# 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.