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The following is a '''timeline of the [[Almaty#History|history]] of the city of [[Almaty]]''', [[Almaty Province]], [[Kazakhstan]].
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==19th century==
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* 1854 - [[Russian Empire|Russian]] Verny Fort built.<ref>{{Citation |publisher = UNESCO |title = History of Civilizations of Central Asia |volume=6 |publication-date = 2005 |location=Paris }}</ref>
* 1870s - Panfilov Park laid out.<ref name=planet>{{cite web |url= http://www.lonelyplanet.com/kazakhstan/almaty |title=Almaty |work=Kazakhstan |publisher=[[Lonely Planet]] |accessdate=9 April 2013}}</ref>
* 1871 - Population: 12,000.<ref>{{cite journal |year=1878 |location=St. Petersburg |journal=[[Russische Revue]] |volume=13 |language=German |title= Zur Literatur uber Russisch-Turkestan |author=Alexander Petzholdt |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=raIKAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA256 |quote=Wernoje |oclc=15861931 }}</ref>
* 1884 - Synagogue established.<ref>{{Citation |publisher = ABC-CLIO |publication-date = 2008 |publication-place = Santa Barbara, California |title = Encyclopedia of the Jewish diaspora |isbn=9781851098736 }}</ref>
* 1887 - 9 June: Earthquake.<ref name=brit1910 />

==20th century==
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* 1907 - [[Ascension Cathedral, Almaty|Ascension Cathedral]] built.
* 1910 - Population: 24,798.<ref name=brit1910>{{Citation |publisher = Encyclopædia Britannica Co. |publication-place = New York |title = Encyclopædia Britannica |publication-date = 1910 |oclc = 14782424 |edition=11th |chapterurl = https://archive.org/stream/encyclopaediabri28chisrich#page/222/mode/2up |chapter =Vyernyi }}</ref>
* 1911 - Earthquake.
* 1914 - Population: 36,000.<ref>{{Citation |publisher = Karl Baedeker |publication-place = Leipzig |title = Russia |url = https://archive.org/stream/russiawithtehera00baed#page/522/mode/1up |publication-date = 1914 |oclc = 1328163 |quote=Vyerni }}</ref>
* 1918 - Soviets in power; city becomes part of the [[Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic]].
* 1921 - City renamed "Alma-Ata."<ref>{{Citation |publisher = McFarland |publication-place = Jefferson, NC |title = Placenames of the World |author = Adrian Room |publication-date = 2006 |edition=2nd }}</ref>
* 1927 - Capital of the [[Kazak Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic]] relocates to Alma-Ata from [[Kyzylorda]].
* 1928 - Kazakh State Theatre relocates to Alma-Ata.<ref name=rubin2001 />
* 1930 - [[Turkestan-Siberia Railway]] begins operating.{{citation needed|date=April 2013}}
* 1931 - [[Central State Museum of Kazakhstan]]<ref name=bates2010 /> and [[National Library of Kazakhstan]] established.<ref name=saur2011>{{Citation |publisher = De Gruyter Saur |isbn = 9783110230710 |title = World Guide to Libraries |edition=25th |publication-date = 2011 }}</ref>
* 1934
** [[Abay Opera House]] and [[Al-Farabi University|Kazakh State University]] open.
** Alma-Ata Documentary Film Studio established.<ref name=rollbert2009>{{Citation |publisher = [[Scarecrow Press]] |isbn = 9780810860728 |publication-place = Lanham, Maryland |title = Historical dictionary of Russian and Soviet cinema |author = Peter Rollberg |publication-date = 2009 }}</ref>
** Uighur Music and Drama theatre group founded.<ref name=rubin2001>{{Citation |publisher = Routledge |isbn = 9780415260879 |title = World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre: Asia/Pacific |editor = Don Rubin |display-editors=etal |publication-date = 2001 |chapter=Kazakhstan |author= Natasha Rapoport }}</ref>
* 1935
** [[Almaty International Airport|Almaty Airport]] built.
** National Art Gallery opens.<ref name=bates2010 />
* 1936
** City becomes capital of the [[Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic]].
** [[Almaty Zoo]] opens.
* 1939 - Population: 230,528.<ref name=webster1960>{{Citation |publisher = G. & C. Merriam Co. |publication-place = Springfield, Mass., USA |title = Webster's Geographical Dictionary |url = http://openlibrary.org/books/OL5812502M/Webster's_geographical_dictionary. |publication-date = 1960 |ol=5812502M }}</ref>
* 1941 - Central United Film Studio established.<ref name=rollbert2009 />
* 1944 - [[Kazakhfilm|Alma-Ata Studio for Feature and Documentary Films]] established.<ref name=rollbert2009 />
* 1946 - [[Kurmangazy Sagyrbayuly|Kurmangazy]] Conservatory established.{{citation needed|date=April 2013}}
* 1949 - Almaty District Library established.<ref name=saur2011 />
* 1951 - [[Medeo]] skating rink opens.
* 1954 - [[FC Kairat|Lokomotiv Almaty]] football club formed.
* 1958 - [[Almaty Central Stadium]] opens.
* 1960 - Republican Scientific-Technical Library established.<ref name=bates2010>{{Citation |publisher = CRC Press |publication-place = Boca Raton, Florida |editor = Marcia J. Bates |title = Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences |publication-date = 2010 |isbn=9780849397127 |chapter=Kazakhstan: Libraries, Archives and Museums |author=Leslie Champeny }}</ref>
* 1963 - Korean Theatre relocates to Almaty.<ref>{{Citation |publisher = RoutledgeCurzon |isbn = 9780700715862 |title = Diasporas and Interculturalism in Asian Performing Arts |publication-date = 2005 |editor = Hae-Kyung Um }}</ref>
* 1967 - [[Kok Tobe]] cable car begins operating.{{citation needed|date=April 2013}}
* 1970 - [[Hotel Kazakhstan]] built.
* 1972 - [[Medeu Dam]] built.
* 1978
** Republican Book Museum opens.<ref name=bates2010 />
** September: [[Alma Ata Declaration|International Conference on Primary Health Care]] held.
* 1979 - Population: 975,000.<ref name="Morton1984">{{cite book|editor1=Henry W. Morton |editor2=Robert C. Stuart |title=The Contemporary Soviet City|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=79haNx8rZBQC&pg=PA4 |year=1984|publisher=M.E. Sharpe |location=New York |isbn=978-0-87332-248-5 }}</ref>
* 1980 - [[Kazakhstan National Museum of Instruments]] founded.<ref name=bates2010 />
* 1983 - [[Almaty Tower]] built.
* 1986 - December: [[Jeltoqsan]] protests against Soviet regime.<ref name=bbc-timeline />
* 1989 - [[Voice of Asia]] [[lip synching]] contest begins.{{citation needed|date=April 2013}}
* 1991
** 21 December: [[Alma-Ata Protocol]] signed, establishing the [[Commonwealth of Independent States]].
** City becomes capital of independent [[Republic of Kazakhstan]].
* 1992
** ''Karavan'' begins publication.<ref name=worldcat />
** Central State Archives of Recent History headquartered in city.<ref name=bates2010 />
** [[Akhmetzhan Yesimov]] becomes head of Alma-Ata regional government.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.almaty.kz/page.php?page_id=425&lang=2 |title=Akim |publisher= Almaty City |accessdate=9 April 2013}}</ref>
* 1993
** City renamed "Almaty."<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.almaty.kz/page.php?page_id=425&lang=2 |title=History of Almaty |publisher= Almaty City |accessdate=9 April 2013}}</ref>
** [[Kazakhstan Stock Exchange|Kazakh Interbank Currency Exchange]] headquartered in Almaty.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kase.kz/en/general_info |title= Kazakhstan Stock Exchange |accessdate=9 April 2013}}</ref>
** ''[[Kazakhskaya Pravda]]'' in publication.<ref name=worldcat>{{cite web |url=http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=su%3AKazakhstan+Périodiques.&qt=hot_subject |title=WorldCat |publisher=[[Online Computer Library Center]] |accessdate=9 April 2013}}</ref>
** Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies founded.<ref name=fpri />
* 1995 - [[Katelco]] established.
* 1997
** State capital relocates from Almaty to [[Astana]].<ref name=bbc-timeline>{{cite web |url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-15483497 |title=Kazakhstan Profile: Timeline |publisher=BBC News |accessdate=9 April 2013}}</ref>
** [[Zamanbek Nurkadilov]] becomes governor of the Almaty region.{{citation needed|date=April 2013}}
* 1998 - [[Mukhtar Auezov]] Museum-House built.<ref name=archnet>{{cite web |author=ArchNet.org |publisher=MIT School of Architecture and Planning |location= Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA |url= http://archnet.org/library/places/one-place.jsp?place_id=2429 |title=Almaty |accessdate=9 April 2013 }}</ref>

==21st century==
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* 2000
** ''[[Respublika (Kazakh newspaper)]]'' begins publication.
** [[FC Almaty|Football Club Tsesna]] formed.
* 2001 - Public Policy Research Center, and Center for Foreign Policy and Analysis founded.<ref name=fpri>{{cite web |url=http://thinktanks.fpri.org/ |title=Think Tank Directory |location=Philadelphia |publisher=[[Foreign Policy Research Institute]] |accessdate=9 April 2013}}</ref>
* 2003 - International Institute for Modern Politics founded.<ref name=fpri />
* 2006 - Protest.<ref>{{cite book |title=Urban Life in Post-Soviet Asia |year=2007 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |location=UK |author=Catherine Alexander |chapter=Almaty: Rethinking the Public Sector |editor=Catharine Alexander |editor2=Victor Buchli |editor3=Caroline Humphrey }}</ref>
* 2007 - [[Almaty Cup]] tennis tournament begins.
* 2008
** [[Haileybury Almaty]] school founded.
** [[Akhmetzhan Yessimov]] becomes mayor.
* 2009 - Population: 1,365,105.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/dyb2011.htm |work=Demographic Yearbook 2011 |year=2012 |publisher=[[United Nations Statistics Division]] |title=Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants }}</ref>
* 2011
** [[Almaty Metro]] begins operating.
** [[2011 Asian Winter Games]] held.
* 2012 - Population: 1,472,866.
* 2013
** January: Airplane crash near city.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21243203 |title=Passenger plane crashes near Kazakh city of Almaty |date= 29 January 2013 |publisher= BBC News |accessdate=9 April 2013 }}</ref>
** City hosts [[P5+1]]-[[Nuclear program of Iran|Iran]] meetings.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/08/world/asia/negotiators-find-in-kazakhstan-the-perfect-place-to-disagree.html |title= Negotiators Find in Kazakhstan the Perfect Place to Disagree |author=David M. Herszenhorn |date= 7 April 2013 |work=New York Times |accessdate=9 April 2013}}</ref>
* 2014 - Economic protest.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://globalvoicesonline.org/2014/03/04/kazakhstan-devaluation-demonstrations-and-lacy-underwear/ |title= Kazakhstan: Devaluation, Demonstrations, and Lacy Underwear |date= 4 March 2014 |work=[[Global Voices Online|Global Voices]] }}</ref>
* 2015 - Baibek Bauyrzhan becomes mayor.

==See also==
* [[Almaty#History|Almaty history]]
* [[:de:Almaty#B.C3.BCrgermeister|List of mayors of Almaty]] (in German)
* [[List of universities in Kazakhstan|List of universities in Almaty]]
* [[List of Asian city names in different languages#A|Other names of Almaty]]
* [[History of Kazakhstan]]

==References==
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==Further reading==
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* {{Cite book |publisher = [[Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington]] |publication-place = London |title = Russian Central Asia, including Kuldja, Bokhara, Khiva and Merv |first1 = Henry|last1=Lansdell|author1-link=Henry Lansdell |publication-date = 1885 |chapterurl=https://archive.org/stream/russiancentralas01lansuoft#page/266/mode/2up |chapter= From Altyn-Immel to Vierny }}
* {{Citation |publisher = W. Heinemann |publication-place = London |title = Innermost Asia |author = Ralph Patteson Cobbold |authorlink=Ralph Cobbold |publication-date = 1900 |oclc = 2398669 |chapterurl= https://archive.org/stream/innermostasiatra00cobbiala#page/108/mode/2up |chapter= Vierny to Balkash|ref=none}}

==External links==
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* [https://www.flickr.com/photos/publicresourceorg/sets/72157603870148645 Photos of market in Almaty], 1995, by [[Carl Malamud]]

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