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

Prior to 20th century

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Prehistoric periodBCE / BC Baradostian culture c. 36,000–18,000 Zarzian culture c. 20,000–10,000 Shulaveri–Shomu culture c. 6000–5000 Zayandeh River Culture c. 6th millennium Dalma culture c. 5th millennium
Ancient period Kura–Araxes culture 3400–2000 Helmand culture/Jiroft culture c. 3300–2200 Proto-Elamite 3200–2700 Lullubi Kingdom/Zamua c. 3100-675 Elam 2700–539 Marhaši c. 2550-2020 Oxus Civilization c. 2400–1700 Akkadian Empire 2400–2150 Kassites c. 1500–1155 Avestan period c. 1500–500 Neo-Assyrian Empire 911–609 Urartu 860–590 Mannaea 850–616 Zikirti 750-521 Saparda 720-670
Imperial period Median Empire 678–550 BC Scythian Kingdom 652–625 BC Anshanite Kingdom 635 BC–550 BC Neo-Babylonian Empire 626 BC–539 BC Sogdia c. 6th century BC–11th century AD Achaemenid Empire 550 BC–330 BC Kingdom of Armenia 331 BC–428 AD Atropatene c. 323 BC–226 AD Kingdom of Cappadocia 320s BC–17 AD Seleucid Empire 312 BC–63 BC Kingdom of Pontus 281 BC–62 BC Fratarakas 3rd-century BC–132 BC Parthian Empire 247 BC–224 AD Elymais 147 BC–224 AD Characene 141 BC–222 AD Kings of Persis 132 BC–224 AD Indo-Parthian Kingdom 19 AD–224/5 Paratarajas 125–300 Sasanian Empire 224–651 Zarmihrids 6th century–785 Qarinvandids 550s–11th century
Medieval periodCE / AD Rashidun Caliphate 632-661 Umayyad Caliphate 661–750 Abbasid Caliphate 750–1258 Dabuyids 642–760 Bavandids 651–1349 Masmughans of Damavand 651–760 Baduspanids 665–1598 Justanids 791 – 11th century Alid dynasties 864 – 14th century Tahirid dynasty 821–873 Samanid Empire 819–999 Saffarid dynasty 861–1003 Ghurid dynasty pre-879 – 1215 Sajid dynasty 889–929 Sallarid dynasty 919–1062 Ziyarid dynasty 930–1090 Ilyasids 932–968 Buyid dynasty 934–1062 Rawadid dynasty 955–1070 Hasanwayhids 959–1095 Ghaznavid dynasty 977–1186 Annazids 990/1–1117 Kakuyids 1008–1141 Nasrid dynasty 1029–1236 Shabankara 1030–1355 Seljuk Empire 1037–1194 Khwarazmian dynasty 1077–1231 Eldiguzids 1135–1225 Atabegs of Yazd 1141–1319 Salghurids 1148–1282 Hazaraspids 1155–1424 Pishkinid dynasty 1155–1231 Khorshidi dynasty 1184-1597 Qutlugh-Khanids 1223-1306 Mihrabanids 1236–1537 Kurt dynasty 1244–1396 Ilkhanate Empire 1256–1335 Chobanid dynasty 1335–1357 Muzaffarid dynasty 1335–1393 Jalayirid Sultanate 1337–1376 Sarbadars 1337–1376 Injuids 1335–1357 Afrasiyab dynasty 1349–1504 Mar'ashis 1359–1596 Timurid Empire 1370–1507 Kar-Kiya dynasty 1370s–1592 Qara Qoyunlu 1406–1468 Aq Qoyunlu 1468–1508
Early modern period Safavid Iran 1501–1736 (Hotak dynasty) 1722–1729 Afsharid Iran 1736–1796 Zand dynasty 1751–1794
Modern period Qajar Iran 1789–1925 Pahlavi Iran 1925–1979
Contemporary period Iranian Revolution 1979 Interim Government 1979 Islamic Republic 1979–present
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• 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 [fa] established.
• 1917 – بیمارستان نوریه [fa] (hospital) founded.
• 1956 – Population: 62,157.
• 1966 – Population: 89,700.
• 1969 – خانه شهر [fa] (assembly hall) built.
• 1970 – Kerman Airport begins operating.
• 1976 – Population: 145,613.
• 1978 – Friday Mosque of Kerman fire [fa].
• 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) [fa].
• 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 [fa]
• Other names of Kerman (city)
• Category:Monuments in Kerman (city; in Persian)
• List of monuments in Kerman Province [fa]
• Kerman Province history (fa)
• Timelines of other cities in Iran: Bandar Abbas, Hamadan, Isfahan, Mashhad, Qom, Shiraz, Tabriz, Tehran, Yazd

References

1. ^ Planhol 2014.
2. ^ Bosworth 2013.
3. ^ Britannica 1910.
4. ^ Bosworth 2007.
5. ^ Abbas Daneshvari. "Kirman". Oxford Art Online. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help) Retrieved 16 February 2017
6. ^ "Places: Iran: Kerman". ArchNet. Archived from the original on 25 October 2012 – via MIT Libraries.
7. Matthee 2014.
8. "تاریخ شکل گیری شهر" [City History] (in Persian). City of Kerman. Retrieved 16 February 2017.
9. Gustafson 2014.
10. "City of Kerman" (in Persian). Retrieved 16 February 2017.
11. ^ Zanjāni 2014.
12. "Countries of the World: Iran". Statesman's Yearbook 2003. UK: Palgrave Macmillan. 2002. ISBN 978-0-333-98096-5.
13. "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2015. United Nations Statistics Division. 2016.
14. "شهرداران اسبق" [Former Mayors] (in Persian). City of Kerman. Retrieved 16 February 2017.

This article incorporates information from the Persian Misplaced Pages.

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)
• Guy Le Strange (1905). "Kirman: (Kirman city)". Lands of the Eastern Caliphate. Cambridge University Press. pp. 302–307.
• "Kerman (town)" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 15 (11th ed.). 1910. p. 756.
• C. A. Storey (1936). "History of Persia: Kirman". Persian Literature: a Bio-Bibliographical Survey. Vol. 1. London: Luzac & Company. OCLC 1312518.
• 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).
• W. Barthold (1984). "Quhistan, Kirman, and Makran". An Historical Geography of Iran. Translated by Svat Soucek. Princeton University Press. pp. 133–147. ISBN 978-1-4008-5322-9.
• Ann K. S. Lambton (1986). "Kirman". In C. Edmund Bosworth; et al. (eds.). Encyclopaedia of Islam. Vol. 5 (2nd ed.). Brill. pp. 147–166. via Google Books
• Noelle Watson, ed. (1996), "Kerman", International Dictionary of Historic Places, Fitzroy Dearborn, ISBN 9781884964039
• Stuart D. Sears (2003). "Legitimation of Hakam b. al-'As: Ummayad Government in Seventh-Century Kirman". Iranian Studies. doi:10.1080/021086032000062587. S2CID 161094119.
• C. Edmund Bosworth, ed. (2007). "Kirman". Historic Cities of the Islamic World. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill. p. 284. ISBN 978-9004153882.
• Lisa Golombek (2008). "'Citadel, Town, Suburbs' Model and Medieval Kirman". In Salma K. Jayyusi; et al. (eds.). The City in the Islamic World. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill. pp. 445–465. ISBN 9789004162402.
• C. Edmund Bosworth (2013). "Kerman: From the Islamic Conquest to the Coming of the Mongols". Encyclopædia Iranica.
• James M. Gustafson (2014). "Kerman: Qajar Period". Encyclopædia Iranica. (Covers circa 1795–1925)
• Rudi Matthee (2014). "Kerman in the Safavid Period". Encyclopædia Iranica.
• Xavier de Planhol; Bernard Hourcade (2014). "Kerman: Historical Geography". Encyclopædia Iranica.
• Ḥabib-Allāh Zanjāni; Moḥammad-Ḥosayn Nejātiān (2014). "Kerman: Population of the province, sub-province, and city". Encyclopædia Iranica.
• 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 German). 16. Dietrich Reimer Verlag [de]: 327+. Kerman
• Mohammad Ebrahim Bastani Parizi (1956). Rahnumā-yi ās̱ ār-i tārīkhī-yi Kirmān [Guide to the historical monuments of Kirman] (in Persian).
• Gianroberto Scarcia (1963). "Kerman 1905: La guerra tra Seihi e Balasari". Annali del Instituto Universitario Orientale di Napoli. New Series (in Italian) (13). Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale".
• Ahmad Ali Khan Waziri (1966). "Joghrafiy_-ye mamlekat-e Kerm_n". Farhang-e Īrān-zamīn [fa] (in Persian) (14). ISSN 0014-7788.
• 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 Persian).)
• Aḥmad-ʿAli Khan Waziri (1974). Mohammad Ebrahim Bastani Parizi (ed.). Joḡrāfiā-ye Kermān (in Persian). 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 Persian) (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

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