Timeline of Bandar Abbas

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

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Prior to 20th century

• 1514 – Portuguese in power; settlement named "Comorão".
• 1614 – Shah Abbas the Great expels the Portuguese.^[1]
• 1622
  • Settlement renamed "Bandar Abbas".^[2][1]
  • Bandar Abbas economy affected by capture of nearby Hormuz by Persian/English forces.^[1]
• 1623 – Dutch East India Company trade mission established.
• 1664 – French East India Company conducts business in town (approximate date).^[2]
• 1727 – Town sacked by Afghan forces.^[3]
• 1741 – "Cannon foundry" established.^[3]
• 1762 – British and Dutch businesspeople relocate to Bushire.^[3]
• 1790s – Population: 12,000 (approximate estimate).^[2]
• 1793 – Bandar Abbas "leased to the sultan of Oman" (approximate date).^[2][1]
• 1830 – Population: 5,000 (approximate estimate).^[2]
• 1852 – Persians expelled the Muscat authorities.^[1]
• 1868 – Salim bin Thuwaini expelled and Qajars in power.^[3][1]
• 1872 – Gwadur-Jask-Bandar Abbas telegraph begins operating (approximate date).^[4]
• 1879 – مسجد گله‌داری [fa] (mosque) built.
• 1892 – مسجد صحراباغی [fa] (mosque) built.^[5]
• 1900 – Population: 10,000. (approximate estimate).^[1]

20th century

• 1902 – Earthquake.^[6]
• 1925 – مسجد ناصری (بندر عباس) [fa] (mosque) built.
• 1930s – Population: 8,000 (approximate estimate).^[2]
• 1947 – "Fish canning plant" built.^[3]
• 1956 – Population: 17,710.^[3]
• 1959 – حمام گله‌داری [fa] (bath house) refurbished.
• 1966 – Population: 34,627.^[3]
• 1967 – Deepwater port opens.^[3]
• 1973 – "Iranian naval headquarters" relocated to Bandar Abbas from Khorramshahr.^[3]
• 1976 – Population: 89,103.^[3]
• 1982 – Population: 175,000 (estimate).^[7]
• 1988 – 3 July: United States military shoots down civilian Iran Air Flight 655 in vicinity of Bandar Abbas during the Iran–Iraq War.^[2]
• 1996 – Population: 273,578.^[8]

21st century

• 2006 – Aluminium Hormozgan F.C. (football club) formed.
• 2008
  • 10 September: 2008 Qeshm earthquake.
  • موزه مردم شناسی خلیج فارس [fa] (museum) opens.^[9]
• 2010 – Takhti Stadium (Bandar Abbas) opens.
• 2011 – Population: 435,751.^[10]
• 2013
  • June: Local election held.
  • Abbas Aminizadeh becomes mayor.^[11]
• 2014 – City becomes part of newly formed national administrative Region 2.
• 2021 - 2021 Hormozgan earthquakes
• 2022 - 2022 Hormozgan earthquakes

See also

• Bandar Abbas history
• Other names of Bandar Abbas
• List of mayors of Bandar Abbas
• Hormozgan Province history
• Timelines of other cities in Iran: Hamadan, Isfahan, Kerman, Mashhad, Qom, Shiraz, Tabriz, Tehran, Yazd

References

1. Britannica 1910.
2. Holliday 2008.
3. Planhol 1988.
4. Hooshang Amirahmadi (2012). Political Economy of Iran under the Qajars: Society, Politics, Economics and Foreign Relations 1796–1936. I.B.Tauris. ISBN 978-0-85772-258-4.
5. "ایگاه واحدهای پژوهشی مراکز استانها". iribresearch.ir. Retrieved 2021-09-19.
6. N. N. Ambraseys; C. P. Melville (1982). History of Persian Earthquakes. Cambridge University Press. p. 164. ISBN 978-0-521-02187-6.
7. United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1987). "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". 1985 Demographic Yearbook. New York. pp. 247–289.
8. "Countries of the World: Iran". Statesman's Yearbook 2003. UK: Palgrave Macmillan. 2002. ISBN 978-0-333-98096-5.
9. "موزه مردم‌شناسی خلیج‌فارس در غرب شهر بندرعباس - دوستداران ایران". دوستداران ایران - معرفی جاذبه های گردشگری ایران (in Persian). 2021-04-26. Retrieved 2021-09-20.
10. "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2015. United Nations Statistics Division. 2016.
11. "شهرداران بندرعباس از سال 1337 تا کنون" [Mayors of Bandar Abbas, 1957 to Present] (in Persian). Bandar Abbas Municipality. Retrieved 4 February 2017.

This article incorporates information from the Persian Wikipedia.

Bibliography

• William Milburn; Thomas Thornton (1825). "Gulph of Persia: Gombroon, or Bender Abassi". Oriental Commerce. London: Kingsbury, Parbury, and Allen.
• J. R. Wellsted (1840), "(Gambrun)", Travels to the City of the Caliphs, along the Shores of the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean, London: H. Colburn, OCLC 5395027
• James Horsburgh (1852). "Persian Gulf: Bunder Abbas". India Directory: Or, Directions for Sailing to and from the East Indies, China, Australia, and the Interjacent Ports of Africa and South America (6th ed.). London: William H. Allen & Co. – via Google Books.
• Lewis Pelly (1864). "Visit to Lingah, Kishm and Bunder Abbass". Journal of the Royal Geographical Society. 34: 251–258. hdl:2027/uc1.$b530482 – via HathiTrust.
• Edward Balfour (1885), "Bandar Abbas", Cyclopaedia of India (3rd ed.), London: B. Quaritch, hdl:2027/mdp.39015068610990
• Arthur W. Stiffe (1900). "Ancient Trading Centres of the Persian Gulf. VI. Bandar Abbas" (PDF). Geographical Journal. 16 (2): 211–215. doi:10.2307/1774559. hdl:2027/inu.30000099853925. JSTOR 1774559.
• John Gordon Lorimer (1908). "Abbas (Bandar)". Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India. hdl:2027/uc1.31158009868174.
• Houtum-Schindler, Albert (1910). "Bander Abbāsi" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). pp. 311–312.
• "Bandar Abbas". Persian Gulf Pilot. Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 1920.
• Xavier de Planhol (1988). "Bandar Abbas: the City". Encyclopædia Iranica.
• Shabnam Holliday (2008), "Bandar Abbas", in Michael R.T. Dumper; Bruce E. Stanley (eds.), Cities of the Middle East and North Africa, Santa Barbara, USA: ABC-CLIO, pp. 69+, ISBN 9781576079195

External links

• Houchang E. Chehabi (ed.). "Cities: Bandar Abbas". Bibliographia Iranica. USA: Iranian Studies Group at MIT. (Bibliography)
• Items related to Bandar Abbas, various dates (via Europeana)
• "History of Bandar Abbas Municipality". Bandar Abbas Municipality.