Timeline of Tbilisi
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Tbilisi, Georgia.
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Prior to 13th century
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- 4th century CE - Fort built.
- 534 - Anchiskhati Basilica built (approximate date).
- 6th century - Capital of Caucasian Iberia moves to Tbilisi from Mtzkhet.[1]
- 570 - Persians in power.
- 626 - Town besieged by Greeks.[2]
- 627 - Town sacked by Byzantine/Khazar forces.[3]
- 639 - Sioni Cathedral built (approximate date).
- 736 - Arab Emirate of Tbilisi begins.
- 764 - Town sacked by Khazars.
- 828 - Town besieged by Khazars.[2]
- 851 - Town besieged by Arabs.[2]
- 853 - Town besieged by forces of Arab Bugha Al-Turki.
- 1068 - Town sacked by forces of Seljuk Turk Alp Arslan.
- 1122 - David IV of Georgia in power; relocates capital to Tbilisi from Kutaisi.
13th-17th centuries
- 1226 - City sacked by forces of Khwarazmian Jalal ad-Din Mingburnu.
- 1236 - Mongols in power.
- 1251 - Cathedral of Saint George built.
- 1284 - Metekhi Church of Assumption built.
- 1329 - Catholic diocese established.[4]
- 1366 - Plague.
- 1395 - City besieged by Timur.[1]
- 1444 - City sacked by forces of Turcoman Jahan Shah.
- 1467 - Norashen Church founded.
- 1477 - Aq Qoyunlu in power.
- 1480 - Armenian Cathedral rebuilt.[2]
- 1522 - Persians in power.
- 1655 - Khojivank church built.
- 1668 - Earthquake.
18th century
- 1711 - Church of the Holy Seal built.
- 1717 - Zrkinyants St. Gevorg (church) built.
- 1727 - Upper Betlemi Church built.
- 1729 - Jigrashen Avetyats Church built (approximate date).
- 1737 - Saint Sargis Church built.
- 1753 - Church of Saint George (Kldisubani) built.
- 1756 - Saint Gevorg of Mughni Church rebuilt.
- 1775 - Church of the Red Gospel built (approximate date).
- 1778 - Krtsanis Tsiranavor Surb Astvatsatsin (church) rebuilt.
- 1788 - Kamoyants St. Gevorg (church) built.
- 1793 - Armenian school opens.[5]
- 1795 - City sacked by forces of Persian Mohammad Khan Qajar.[1]
- 1799 - Russians in power.[2]
19th century
- 1801 - City becomes part of Russia.[6]
- 1817 - Tbilisi Spiritual Seminary established.
- 1824 - Nersisyan School established.[5]
- 1827 - Earthquake.
- 1830 - Tiflis Gymnasium (school) founded.
- 1840 - Ivan Izmiryants becomes mayor.
- 1845 - Botanical Garden established.[7]
- 1846 - Tiflis Public Library established.[8]
- 1848 - City becomes part of Tiflis Governorate.
- 1851 - Opera house and Dry Bridge (Tbilisi) built.
- 1858 - Mushthaid Garden opens.
- 1866 - Droeba newspaper begins publication.
- 1867 - Caucasian Museum founded.[1]
- 1868 - Population: 61,000.[6]
- 1870 - Lower Bethlehemi Church built.
- 1872
- Railway station built.
- Mshak newspaper begins publication.[5]
- 1879 - City Hall building remodelled.
- 1883 - Population: 104,024.[2]
- 1885 - Military Museum built.[1]
- 1890 - Armenian Revolutionary Federation founded in Tiflis.[5]
- 1897
- Garrison Cathedral built.[1]
- Population: 159,862.
- 1899 - Alexandropol-Tiflis railway begins operating.[5]
20th century
- 1902 - Erivan-Tiflis railway begins operating.[5]
- 1907 - June 26: Bank robbery.[5]
- 1909
- Apollo Theatre (Tbilisi) opens.
- Alexander Khatisyan becomes mayor.[5]
- 1913 - Population: 327,800.[9]
- 1917
- Tiflis Governorate abolished.[10]
- Conservatoire and Armenian National Council of Tiflis founded.
- 1918
- February–May: City becomes capital of Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic.
- May: City becomes capital of Democratic Republic of Georgia.
- Tbilisi State University and Tbilisi Medical Institute established.
- Benia Chkhikvishvili becomes mayor.
- National Archives of Georgia headquartered in Tbilisi.[11]
- 1919 - Museum of Georgia active.
- 1920 - National Art Gallery opens.
- 1921 - February: City besieged by Bolshevist Russian Red Army.[10]
- 1922
- City becomes capital of Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic.
- Art Academy founded.
- 1925 - FC Dinamo Tbilisi (football club) formed.
- 1927 - Tiflis Zoopark founded.[12]
- 1928 - Georgian Politechnical Institute established.
- 1929 - Mtatsminda Pantheon (cemetery) established.
- 1930
- Museum of Literature founded.
- Marjanishvili Theater relocates to Tbilisi.
- 1931 - Zarya Vostoka building constructed.
- 1933 - Jewish Historic-Ethnographic Museum founded.
- 1935 - Central Stadium opens.
- 1936
- City becomes capital of Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic.
- City name changed from "Tiflis" to "Tbilisi."[13]
- 1939
- Rustaveli cinema opens.
- Didube Pantheon (cemetery) established.
- 1941
- Georgian SSR Academy of Sciences and Tbilisi Aircraft State Association established.
- 1946 - Vake Park opens.
- 1950 - Art Museum of Georgia active.
- 1951 - Donkey Bridge rebuilt.
- 1952 - Airport and Poet's Bridge built.
- 1953 - Didube bridge built.
- 1956 - March: Anti-Russian demonstrations.
- 1958 - Institute of Manuscripts established.
- 1961 - Tbilisi Sports Palace opens.
- 1966
- Tbilisi Metro begins operating.
- Baratashvili Bridge constructed.
- Open Air Museum of Ethnography founded.
- 1967 - Hotel Iveria built.
- 1970 - Saburtalo Pantheon (cemetery) established.
- 1972 - Tbilisi TV Broadcasting Tower erected.
- 1974 - Human Rights Defence Group formed.[14]
- 1975 - Tbilisi Roads Ministry Building constructed.
- 1976 - Boris Paichadze Stadium opens.
- 1978 - April: Demonstrations about constitutional status of Georgian language.
- 1979
- Tbilisoba begins.
- Population: 1,052,734.
- 1980 - March: Rock music festival held.
- 1983 - Republic Square constructed.
- 1984
- Wedding Palace built.
- December: Gas explosion.
- 1989
- April 9: Anti-Soviet Demonstration quashed.[10][15]
- April 13: Church of the Red Gospel destroyed.
1990s
- 1990 - June: Aerial tramway accident.
- 1991
- April: Georgia declares independence from USSR.
- December: Conflict between pro-Gamsakhurdia and Opposition forces.
- Georgian Academy of Agrarian Sciences founded.
- Ordzhonikidze Square renamed "26 May Square."
- 1992
- January: Conflict between pro-Gamsakhurdia and Opposition forces.[15]
- Otar Litanishvili becomes mayor.
- 1993 - Konstantine Gabashvili becomes mayor, succeeded by Nikoloz Lekishvili.
- 1995
- Abkhazian Regional Academy of Sciences founded.
- Badri Shoshitaishvili becomes mayor.
- 1996 - National Parliamentary Library of Georgia headquartered in city.[8]
- 1998
- Vano Zodelava becomes mayor.
- Telasi privatized.
21st century
- 2000 - Basiani choir formed.[16]
- 2001
- Mikheil Meskhi Stadium built.
- TbilAviaMsheni airline based in Tbilisi.
- 2002
- Earthquake.[16]
- Tbilisi Aircraft Manufacturing privatized.
- Population: 1,081,679.
- 2003 - November: Rose Revolution.
- 2004
- Holy Trinity Cathedral (Sameba) built.
- Zurab Tchiaberashvili becomes mayor.
- Caucasus University established.
- 2005 - Giorgi Ugulava becomes mayor.
- 2006
- March: Protest against 2006 Russian ban of Moldovan and Georgian wines.[15]
- Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan pipeline in operation.
- National Science Library (Georgia), Scouts of Tbilisi, and Museum of Soviet Occupation[17] established.
- Freedom Monument erected in Freedom Square.
- 2007
- Demonstrations against Saakashvili regime.
- Old Tbilisi raion established.
- Free University of Tbilisi and Radio Muza founded.
- 2008 - August: Bombing by Russian Air Force during Russo-Georgian War.
- 2009
- Demonstrations against Saakashvili regime.[15]
- Tbilisi Open Air (music festival), Tbilisi International Festival of Theatre, and Tbilisi Fashion Week begin.[18]
- 2010 - Bridge of Peace (pedestrian bridge) built.
- 2011 - May: Demonstration against Saakashvili regime.
- 2012
- 13 February: Bomb attempt foiled.[19]
- May: Anti-government demonstration.[15]
- Population: 1,473,551.
- 2015
- 14 June: Flooding in the Vere river results in at least 12 deaths and devastates the city's zoo.
See also
- History of Tbilisi
- Other names of Tbilisi
- List of mayors of Tbilisi
- List of museums in Tbilisi
- Timeline of Georgian history
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Baedeker 1914.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Britannica 1910.
- ↑ Ring 1995.
- ↑ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Georgia". Norway: Oslo katolske bispedømme (Oslo Catholic Diocese). Retrieved June 2015.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Rouben Paul Adalian (2010). Historical Dictionary of Armenia (2nd ed.). USA: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7450-3.
- 1 2 Murray 1868.
- ↑ "Garden Search: Georgia". London: Botanic Gardens Conservation International. Retrieved June 2015.
- 1 2 "History". National Parliamentary Library of Georgia. Retrieved June 2015.
- ↑ "Russia: Principal Towns: Caucasia". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921.
- 1 2 3 Thomas de Waal (2010). "Chronology". The Caucasus: An Introduction. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-974620-0.
- ↑ Christopher Markiewicz and Nir Shafir, ed. (2014). "Central Historical Archive of Georgia". Hazine: a Guide to Researching the Middle East and Beyond.
- ↑ Vernon N. Kisling, ed. (2000). "Zoos and Aquariums of the World (chronological list)". Zoo and Aquarium History. USA: CRC Press. ISBN 978-1-4200-3924-5.
- ↑ "Tbilisi,Tiflis". Google Ngram Viewer. Retrieved June 2015.
- ↑ J. W. R. Parsons (1982). "National Integration in Soviet Georgia". Soviet Studies 34. JSTOR 151907.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Georgia Profile: Timeline". BBC News. Retrieved March 2015.
- 1 2 "Sacred Chants Reverberating Once Again". New York Times. August 4, 2010. Retrieved December 1, 2012.
- ↑ "Tbilisi". Georgian Museums. Ministry of Culture and Monument Protection of Georgia. Retrieved June 2015.
- ↑ "Tbilisi Fashion Week". Retrieved December 1, 2012.
- ↑ Encyclopaedia Britannica Book of the Year. 2013. ISBN 978-1-62513-103-4.
This article incorporates information from the Georgian Wikipedia and German Wikipedia.
Further reading
- Published in the 19th century
- H. A. S. Dearborn (1819), "Teflis", A Memoir on the Commerce and Navigation of the Black Sea, Boston: Wells & Lilly
- Vakhushti Bagrationi (1842), "Description du Karthli", Description géographique de la Géorgie (in French), S. Pétersbourg: A la typographie de l'academie
- "Tiflis". Hand-book for Travellers in Russia, Poland, and Finland (2nd ed.). London: John Murray. 1868.
- Walter B. Harris (1896), "Tiflis", From Batum to Baghdad, viâ Tiflis, Tabriz, and Persian Kurdistan, Edinburgh: W. Blackwood and Sons, OCLC 3234774
- Published in the 20th century
- "Tiflis", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
- Benjamin Vincent (1910), "Tiflis", Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.), London: Ward, Lock & Co. – via Hathi Trust
- William Eleroy Curtis (1911). "City of Tiflis". Around the Black Sea. New York: Hodder & Stoughton.
- "Tiflis", Russia, Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1914, OCLC 1328163
- William Henry Beable (1919), "Tiflis", Russian Gazetteer and Guide, London: Russian Outlook
- Trudy Ring, ed. (1995). "Tbilisi". International Dictionary of Historic Places: Northern Europe. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-136-63944-9.
- Published in the 21st century
- Madlen Pilz (2011), "Tbilisi in City-Maps: Symbolic Construction of an Urban Landscape", in Tsypylma Darieva; et al., Urban Spaces after Socialism, Frankfurt am Main: Campus, ISBN 9783593393841
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