Timeline of Yazd

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

Prior to 20th century

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History of Iran

Prehistoric period

BCE / BC

Baradostian culture	c. 36,000–18,000
Zarzian culture	c. 20,000–10,000
Shulaveri–Shomu culture	c. 6000–5000
Zayandeh River Culture	c. 6th millennium
Dalma culture	c. 5th millennium

Ancient period

Kura–Araxes culture	3400–2000
Proto-Elamite	3200–2700
Jiroft culture	c. 3100–2200
Lullubi Kingdom/Zamua	c. 3100-675
Elam	2700–539
Marhaši	c. 2550-2020
Oxus Civilization	c. 2400–1700
Akkadian Empire	2400–2150
Kassites	c. 1500–1155
Avestan period	c. 1500–500
Neo-Assyrian Empire	911–609
Urartu	860–590
Mannaea	850–616
Zikirti	750-521
Saparda	720-670

Imperial period

Median Empire	678–550 BC
Scythian Kingdom	652–625 BC
Anshanite Kingdom	635 BC–550 BC
Neo-Babylonian Empire	626 BC–539 BC
Sogdia	c. 6th century BC–11th century AD
Achaemenid Empire	550 BC–330 BC
Kingdom of Armenia	331 BC–428 AD
Atropatene	c. 323 BC–226 AD
Kingdom of Cappadocia	320s BC–17 AD
Seleucid Empire	312 BC–63 BC
Kingdom of Pontus	281 BC–62 BC
Fratarakas	3rd-century BC–132 BC
Parthian Empire	247 BC–224 AD
Elymais	147 BC–224 AD
Characene	141 BC–222 AD
Kings of Persis	132 BC–224 AD
Indo-Parthian Kingdom	19 AD–224/5
Paratarajas	125–300
Sasanian Empire	224–651
Zarmihrids	6th century–785
Qarinvandids	550s–11th century

Medieval period

CE / AD

Rashidun Caliphate	632-661
Umayyad Caliphate	661–750
Abbasid Caliphate	750–1258
Dabuyids	642–760
Bavandids	651–1349
Masmughans of Damavand	651–760
Baduspanids	665–1598
Justanids	791 – 11th century
Alid dynasties	864 – 14th century
Tahirid dynasty	821–873
Samanid Empire	819–999
Saffarid dynasty	861–1003
Ghurid dynasty	pre-879 – 1215
Sajid dynasty	889–929
Sallarid dynasty	919–1062
Ziyarid dynasty	930–1090
Ilyasids	932–968
Buyid dynasty	934–1062
Rawadid dynasty	955–1070
Hasanwayhids	959–1095
Ghaznavid dynasty	977–1186
Annazids	990/1–1117
Kakuyids	1008–1141
Nasrid dynasty	1029–1236
Shabankara	1030–1355
Seljuk Empire	1037–1194
Khwarazmian dynasty	1077–1231
Eldiguzids	1135–1225
Atabegs of Yazd	1141–1319
Salghurids	1148–1282
Hazaraspids	1155–1424
Pishkinid dynasty	1155–1231
Khorshidi dynasty	1184-1597
Qutlugh-Khanids	1223-1306
Mihrabanids	1236–1537
Kurt dynasty	1244–1396
Ilkhanate Empire	1256–1335
Chobanid dynasty	1335–1357
Muzaffarid dynasty	1335–1393
Jalayirid Sultanate	1337–1376
Sarbadars	1337–1376
Injuids	1335–1357
Afrasiyab dynasty	1349–1504
Mar'ashis	1359–1596
Timurid Empire	1370–1507
Kar-Kiya dynasty	1370s–1592
Qara Qoyunlu	1406–1468
Aq Qoyunlu	1468–1508

Early modern period

Safavid Iran	1501–1736
(Hotak dynasty)	1722–1729
Afsharid Iran	1736–1796
Zand dynasty	1751–1794

Modern period

Qajar Iran	1789–1925
Pahlavi Iran	1925–1979

Contemporary period

Iranian Revolution	1979
Interim Government	1979
Islamic Republic	1979–present

Timeline

Iran portal

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
- Madrasa-ye Rokniya built.^[3]^[5]
- Italian traveller Odoric of Pordenone visits city.^[1]
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^{[what language is this?]} 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

2004 - Foolad Yazd F.C. (football club) formed.
2009 - Yazd Solar Power Station commissioned near city.
2011 - Population: 486,152.^[13]
2013 - 14 June: Local election held.
2014 - Tarbiat Yazd F.C. (football club) active.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Modarres 2012.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Bosworth 2007.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Patrick Wing. "Mozaffarids". Encyclopædia Iranica. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
^ ^a ^b Miller 1989.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Yazd". Oxford Art Online. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help) Retrieved 18 February 2017
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "(Yazd)". ArchNet. Retrieved 18 February 2017 – via MIT Libraries. (See also 2012 archived version)
^ ^a ^b ^c Bonine 1987.
^ "Persia". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368440 – via HathiTrust. Yezd
^ Modarres 2006.
^ Green 2000.
^ 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.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ "Countries of the World: Iran". Statesman's Yearbook 2003. UK: Palgrave Macmillan. 2002. ISBN 978-0-333-98096-5.
^ "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

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in other languages

Albert Houtum-Schindler; Heinrich Kiepert (1881). "Reisen im Südlichen Persien 1879". Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin (in German). 16. Dietrich Reimer Verlag [de]: 319+. (Yezd)
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Iraj Afshar. Yādgārhā-ye Yazd [Monuments of Yazd] (in Persian). Tehran. 1969-1975 (3 volumes)
Iraj Afshar (1992). Yazd Nameh (in Persian). Tehran.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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"شهرداران يزد پس از انقلاب اسلامي" [Mayors of Yazd since 1979] (in Persian). Municipality of Yazd.
Houchang E. Chehabi (ed.). "Cities: Yazd". Bibliographia Iranica. USA: Iranian Studies Group at MIT. (Bibliography)
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"(Yazd)", Asnad.org: Digital Persian Archive, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Image Database of Persian Historical Documents from Iran and Central Asia up to the 20th Century
"Yazd". List of Cities and Buildings. www.irania.tv. Archived from the original on 10 May 2003. Historical Iranian Architecture