Timeline of Yazd explained

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

Prior to 20th century

• 749 - Abu-Moslem Khorasani in power.
• 1051 - Kakuyid Faramurz in power.
• 1070 - Ali ibn Faramurz in power (approximate date).
• 1119 - Masjed-e ʿAtiq (Friday Mosque) built by ʿAlāʿ-al-Dawla Garšāsp.
• 1141 - Atabegs of Yazd in power.
• 1228/1229 - Mahmud Shah in power.
• 1271/1272 - Ala al-Dawla in power.
• 1274/1275 - Flood.
• 14th century CE - Muin al-Din Yazdi writes history of Yazd.
• 1307/1308 - Duvazdah Imam (tomb) built.^[1]
• 1318 - Muzaffarid Mubariz al-Din Muhammad becomes governor.^[2]
• 1320 - Shah Kamal madrasa built.
• 1324 - Jame Mosque of Yazd built.
• 1325
  • Madrasa-ye Rokniya built.
  • Italian traveller Odoric of Pordenone visits city.
• 1346/1347 - City walls expanded.^[3]
• 1365 - Tomb of Šams-al-Din Moḥammad built (approximate date).
• 1368/1369 - Masjed-e Rig (mosque) built.
• 1385/1386 - Mosque of Ḵᵛāja Ḥāji Abu’l-Maʿāli built.
• 1395 - Fortifications built.
• 15th century CE - Historians Ahmad ibn Husain Ali Katib and Jafar ibn Muhammad ibn Hasan Jafari each write histories of Yazd.
• 1405/1406 - Iskandar b. Umar Shaykh becomes governor.
• 1421/1422 - Bazaar built near Mehriz gate.
• 1456 - Flood.
• 1457 - Haji-Qanbar Bazaar built.
• 1720s - Ghalzai Afghans in power.
• 1742/1743 - Mirza Husayn becomes governor.
• 1747 - Mohammad Taqi Khan becomes governor (until 1798).

20th century

• 1903 - Anti-Baháʼí unrest.
• 1920 - Population: 45,000 (approximate estimate).^[4]
• 1931 - Factory in business.
• 1935 - Pahlavi Street constructed.
• 1940 - Yazd Ateshkade (Zoroastrian building) opens.
• 1976 - City Hall built.
• 1982 - Population: 193,000 (estimate).^[5]
• 1986 - Population: 234,003.
• 1991 - Shahid Ghandi Yazd (football club) formed.
• 1996 - Population: 326,776.^[6]

21st century

• 2004 - Foolad Yazd F.C. (football club) formed.
• 2009 - Yazd Solar Power Station commissioned near city.
• 2011 - Population: 486,152.^[7]
• 2013 - 14 June: Local election held.
• 2014 - Tarbiat Yazd F.C. (football club) active.

See also

• Yazd history (fa)
• List of mayors of Yazd
• Timelines of other cities in Iran: Bandar Abbas, Hamadan, Isfahan, Kerman, Mashhad, Qom, Shiraz, Tabriz, Tehran

References

This article incorporates information from the Persian Wikipedia.

Bibliography

in English

• • Book: Five Years in a Persian Town . N. Malcolm . 1905 .
• Yezd (city) . 28 . 919 . 1910 . . 1.
• Book: Encyclopædia of Islam . Leiden . . 1936 . Yazd . Clément Huart . 1161 . Encyclopædia of Islam . Clément Huart . via Google Books
• Dailamīs in Central Iran: The Kākūyids of Jibāl and Yazd . C. E. Bosworth . . British Institute of Persian Studies . 8 . 73–95 . 4299634 . 1970 . 10.2307/4299634 .
• https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X00041744
• Islam and Commerce: Waqf and the Bazaar of Yazd, Iran . Michael E. Bonine . . 0014-0015 . 41 . 3 . 182–196 . 25645162 . 1987 . .
• Local History in Ninth/Fifteenth Century Yaẓd: The 'Tārākh-i Jadīd-i Yazd' . Isabel Miller . Iran . British Institute of Persian Studies . 27 . 75–79 . 4299819 . 1989 . . 10.2307/4299819 .
• Qanāts of Yazd . A. K. S. Lambton . . 2; 3rd series . 1 . 21–35 . 25182446 . 1992 . A. K. S. Lambton . 10.1017/S1356186300001784 . 162258668 . (History of qanat water technology in the city)
  • Survival of Zoroastrianism in Yazd . Nile Green . Iran . British Institute of Persian Studies . 38 . 115–122 . 4300587 . 2000. . 10.2307/4300587 . http://www.history.ucla.edu/faculty/nile-green
• Book: Ali Modarres . Modernizing Yazd: Selective Historical Memory and the Fate of Vernacular Architecture . Mazda Publishers . Bibliotheca Iranica . 978-1-56859-140-7 . 2006 . . https://csde.washington.edu/affiliates/ali-modarres/
• Book: Historic Cities of the Islamic World . . 2007 . Koninklijke Brill . Leiden . Yazd . 557–566. . 978-9004153882 .
• Book: Mohammad Gharipour . The Bazaar in the Islamic City: Design, Culture, and History. 2012. American University in Cairo . 978-977-416-529-0. On Politics and the Morphology of the Bazaar in Yazd . Ali Modarres . 251–274. . http://www.morgan.edu/school_of_architecture_and_planning/facultystaff/mohammad_gharipour.html
• Encyclopedia: Encyclopædia Iranica . 2012. Bibliographies and Catalogues in Iran: Yazd. Aḥmad Monzawī . ʿAlī Naqī Monzawī.

in other languages

• Albert Houtum-Schindler . Heinrich Kiepert . Heinrich Kiepert . Reisen im Südlichen Persien 1879 . de . . Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin . 16 . 1881. (Yezd) . 319+. Albert Houtum-Schindler .
• Book: Mahmud Mahini . Jughrafiya-yi Tarikhi-yi Yazd . Historical Geography of Yazd . fa . 1934 .
• Book: Kitāb-i Tārīkh-i Yazd . fa . ʻAbd al-Ḥusayn Āyatī . 123446613 . 1938 .
• (Written in 15th century CE)
• Book: Iraj Afshar . Yādgārhā-ye Yazd . Monuments of Yazd . fa . Tehran . 1969-1975 (3 volumes)
• Book: Iraj Afshar . Yazd Nameh . fa . Tehran . 1992 .
• (Written in 15th century CE?)

External links

• Web site: شهرداران يزد پس از انقلاب اسلامي . fa . Mayors of Yazd since 1979 . Municipality of Yazd .
• Web site: . Bibliographia Iranica . Cities: Yazd . . USA . (Bibliography)
• Items related to Yazd, various dates (via Qatar Digital Library)
• Web site: Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran . (Yazd) . Harvard University . Primary-source materials related to the social and cultural history of women's worlds in Qajar Iran .
• Items related to Yazd, various dates (via Europeana)
• Items related to Yazd, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America)
  • Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20030510100819/http://www.irania.tv/city/yazd/ . Yazd . 10 May 2003 . dead . List of Cities and Buildings . www.irania.tv . Historical Iranian Architecture .

Notes and References

1. Web site: . Yazd . Retrieved 18 February 2017
2. Encyclopedia: Encyclopædia Iranica . Patrick Wing . Mozaffarids . 18 February 2017 .
3. Web site: (Yazd) . . . 18 February 2017 . (See also 2012 archived version)
4. Book: Statesman's Year-Book . 1921 . London . Macmillan and Co.. Persia . https://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101072368440?urlappend=%3Bseq=1219 . . Yezd . Statesman's Year-Book . 2027/njp.32101072368440?urlappend=%3Bseq=1219 .
5. Book: https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/1980_round.htm . 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 .
6. Book: Statesman's Yearbook 2003 . 2002 . Palgrave Macmillan . UK . 978-0-333-98096-5 . Countries of the World: Iran .
7. Web site: Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants . Demographic Yearbook 2015 . 2016 . .