The following is a of the history of the city of Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
Before 20th century
20th century
- 1901 â Horsecar trams begin operating.
- 1904 â Orenburg-Tashkent Railway begins operating.
- 1905 â "Mutiny of Tsarist officers."
- 1910 â Monument to Konstantin von Kaufman dedicated.
- 1912 â Polish Church, the present Sacred Heart Cathedral, built.
- 1913 â Population: 172,300.
- 1914 â Military college established.
- 1916 â "Anti-labour conscription revolt."
- 1917
- February Revolution.
- 2 March: Tashkent Soviet established.
- April: Turkestan Muslim Congress held.
- Pravda Vostoka newspaper begins publication.
- 1918
- April: City becomes capital of the Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
- Turkestan People's University and Turkestan People's Conservatory founded.
- 1920 â National Public Library of Uzbekistan established (approximate date).
- 1924
- City becomes part of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic.
- Uthman Quran relocated to Tashkent from Ufa.
- Tashkent Zoo founded.
- 1925 â Sharq Yulduzi film studio established.
- 1926 â Population: 323,000.
- 1930
- Capital of Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic relocated to Tashkent from Samarkand.
- Central Asian Construction Institute and Tashkent Communication Polytechnic founded.
- 1931 â Central Asian Institute of Railway Engineers and Central Asian Institute of Economics founded.
- 1932 â Arts Study Institute founded.
- 1938 â City becomes capital of Tashkent Province.
- 1939 â Komsomol Lake in Stalin Park.
- 1943 â Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR established.
- 1947 â Navoi Theatre built.
- 1955 â Tashkent Electro Technical Institute of Communication founded.
- 1956
- Pakhtakor football club formed.
- Pakhtakor Markaziy Stadium opens.
- 1962 â Haskovo (Bulgaria)-Tashkent brother-city program established.
- 1964 â Tashkent Palace of Arts built.
- 1965 â Population: 1,092,000.
- 1966
- January: City hosts signing of India-Pakistan peace agreement.
- 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 â Spartak Tashkent ice hockey team formed.
- 1973 â Sister city relationship established with Seattle, USA.
- 1977 â Tashkent Metro begins operating.
- 1979 â Population: 1,858,000.
- 1984 â Tashkent Tower built.
- 1985 â Population: 2,030,000 (estimate).
- 1988 â Seattle-Tashkent Peace Park dedicated.
21st century
See also
References
This article incorporates information from the Russian Wikipedia and the Ukrainian Wikipedia.
Bibliography
Published in 19th century
Published in 20th century
Published in 21st century
- Jeff Sahadeo, Russian Colonial Society in Tashkent, 1865âÂÂ1923 (Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Press, 2010).
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