Timeline of Bandar Abbas explained

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

Prior to 20th century

• 1514 – Portuguese in power; settlement named "Comorão".
• 1614 – Shah Abbas the Great expels the Portuguese.
• 1622
  • Settlement renamed "Bandar Abbas".
  • Bandar Abbas economy affected by capture of nearby Hormuz by Persian/English forces.
• 1623 – Dutch East India Company trade mission established.
• 1664 – French East India Company conducts business in town (approximate date).
• 1727 – Town sacked by Afghan forces.
• 1741 – "Cannon foundry" established.
• 1762 – British and Dutch businesspeople relocate to Bushire.
• 1790s – Population: 12,000 (approximate estimate).
• 1793 – Bandar Abbas "leased to the sultan of Oman" (approximate date).
• 1830 – Population: 5,000 (approximate estimate).
• 1852 – Persians expelled the Muscat authorities.
• 1868 – Salim bin Thuwaini expelled and Qajars in power.
• 1872 – Gwadur-Jask-Bandar Abbas telegraph begins operating (approximate date).^[1]
• 1879 – (mosque) built.
• 1892 – (mosque) built.^[2]
• 1900 – Population: 10,000. (approximate estimate).

20th century

• 1902 – Earthquake.^[3]
• 1925 – (mosque) built.
• 1930s – Population: 8,000 (approximate estimate).
• 1947 – "Fish canning plant" built.
• 1956 – Population: 17,710.
• 1959 – (bath house) refurbished.
• 1966 – Population: 34,627.
• 1967 – Deepwater port opens.
• 1973 – "Iranian naval headquarters" relocated to Bandar Abbas from Khorramshahr.
• 1976 – Population: 89,103.
• 1982 – Population: 175,000 (estimate).^[4]
• 1988 – 3 July: United States military shoots down civilian Iran Air Flight 655 in vicinity of Bandar Abbas during the Iran–Iraq War.
• 1996 – Population: 273,578.^[5]

21st century

• 2006 – Aluminium Hormozgan F.C. (football club) formed.
• 2008
  • 10 September: 2008 Qeshm earthquake.
  • (museum) opens.^[6]
• 2010 – Takhti Stadium (Bandar Abbas) opens.
• 2011 – Population: 435,751.^[7]
• 2013
  • June: Local election held.
  • Abbas Aminizadeh becomes mayor.^[8]
• 2014 – City becomes part of newly formed national administrative Region 2.
• 2021 - 2021 Hormozgan earthquakes
• 2022 - 2022 Hormozgan earthquakes

See also

• Bandar Abbas history
• Other names of Bandar Abbas
• List of mayors of Bandar Abbas
• Hormozgan Province history
• Timelines of other cities in Iran: Hamadan, Isfahan, Kerman, Mashhad, Qom, Shiraz, Tabriz, Tehran, Yazd

References

This article incorporates information from the Persian Wikipedia.

Bibliography

• Book: Oriental Commerce . William Milburn . Thomas Thornton . 1825 . London . Kingsbury, Parbury, and Allen. https://books.google.com/books?id=qGIOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA95 . Gulph of Persia: Gombroon, or Bender Abassi.
  • Book: . India Directory: Or, Directions for Sailing to and from the East Indies, China, Australia, and the Interjacent Ports of Africa and South America . 6th . William H. Allen & Co. . London . 1852 . https://books.google.com/books?id=gCk6YV5AslIC&pg=PA406 . Google Books. Persian Gulf: Bunder Abbas .
• . Visit to Lingah, Kishm and Bunder Abbass . . 34 . . 251–258 . 1864 . 2027/uc1.$b530482?urlappend=%3Bseq=471 .
  • Arthur W. Stiffe . Ancient Trading Centres of the Persian Gulf. VI. Bandar Abbas . . 16 . 211–215 . 1900 . 2 . 10.2307/1774559 . 1774559 . 2027/inu.30000099853925?urlappend=%3Bseq=227 .
• Book: Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf . Calcutta . Superintendent Government Printing, India . John Gordon Lorimer . 1908 . Abbas (Bandar) . 2027/uc1.31158009868174?urlappend=%3Bseq=22 . https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.31158009868174?urlappend=%3Bseq=22.
• Bander Abbāsi . 3 . Houtum-Schindler . Albert . Albert Houtum-Schindler . 311 - 312 . 1910 . . 1.
• Book: Persian Gulf Pilot . Washington DC . . 1920 . Bandar Abbas . https://books.google.com/books?id=42sDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA202 .
• Encyclopedia: . 1988 . Bandar Abbas: the City. . .

External links

• Web site: . Bibliographia Iranica . Cities: Bandar Abbas . . USA . (Bibliography)
• Items related to Bandar Abbas, various dates (via Europeana)
• Web site: History of Bandar Abbas Municipality . Bandar Abbas Municipality .

Notes and References

1. Book: . Political Economy of Iran under the Qajars: Society, Politics, Economics and Foreign Relations 1796–1936. 2012. I.B.Tauris. 978-0-85772-258-4.
2. Web site: ایگاه واحدهای پژوهشی مراکز استانها. 2021-09-19. iribresearch.ir.
3. Book: . C. P. Melville . History of Persian Earthquakes. 1982 . Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-02187-6 . 164.
4. Book: 1985 Demographic Yearbook . 1987 . United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office . New York . Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants . 247–289 .
5. Book: Statesman's Yearbook 2003 . 2002 . Palgrave Macmillan . UK . 978-0-333-98096-5 . Countries of the World: Iran .
6. Web site: 2021-04-26. موزه مردم‌شناسی خلیج‌فارس در غرب شهر بندرعباس - دوستداران ایران. 2021-09-20. دوستداران ایران - معرفی جاذبه های گردشگری ایران. fa.
7. Web site: Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants . Demographic Yearbook 2015 . 2016 . .
8. Web site: شهرداران بندرعباس از سال 1337 تا کنون . 4 February 2017 . fa . Bandar Abbas Municipality . Mayors of Bandar Abbas, 1957 to Present .