Timeline of Mashhad

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Mashhad, Iran.

Prior to 20th century

330 BCE - Passage and residence of Alexander the Great during his Persian campaign. Probably the first settlement in the modern city area.
818 CE - Death of Ali al-Ridha (8th Imam of Twelver Shia Islam) at Sanābādh; Imam Reza shrine established.
970s-990s - Imam Reza Shrine demolished "in an act of fanaticism" by Ghaznavid Nāṣer-al-dawla Sübüktigin.
1009 - Imam Reza Shrine rebuilt.
1121 - Town wall built.
1161 - Mashhad sacked by Ghuzz Turks.
1389 - Nearby Tus besieged and "left a heap of ruins" by forces of Timurid Miran Shah; refugees flee to Mashhad.
1418 - Goharshad Mosque built.
1426 - Bala-yi sar madrasa built at the Imam Reza shrine.
1439 - Du-dar madrasa built by Shah Rukh at the Imam Reza shrine.
1457 - Central Library of Astan Quds Razavi established.
1501 - Twelver Shia Islam declared official state religion in Iran, a development beneficial to Mashhad as a holy city (approximate date).
1507 - Mashhad taken by forces of Uzbek Muhammad Shaybani.
1544 - Mashhad sacked by Uzbek forces.
1589 - Mashhad besieged by forces of Shaybanid Abd al-Mumin.
1598 - Mashhad taken by forces of Abbas I of Persia; Uzbeks defeated.
1722 - Afghan Abdalis in power.
1726 - Mashhad besieged by Persian forces.
1753 - Mashhad besieged by forces of Afghan Ahmad Shah Durrani.
1803 - Mashhad besieged by forces of Fath Ali Shah.
1849 - Mashhad taken by forces of Husam al-Saltana.
1876 - Palace of Abbas Mirza built.
1889 - British and Russian governments maintain consulates-general.

1912 - 29 March: Bombing of city by Russians.
1918
- Mashhad municipality (administrative entity) formed.
- Mirza Abdol-Raheem Khan Zand Kashef ol-Molk (میرزا عبدالرحیم خان زند کاشف الملک) becomes the city's first mayor.
1920 - Population: 70,000-80,000 (approximate estimate).
1925 / 1304 SH - 31 March: Solar Hijri calendar legally adopted in Iran.
1949 - Razavi University established.
1959 - Nader Shah Mausoleum erected.
1963 - Population: 312,186 (estimate).
1964 - Astan Quds Razavi Central Museum inaugurated.
1966 - Mashhad railway station opens.
1968 - سینما هویزه [fa] (cinema) established.^{[chronology citation needed]}
1970 - سینما قدس (مشهد) [fa] (cinema) established.^{[chronology citation needed]}
1971 - سینما آفریقا (مشهد) [fa] (cinema) established.^{[chronology citation needed]}
1980 - باغ‌وحش وکیل‌آباد [fa] (zoo) established.^{[chronology citation needed]}
1982 - Population: 1,120,000 (estimate).
1983 - Samen Stadium opens.
1995 - Central Library of Astan Quds Razavi new building opens.
1996 - Population: 1,887,405.

2004
- Proma Hypermarket in business.
- City becomes part of the newly formed Razavi Khorasan Province.
2011
- Mashhad Urban Railway begins operating.
- Siah Jamegan Aboumoslem Khorasan F.C. (football club) formed.
- پیست دوچرخه‌سواری مشهد [fa] (velodrome) opens.^{[chronology citation needed]}
- Imam Reza Stadium construction begins.
- Population: 2,766,258.
2013 - 14 June: Local election held.
2014
- Sowlat Mortazavi becomes mayor.
- City becomes part of newly formed national administrative Region 5.

↑ Diodorus (17.77.5)
↑ Curtius (6.6.4-5)
↑ Justin (12.3.8 )
↑ Arrian (4.9.9)
↑ muhammad-bagher al-majlisi, bahaar-ol-anvaar
↑ feiz al-kashaani, al-vaafi
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Bosworth 2007.
1 2 Mawlawī 2011.
1 2 3 Britannica 1910.
1 2 3 Massumeh Farhad. "Mashhad". Oxford Art Online. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help) Retrieved 9 February 2017
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1 2 3 Streck 1934.
1 2 3 "Mashhad Municipality Portal". Retrieved 9 February 2017.
↑ "Persia". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368440 – via HathiTrust. Meshed
↑ "City: Mashhad, Iran". ArchNet. MIT Libraries. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
↑ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1965. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations. 1966. pp. 140–161.
↑ United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1987). "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". 1985 Demographic Yearbook. New York. pp. 247–289.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
↑ "Countries of the World: Iran". Statesman's Yearbook 2003. UK: Palgrave Macmillan. 2002. ISBN 978-0-333-98096-5.
↑ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2015. United Nations Statistics Division. 2016.

This article incorporates information from the Persian Wikipedia.

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