Timeline of Kerman

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

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Prior to 20th century

• 3rd century CE – Bardašir/Govāšir founded by Ardashir I.
• 644 – Muslim conquest of Kerman occurs (approximate date). Caliphate rule started.
• 861 – Anarchy at Samarra, decline and end of Caliphate rule (861–870s).
• 932 – Moḥammad b. Elyās in power.
• 1012 – Buyid Qawam al-Dawla in power.
• 1041–1072 - Construction of the Masjid i Malik mosque by Malik Kaverd Seljuk.
• 1048 – Seljuq Qawurd in power.
• 1188 – Seljuqs ousted (approximate date). (see Toghrul III)
• 1222 – Amir Buraq Hajib in power.
• 1349 – Jameh Mosque of Kerman built.
• 1390 – Masjid-i Pa Minar (mosque) built.
• 1596 – Ganj Ali Khan becomes governor.
• 1598 – Ganjali Caravanserai construction begins.
• 1625 – Ganjali Mint built.
• 1631 – Ganjali Bathhouse built.
• 1660s – Offices of English East India Company and Dutch East India Company in business.
• 1758 – Karim Khan in power.
• 1794 – Siege of Kerman by forces of Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar.
• 1801 – Ibrahim Khan becomes governor.
• 1875 – Population: 40,228.
• 1878 – Firuz Mirzā Farmānfarmā becomes governor.

20th century

• 1905 – Balasari and Shaykhi unrest.
• 1906 – Iranshahr High School of Kerman established.
• 1917 – بیمارستان نوریه (hospital) founded.
• 1956 – Population: 62,157.
• 1966 – Population: 89,700.
• 1969 – خانه شهر (assembly hall) built.
• 1970 – Kerman Airport begins operating.
• 1976 – Population: 145,613.
• 1978 – Friday Mosque of Kerman fire.
• 1986 – Population: 264,560.
• 1996 – Population: 384,991.
• 1998 – Sanat Mes Kerman F.C. (football club) formed.

21st century

• 2003 – 19 February: Airplane crash occurs near city.
• 2006 – Population: 515,114.
• 2007 – Shahid Bahonar Stadium opens.
• 2011 – Population: 534,441.
• 2012 – Mohammad Mehdi Zahedi becomes Member of the Parliament of Iran from the Kerman and Ravar (electoral district).
• 2013 – 14 June: Local election held.
• 2014 – City becomes part of newly formed national administrative Region 5.
• 2015 – Ali Babayi becomes mayor.
• 2020 – Funeral of Qasem Soleimani which around 62 killed in a stampede crush
• 2024 – Kerman bombings on a commemorative ceremony marking the assassination of Qasem Soleimani which killed 103

See also

• Kerman history (fa)
• Kerman in the Qajar era
• Other names of Kerman (city)
• Category:Monuments in Kerman (city; in Persian)
• List of monuments in Kerman Province
• Kerman Province history (fa)
• Timelines of other cities in Iran: Bandar Abbas, Hamadan, Isfahan, Mashhad, Qom, Shiraz, Tabriz, Tehran, Yazd

References

This article incorporates information from the Persian Wikipedia.

Bibliography

in English

• Edward Balfour (1885), "Kirman", Cyclopaedia of India (3rd ed.), London: B. Quaritch, hdl:2027/mdp.39015068611014
• George Nathaniel Curzon (1892). "(Kerman)". Persia and the Persian Question. Vol. 2. London. pp. 243–246. hdl:2027/hvd.32044022702278.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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• "Kerman (town)" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 15 (11th ed.). 1910. p. 756.
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• Laurence Lockhart (1960). Persian Cities. London. pp. 112–119. OCLC 1370385.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Paul Ward English, "Cultural Change and the Structure of a Persian City," in Carl Leiden, ed., The Conflict of Traditionalism and Modernism in the Muslim Middle East (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1966), pp. 32–48.
• Paul W. English, City and Village in Iran: Settlement and Economy in the Kirman Basin (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1968).
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• C. Edmund Bosworth (2013). "Kerman: From the Islamic Conquest to the Coming of the Mongols". Encyclopædia Iranica.
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• James M. Gustafson (2016). Kirman and the Qajar Empire: Local Dimensions of Modernity in Iran, 1794–1914. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-42791-9.

in other languages

• Muhammad b. Ibraham, Tarikh-i Saljuqiyan-i Kirman (Written in 17th century)
• Albert Houtum-Schindler; Heinrich Kiepert (1881). "Reisen im Südlichen Persien 1879". Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin (in Deutsch). 16. Dietrich Reimer Verlag: 327+. Kerman
• Mohammad Ebrahim Bastani Parizi (1956). Rahnumā-yi ās̱ ār-i tārīkhī-yi Kirmān [Guide to the historical monuments of Kirman] (in فارسی).
• Gianroberto Scarcia (1963). "Kerman 1905: La guerra tra Seihi e Balasari". Annali del Instituto Universitario Orientale di Napoli. New Series (in italiano) (13). Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale". {{cite journal}}: Check |author-link= value (help)
• Ahmad Ali Khan Waziri (1966). "Joghrafiy_-ye mamlekat-e Kerm_n". Farhang-e Īrān-zamīn (in فارسی) (14). ISSN 0014-7788.[4]
• Heribert Busse. "Kerman im 19. Jahrhundert nach der Geographie des Waziri," Der Islam 50 (1973): 284–312. (Includes translation of: Ahmad 'Ali Vaziri. Jughrafiya-yi mamlakat-i Kirman (in فارسی).)
• Aḥmad-ʿAli Khan Waziri (1974). Mohammad Ebrahim Bastani Parizi (ed.). Joḡrāfiā-ye Kermān (in فارسی). Tehran. OCLC 165121614.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) (Written in 17th century CE)
• Aḥmad-ʿAli Khan Waziri (1985). Moḥammad-Ebrāhim Bāstāni Pārizi (ed.). Tāriḵ-e Kermān (in فارسی) (3rd ed.). Tehran. OCLC 315437163.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) (Written in 17th century CE; 2 vols)
• Bastani Parizi. "Principes de l'évolution de la tolérance dans l'histoire de Kerman," in A. Harrak, ed., Contacts Between Cultures (Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 1992)

External links

• "Kerman". Encyclopædia Iranica.
• Houchang E. Chehabi (ed.). "Cities: Kerman". Bibliographia Iranica. USA: Iranian Studies Group at MIT. (Bibliography)
• Items related to Kerman, various dates (via Europeana)
• Items related to Kerman, various dates (via Qatar Digital Library) (also "Kirman")
• "(Kerman)". Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran. Harvard University. Primary-source materials related to the social and cultural history of women's worlds in Qajar Iran
• "(Kirman)", Asnad.org: Digital Persian Archive, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Image Database of Persian Historical Documents from Iran and Central Asia up to the 20th Century

Images

• 1794 siege of Kerman
  1794 siege of Kerman