Timeline of Yerevan explained

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Yerevan, Armenia.

Prior to 20th century

• 782 BCE - Settlement founded by Argishti I of Urartu.
• 590s CE - Katoghike Tsiranavor Church of Avan built.
• 1582 - Turks in power.
• 1583 - Yerevan Fortress built.^[1]
• 1615 - Town besieged by Turkish forces.
• 1679 - 4 June: 1679 Armenia earthquake
• 1830 - Red Bridge rebuilt.
• 1837 - Tsarskaya Street opens.
• 1842 - Saint Sarkis Cathedral rebuilt.
• 1873 - Population: 11,938.
• 1877 - Yerevan Ararat Wine Factory in operation.
• 1879 - Hovhannes Ghorghanyan becomes mayor.^[2]
• 1897 - Population: 28,910.

20th century

• 1913 - Population: 34,000.^[3]
• 1915 - Refugees from Armenian genocide begin to arrive in yerevan.^[4]
• 1918 - 28 May: Yerevan becomes capital of the First Republic of Armenia.
• 1920
  • 29 November: Bolsheviks in power.^[5]
  • Yerevan becomes capital of Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic.
  • Nairi Cinema opens.
• 1921 - Armenian State University established.
• 1924 - Art school opens.^[6]
• 1926 - Population: 64,613.
• 1930 - Spartak Stadium built.
• 1931 - Saint Nikolai Cathedral demolished.
• 1933 - Opera Theater opens.
• 1934 - Golos Armenii Russian-language newspaper begins publication.
• 1936
  • City renamed "Yerevan."
  • Moscow Cinema opens.^[7]
  • Komitas Pantheon (cemetery) established.
• 1939 - Population: 200,031.
• 1940
  • Yerevan Zoo opens.
  • Statue of Lenin erected in Lenin Square.

• 1949 - Pushkin Park designed.
• 1959 - Souren Spandaryan Square opens.
• 1965
  • 24 April: 1965 Yerevan demonstrations.
  • Population: 623,000.^[8]
• 1967
  • Mother Armenia monument erected in Victory Park.
  • Armenian Genocide memorial erected on Tsitsernakaberd.
• 1970s - Yerevan Museum of Contemporary Art established.
• 1970 - Hrazdan Stadium and Chess House open.
• 1977 - Yerevan TV Tower erected.
• 1979 - Population: 1,055,000.^[9]
• 1980 - Yerevan Cascade built.
• 1981 - Yerevan Metro begins operating; Marshal Baghramyan (metro station) opens.
• 1982 - House-Museum of Aram Khachaturian opens.
• 1983 - Karen Demirchyan Sports and Concerts Complex opens.
• 1985 - Population: 1,133,000 (estimate).^[10]
• 1987 - Garegin Nzhdeh Square (metro station) opens.
• 1988
  • 18–26 February: Major demonstration held in Yerevan demanding the unification of Karabakh with Armenia.
  • 22 March: Demonstration.
  • 26 March: Demonstration.
  • 7 December: Influx of refugees following the 1988 Armenian earthquake.^[11]
• 1991
  • 21 September: Armenian independence referendum, 1991 held.
  • Azg and Yerkir newspapers in publication.
• 1992
  • 20 January: Football Club Pyunik formed.
  • Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art active.
• 1993 - Yerevan Stock Exchange established.^[12]
• 1994 - Food demonstration.
• 1996 - September: Protest following Armenian presidential election, 1996.^[13]

21st century

• 2001 - Hovik Hayrapetyan Equestrian Centre opens.
• 2003
  • Yervand Zakharyan becomes mayor.
  • Armenian International Policy Research Group headquartered in city.^[14]
• 2004
  • Yerevan International Film Festival begins.
  • Yerevan City Hall built.
• 2007 - Sister city relationship established with Los Angeles, USA.^[15]
• 2008 - February–March: 2008 Armenian presidential election protests.
• 2009 - Cafesjian Museum of Art opens.
• 2011
  • Yerevan Velodrome and Mordechai Navi Synagogue open.
  • Taron Margaryan becomes mayor.
  • Population: 1,060,138.
• 2012 - City named World Book Capital by UNESCO.
• 2014 - Yerevan Mall in business.
• 2018 - April: 2018 Armenian protests.
• 2022 - 11 October: Khachkar commemorating Armenian-Polish friendship and Pope John Paul II unveiled.^[16]

See also

• Yerevan history
• History of Yerevan
• List of mayors of Yerevan
• Other names of Yerevan (e.g. Erivan, Eriwan, Iravan, Irwan, Jerewan)
• Timeline of Armenian history
• Timeline of modern Armenian history

Bibliography

Published in 19th century

• • • • Book: Evliya Çelebi . Evliya Çelebi . 1834 . London . . Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall . Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall . Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in the Seventeenth Century . 2 . Description of the Town of Erivan (Revan) . 2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t40s01w59?urlappend=%3Bseq=164 . http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t40s01w59?urlappend=%3Bseq=164 .
• Book: Travels in the Central Caucasus and Bashan . Douglas W. Freshfield . Douglas W. Freshfield . London . Longmans, Green, & Co. . 1869 . (Erivan) . 2027/njp.32101054380249?urlappend=%3Bseq=148 . http://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101054380249?urlappend=%3Bseq=148 .
• Book: J. Buchan Telfer. The Crimea and Transcaucasia . (Erivan) . https://books.google.com/books?id=8zEOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA203 . 1876. H.S. King & Company . London .
• Book: American Cyclopedia . 1879 . . New York . 2nd . George Ripley . George Ripley (transcendentalist) . Charles A. Dana . Charles Anderson Dana . Erivan . http://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hn585u?urlappend=%3Bseq=726 . American Cyclopedia . 2027/hvd.hn585u?urlappend=%3Bseq=726 .
• Book: . 1888 . London . Hand-book for Travellers in Russia, Poland, and Finland . 4th . https://books.google.com/books?id=AenSXGLDulUC&pg=PA427 . Erivan .

Published in 20th century

• • Book: Armenia: Travels and Studies . H. F. B. Lynch . H. F. B. Lynch . London . Longmans, Green, and Co.. 1901. At Erivan . 2027/mdp.39015030723228?urlappend=%3Bseq=282 . http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015030723228?urlappend=%3Bseq=282 .
  • Erivan (town) . 9 . 748 . 1910 . . 1.
• Book: Around the Black Sea . William Eleroy Curtis. William Eleroy Curtis . New York . Hodder & Stoughton. 1911. (Erivan) . 2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t3222tf2d?urlappend=%3Bseq=179 . http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t3222tf2d?urlappend=%3Bseq=179.

Published in 21st century

• Book: Rouben Paul Adalian. Rouben Paul Adalian. Historical Dictionary of Armenia. 2010. 2nd . Scarecrow Press. 978-0-8108-7450-3 . Yerevan . https://books.google.com/books?id=QS-vSjHObOYC&pg=PA585. .
• Book: Tsypylma Darieva. Urban Spaces After Socialism: Ethnographies of Public Places in Eurasian Cities. 2011. . Frankfurt . 978-3-593-39384-1 . Yerevan Sacra . https://books.google.com/books?id=9k9pXQZ6oiEC&pg=PA131 . Levon Abrahamian . etal.

External links

• Digital Public Library of America. Items related to Yerevan, various dates

Notes and References

1. Book: Adalian, Rouben Paul . Historical dictionary of Armenia . Scarecrow Press . Lanham, MD . 2010 . 978-0-8108-7450-3 . 647927779.
2. Web site: Former mayors of Yerevan . Yerevan Municipality Official Website . 30 March 2015 .
3. Book: Statesman's Year-Book . 1921 . London . Macmillan and Co.. Russia: Principal Towns: Caucasia . http://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101072368440?urlappend=%3Bseq=1282 . Statesman's Year-Book . 2027/njp.32101072368440?urlappend=%3Bseq=1282 .
4. Book: Rouben Paul Adalian. Rouben Paul Adalian. Historical Dictionary of Armenia . 2010 . 2nd . Scarecrow Press. 978-0-8108-7450-3 . Chronology . https://books.google.com/books?id=QS-vSjHObOYC&pg=PR27 .
5. Book: Thomas de Waal. Thomas de Waal. The Caucasus: An Introduction . 2010. Oxford University Press. 978-0-19-974620-0 . Chronology . https://books.google.com/books?id=6X745rS5Ci8C&pg=PA229 .
6. Web site: Anatolia and the Caucasus, 1900 A.D.–present: Key Events . Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History . . New York . 30 March 2015 .
7. Web site: Movie Theaters in Yerevan, Armenia . CinemaTreasures.org . Cinema Treasures LLC . Los Angeles . 30 March 2015 .
8. Book: https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/1960_round.htm . Demographic Yearbook 1965 . 1966 . . New York . Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants .
9. Book: Henry W. Morton. Robert C. Stuart . The Contemporary Soviet City. registration. 4. 1984. M.E. Sharpe . New York . 978-0-87332-248-5.
10. 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 . Yerevan .
11. Book: Brian E. Tucker. Issues in Urban Earthquake Risk. 1994. Kluwer . 978-0-7923-2914-5. etal.
12. Book: Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia 2003. Europa Publications . 2002 . 978-1-85743-137-7 . Armenia . https://books.google.com/books?id=EPP3ti4hysUC&pg=PA73 .
13. News: Armenia Profile: Timeline . BBC News . 16 March 2012 . 30 March 2015 .
14. Web site: Organizations . . Switzerland . . 30 March 2015 .
15. Web site: Sister Cities of Los Angeles . City of Los Angeles . USA . 30 December 2015 .
16. "Polski" chaczkar w Erywaniu. Awedis. 53. 2022. pl. 2.