# Timeline of Yerevan

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Yerevan, Armenia.

## Prior to 20th century

* 782 BCE - Settlement founded by Argishti I of Urartu.
* 590s CE - Katoghike Tsiranavor Church of Avan built.
* 1582 - Turks in power.
* 1583 - Yerevan Fortress built.
* 1615 - Town besieged by Turkish forces.
* 1679 - 4 June: 1679 Armenia earthquake
* 1830 - Red Bridge rebuilt.
* 1837 - Tsarskaya Street opens.
* 1842 - Saint Sarkis Cathedral rebuilt.
* 1873 - Population: 11,938.
* 1877 - Yerevan Ararat Wine Factory in operation.
* 1879 - Hovhannes Ghorghanyan becomes mayor.
* 1897 - Population: 28,910.

## 20th century

* 1913 - Population: 34,000.
* 1915 - Refugees from Armenian genocide begin to arrive in yerevan.
* 1918 - 28 May: Yerevan becomes capital of the First Republic of Armenia.
* 1920
** 29 November: Bolsheviks in power.
** Yerevan becomes capital of Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic.
** Nairi Cinema opens.
* 1921 - Armenian State University established.
* 1924 - Art school opens.
* 1926 - Population: 64,613.
* 1930 - Spartak Stadium built.
* 1931 - Saint Nikolai Cathedral demolished.
* 1933 - Opera Theater opens.
* 1934 - Golos Armenii Russian-language newspaper begins publication.
* 1936
** City renamed "Yerevan."
** Moscow Cinema opens.
** Komitas Pantheon (cemetery) established.
* 1939 - Population: 200,031.
* 1940
** Yerevan Zoo opens.
** Statue of Lenin erected in Lenin Square.
* 1949 - Pushkin Park designed.
* 1959 - Souren Spandaryan Square opens.
* 1965
** 24 April: 1965 Yerevan demonstrations.
** Population: 623,000.
* 1967
** Mother Armenia monument erected in Victory Park.
** Armenian Genocide memorial erected on Tsitsernakaberd.
* 1970s - Yerevan Museum of Contemporary Art established.
* 1970 - Hrazdan Stadium and Chess House open.
* 1977 - Yerevan TV Tower erected.
* 1979 - Population: 1,055,000.
* 1980 - Yerevan Cascade built.
* 1981 - Yerevan Metro begins operating; Marshal Baghramyan (metro station) opens.
* 1982 - House-Museum of Aram Khachaturian opens.
* 1983 - Karen Demirchyan Sports and Concerts Complex opens.
* 1985 - Population: 1,133,000 (estimate).
* 1987 - Garegin Nzhdeh Square (metro station) opens.
* 1988
** 18–26 February: Major demonstration held in Yerevan demanding the unification of Karabakh with Armenia.
** 22 March: Demonstration.
** 26 March: Demonstration.
** 7 December: Influx of refugees following the 1988 Armenian earthquake.
* 1991
** 21 September: Armenian independence referendum, 1991 held.
** Azg and Yerkir newspapers in publication.
* 1992
** 20 January: Football Club Pyunik formed.
** Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art active.
* 1993 - Yerevan Stock Exchange established.
* 1994 - Food demonstration.
* 1996 - September: Protest following Armenian presidential election, 1996.

## 21st century

* 2001 - Hovik Hayrapetyan Equestrian Centre opens.
* 2003
** Yervand Zakharyan becomes mayor.
** Armenian International Policy Research Group headquartered in city.
* 2004
** Yerevan International Film Festival begins.
** Yerevan City Hall built.
* 2007 - Sister city relationship established with Los Angeles, USA.
* 2008 - February–March: 2008 Armenian presidential election protests.
* 2009 - Cafesjian Museum of Art opens.
* 2011
** Yerevan Velodrome and Mordechai Navi Synagogue open.
** Taron Margaryan becomes mayor.
** Population: 1,060,138.
* 2012 - City named World Book Capital by UNESCO.
* 2014 - Yerevan Mall in business.
* 2018 - April: 2018 Armenian protests.
* 2022 - 11 October: Khachkar commemorating Armenian-Polish friendship and Pope John Paul II unveiled.