Timeline of Tabriz


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

Prior to 15th century

  • 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. The Middle Persian name of the city was T'awrēš
  • 8th C. CE – Tabriz Bazaar construction begins.
  • 858 CE – A devastating earthquake happened in Tabriz.
  • 1041 – A devastating earthquake happened in Tabriz.
  • 1208 – Annexed by the army of Kingdom of Georgia under command of brothers Ivane and Zakaria Mkhargrdzeli.
  • 1275 – Marco Polo traveled through Tabriz on his way to China.
  • 1298 – Sham-i Ghazan built.
  • 1299 – City becomes Ilkhanid capital.
  • 1300 – Rab'-e Rashidi built.
  • 1305 – Ghazaniyya built.
  • 1311 – Masjid-i Alishah built.
  • 1314 – Madrasa of Sayyid Hamza built.
  • 1320 – Arg of Tabriz built.
  • 1330 – Dimishqiyya built.
  • 1340 – Masjid-i Ustad-Shagird and Alaiyya built.
  • 1356/1357 – City is briefly occupied by the Muzafarrids
  • 1370 – Imarat-i Shaikh Uvais built.
  • 1375 – City becomes capital of Kara Koyunlu territory.
  • 1392 – City besieged by Timur.

15th–16th centuries

  • 1406 – Kara Koyunlu in power.
  • 1465 – Blue Mosque and Muzaffariyya built.
  • 1468 – Uzun Hasan in power.
  • 1469 – City becomes part of Ak Koyunlu territory.
  • 1472 – Capital relocates to Tabriz from Amid.
  • 1475 – Masjid-i Hasan Padshah and Maqsudiyya built.
  • 1478 – Nasiriyya built.
  • 1483 – Hasht Bihisht palace built.
  • 1500 – Population: 300,000. The fifth most populated city in the world.
  • 1501 – Safavid Ismail I in power.
  • 1514
  • * 5 September: City taken by Ottoman Selim I.
  • * Safavids in power.
  • 1534 – Ottomans in power.
  • 1535 – Safavids in power.
  • 1548
  • * Ottomans in power, succeeded by Safavids.
  • * Capital relocates from Tabriz to Qazvin.
  • 1555 – Persians in power per Treaty of Amasya.
  • 1571 – Uprising.
  • 1585 – Ottomans in power.

17th–18th centuries

  • 1603 – Safavids in power.
  • 1610 – Ottomans in power.
  • 1611 – Safavids in power.
  • 1635 – City sacked by Ottoman Murad IV.
  • 1636 – Saheb-ol-Amr Mosque built.
  • 1641 – Earthquake kills thousands and destroys the city.
  • 1655 – Madrasa Sadiqiyya built.
  • 1673 – Population: 550,000.
  • 1676 – Madrasa Talibiyya built.
  • 1721 – Earthquake kills eighty thousands.
  • 1724 – Ottomans in power.
  • 1724/25 Ottoman invaders killed about 200,000 city residents.
  • 1730 – Safavids in power.
  • 1736 – City becomes part of Afshar territory.
  • 1747 – City becomes part of Khanate of Tabriz.
  • 1757 – Mohammad Hasan Khan Qajar takes city.
  • 1762 – City incorporated into Zand realm.
  • 1775 – Earthquake.
  • 1780 – 28 February: Earthquake kills about 200,000 city residents.
  • * Population: about 30,000.
  • 1785 – Qajars in power.
  • 1799 – Qajar prince Abbas Mirza appointed as the governor of the city.

19th century

20th century

1900s–1940s

University of Azerbaijan established

1950s–1990s

21st century