Timeline of Yazd

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Yazd, Iran.

Prior to 20th century

  • 749 - Abu-Moslem Khorasani in power.[1]
  • 1051 - Kakuyid Faramurz in power.[2]
  • 1070 - Ali ibn Faramurz in power (approximate date).
  • 1119 - Masjed-e ʿAtiq (Friday Mosque) built by ʿAlāʿ-al-Dawla Garšāsp.[3]
  • 1141 - Atabegs of Yazd in power.
  • 1228/1229 - Mahmud Shah in power.[2]
  • 1271/1272 - Ala al-Dawla in power.[2]
  • 1274/1275 - Flood.[2]
  • 14th century CE - Muin al-Din Yazdi writes history of Yazd.[4]
  • 1307/1308 - Duvazdah Imam (tomb) built.[5]
  • 1318 - Muzaffarid Mubariz al-Din Muhammad becomes governor.[3]
  • 1320 - Shah Kamal madrasa built.[5]
  • 1324 - Jame Mosque of Yazd built.[6]
  • 1325
  • 1346/1347 - City walls expanded.[6]
  • 1365 - Tomb of Šams-al-Din Moḥammad built (approximate date).[3]
  • 1368/1369 - Masjed-e Rig (mosque) built.[7]
  • 1385/1386 - Mosque of Ḵᵛāja Ḥāji Abu’l-Maʿāli built.[3]
  • 1395 - Fortifications built.[6]
  • 15th century CE - Historians Ahmad ibn Husain Ali Katib and Jafar ibn Muhammad ibn Hasan Jafari each write histories of Yazd.[4]
  • 1405/1406 - Iskandar b. Umar Shaykh becomes governor.[2]
  • 1421/1422 - Bazaar built near Mehriz gate.[7]
  • 1456 - Flood.[5]
  • 1457 - Haji-Qanbar Bazaar built.[1]
  • 1720s - Ghalzai Afghans in power.[6]
  • 1742/1743 - Mirza Husayn becomes governor.[2]
  • 1747 - Mohammad Taqi Khan becomes governor (until 1798).[7]

20th century

  • 1903 - Anti-Baháʼí unrest.[2]
  • 1920 - Population: 45,000 (approximate estimate).[8]
  • 1931 - Factory in business.[9]
  • 1935 - Pahlavi Street constructed.[1]
  • 1940 - Yazd Ateshkade (Zoroastrian building) opens.[10]
  • 1976 - City Hall built.[1]
  • 1982 - Population: 193,000 (estimate).[11]
  • 1986 - Population: 234,003.[1]
  • 1991 - Shahid Ghandi Yazd (football club) formed.
  • 1996 - Population: 326,776.[12]

21st century

See also

References

  1. Modarres 2012.
  2. Bosworth 2007.
  3. Patrick Wing. "Mozaffarids". Encyclopædia Iranica. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
  4. Miller 1989.
  5. "Yazd". Oxford Art Online. Missing or empty |url= (help) Retrieved 18 February 2017
  6. "(Yazd)". ArchNet. Retrieved 18 February 2017 via MIT Libraries. (See also 2012 archived version)
  7. Bonine 1987.
  8. "Persia". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921 via HathiTrust. Yezd
  9. Modarres 2006.
  10. Green 2000.
  11. 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.
  12. "Countries of the World: Iran". Statesman's Yearbook 2003. UK: Palgrave Macmillan. 2002. ISBN 978-0-333-98096-5.
  13. "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2015. United Nations Statistics Division. 2016.

This article incorporates information from the Persian Wikipedia.

Bibliography

in English

in other languages

  • Albert Houtum-Schindler; Heinrich Kiepert (1881). "Reisen im Südlichen Persien 1879". Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin (in German). Dietrich Reimer Verlag. 16: 319+. (Yezd)
  • Mahmud Mahini (1934). Jughrafiya-yi Tarikhi-yi Yazd [Historical Geography of Yazd] (in Persian).
  • ʻAbd al-Ḥusayn Āyatī (1938). Kitāb-i Tārīkh-i Yazd (in Persian). OCLC 123446613.
  • Jaʿfar b. Moḥammad Jaʿfārī (1960), Iraj Afshar (ed.), Tārīḵ-e Yazd (in Persian), Tehran, OCLC 776485057 (Written in 15th century CE)
  • Iraj Afshar. Yādgārhā-ye Yazd [Monuments of Yazd] (in Persian). Tehran. 1969-1975 (3 volumes)
  • Iraj Afshar (1992). Yazd Nameh (in Persian). Tehran.
  • Ahmad ibn Husayn ibn 'Ali al-Kateb (2007), Tarikh-i-jedid-i-Yazd [New History of Yazd] (in Persian), Tehran, ISBN 978-9640010655 (Written in 15th century CE?)
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