Timeline of Baku

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

Prior to 20th century

• 12th century CE – Maiden Tower (Baku) built.
• 1169 – Lezgi Mosque built.
• 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]
• 1747 – Baku Khanate established.
• 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 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 built.
  • 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.
• 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 inter-ethnic 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.
• 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.
• 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]
  • 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.[28]
• 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.[29]

• 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

References

1. ArchNet. "Baku". Archived from the original on October 2012.
2. Britannica 1910.
3. S. Soucek; R. G. Suny. "Baku". Encyclopædia Iranica. New York: Columbia University, Center for Iranian Studies. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
4. Dumper and Stanley 2008.
5. M. S. Vassiliou (2009). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of the Petroleum Industry. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6288-3.
6. Bosworth 2007.
7. Shirin Akiner (2010). Islamic Peoples Of The Soviet Union. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-136-14274-1.
8. Thomas de Waal (2010). "Chronology". The Caucasus: An Introduction. Oxford University Press. p. 229+. ISBN 978-0-19-974620-0.
9. "Russia: Principal Towns". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1890. hdl:2027/nyp.33433081590527.
10. Jewish Encyclopedia 1907.
11. Firouzeh Mostashari (2006). On the Religious Frontier: Tsarist Russia and Islam in the Caucasus. I.B.Tauris. ISBN 978-1-85043-771-0.
12. Chris Cook; John Stevenson (2003). "Russian Revolution (chronology)". Longman Handbook of Twentieth Century Europe. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-89224-3.
13. Tadeusz Swietochowski (2004). Russian Azerbaijan, 1905–1920: The Shaping of a National Identity in a Muslim Community. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-52245-8.
14. "A Russian Petroleum Pipe Line Carrying Oil from Baku to Batoum", Cassier's Magazine, New York, 19, November 1900, hdl:2027/uiug.30112073488907
15. "Russia: Principal Towns: Caucasia". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368440.
16. Touraj Atabaki (2013). "Comintern, the Soviet Union and Labour Militancy in Interwar Iran". In Stephanie Cronin (ed.). Iranian-Russian Encounters: Empires and Revolutions Since 1800. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-62433-6.
17. "Azerbaijan: Directory". Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia 2003. Europa Publications. 2002. p. 121+. ISBN 978-1-85743-137-7.
18. Igor S. Zonn; et al., eds. (2010). Caspian Sea Encyclopedia. Springer. ISBN 978-3-642-11524-0.
19. Ron Rubin, ed. (1994). "Azerbaijan". World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre. Routledge. p. 80. ISBN 978-1-136-11804-3.
20. Adrian Curtin (2014). Avant-Garde Theatre Sound: Staging Sonic Modernity. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-137-32479-5.
21. Leon E. Seltzer, ed. (1952), "Baku", Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, New York: Columbia University Press, p. 146, OL 6112221M
22. "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1965. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations. 1966.
23. 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.
24. 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.
25. "Azerbaijan". Yearbook of Muslims in Europe. Brill. 2014. p. 67. ISBN 978-90-04-28305-3.
26. Michael Kemper; et al., eds. (2010). Islamic Education in the Soviet Union and Its Successor States. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-20731-2.
27. "Azerbaijan Profile: Timeline". BBC News. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
28. "Organizations". International Relations and Security Network. Switzerland: Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
29. "Ilham Aliyev attended the opening of the French Lyceum of Baku". en.president.az. Retrieved 19 December 2018.

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

Bibliography

Published in 19th century

• Jedidiah Morse; Richard C. Morse (1823), "Baku", New Universal Gazetteer (4th ed.), New Haven: S. Converse
• Edward Balfour, ed. (1871). "Bakoh". Cyclopaedia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia (2nd ed.). Madras.
• Charles Marvin (1883). Baku: the Petrolia of Europe. London: R. Anderson & Co.
• F. H. Trevithick (1886), A Sketchy Report on the Petroleum Industry at Baku, Cairo: National Printing Office, OL 23382205M
• "Baku", Hand-book for Travellers in Russia, Poland, and Finland (4th ed.), London: J. Murray, 1888

Published in 20th century

• "Baku", Chambers's Encyclopaedia, London: W. & R. Chambers, 1901, hdl:2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t5bc48059 – via HathiTrust
• James Dodds Henry (1905), Baku: an Eventful History, London: A. Constable & Co., OCLC 24454390, OL 6972546M
• "Baku", Jewish Encyclopedia, 2, New York, 1907
• "Baku", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
• William Eleroy Curtis (1911). "(Baku)". Around the Black Sea. New York: Hodder & Stoughton. hdl:2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t3222tf2d.
• W. Barthold (1913). "Baku". Encyclopaedia of Islam. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 9004097961.
• "Baku", Russia, Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1914, OCLC 1328163
• William Henry Beable (1919), "Baku", Russian Gazetteer and Guide, London: Russian Outlook
• Kurban Said (1937). Ali und Nino (in German). Vienna. (Novel set in Baku)
• Alstadt, Audrey L. The Azerbaijani Bourgeoisie and the Cultural-Enlightenment Movement in Baku: First Steps Toward Nationalism. 1983
• Audrey Altstadt-Mirhadi, “Baku: Transformation of a Muslim Town,” in The City in Late Imperial Russia, ed. Michael F. Hamm (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986)
• Altstadt, A., 'The Baku city duma: arena for elite conflict', Central Asian Survey, 5 (1986)

Published in 21st century

• C. Edmund Bosworth, ed. (2007). "Baku". Historic Cities of the Islamic World. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill. ISBN 978-9004153882.
• Michael R.T. Dumper and Bruce E. Stanley, ed. (2008), "Baku", Cities of the Middle East and North Africa, Santa Barbara, USA: ABC-CLIO, ISBN 9781576079195
• "Baku". Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art & Architecture. Oxford University Press. 2009.

External links

• Digital Public Library of America. Items related to Baku, various dates