • 20 January: Football Club Pyunik formed.
  • Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art active.
• 1993 - Yerevan Stock Exchange established.^[14]
• 1994 - Food demonstration.^[15]
• 1996 - September: Protest following Armenian presidential election, 1996.^[15]

21st century

Modern view to Yerevan

• 2001 - Hovik Hayrapetyan Equestrian Centre opens.
• 2003
  • Yervand Zakharyan becomes mayor.^[3]
  • Armenian International Policy Research Group headquartered in city.^[16]
• 2004
  • Yerevan International Film Festival begins.
  • Yerevan City Hall built.
• 2007 - Sister city relationship established with Los Angeles, USA.^[17]
• 2008 - February–March: 2008 Armenian presidential election protests.^[15]
• 2009 - Cafesjian Museum of Art opens.
• 2011
  • Yerevan Velodrome and Mordechai Navi Synagogue open.
  • Taron Margaryan becomes mayor.
  • Population: 1,060,138.
• 2012 - City named World Book Capital by UNESCO.
• 2014 - Yerevan Mall in business.
• 2018 - April: 2018 Armenian protests.^[18]
• 2022 - 11 October: Khachkar commemorating Armenian-Polish friendship and Pope John Paul II unveiled.^[19]

See also

• Yerevan history
• History of Yerevan
• List of mayors of Yerevan
• Other names of Yerevan (e.g. Erivan, Eriwan, Iravan, Irwan, Jerewan)
• Timeline of Armenian history
• Timeline of modern Armenian history