Timeline of Baku
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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Baku, Azerbaijan.
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 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
- 1990
- January:
- Baku pogrom of Armenians.[27]
- Black January.[28]
- Sanan Alizade becomes mayor.
- January:
- 1991
- City becomes capital of Azerbaijan Republic.[6]
- 1993
- Rafael Allahverdiyev becomes mayor.
- 1994
- 1995
- October: 1995 Baku Metro fire.
- 2000 – 25 November: The 6.8 Mw 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.
