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

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 (mosque) built.
  • 1892 – مسجد صحراباغی (mosque) built.[5]
  • 1900 – Population: 10,000. (approximate estimate).[1]

20th century

  • 1902 – Earthquake.[6]
  • 1925 – مسجد ناصری (بندر عباس) (mosque) built.
  • 1930s – Population: 8,000 (approximate estimate).[2]
  • 1947 – "Fish canning plant" built.[3]
  • 1956 – Population: 17,710.[3]
  • 1959 – حمام گله‌داری (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

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Britannica 1910.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Holliday 2008.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 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.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  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.

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