Timeline of Ankara

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Ankara, Ankara Province, Turkey.

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Prior to 14th century

• 546 BCE - Achaemenid Persians in power (approximate date).^[1]
• 334 BCE - City taken by forces of Alexander III of Macedon.^[1]
• 278 BCE - Celtic Galatians in power.^[2]
• 25 BCE - City taken by forces of Augustus and becomes part of the Roman Empire.^[2]
• 20 BCE - Monumentum Ancyranum built.
• 3rd century CE - City besieged by Gothic forces.
• 272 CE - City becomes part of Roman Empire again.
• 314 - Church council held.
• 362 - Julian (emperor) of Roman Empire visits city; "Column of Julian" erected.^[2]
• 7th century - City becomes capital of the Opsician Theme.
• 8th century - City becomes capital of the Bucellarian Theme.
• 1073 - City becomes part of the Seljuq Empire.
• 1101 - Ankara Castle captured by the Crusaders.
• 1227 - Ankara Castle captured by the Seljuqs.

14th-19th centuries

• 1356 - City taken by forces of Ottoman Orhan I.^[2]
• 1402 - 20 July: Battle of Ankara fought at Çubuk; Turkic Timur takes city.^[3]
• 1403 - Ottomans in power again.
• 1471 - Mahmut Paşa Bedesteni built.
• 1523 - Çengel Han built.
• 1566 - Cenabi Ahmed Pasa Mosque built.^[4]
• 1688 - Earthquake.^[1]
• 1832 - Ankara Castle renovated.
• 1864 - City becomes capital of the Ankara Vilayet.^[5]
• 1890 - Population: 27,825 (approximate).^[5]
• 1893 - Istanbul-Ankara railway constructed.^[1]

20th century

Palace of Çankaya (Pink Villa), 1935

Gençlik Park

Ankara Opera House

Old parliament building. Bus in front 1935.

• 1920
  • 23 April: Government of the Grand National Assembly established.
  • Hakimiyet-i Milliye newspaper begins publication.^[6]
• 1923
  • 13 October: City becomes capital of the Republic of Turkey.^[5]
  • Gençlerbirliği S.K. football club formed.
• 1924
  • Population: 35,000 (approximate).
  • Musiki Muallim Mektebi opens.
  • Presidential Symphony Orchestra headquartered in Ankara.
• 1925
  • Forest Farm established.
  • Pembe Köşk becomes Turkish presidential residence.
• 1927
  • Ankara Palas opens.^[7]
  • Population: 44,553.
  • Victory Monument erected.^[2]
• 1930
  • City renamed "Ankara."^[1]
  • Ethnography Museum of Ankara founded.
  • State Art and Sculpture Museum built.
• 1932 - Pink Villa built.
• 1933 - Ankara Zoo established.
• 1935 - Ankara 19 Mayıs Stadium built.
• 1937 - Ankara Central Station inaugurated.
• 1938 - November: State funeral of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk held.
• 1940 - State Conservatory established.
• 1943 - Gençlik Parkı (park) and Museum of Anatolian Civilizations opens.
• 1946 - University of Ankara founded.^[1]
• 1948 - Ankara Opera House inaugurated.
• 1950 - Population: 286,781.
• 1953 - Anıtkabir mausoleum of Atatürk erected.
• 1955 - Esenboğa Airport begins operating.
• 1956 - Middle East Technical University.^[1]
• 1961 - Turkish Grand National Assembly Museum opens.
• 1967 - Hacettepe University founded.^[5]
• 1971 - Barıṣ newspaper begins publication.^[6]
• 1974 - Yenikent Asaş Stadium built.
• 1978 - 9 October: Bahçelievler massacre.
• 1982 - 7 August: Esenboğa International Airport attack.
• 1983 - 16 January: Airplane accident.
• 1984
  • City administration reorganized.^[8]
  • Mehmet Altınsoy becomes mayor of Greater Ankara.
  • Bilkent University founded.^[1]
  • Turkish Aerospace Industries headquartered in Ankara.
• 1987 - Kocatepe Mosque built.
• 1989
  • National Assembly Mosque^[9] and Atakule Tower^[2] built.
  • Murat Karayalçın becomes mayor.
• 1990 - March: Bombings.^[1]
• 1991 - Sheraton Ankara in business.
• 1993
  • Bilkent Symphony Orchestra founded.
  • Vedat Aydın becomes mayor.
• 1994 - Melih Gökçek becomes mayor.
• 1997 - Ankara Metro begins operating.

21st century

A westbound YHT train waiting at Ankara station

New Presidential Compound in Ankara

• 2003 - Göksu Park was opened.
• 2004 - Wonderland Ankara was opened.
• 2005 - Çengelhan Rahmi M. Koç Museum of technology established.
• 2006 - 17 May: Turkish Council of State shooting.
• 2007
  • 22 May: 2007 Ankara bombing.^[10]
  • Population: 3,953,344 (urban)^[11]
• 2009 - Eskişehir-Ankara Yüksek Hızlı Tren high-speed railway begins operating.
• 2010
  • Cer Modern museum inaugurated.
  • Ankara Arena was opened for use.
• 2012 - Population: 4,417,522.^[12]
• 2013
  • 1 February: 2013 United States embassy bombing in Ankara.
  • 19 April: Ahmet Hamdi Akseki Mosque was opened.
  • May–June: 2013 Taksim Gezi Park protests.^[13]
  • 5 December: TCDD Open Air Steam Locomotive Museum was closed to use.
• 2014
  • 12 February: M3 (Ankara metro) was opened for use.
  • 7 March: Within 2 thousand 117 pieces of toys where "Ankapark" was opened to the public.^[14]
  • 13 March: M2 (Ankara metro) was opened for use.
  • 5 August: Ankara-Istanbul high-speed railway opened for service.^[15]
  • 17 October: It opened for use as it renovated Ottoman Stadium.
  • 20 October: Presidential Palace was opened.
• 2015
  • 1 January: Battle of Sakarya Historical National Park was opened for use.
  • 10 October: 86 die, 186 are injured from two explosions near peace rally.^[16]
  • 31 October: Cebeci İnönü Stadium was closed to use.
• 2016
  • 17 February: 2016 Ankara Merasim Street bombing attack
  • 13 March: 2016 Ankara Güvenpark-Kızılay Square bombing attack

See also

• History of Ankara
• List of mayors of Ankara
• List of universities in Ankara

Other cities in Turkey

• Timeline of Istanbul
• Timeline of Izmir
• Timeline of Bursa

References

1. Bruce Stanley (2008), "Ankara", in Michael R.T. Dumper; Bruce E. Stanley, Cities of the Middle East and North Africa, Santa Barbara, USA: ABC-CLIO, p. 35+
2. Roman A. Cybriwsky (2013). "Ankara". Capital Cities around the World: An Encyclopedia of Geography, History, and Culture. ABC-CLIO. p. 13+. ISBN 978-1-61069-248-9.
3. Gabor Agoston and Bruce Alan Masters, ed. (2009). "Battle of Ankara". Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire. Facts on File. ISBN 978-1-4381-1025-7.
4. ArchNet.org. "Ankara". Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA: MIT School of Architecture and Planning. Archived from the original on 23 October 2012.
5. C. Edmund Bosworth, ed. (2007). "Ankara". Historic Cities of the Islamic World. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill. p. 26+.
6. "Ankara (Turkey) Newspapers". WorldCat. USA: Online Computer Library Center. Retrieved 21 March 2013.
7. Alev Cinar (2012), "Cities", in Metin Heper; Sabri Sayari, Routledge Handbook of Modern Turkey, New York: Routledge
8. Tuğrul Ansay; Don Wallace, Jr., eds. (2011), Introduction to Turkish Law (6th ed.), Alphen aan den Rijn: Kluwer Law International
9. "Islamic Cultural Heritage Database". Istanbul: Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, Research Centre for Islamic History, Art and Culture. Archived from the original on 16 May 2013.
10. "Turkey Profile: Timeline". BBC News. Retrieved August 2014.
11. "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2011. United Nations Statistics Division. 2012. Retrieved 21 March 2013. Covering Altindag, Cankaya, Etimesgut, Golbasi, Kecioren, Mamak, Sincan, and Yenimahalle districts in Ankara
12. "Turkey". www.citypopulation.de. Oldenburg, Germany: Thomas Brinkhoff. Retrieved 21 March 2013.
13. "Turkey protests: Unrest rages in Istanbul and Ankara". BBC. 1 June 2013. Retrieved 1 June 2013.
14. "Ankara Ankapark halka açıldı!". Konuttimes.com. 7 March 2014. Retrieved 11 November 2014.
15. "Ankara-İstanbul Yüksek Hızlı Tren Hattı Hizmete Açıldı" (in Turkish). TCDD. 5 August 2014.
16. Stanglin, Doug (10 October 2015). "Turkish PM blames suicide bombers in attack that kills 86". Asheville Citizen-Times (USA Today). Retrieved 10 October 2015.

This article incorporates information from the Turkish Wikipedia.

Further reading

Published in the 19th century

• Jedidiah Morse; Richard C. Morse (1823), "Angora", A New Universal Gazetteer (4th ed.), New Haven: S. Converse
• Evliya Çelebi (1834). "(Angora)". Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in the Seventeenth Century 2. Translated by Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall. London: Oriental Translation Fund.
• William Francis Ainsworth (1842). "(Angora)". Travels and researches in Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, Chaldea, and Armenia. London: John W. Parker.
• "Angora", Handbook for Travellers in Turkey (3rd ed.), London: J. Murray, 1854, OCLC 2145740

Published in the 20th century

• "Stadt Angora", Türkei, Rumänien, Serbien, Bulgarien [Turkey, Romania, Serbia, Bulgaria], Meyers Reisebücher (in German) (6th ed.), Leipzig: Bibliographisches Institut, 1902
• "Angora", The Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1910, OCLC 14782424
• O. Altaban and M. Güvenç. “Urban Planning in Ankara,” Cities: The International Journal of Urban Policy and Planning 7, no. 2 (1990)
• "Central Anatolia: Ankara". Greece & Turkey. Let's Go. 1996. p. 520+ – via Open Library.
• Contesting Urban Space in Early Republican Ankara. Zeynep Kezer. Journal of Architectural Education 01/1998. Jstor 1425491.

Published in the 21st century

• Toni M. Cross; Gary Leiser (2000), Brief History of Ankara, Vacaville, California: Indian Ford Press, ISBN 0965595811
• Elvan Altan Ergut (2006). "Presenting Ankara". Rethinking Architectural Historiography. Routledge. p. 151+. ISBN 978-1-134-23629-9.
• Zeynep Kezer (2009). "Ankara". In Emily Gunzburger Makas and Tanja Damljanovic Conley. Capital Cities in the Aftermath of Empires: Planning in Central and Southeastern Europe. Routledge. pp. 124–140. ISBN 978-1-135-16725-7.
• "Ankara". Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art & Architecture. Oxford University Press. 2009.
• Ismail Hakki Kadi (2012). "Town of Ankara and its Mohair Industry". Ottoman and Dutch Merchants in the Eighteenth Century: Competition and Cooperation in Ankara, Izmir, and Amsterdam. Ottoman Empire and its Heritage. Brill. p. 29+. ISBN 90-04-22517-X.
• Deniz Altay (2012). "Urban Spaces Re-Defined in Daily Practices: 'Minibar', Ankara". In Lars Meier and Lars Frers. Encountering Urban Places: Visual and Material Performances in the City. Ashgate. p. 63+. ISBN 978-1-4094-8781-4.

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