Timeline of Baku

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

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Prior to 20th century
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  • 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
  • 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

21st century

See also

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
See also: History of Baku § Further reading
Published in 19th century
Published in 20th century
Published in 21st century
  • C. Edmund Bosworth, ed. (2007). "Baku". Historic Cities of the Islamic World. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill.
  • Michael R.T. Dumper and Bruce E. Stanley, ed. (2008), "Baku", Cities of the Middle East and North Africa, Santa Barbara, USA: ABC-CLIO
  • "Baku". Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art & Architecture. Oxford University Press. 2009.

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