Timeline of Tehran
Video shows Tehran during years (Tahmasp Fortification 1550s, Naseri Fortification 1850s, current area and gates of the city)
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Tehran, Iran.
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.
Prior to 20th century
- 1723 - Afghans occupy the city.[1]
- 1751 - Takht-e Marmar built.
- 1759 - Khalvat Karim Khani built (approximate date).
- 1778 - Mohammad Khan Qajar moves Iran's capital from Sari to Tehran.
- 1790 - Palace built (later became Qasr Prison).
- 1796 - Population: less than 15,000.[2]
- 1865 - Golestan Palace rebuilt.
- 1867 - Shams-ol-Emareh built.
- 1869
- City expanded by Naser al-Din Shah.[1]
- Population: 155,000.[3]
- 1873 - Museum founded by Naser al-Din Shah.[4]
- 1874 - Enceinte built.[1]
- 1881 - Baharistan Palace built.[4]
- 1883 - Abyaze Palace built.
- 1899 - Tehran School of Political Sciences established.
20th century
- 1906 - Baharestan parliament building inaugurated.
- 1907 - German School established.[1]
- 1908
- Khalil-Khan Saghfi Alam-Edoleh appointed mayor.
- Bombardment of Iranian parliament by Russians.
- 1910 - Mirza Abbaskhan Mohandes Bashi Hodud appointed mayor.
- 1911 - Population: approximately 280,000.[1]
- 1914 - Ebrahim-Khan Yomn-Olsaltaneh Monaghah appointed mayor.
- 1918 - School of Law established.
- 1920
- Seyed Zia-Edin Tabatabai appointed mayor.
- Iran Club (football) founded.
- 1923 - General Bozaar Jomehri appointed mayor.
- 1929 - Governmental Technical Institute founded.
- 1934
- University of Tehran inaugurated.
- General Gholi Hooshmand appointed mayor.
- 1937 - National Library of Iran inaugurated.
- 1938 - Ghasem Soor-Esrafil appointed mayor.
- 1940
- Ali Asghar Foruzan appointed mayor.
- Population: 400,000.[3]
- 1941 - Mostafa Gholi Ram appointed mayor, succeeded by Mohammad Sadjadi.
- 1942
- Seyed Mehdi Emadolsaltaneh appointed mayor.
- Bread riot.[5]
- 1943
- Tehran Conference held.[6]
- Fazlollah Bahrami appointed mayor, succeeded by Abbasgholi Golshaeeyan.
- 1944 - Gholam-Hossein Ebtehaj appointed mayor.
- 1945 - Mahmood Nariman appointed mayor, succeeded by Mehdi Mashayekhi.
- 1947 - Mohammad Khalatbari appointed mayor, succeeded by Hesamedin Dolatabadi.
- 1949 - Mohammad Mehran appointed mayor.
- 1950 - Mehdi Namdar appointed mayor.
- 1951
- Arsalan Khalatbari appointed mayor, succeeded by Mohammad Mehran.
- Embassy of the United States, Tehran built.
- 1952 - Nostratollah Amini appointed mayor.
- 1953
- August - Coup d'état.
- Mohsen Nasr appointed mayor, succeeded by General Mohammad-Ali Saffari.
- 1954 - Gholam-Hossein Ebtehaj appointed mayor.
- 1955
- Nosratollah Montasser appointed mayor.
- Alavi Institute founded.
- 1956
- Allameh Tabatabai University established.
- Population: 1,512,032.[3]
- 1957 - Timsar Mahmood Davaloo appointed mayor.
- 1958
- Mousa Maham appointed mayor.
- Ekbatan Town (Persian: شهرک اکباتان - Shahrak e Ekbātān).
- Tehran Polytechnic founded.
- 1959
- Nasser Zolfaghari appointed mayor.
- World Wrestling Championships held.
- 1960
- Fathollah Forood appointed mayor.
- Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran established.
- 1961
- Mohsen Nasr appointed mayor.
- German Speaking Evangelical Church, Tehran built.
- 1962
- Ahmad Nafisi appointed mayor.
- Theatre Shahr opens.
- Tehran War Cemetery built.
- 1963
- Ali Akbar Tavana appointed mayor, succeeded by Ziaedin Shademan.
- Persepolis Athletic and Cultural Club established.
- 1964 - Higher Educational Institute For Girls founded.
- 1965
- Mohandes Taghi Sarlak appointed mayor.
- Aryamehr Technical University founded.
- 1966
- Malek National Library and Museum opens.[7]
- Population: 2,719,730.[3]
- 1967 - General Mohammad-Ali Saffari appointed mayor, succeeded by Manoochehr Pirooz.
- 1968
- Javad Shahrestani appointed mayor.
- International Conference on Human Rights held.[8]
- Tehran derby (football) begins.
- Niavaran Palace built.
- 1969 - Gholamreza Nikpey appointed mayor.
- 1971
- Azadi Tower built.
- Azadi Stadium built.
- 1972
- National Arts Museum inaugurated.
- Evin Prison built.
- Sister city relationship established with Los Angeles, USA.[9]
- 1974 - 7th Asian Games held.
- 1976
- Carpet Museum of Iran founded.
- UFO incident.
- 1977
- Javad Shahrestan appointed mayor.
- Reza Abbasi Museum opens.
- Jamshidieh Stone Garden opens.
- Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art inaugurated.
- 1978 - Protesters shot in Zaleh Square.
- 1979
- February 1 - Ayatollah Khomeini returns.
- November 4 - Students seize U.S. embassy and its occupants; Iran hostage crisis begins.[10]
- Mohammad Tavasoli appointed mayor.
- Tehran Times begins publication.
- 1980 - Seyed Reza Zavarehi appointed mayor, succeeded by Seyed amal ol-din Neek Ravesh.
- 1981
- Gholam-Hossein Deljoo appointed mayor.
- Hafte Tir bombing.
- 1982 - Mohammad Kazem Seyfian appointed mayor.
- 1983
- Hossein Bonakdar appointed mayor, succeeded by Mohamad Nabi Habibi.
- Musala of Tehran built.
- 1987 - Seyed Morteza Tabatabaei appointed mayor.
- 1988 - Tehran International Book Fair begins.
- 1989
- Gholamhossein Karbaschi elected mayor.
- Mausoleum of Khomeini built.
- International Puppet Theatre Festival begins.[11]
- 1991 - Bahman Cultural Center opens.
- 1992
- Hamshahri newspaper begins publication.
- Trolleybuses begin operating.
- Iranian Crown Jewels on display at the Central Bank.
- 1997 - 1st West Asian Games held.
- 1999
- Morteza Alviri elected mayor.
- City Council of Tehran begins.
- Student protests.[12]
- Tehran Metro in operation.
21st century
2000s
- 2002
- Mohammad-Hassan Malekmadani elected mayor, succeed by acting mayor Mohmmad-Hossein Moghimi.
- Shahid Dastgerdi Stadium built.
- Shahid Derakhshan Stadium built.
- Film Museum of Iran opens in Bagh-e Ferdows.
- The Iranian National Museum of Medical Sciences History opens.
- 2003
- Al Alam begins broadcasting.
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad elected mayor.
- Protests against clerics.[12]
- 2004
- 2005
- Ali Saeedlou becomes acting mayor, succeeded Ahmadinejad.
- Iranian Air Force C-130 crash.
- Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf elected mayor.
- Tehran International Tower built.
- Bank Markazi Tower built.
- 2006 - Population: 7.5 million (approximate).
- 2007
- Milad Tower built.
- Tehran Peace Museum opens.
- International Festival of Peace Poetry begins.
- 2008
- Tehran Bus Rapid Transit inaugurated.
- Safir Office Machines Museum opens.
- Mellat Cinema Complex opens.
- 2009 - Election protests.
2010s
- 2010
- 2011
- 2012 - 16th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement.
- 2013 - Local election.
- 2014 - June: Sandstorm.[13]
See also
- History of Tehran
- List of mayors of Tehran
- List of members of City Council of Tehran
- List of religious centers in Tehran
- Timeline of Iranian history
- Other cities in Iran
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Tehran", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1911, OCLC 14782424
- ↑ G.A. Olivier (1802), Reise durch das Türkische Reich, Egypten und Persien, während der ersten sechs Jahre der französischen Republik oder von 1792 bis 1798 (in German), Weimar: Verlag des Landes-Industrie-Comptoirs, OCLC 13068445 Quoted in: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1911.
- 1 2 3 4 Ferydoon Firoozi (1974). "Tehran: A Demographic and Economic Analysis". Middle Eastern Studies. 10 (1). JSTOR 4282511.
- 1 2 "Teheran", Russia with Teheran, Port Arthur, and Peking, Leipzig: K. Baedeker, 1914, OCLC 1328163
- ↑ Stephen L. McFarland (1985). "Anatomy of an Iranian Political Crowd: The Tehran Bread Riot of December 1942". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 17. JSTOR 163309.
- ↑ Richard Overy, ed. (2013). New York Times Book of World War II 1939-1945. ISBN 978-1-60376-377-6.
- ↑ Christopher Markiewicz and Nir Shafir, ed. (2014). "Malek National Library and Museum". Hazine: a Guide to Researching the Middle East and Beyond.
- ↑ International Conference on Human Rights Teheran (1968), Final act, United Nations
- ↑ "Sister Cities of Los Angeles". USA: City of Los Angeles. Retrieved December 2015. Check date values in:
|access-date=(help) - ↑ Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs. "Background Note: Iran". U.S. Dept. of State. Retrieved June 18, 2012.
- ↑ Don Rubin; et al., eds. (2001), World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre: Asia/Pacific, Routledge, ISBN 9780415260879
- 1 2 3 BBC News. "Iran Profile: Timeline". Retrieved June 20, 2012.
- ↑ "Freak Sandstorm". BBC. 2 June 2014.
Further reading
- Published in the 19th century
- S.G.W. Benjamin (1885). "The City of Teheran". Century Magazine. 31 (2).
- Samuel Greene Wheeler Benjamin (1887), "The City of Teheran", Persia and the Persians, London: J. Murray
- George Nathaniel Curzon (1892), "Teheran", Persia and the Persian Question, London: Longmans, Green & Co., OCLC 3444074
- Published in the 20th century
- Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson (1906), "Tehran", Persia Past and Present: a Book of Travel and Research, New York: Macmillan
- "Teheran". Encyclopaedia of Islam. E.J. Brill. 1936. p. 713?+.
External links
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- Xavier de Planhol. "Tehran". Encyclopædia Iranica. New York: Columbia University, Center for Iranian Studies.
- "Tehran". Islamic Cultural Heritage Database. Istanbul: Organization of Islamic Cooperation, Research Centre for Islamic History, Art and Culture.
- ArchNet. "Tehran". Archived from the original on October 2012.
- Map of Tehran, 1947.
Coordinates: 35°41′46″N 51°25′23″E / 35.69611°N 51.42306°E
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