Timeline of Kerman explained

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

Prior to 20th century

• 3rd century CE – Bardašir/Govāšir founded by Ardashir I.
• 644 – Muslim conquest of Kerman occurs (approximate date). Caliphate rule started.
• 861 – Anarchy at Samarra, decline and end of Caliphate rule (861–870s).
• 932 – Moḥammad b. Elyās in power.
• 1012 – Buyid Qawam al-Dawla in power.
• 1041–1072 - Construction of the Masjid i Malik mosque by Malik Kaverd Seljuk.
• 1048 – Seljuq Qawurd in power.
• 1188 – Seljuqs ousted (approximate date). (see Toghrul III)
• 1222 – Amir Buraq Hajib in power.
• 1349 – Jameh Mosque of Kerman built.^[1]
• 1390 – Masjid-i Pa Minar (mosque) built.
• 1596 – Ganj Ali Khan becomes governor.
• 1598 – Ganjali Caravanserai construction begins.^[2]
• 1625 – Ganjali Mint built.
• 1631 – Ganjali Bathhouse built.
• 1660s – Offices of English East India Company and Dutch East India Company in business.
• 1758 – Karim Khan in power.
• 1794 – Siege of Kerman by forces of Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar.
• 1801 – Ibrahim Khan becomes governor.
• 1875 – Population: 40,228.^[3]
• 1878 – Firuz Mirzā Farmānfarmā becomes governor.

20th century

• 1905 – Balasari and Shaykhi unrest.
• 1906 – established.
• 1917 – (hospital) founded.^[4]
• 1956 – Population: 62,157.
• 1966 – Population: 89,700.
• 1969 – (assembly hall) built.
• 1970 – Kerman Airport begins operating.
• 1976 – Population: 145,613.
• 1978 – .
• 1986 – Population: 264,560.
• 1996 – Population: 384,991.^[5]
• 1998 – Sanat Mes Kerman F.C. (football club) formed.

21st century

• 2003 – 19 February: Airplane crash occurs near city.
• 2006 – Population: 515,114.
• 2007 – Shahid Bahonar Stadium opens.
• 2011 – Population: 534,441.^[6]
• 2012 – Mohammad Mehdi Zahedi becomes Member of the Parliament of Iran from the .
• 2013 – 14 June: Local election held.
• 2014 – City becomes part of newly formed national administrative Region 5.
• 2015 – Ali Babayi becomes mayor.^[7]
• 2020 – Funeral of Qasem Soleimani which around 62 killed in a stampede crush
• 2024 – Kerman bombings on a commemorative ceremony marking the assassination of Qasem Soleimani which killed 103

See also

• Kerman history (fa)
  • Other names of Kerman (city)
• Category:Monuments in Kerman (city; in Persian)
  • Kerman Province history (fa)
• Timelines of other cities in Iran: Bandar Abbas, Hamadan, Isfahan, Mashhad, Qom, Shiraz, Tabriz, Tehran, Yazd

References

This article incorporates information from the Persian Wikipedia.

Bibliography

in English

• • Book: George Nathaniel Curzon . Persia and the Persian Question . London . 1892. 243–246 . 2. (Kerman). 2027/hvd.32044022702278?urlappend=%3Bseq=313 . https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044022702278?urlappend=%3Bseq=313. George Nathaniel Curzon .
• Book: Lands of the Eastern Caliphate . Guy Le Strange . Cambridge University Press . 1905 . Kirman: (Kirman city) . 302–307 . https://archive.org/stream/landsofeasternca00lest#page/302/mode/1up . Guy Le Strange .
• Kerman (town) . 15 . 756 . 1910 . . 1.
• Book: C. A. Storey . Persian Literature: a Bio-Bibliographical Survey . Luzac & Company . London . 1312518 . 1936. History of Persia: Kirman. 1 . Charles Ambrose Storey . http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/storey-charles-ambrose
• Book: Laurence Lockhart . Persian Cities . London . 1370385 . 112–119 . 1960 .
• Paul Ward English, "Cultural Change and the Structure of a Persian City," in Carl Leiden, ed., The Conflict of Traditionalism and Modernism in the Muslim Middle East (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1966), pp. 32–48.
• Paul W. English, City and Village in Iran: Settlement and Economy in the Kirman Basin (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1968).
• Book: W. Barthold . . An Historical Geography of Iran. Princeton University Press . 978-1-4008-5322-9 . 1984. Quhistan, Kirman, and Makran. 133–147. Vasily Bartold .
• Book: Encyclopaedia of Islam . Brill . . etal . 2nd . 1986. Ann K. S. Lambton . Kirman . 147–166 . 5. . Encyclopaedia of Islam . Ann Lambton . via Google Books
  • Stuart D. Sears . Legitimation of Hakam b. al-'As: Ummayad Government in Seventh-Century Kirman . 10.1080/021086032000062587 . . 2003 . 161094119 .
• Book: Historic Cities of the Islamic World . . 2007 . Koninklijke Brill . Leiden . Kirman . 284. . 978-9004153882 .
• Book: Leiden . Koninklijke Brill . The City in the Islamic World . Salma K. Jayyusi . etal . 9789004162402 . 2008 . 'Citadel, Town, Suburbs' Model and Medieval Kirman. Lisa Golombek. 445–465.
• Encyclopedia: . 2013. Kerman: From the Islamic Conquest to the Coming of the Mongols . C. Edmund Bosworth. .
• Encyclopedia: Encyclopædia Iranica . 2014. Kerman: Qajar Period . James M. Gustafson. . (Covers circa 1795–1925) http://www.indstate.edu/faculty-staff/james-gustafson
• Encyclopedia: Encyclopædia Iranica . 2014. Kerman in the Safavid Period . Rudi Matthee. . http://www.history.udel.edu/rudimatthee/fac-bio/rudi-matthee/
• Encyclopedia: Encyclopædia Iranica . 2014. Kerman: Historical Geography . Xavier de Planhol . Bernard Hourcade. . Xavier de Planhol.

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• Encyclopedia: Encyclopædia Iranica . 2014. Kerman: Population of the province, sub-province, and city . Ḥabib-Allāh Zanjāni . Moḥammad-Ḥosayn Nejātiān. .
• Book: James M. Gustafson . Kirman and the Qajar Empire: Local Dimensions of Modernity in Iran, 1794–1914 . Routledge. 978-1-317-42791-9 . 2016 .

in other languages

• (Written in 17th century)
• Albert Houtum-Schindler . Heinrich Kiepert . Heinrich Kiepert . Reisen im Südlichen Persien 1879 . de . . Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin . 16 . 1881. Kerman . 327+. Albert Houtum-Schindler .
• Book: Mohammad Ebrahim Bastani Parizi . Rahnumā-yi ās̱ ār-i tārīkhī-yi Kirmān . Guide to the historical monuments of Kirman . fa . 1956 . Mohammad Ebrahim Bastani Parizi .
• Gianroberto Scarcia .

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  . Kerman 1905: La guerra tra Seihi e Balasari . Annali del Instituto Universitario Orientale di Napoli . New Series . 13 . it . . 1963.
• Ahmad Ali Khan Waziri . Joghrafiy_-ye mamlekat-e Kerm_n . . 0014-7788 . fa . 14 . 1966 . http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/farhang-e-iran-zamin
• Heribert Busse. "Kerman im 19. Jahrhundert nach der Geographie des Waziri," Der Islam 50 (1973): 284–312. (Includes translation of: Book: Ahmad 'Ali Vaziri . Jughrafiya-yi mamlakat-i Kirman . fa .)
• Book: Aḥmad-ʿAli Khan Waziri . Joḡrāfiā-ye Kermān . Mohammad Ebrahim Bastani Parizi . Tehran . 165121614 . fa . 1974 . (Written in 17th century CE)
• Book: Aḥmad-ʿAli Khan Waziri . Tāriḵ-e Kermān . Moḥammad-Ebrāhim Bāstāni Pārizi . Tehran . 3rd . 315437163 . fa . 1985 . (Written in 17th century CE; 2 vols)
• Bastani Parizi. "Principes de l'évolution de la tolérance dans l'histoire de Kerman," in A. Harrak, ed., Contacts Between Cultures (Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 1992)

External links

• Encyclopedia: . Kerman .
• Web site: . Bibliographia Iranica . Cities: Kerman . . USA . (Bibliography)
• Items related to Kerman, various dates (via Europeana)
• Items related to Kerman, various dates (via Qatar Digital Library) (also "Kirman")
• Web site: Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran . (Kerman) . Harvard University . Primary-source materials related to the social and cultural history of women's worlds in Qajar Iran .

Notes and References

1. Web site: . Kirman . Abbas Daneshvari . Retrieved 16 February 2017
2. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20121025215154/http://archnet.org/library/places/one-place.jsp?place_id=1835 . Places: Iran: Kerman . 25 October 2012 . dead . . .
3. Web site: تاریخ شکل گیری شهر . City History . fa . City of Kerman . 16 February 2017 .
4. Web site: City of Kerman . fa . 16 February 2017 .
5. Book: Statesman's Yearbook 2003 . 2002 . Palgrave Macmillan . UK . 978-0-333-98096-5 . Countries of the World: Iran .
6. Web site: Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants . Demographic Yearbook 2015 . 2016 . .
7. Web site: شهرداران اسبق . Former Mayors . fa . City of Kerman . 16 February 2017 .