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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.
• 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.
• 1392 – City besieged by Timur.[3]

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.

• 1406 – Kara Koyunlu in power.
• 1465 – Blue Mosque [4]and Muzaffariyya built.[7]
• 1468 – Uzun Hasan in power.[11]
• 1469 – City becomes part of Ak Koyunlu territory.
• 1472 – Capital relocates to Tabriz from Amid.[12]
• 1475 – Masjid-i Hasan Padshah and Maqsudiyya built (approximate date).[7]
• 1478 – Nasiriyya built.[7]
• 1483 – Hasht Bihisht palace built.[11]
• 1500 – Population: 300,000 (approximate).[12] The fifth most populated city in the world.[13]
• 1501 – Safavid Ismail I in power.[14]
• 1514
  • 5 September: City taken by Ottoman Selim I.[8]
  • Safavids in power.
• 1534 – Ottomans in power.
• 1535 – Safavids in power.
• 1548
  • Ottomans in power, succeeded by Safavids.
  • Capital relocates from Tabriz to Qazvin.[8]
• 1555 – Persians in power per Treaty of Amasya.[7]
• 1571 – Uprising.[15]
• 1585 – Ottomans in power.[14]

Tauris sketched by Jean Chardin, 1673.

Sketch of Tabriz in 1690.

• 1603 – Safavids in power.
• 1610 – Ottomans in power.
• 1611 – Safavids in power.
• 1635 – City sacked by Ottoman Murad IV.[7]
• 1636 – Saheb-ol-Amr Mosque built.[2]
• 1641 – Earthquake kills thousands and destroys the city.[7][11]
• 1655 – Madrasa Sadiqiyya built.[7]
• 1673 – Population: 550,000.[12]
• 1676 – Madrasa Talibiyya built.[7]
• 1721 – Earthquake kills eighty thousands.[4]
• 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.[16]
• 1762 – City incorporated into Zand realm.[16]
• 1775 – Earthquake.[12]
• 1780 – 28 February: Earthquake kills about 200,000 city residents.[8]
  • Population: about 30,000.
• 1785 – Qajars in power.
• 1799 – Qajar prince Abbas Mirza appointed as the governor of the city.

• 1808 – Population: 250,000 (estimate).[17]
• 1817 – Printing press in operation.[16]
• 1826 – Russians take city.[16]
• 1827 – City becomes part of Russian Empire.
• 1828 – Qajars took power in the city.
• 1830 – Cholera outbreak.[11]
• 1860 – Tehran-Tabriz telegraph begins operating.[18]
• 1868 – Constitution House of Tabriz built.
• 1881
  • Population: 165,000 (estimate).[4]
  • American Memorial School in Tabriz established.

• 2001 – Ehtesham Hajipour selected as new mayor of the city.
• 2002 – April: Tabriz Cartoon, an international annual cartoon contest started.
• 2006
  • Alireza Navin selected as new mayor of Tabriz.
  • Amir Nezam House museum[40] and Iron Age Museum open.[41]
  • May – Thousands of ethnic Azeris demonstrated in Tabriz against government official newspaper's (Iran) cartoon insulting Azerbaijani minority.[42]
• 2009 – Gostaresh Foolad Football Club formed.
• 2010 – Bazaar Complex is inscribed as World Heritage Site.
• 2011
  • August: A protest for saving Lake Urmia is suppressed by police.[43]
  • Population: 1,494,998.[44]
• 2012
  • 18 February: Construction of the tallest building in city, Bloor Tower, is accomplished.[45]
  • 11 August: A major earthquake in Varzaqan shocked Tabriz.[46]
  • Air pollution in Tabriz reaches annual mean of 40 PM2.5 and 68 PM10, more than recommended.[47]
• 2013
  • 14 June: Local election held.
  • 15 June: Thousands of city residents came to streets to celebrate the victory of Iranian moderate presidential candidate, Hassan Rowhani.[48][49]
  • November: Sadegh Najafi-Khazarlou is selected as the 55th mayor of Tabriz.[50]
• 2014
  • 29 March: Tabriz celebrated the earth hour for the first time by turning off Saat Tower's lights.[51]
  • 25 December: Tabriz Soccer Museum is established.[52]
  • City becomes part of newly formed national administrative Region 3.
• 2015
  • 27 August: First portion of Tabriz Metro started its services.
• 2017
  • 4 November: Iraj Shahin-Baher is selected as the 56th mayor of Tabriz.

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

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