Timeline of Yerevan

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Yerevan, Armenia. {{Dynamic list}} {{TOC right}}

==Prior to 20th century== {{History of Armenia}}

* 782 BCE - Settlement founded by Argishti I of Urartu.<ref name=Adalian /> * 590s CE - Katoghike Tsiranavor Church of Avan built. * 1582 - Turks in power.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}} * 1583 - Yerevan Fortress built.<ref name=Adalian>{{cite book | last=Adalian | first=Rouben Paul | title=Historical dictionary of Armenia | publisher=Scarecrow Press | publication-place=Lanham, MD | date=2010 | isbn=978-0-8108-7450-3 | oclc=647927779}}</ref> * 1615 - Town besieged by Turkish forces.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}} * 1679 - 4 June: 1679 Armenia earthquake * 1830 - Red Bridge rebuilt. * 1837 - Tsarskaya Street opens.{{citation needed|date=March 2015}} * 1842 - Saint Sarkis Cathedral rebuilt. * 1873 - Population: 11,938.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}} * 1877 - Yerevan Ararat Wine Factory in operation. * 1879 - Hovhannes Ghorghanyan becomes mayor.<ref name=FormerMayors>{{cite web |url= https://www.yerevan.am/en/former-mayors/ |title=Former mayors of Yerevan |work=Yerevan Municipality Official Website |access-date=30 March 2015 }}</ref> * 1897 - Population: 28,910.

==20th century==

* 1913 - Population: 34,000.<ref>{{cite book |title=Statesman's Year-Book |year=1921 |location=London |publisher= Macmillan and Co.|chapter= Russia: Principal Towns: Caucasia |chapter-url= http://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101072368440?urlappend=%3Bseq=1282 |title-link=Statesman's Year-Book |hdl=2027/njp.32101072368440?urlappend=%3Bseq=1282 }}</ref> * 1915 - Refugees from Armenian genocide begin to arrive in yerevan.<ref name="Adalian-chronology2010">{{cite book|author= Rouben Paul Adalian|author-link= Rouben Paul Adalian|title=Historical Dictionary of Armenia |year= 2010 |edition=2nd |publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-7450-3 |chapter=Chronology |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=QS-vSjHObOYC&pg=PR27 }}</ref> * 1918 - 28 May: Yerevan becomes capital of the First Republic of Armenia.<ref name="Adalian-chronology2010" /> * 1920 ** 29 November: Bolsheviks in power.<ref name="Waal2010">{{cite book|author=Thomas de Waal|author-link=Thomas de Waal|title=The Caucasus: An Introduction |year= 2010|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-974620-0 |chapter=Chronology |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=6X745rS5Ci8C&pg=PA229 }}</ref> ** Yerevan becomes capital of Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic.<ref name=seltzer1952 /> ** Nairi Cinema opens. * 1921 - Armenian State University established.<ref name=seltzer1952 /> * 1924 - Art school opens.<ref name=MMA-waa11>{{cite web |url= http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/?period=11&region=waa#/Key-Events |title= Anatolia and the Caucasus, 1900 A.D.–present: Key Events |work= Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History |publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art |location=New York |access-date=30 March 2015 }}</ref> * 1926 - Population: 64,613.<ref name=seltzer1952>{{Citation |publisher = Columbia University Press |location = New York |editor = Leon E. Seltzer |title = Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World |ol=6112221M |date = 1952 |page=584 |chapter=Erivan |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/columbialippinco00selt#page/584/mode/1up }}</ref> * 1930 - Spartak Stadium built. * 1931 - Saint Nikolai Cathedral demolished. * 1933 - Opera Theater opens. * 1934 - ''Golos Armenii'' Russian-language newspaper begins publication. * 1936 ** City renamed "Yerevan."<ref name=seltzer1952 /> ** Moscow Cinema opens.<ref name=cinema>{{cite web |url= http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/armenia/yerevan?status=all |title=Movie Theaters in Yerevan, Armenia |work=CinemaTreasures.org |publisher= Cinema Treasures LLC |location=Los Angeles |access-date=30 March 2015 }}</ref> ** Komitas Pantheon (cemetery) established. * 1939 - Population: 200,031.<ref name=seltzer1952 /> * 1940 ** Yerevan Zoo opens. ** Statue of Lenin erected in Lenin Square. thumb|Yerevan in 1947 * 1949 - Pushkin Park designed. * 1959 - Souren Spandaryan Square opens. * 1961 - Zvartnots International Airport opens.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About Us - Zvartnots |url=https://www.zvartnots.aero/EN/Content/AboutUs |access-date=2026-05-09 |website=www.zvartnots.aero}}</ref> * 1965 ** 24 April: 1965 Yerevan demonstrations. ** Population: 623,000.<ref>{{cite book |chapter-url= https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/1960_round.htm |title=Demographic Yearbook 1965 |year=1966 |publisher=Statistical Office of the United Nations |location=New York |chapter=Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants }}</ref> * 1967 ** Mother Armenia monument erected in Victory Park. ** Armenian Genocide memorial erected on Tsitsernakaberd. * 1970s - Yerevan Museum of Contemporary Art established.<ref name=MMA-waa11 /> * 1970 - Hrazdan Stadium and Chess House open. * 1977 - Yerevan TV Tower erected. * 1979 - Population: 1,055,000.<ref name="Morton1984">{{cite book|editor=Henry W. Morton|editor2=Robert C. Stuart |title=The Contemporary Soviet City|url=https://archive.org/details/contemporarysovi00mort |url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/contemporarysovi00mort/page/4 4]|year=1984|publisher=M.E. Sharpe |location=New York |isbn=978-0-87332-248-5}}</ref> * 1980 - Yerevan Cascade built. * 1981 - Yerevan Metro begins operating; Marshal Baghramyan (metro station) opens. * 1982 - House-Museum of Aram Khachaturian opens. * 1983 - Karen Demirchyan Sports and Concerts Complex opens. * 1985 - Population: 1,133,000 (estimate).<ref>{{cite book |chapter-url= https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/1980_round.htm |title=1985 Demographic Yearbook |year=1987 |author=United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office |location=New York |chapter=Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants |pages=247–289 |quote=Yerevan }}</ref> * 1987 - Garegin Nzhdeh Square (metro station) opens. * 1988 ** 18–26 February: Major demonstration held in Yerevan demanding the unification of Karabakh with Armenia. ** 22 March: Demonstration. ** 26 March: Demonstration. ** 7 December: Influx of refugees following the 1988 Armenian earthquake.<ref name="Tucker1994">{{cite book|editor=Brian E. Tucker|title=Issues in Urban Earthquake Risk|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S-HeHNzaYWYC|year= 1994|publisher=Kluwer |isbn=978-0-7923-2914-5|display-editors=etal}}</ref> * 1991 ** 21 September: Armenian independence referendum, 1991 held. ** ''Azg'' and ''Yerkir'' newspapers in publication.<ref name=europa2002 /> * 1992 ** 20 January: Football Club Pyunik formed. ** Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art active. * 1993 - Yerevan Stock Exchange established.<ref name=europa2002>{{cite book|title=Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia 2003|publisher=Europa Publications |year=2002 |isbn=978-1-85743-137-7 |chapter=Armenia |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EPP3ti4hysUC&pg=PA73 }}</ref> * 1994 - Food demonstration.<ref name=bbc-timeline /> * 1996 - September: Protest following Armenian presidential election, 1996.<ref name=bbc-timeline>{{cite news |url= https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-17405415 |title=Armenia Profile: Timeline |work=BBC News |date=16 March 2012 |access-date=30 March 2015 }}</ref>

==21st century== thumb|Modern view to Yerevan * 2001 - Hovik Hayrapetyan Equestrian Centre opens. * 2003 ** Yervand Zakharyan becomes mayor.<ref name=FormerMayors /> ** Armenian International Policy Research Group headquartered in city.<ref name=ISN>{{cite web |url=http://www.isn.ethz.ch/Digital-Library/Organizations |title=Organizations |work= International Relations and Security Network |location=Switzerland |publisher=Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich |access-date=30 March 2015 }}</ref> * 2004 ** Yerevan International Film Festival begins. ** Yerevan City Hall built. * 2007 - Sister city relationship established with Los Angeles, USA.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://sistercities.lacity.org/ | title=Sister Cities of Los Angeles | publisher=City of Los Angeles |location=USA | access-date= 30 December 2015 }}</ref> * 2008 - February–March: 2008 Armenian presidential election protests.<ref name=bbc-timeline /> * 2009 - Cafesjian Museum of Art opens. * 2011 ** Yerevan Velodrome and Mordechai Navi Synagogue open. ** Taron Margaryan becomes mayor. ** Population: 1,060,138. ** Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2011 held.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2011 |url=http://www.junioreurovision.tv/page/year-page?event=1563 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111208021609/http://www.junioreurovision.tv/page/year-page?event=1563 |archive-date=2011-12-08 |access-date=2026-05-10 |website=Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2010 in Minsk |language=en}}</ref> * 2012 - City named World Book Capital by UNESCO. * 2014 - Yerevan Mall in business. * 2018 - April: 2018 Armenian protests.<ref>{{citation |title= Armenian PM resigns after days of protests |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-43868433 |work=BBC News |date= 23 April 2018 }}</ref> * 2022 ** 11 October: Khachkar commemorating Armenian-Polish friendship and Pope John Paul II unveiled.<ref>{{cite magazine|title="Polski" chaczkar w Erywaniu|magazine=Awedis|issue=53|year=2022|language=pl|page=2}}</ref> ** Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2022 held.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022 |title=Junior Eurovision 2022 is good opportunity to restore tourist flows to Armenia, PM says |url=https://news.am/en/news/687310 |access-date=2026-05-10 |website=Armenia News |language=en}}</ref>

==See also== * Yerevan history * History of Yerevan * List of mayors of Yerevan * Other names of Yerevan (e.g. Erivan, Eriwan, Iravan, Irwan, Jerewan) * Timeline of Armenian history * Timeline of modern Armenian history {{clear}}

==References== {{Reflist|30em}}

==Bibliography== {{Refbegin}} ;Published in 19th century * {{Citation |publisher = Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown |date = 1819 |location = London |title = The Cyclopaedia |author= Abraham Rees |chapter=Erivan |chapter-url= http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015068382319?urlappend=%3Bseq=470 |via=HathiTrust |title-link = Rees's Cyclopædia |hdl = 2027/mdp.39015068382319?urlappend=%3Bseq=470 }} * {{Citation |publisher = Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown |location = London |title = Travels in Georgia, Persia, Armenia, ancient Babylonia, &c. &c |author = Robert Ker Porter |author-link = Robert Ker Porter |date = 1821 |oclc = 5524754 |chapter=(Erivan) |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/travelsingeorgia01port#page/194/mode/2up }} * {{Citation |publisher = Rodwell and Martin |location = London |title = Travels in various countries of the East; more particularly Persia |author = William Ouseley |author-link=William Ouseley |date = 1823 |oclc = 4198311 |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=lbPRTEX-pOEC&pg=PA440 |chapter=(Iravan) }} * {{cite book |author=Evliya Çelebi |author-link=Evliya Çelebi |year=1834 |location=London |publisher=Oriental Translation Fund |translator=Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall |translator-link=Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall |title=Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in the Seventeenth Century |volume= 2 |chapter=Description of the Town of Erivan (Revan) |series=Publications - Oriental Translation Fund |hdl=2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t40s01w59?urlappend=%3Bseq=164 |chapter-url=http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t40s01w59?urlappend=%3Bseq=164 }} * {{cite book |title=Travels in the Central Caucasus and Bashan |author= Douglas W. Freshfield |author-link= Douglas W. Freshfield |location=London |publisher= Longmans, Green, & Co. |year= 1869 |chapter=(Erivan) |hdl= 2027/njp.32101054380249?urlappend=%3Bseq=148 |chapter-url= http://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101054380249?urlappend=%3Bseq=148 }} * {{cite book|author=J. Buchan Telfer|title=The Crimea and Transcaucasia |chapter=(Erivan) |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8zEOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA203 |year=1876|publisher=H.S. King & Company |location=London }} * {{cite book |title=American Cyclopedia |year=1879 |publisher=D. Appleton and Company |location=New York |edition=2nd |editor=George Ripley |editor-link=George Ripley (transcendentalist) |editor2=Charles A. Dana |editor2-link=Charles Anderson Dana |chapter= Erivan |chapter-url= http://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hn585u?urlappend=%3Bseq=726 |title-link=American Cyclopedia |hdl=2027/hvd.hn585u?urlappend=%3Bseq=726 }} * {{Cite book |publisher = John Murray |date = 1888 |location = London |title = Hand-book for Travellers in Russia, Poland, and Finland |edition=4th |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=AenSXGLDulUC&pg=PA427 |chapter= Erivan }} * {{Citation |publisher = John Murray |location = London |title = Handbook for Travellers in Asia Minor, Transcaucasia, Persia, etc. |editor= Charles Wilson |editor-link=Charles William Wilson |date = 1895 |oclc = 8979039 |chapter=Erivan |isbn = 9780524062142 |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=icy5QKym2BoC&pg=PA3228 }}

;Published in 20th century * {{Citation |publisher = W. & R. Chambers |date = 1901 |location = London |title = Chambers's Encyclopaedia |chapter-url= http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t7br92q5g?urlappend=%3Bseq=423 |chapter=Erivan |via=HathiTrust |title-link = Chambers's Encyclopaedia |hdl = 2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t7br92q5g?urlappend=%3Bseq=423 }} * {{cite book |title=Armenia: Travels and Studies |author=H. F. B. Lynch |author-link=H. F. B. Lynch |location= London |publisher= Longmans, Green, and Co. |year= 1901 |chapter=At Erivan |hdl=2027/mdp.39015030723228?urlappend=%3Bseq=282 |chapter-url= http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015030723228?urlappend=%3Bseq=282 }} * {{Citation |publisher = Macmillan |location = New York |author = A.V. Williams Jackson |author-link=A. V. Williams Jackson |chapter-url = https://archive.org/stream/persiapastpresen00jackuoft#page/n67/mode/2up |chapter=(Erivan) |title = Persia Past and Present: a Book of Travel and Research |date = 1906 }} * {{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Erivan (town) |volume= 9 |page = 748 |date=1910 |ref= {{harvid|Britannica|1910}} |short= 1}} * {{cite book |title=Around the Black Sea |author= William Eleroy Curtis|author-link=William Eleroy Curtis |location=New York |publisher= Hodder & Stoughton |year=1911 |chapter=(Erivan) |hdl= 2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t3222tf2d?urlappend=%3Bseq=179 |chapter-url= http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t3222tf2d?urlappend=%3Bseq=179 }} * {{Citation |publisher = Karl Baedeker |location = Leipzig |title = Russia |chapter-url = https://archive.org/stream/russiawithtehera00baed#page/494/mode/2up |chapter= Erivan |date = 1914 |oclc = 1328163 }} * {{Citation |publisher = Russian Outlook |author=William Henry Beable |date = 1919 |location = London |title = Russian Gazetteer and Guide |chapter=Erivan |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/russiangazetteer00beabiala#page/62/mode/2up }}

;Published in 21st century * {{cite book |author= Rouben Paul Adalian|author-link= Rouben Paul Adalian|title=Historical Dictionary of Armenia |year= 2010 |edition=2nd |publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-7450-3 |chapter=Yerevan |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=QS-vSjHObOYC&pg=PA585 | ref = {{harvid|Adalian|2010}} }} * {{cite book |editor=Tsypylma Darieva|title=Urban Spaces After Socialism: Ethnographies of Public Places in Eurasian Cities |year= 2011 |publisher={{Interlanguage link multi|Campus-Verlag|de}} |location=Frankfurt |isbn=978-3-593-39384-1 |chapter=Yerevan Sacra |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9k9pXQZ6oiEC&pg=PA131 |author=Levon Abrahamian |display-editors=etal}}

==External links== {{Commons category|Yerevan}} * Digital Public Library of America. [http://dp.la/search?utf8=✓&page_size=100&q=erivan+OR+yerevan Items related to Yerevan], various dates

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