ÿþ<html> <head> <title> WHKMLA : Timelines : Azerbaijan </title> <META name="keywords" keyword=""> <!-- copyright Alexander Ganse, 2005-2007 --> </head> <body bgcolor="grey" text="black" link="blue" vlink="red" alink="brown"> <style> <!-- A{ font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-face: arial; } --> </style> <DIV align ="center"> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "../../index.html"> <img src = "../../whkmla2.jpg" border = "0"></a></TD></TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width = "150" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <font size = "2" face = "arial"><B> Azerbaijan <BR> Index Page </b></font></TD> <TD width = "36" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "xazerbaijan.html"> <img src = "../../region/arrowleft.gif" width = "36" height = "36" border = "0"> </a></TD> <TD align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "xazerbaijan.html"> <img src = "../banners/banazerbaijan.jpg" border = "0"> </TD> <TD width = "36" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <img src = "../../region/arrowright.gif" width = "36" height = "36" border = "0"> </a></TD> <TD width = "100" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <font size = "2" face = "arial"><B> </b></font></TD></TR></TABLE> <font size = "3" face = "arial"><B><i>First posted on March 20th 2005, last revised on November 22nd 2006 </i></b></font><BR><BR><BR><BR> <script language="JavaScript"> <!-- function SymError() { return true; } window.onerror = SymError; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-5834279270464755"; google_alternate_color = "FFFFE1"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 90; google_ad_format = "728x90_as"; google_ad_channel ="4814426207"; google_ad_type = "text"; //2007-02-17: MIT_ Ganse google_ad_channel = "0420158018"; google_color_border = "FF3300"; google_color_bg = "FFFFE1"; google_color_link = "0000CC"; google_color_url = "008000"; google_color_text = "6F6F6F"; //--></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> <BR><BR><BR> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "center" valign = "center" width = "900"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "5"><B> Timeline : Azerbaijan </B></font> </TD></TR></TABLE> <BR><BR> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1723-1735 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Black Sea littoral region of Azerbaijan Russian for the first time </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1740es </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Anti-Persian rebellions in Azerbaijan (Sheki, Shirvan) </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1750es </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Wars among the Azeri Khanates; siege of Yerevan 1751, of Shusha 1756 </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1795 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Qajar army invaded Azerbaijan </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1796 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> A Russian army moved into Transcaucasia; withdrawn after the death of Catherine II. </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1797 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Renewed Qajar invasion of Azerbaijan </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1804-1813 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Russo-Persian War </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1806 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Russian conquest of Baku; Khanate of Baku abolished </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1808 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Khanate of Sheki abolished </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1813 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Treaty of Gulistan; Persia ceded Khanates of Karabagh, Genje, Sheki, Ilisou, Shirvan, Derbent, Gouba, Baku, Talish </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1826-1828 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Russo-Persian War </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1828 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Treaty of Turkmenchay; Persia ceded Nakhchivan, Erevan </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1829 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Following Russo-Ottoman war, influx of Armenians from Ottoman territory </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1836 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> (Caucasian) Albanian community, administration (Nagorno Karabagh) absorbed by Armenian church </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1840 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Military administration terminated; Caspian Gubernija established </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1848 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Begin of (modern) oil drilling, at Bibi-Heibat </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1859 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Construction of the first oil refinery </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1863 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> First kerosene plant taken into operation </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1868 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Baku connected with Tiflis by telegraph </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1872 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Privatization of Russia's oil industry </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1873 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> National Theater of Azerbaijan opened </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1874 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> First modern schools in Azerbaijan opened </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1878 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Construction of the first oil pipeline </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1879 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Nobel brothers founded their oil company </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1879 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Following the Russo-Ottoman War of 1877-1878, further influx of Armenians from Ottoman territory </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1883 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Baku, Tiflis connected by railway </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1900 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Baku accounted for more than half of the world's oil production </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1905 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Russian Revolution; first clashes between Armenians and Azeri </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1907 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Anglo-Russian Entente placed Persian Azerbaijan in Russian sphere </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1909-1927 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Land reclamation in Bibi-Heibat Bay </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1910 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Population 2,055,600 </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1911 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Azerbaijan political party Muzavat founded </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1917 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Russian Revolution; Bolzheviks seized power in Baku </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1918 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Brief period of Red Terror in Baku </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1918-1920 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Bolzheviks nationalized oil industry </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1918 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Turkish & Azeri forces ousted Bolzheviks; Azerbaijan independent </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1918 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> A. Democratic Republic; parliament opened </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1918-1920 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> War between Armenia and Azerbaijan </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1918 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Independen Azeri administration denationalized oil industry </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1919 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Azeri currency introduced </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1920 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Baku became the capital of Azerbaijan </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1920 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Azerbaijan History Museum established </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1920 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Red Army occupied Azerbaijan </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1922 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia federated to form theTranscaucasian SSR </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1924 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Nagorno Karabagh granted status of autonomous region </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1924 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Azerbaijan suffered from Hyperinflation, worse than anywhere else in the USSR </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1925 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Baku-Batumi pipeline completed </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1936 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Transcaucasian SSR dissolved; Azerbaijan gained status of separate SSR </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1941-1946 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Soviet occupation of Persian Azerbaijan </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1960 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Population of Azerbaijan 3,815,700 </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1988 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Begin of conflict between Armenians and Azeri over Nagorno Karabagh </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1991 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Dissolution of USSR </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1991-1994 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> War between Armenia, Azerbaijan over Nagorno Karabagh </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1992 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Azerbaijan joined the UN </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1993 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Currency reform; Azeri Dram introoduced </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1996 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Azerbaijan adopted new constitution </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1997 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Autonomous Republic of Nakhchevan adopted constitution </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 1999 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Census : population 7,953,400 </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 2000 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> UNESCO declared Baku World Cultural Site </font></TD> </TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width="100" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> 2003 </font></TD> <TD width="580" valign="top" align="left"> <font size = "2"> Death of President Alijev; 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