Timeline of Tashkent

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

Before 20th century



 * 500 BC – till 5th part of the Kushan empire
 * 1210 AD – City sacked by forces of Muhammad II of Khwarezm (approximate date).
 * 1220 – City sacked by forces of Genghis Khan.
 * 1451 – Dzhuma Mosque built.
 * 1485 – Yunus Khan in power.
 * 1569 – Kukeltash Madrasa built.
 * 1611 – Uprising; crackdown by forces of Imam Quli Khan of Bukhara.
 * 1809 – City becomes part of the Khanate of Kokand.
 * 1840 – Cholera outbreak.
 * 1865
 * 15 June: City captured by Russian forces led by Mikhail Chernyayev.
 * Population: 76,000.
 * 1867 – City becomes capital of Russian Turkestan, and center of the Syr-Darya Oblast.
 * 1870
 * Turkistan Gaziti newspaper begins publication.
 * Trade fair held.
 * Kaufmann Library founded.
 * 1871 – Population: 120,000 (estimate).
 * 1872 – Cholera outbreak.
 * 1874 – Turkestan Military District headquartered in Tashkent.
 * 1876 – National Museum of Turkestan founded.
 * 1877 – City government reorganized.
 * 1889 – Trans-Caspian Railway begins operating.
 * 1892 – 24 June: Demonstration related to public health.
 * 1895 – Samarkand-Tashkent railway begins operating.
 * 1896 – Lutheran Church built.
 * 1897 – Population: 156,506.
 * 1898 – Russian Orthodox church built in Amir Temur Square.

20th century

 * 1901 – Horsecar trams begin operating.
 * 1904 – Orenburg-Tashkent Railway begins operating.
 * 1905 – "Mutiny of Tsarist officers."
 * 1910 – Monument to Konstantin von Kaufman dedicated.
 * 1912 – Polish Church, the present Sacred Heart Cathedral, built.
 * 1913 – Population: 172,300.
 * 1914 – Military college established.
 * 1916 – "Anti-labour conscription revolt."
 * 1917
 * February Revolution.
 * 2 March: Tashkent Soviet established.
 * April: Turkestan Muslim Congress held.
 * Pravda Vostoka newspaper begins publication.
 * 1918
 * April: City becomes capital of the Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
 * Turkestan People's University and Turkestan People's Conservatory founded.
 * 1920 – National Public Library of Uzbekistan established (approximate date).
 * 1924
 * City becomes part of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic.
 * Uthman Quran relocated to Tashkent from Ufa.
 * Tashkent Zoo founded.
 * 1925 – Sharq Yulduzi film studio established.
 * 1926 – Population: 323,000.
 * 1930
 * Capital of Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic relocated to Tashkent from Samarkand.
 * Central Asian Construction Institute and Tashkent Communication Polytechnic founded.
 * 1931 – Central Asian Institute of Railway Engineers and Central Asian Institute of Economics founded.
 * 1932 – Arts Study Institute founded.
 * 1938 – City becomes capital of Tashkent Province.
 * 1939 – Komsomol Lake in Stalin Park.
 * 1943 – Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR established.
 * 1947 – Navoi Theatre built.
 * 1955 – Tashkent Electro Technical Institute of Communication founded.
 * 1956
 * Pakhtakor football club formed.
 * Pakhtakor Markaziy Stadium opens.
 * 1962 – Haskovo (Bulgaria)-Tashkent brother-city program established.
 * 1964 – Tashkent Palace of Arts built.
 * 1965 – Population: 1,092,000.
 * 1966
 * January: City hosts signing of India-Pakistan peace agreement.
 * 26 April: The M5.1 Tashkent earthquake destroys much of the city, leaving between 15 and 200 people dead, and around 300,000 homeless.
 * 1971 – Spartak Tashkent ice hockey team formed.
 * 1973 – Sister city relationship established with Seattle, USA.
 * 1977 – Tashkent Metro begins operating.
 * 1979 – Population: 1,858,000.
 * 1984 – Tashkent Tower built.
 * 1985 – Population: 2,030,000 (estimate).
 * 1988 – Seattle-Tashkent Peace Park dedicated.
 * 1991
 * City becomes capital of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
 * Tashkent State Institute of Law and Tashkent Architectural Building Institute established.
 * 1992 – Statue of Vladimir Lenin in Independence Square removed.
 * 1994 – Tashkent Stock Exchange and Tashkent International School established.
 * 1996
 * Amir Timur Museum established.
 * Kuyluk Market built.
 * 1998 – JAR Stadium opens.
 * 1999
 * 16 February: Bombings.
 * Tashkent Open tennis tournament begins.
 * Crying Mother Monument erected.

21st century

 * 2001
 * Tashkent International Airport terminal rebuilt.
 * Population: 2,137,218.
 * 2003 – May: City hosts meeting of European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
 * 2004 – July: Bombings.
 * 2005 – Bunyodkor PFK football club formed.
 * 2008 – Tashkent Challenger tennis tournament begins.
 * 2010 – City hosts the 2010 World Sambo Championships.
 * 2011 – Tashkent–Samarkand high-speed rail line begins operating.
 * 2012
 * July: City hosts the 2012 Asian Karate Championships.
 * September: Milliy Stadium opened.
 * 2014 – City hosts the 2014 World Wrestling Championships.
 * 2016 – City hosts the 2016 Asian Weightlifting Championships.
 * 2018 - Population: 2,464,933 (estimate).
 * 2021
 * November: City hosts the 2021 World Sambo Championships.
 * December: City hosts the 2021 World Weightlifting Championships.
 * 2022
 * October: City hosts the 2022 World Judo Championships.
 * December: City hosts the 2022 Asian Karate Championships.
 * 2023 – City hosts the 2023 IBA Men's World Boxing Championships.

Published in 21st century

 * Jeff Sahadeo, Russian Colonial Society in Tashkent, 1865–1923 (Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Press, 2010).
 * Jeff Sahadeo, Russian Colonial Society in Tashkent, 1865–1923 (Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Press, 2010).
 * Jeff Sahadeo, Russian Colonial Society in Tashkent, 1865–1923 (Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Press, 2010).