The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Tabriz, capital of East Azerbaijan Province in Iran.

Prior to 15th century

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One of the unearthed thumb in Blue mosque excavation site, 1500 B.C.
  • 714 BCE. – Mentioned in Assyrian King Sargon II's epigraph
  • 2nd to 7th C. BCE The earliest elements of the present Tabriz are claimed to be built either at the time of the early Sassanids in the 3rd or 4th century AD, or later in the 7th century.[1] The Middle Persian name of the city was T'awrēš (similar in etymological roots as the name of city of Tafresh, some distance away.)
  • 8th C. CE – Tabriz Bazaar construction begins.[2]
  • 858 CE – A devastating earthquake happened in Tabriz.[3][4]
  • 1041 – A devastating earthquake happened in Tabriz.[3][4]
  • 1208 – Annexed by the army of Kingdom of Georgia under command of brothers Ivane and Zakaria Mkhargrdzeli.[5]
  • 1275 – Marco Polo traveled through Tabriz on his way to China.[6]
  • 1298 – Sham-i Ghazan built (approximate date).[7]
  • 1299 – City becomes Ilkhanid capital.[8]
  • 1300 – Rab'-e Rashidi (academic center) built.[9]
  • 1305 – Ghazaniyya (tomb) built.[9]
  • 1311 – Masjid-i Alishah built (approximate date).[7]
  • 1314 – Madrasa of Sayyid Hamza built.[7]
  • 1320 – Arg of Tabriz built.[9]
  • 1330 – Dimishqiyya built (approximate date).[7]
  • 1340 – Masjid-i Ustad-Shagird and Alaiyya built.[7]
  • 1356/1357 – City is briefly occupied by the Muzafarrids[10]
  • 1370 – Imarat-i Shaikh Uvais built (approximate date).[7]
  • 1375 – City becomes capital of Kara Koyunlu territory.[citation needed]
  • 1392 – City besieged by Timur.[3]

15th–16th centuries

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A 16th-century map of Tabriz, sketched by Matrakçı Nasuh (Ottoman polymath).
 
A miniature depicted of 2nd Shah of the Safavid dynasty Tahmasp I in Tabriz.

17th–18th centuries

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Tauris sketched by Jean Chardin, 1673.
 
Sketch of Tabriz in 1690.

19th century

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20th century

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1900s–1940s

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Teachers of Memorial School of Tabriz, photographed in 1923.

University of Azerbaijan established

1950s–1990s

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21st century

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ Fisher, William Bayne; Boyle, J. A. (1968), The Cambridge History of Iran: The Land of Iran (1 ed.), Cambridge University Press, p. 14
  2. ^ a b "Tabriz". Islamic Cultural Heritage Database. Istanbul: Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, Research Centre for Islamic History, Art and Culture. Archived from the original on 15 April 2013. Retrieved 6 February 2013.
  3. ^ a b c Balfour 1885.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g Britannica 1910.
  5. ^ Salia, Kalistrat (1983). History of the Georgian nation. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin. p. 181.
  6. ^ Marco Polo (1854) The travels of Marco Polo: the Venetian. G. Bell & sons. 1854. p. 44.
  7. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Melville 1981.
  8. ^ a b c d Grove 2009.
  9. ^ a b c ArchNet.org. "Tabriz". Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA: MIT School of Architecture and Planning. Archived from the original on 3 November 2012. Retrieved 6 February 2013.
  10. ^ Houtsma, T. (1993). First Encyclopaedia of Islam: 1913–1936. E.J. Brill. p. 798. ISBN 9789004097964. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
  11. ^ a b c d e Bosworth 2007.
  12. ^ a b c d Stanley 2008.
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  15. ^ a b c d Tadeusz Swietochowski; Brian C. Collins (1999). Historical Dictionary of Azerbaijan. USA: Scarecrow Press.
  16. ^ a b c d Werner 2000.
  17. ^ Morse 1823.
  18. ^ George Nathaniel Curzon (1892), Persia and the Persian Question, London: Longmans, Green & Co., OCLC 3444074
  19. ^ "مؤسسه مطالعات تاريخ معاصر ايران IICHS". iichs.org. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
  20. ^ "Persia". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1922.
  21. ^ Hasanbeyghi, Mohammadreza, Alo125, Hamshahribook, 2007 ISBN 978-964-2924-39-4.
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  23. ^ Cosroe Chaqueri, The Soviet Socialist Republic of Iran, 1920–1921: Birth of the Trauma (Pittsburgh and London: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995), p. 465.
  24. ^ Dr Stephanie Cronin (15 April 2013). Reformers and Revolutionaries in Modern Iran: New Perspectives on the Iranian Left. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-32890-1.
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  28. ^ Persian Bulletin of Blue Mosque, Iranian Cultural Heritages Organization.
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  30. ^ a b Brenda Shaffer, Borders and Brethren: Iran and the Challenge of Azerbaijani Identity, p81
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  32. ^ Brenda Shaffer (19 August 2010). "The formation of Azerbaijani collective identity in Iran". Nationalities Papers. 28 (3): 449–477. doi:10.1080/713687484. S2CID 64801609.
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Tabriz in 19th century

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Tabriz during constitutional revolution

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Tabriz invasion during WWII

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