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Timeline of İzmir

January 01, 1970

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Below is a sequence of some of the events that affected the history of the city of İzmir (historically also Smyrna).

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Date Occurrence
c. 6000–4000 BC İzmir region's first Neolithic and mid-Chalcolithic settlements in Yeşilova Höyük and the adjacent Yassıtepe Höyük, within the boundaries of the present-day Bornova metropolitan district located in the middle of the plain that extends starting from the tip of the Gulf of İzmir, last for at least two millennia.
starting c. 3000 BC First traces of settlement attested in the mound (höyük) called either as Tepekule or under the same name as its neighborhood (Bayraklı) along a small peninsula in the northeastern corner of Gulf of İzmir's end which will later become the location of Old Smyrna.
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    A port city unravels since millennia in the outlying waters of the Gulf of İzmir as narrow as a strait in its end as seen here from Mount Yamanlar. Mount Yamanlar is also where a crater lake named Karagöl (meaning Black Lake in Turkish) and also called as "Lake Tantalus" is found.
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    Mount Sipylus is famous for its "Weeping Rock", associated with Niobe, daughter of the semi-legendary local ruler Tantalus, the first recorded sovereign to have controlled the area of the Gulf of İzmir.
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    The "Throne", conjecturally associated with Pelops" in Yarikkaya locality in Mount Sipylus, is an isolated stone bench or altar possibly carved to accommodate a stone or wooden statue.
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    Karabel Luvian warrior monument carved in rock dated to the 13th century BC and at a distance of 30 km from İzmir, near Kemalpaşa, deciphered as having been dedicated to Tarkasnawa, a King of Mira within Arzawa complex, attests to the westernmost reaches of the late Hittites and their dependent principalities.
Date Occurrence
est. mid to end of third millennium BC Luvians arrive and settle in, initially western, and gradually across southern Anatolia.
est. c. 1440 BC The first recorded urban settlement which controlled the Gulf of İzmir, associated with the semi-legendary local ruler Tantalus, called the Phrygian and also associable with the Luvians and the Lydians, and deriving its wealth from the region's mineral reserves, is founded on or near Mount Yamanlar. A "Tomb of Tantalus" near this mountain, as well as an alternative tomb some sources associate with the same Tantalus on Mount Sipylus reached our day, scholars differing on associations that could be based on the one or the other.
est. c. 1370 BC Part of the Lydian population, led by Tyrrhenus according to the accounts, obliged to leave their land due to famine, build themselves ships in the present-day harbor of İzmir and sail away in search of new homes and better sustenance, to finally arrive to Umbria where, according to one account (Herodotus), they lay the foundations of the future Etruscan civilization.
est. c. 1360 BC Pelops, the son of Tantalus, abandons the city founded by his father and founds a kingdom in the Peloponnese, named after him. His sister Niobe remains associated with the "Weeping Rock" on Mount Sipylus.
c. 1200 BC Late Hittites advance in western Anatolia, called at first as "Luwiya" and then as Arzawa in Hittite sources, is attested by a monument carved in rock in Karabel mountain pass near the modern city of Kemalpaşa, at about 30 km from İzmir. It is dated to the second half of the 13th century BCE during the reign of Tudhaliya IV and the male figure is identified as Tarkasnawa, King of Mira, matched with a name mentioned in Hattusa Hittite annals[1]
est. c. 1200 BC First Hellenic colonists begin to appear along the western coasts of Anatolia.
est. c. 1194 BC – 1184 BC Trojan War, some of whose wounds are healed in the thermal springs in the present-day Balçova district of İzmir, Greeks under Agamemnon having been advised the baths by an oracle. The still highly popular "Agamemnon Baths" is also the place where, reportedly, Asclepius first began to prophesy.[2]
850 BC Caravan Bridge, sometimes said to be the oldest extant bridge, a 13 m stone slab over the River Meles is built.[3]
716 BC (or 680 BC) Gyges of Lydia, the founder of Mermnad dynasty, seizes the throne of Lydia which will be held by his descendants until 546 BC and the dynasty will acquire a large part of Anatolia including Smyrna.
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    Homer was also called Melesigenes (son of Meles) by the name of the River Meles which flows through İzmir and still carries the same name.
est. early 7th century BC Refugees from the Ionian city of Colophon, admitted inside Smyrna by the city's Aeolian inhabitants, chase the natives, by deceit according to Herodotus, and Smyrna becomes the thirteenth city state of the Ionian union.
slightly before 668 BC The first failed Lydian attempt to capture Smyrna, despite their seizure of the town and their advance within the walls of the fortress.
c. 600 BC Lydian king Alyattes captures Smyrna along with several other Ionian cities and the city is sacked and destroyed, its inhabitants forced to move to the countryside to live for a time in "village-like fashion" according to contemporary sources. More recent research and restoration works in Old Smyrna by Ekrem Akurgal indicate that the city-temple dedicated to Athena, built a few decades before, saw only slight damage in the Lydian capture, was repaired swiftly and continued to be used.
c. 540 BC The Median general Harpagus, serving the Persian Emperor Cyrus the Great captures Symrna along with other regions under Lydian rule in Anatolia, and destroys the city.
333 BC Alexander the Great conquers Smyrna, moves the city from its rather isolated location at the end of the gulf to the southern shore from where the future city will expand. Legends attribute the move for relocation to a dream of Alexander.
323 – 280 BC In the division of the provinces after Alexander's death, Antigonus I Monophthalmus receives Smyrna, along with Phrygia, Pamphylia and Lycia. It is his defeater, Lysimachus, King of Asia Minor between 301 and 281 BC, who displays a genuine interest to the city, initiating widescale public works in the intention of transforming it into an international portuary and cultural center on a par with Alexandria and Ephesus. Lysimachus even names the city, for a time, under his daughter's name, "Euredikeia".
280 BC In the climate of uncertainty reigning between Lysimachus's death and the Seleucid Emperor Antiochus I Soter's takeover, Smyrniots declare their independence for a brief period.
278 BC Galatians, arriving from Thrace, capture Smyrna and ransack the city.
275 BC Antiochus II defeats the Galatians and the city returns to Seleucid control.
241 BC Smyrna adheres to Attalus I, King of Pergamon.
190 BC Smyrna is transferred under Roman authority along with Pergamon. Eager to cultivate Roman connections, Smyrna becomes the first city in Asia to build a temple to the honor of the goddess Roma.
130 BC With the death of last King of the Attalid dynasty of Pergamon, Smyrna is taken under direct Roman administration.
78 BC Cicero visits Roman Smyrna. The Roman province of Asia will be administered by his younger brother, the propraetor Quintus Tullius Cicero between 61 and 59 BC.
43 BC The first settling of scores after the Assassination of Julius Caesar takes place in Smyrna when Publius Cornelius Dolabella, Julius Caesar's former favourite assigned to Syria by the Roman Senate, forces his way into the city where Trebonius, an accomplice of the assassins, held the office of proconsul and kills him. Before Dolabella's own death the year after, his assault, and particularly some damage he had inflicted on the city, was condemned at the time in Rome, including by Dolabella's father-in-law Cicero, who referred to the people of Smyrna as among Rome's "most trusted and oldest allies".
Common Era
124 Emperor Hadrian visits Smyrna as part of his journeys across the Empire[4]
155 or 156 AD Polycarp (Saint Polycarp of Smyrna) is martyrized by stabbing in the amphitheater of the city after attempts to burn him at the stake fails, and the account, "The Martyrdom of Polycarp or the Letter to the Smyrneans" becomes one of the fundamental sources among early Christian writings.
178 A violent earthquake shakes Smyrna to its cores, causing immense damage and casualties. The city was rebuilt in a single year with the help of the emperor Marcus Aurelius, according to the orator Aelius Aristides.
214 BC Emperor Caracalla visits Smyrna, along with other cities in Anatolia and later Egypt, and a cult of Caracalla starts in the city.
250 Pionius is martyrized in Smyrna by burning on the gibbet.
395 Following the death of Theodosius I, when the political division between Eastern and Western Roman Empires acquires a permanent nature, Smyrna becomes part of the Eastern Roman Empire.
1079 First Seljuk Turkish horsemen begin to appear along the western regions of Anatolia, a few years after the Seljuk sultan Alp Arslan's 1071 victory over the Byzantine Empire in the Battle of Malazgirt and following his designation of Anatolia for seizure by Suleyman I of Rûm, son of a former contender to his throne, Kutalmış.
1081 Turkish forces loyal to Süleyman Bey and under the command of Tzachas Smyrna and immediately build a navy, the first ever recorded naval force in Turkish history, to harry the Aegean Sea and its coasts.
1097 The First Crusade siege of Nicaea (İznik) and the subsequent crusader victory in the First Battle of Dorylaeum allow the Byzantine forces under Alexios I Komnenos's brother-in-law John Doukas to recover much of western Anatolia, re-capturing Smyrna (İzmir), Chios, Rhodes, Mytilene, Samos, Ephesus, Philadelphia, and Sardis.
1231–1235 Emperor (of Nicaea) John III Doukas Vatatzes builds a new castle (Neon Kastron, later to be named "Saint Peter" by the Genoese, and "Okkale" by the Turks) that commands the now silted up inner bay of the city (present-day Kemeraltı bazaar zone). The Emperor spends much time in the summer palace he had had built in nearby Nymphaion (later Nif and present-day Kemalpaşa) and dies there in 1254.
1261 In the same year as his expulsion of the Latin Empire and re-capture of Constantinople, the Byzantine Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos, seeking an ally against the danger posed by the Venetians and the papacy, signs the Treaty of Nymphaion with the Genoese and accords them considerable privileges within the empire's realm, commercial or otherwise, including that of setting up their own districts in the capital and in Smyrna. Galata quarter across the Golden Horn, to extend later on to the whole of Pera, present-day Beyoğlu, and Smyrna's core area along the inner bay with its castle become virtually independent Genoese possessions.
1308 Turkish ascendancy in Western Anatolia re-surges after two centuries and the Beylik of Aydin is founded with its capital in Birgi.
1317 Aydınoğlu Mehmed Bey captures İzmir's upper castle of Kadifekale from Byzantine forces.
1329 The Genoese merchants hand over the keys of the port castle (Okkale, Saint Peter) to Umur Beg.
1333 Ibn Battuta visits İzmir. He reports that most of the city is in ruins.[5]
1334–1345 Umur Bey transforms the Beylik of Aydin into a serious naval power with base in İzmir and poses a threat particularly for Venetian possessions in the Aegean Sea. Venetians organize an alliance uniting several European parties (Sancta Unio), composed notably of the Knights Templar, which organizes five consecutive attacks on İzmir and the Western Anatolian coastline controlled by Turkish states. In between, it is the Turks who organize maritime raids directed at Aegean islands.[6]
1348 Umur Bey dies and his brother and successor Hızır Bey concludes on 18 August an agreement with the Sancta Unio which, following its approval by the Pope, gives the Knights Templar the right to control and use the port castle (Saint Peter, Okkale).
1390 Ottoman sultan Bayezid I (the Thunderbolt) comes to İzmir shortly after he ascends the throne and smoothly captures the upper castle of Kadifekale. İzmir becomes Ottoman partially, with the exception of the port castle, and for the time, temporarily, for a decade.
1402 Three months after his victory over the Ottomans in the Battle of Ankara, Tamerlane comes to İzmir, lays a six-week siege on the port castle (Okkale, Saint Peter) in the unique battle of his career against a Christian power, captures the castle and destroys it. He massacred most of the Christian population, which constituted the vast majority in Smyrna.[7][8]

He handed the city over to its former rulers, the Aydinids, as he had done for other Anatolian lands taken over by the Ottomans.

1416 Aydinids (cited more often[citation needed] as İzmiroğlu) Cüneyd Bey re-builds Okkale in the intention of turning it into his power base, at the same time as he uses every occasion to hamper the resurgence of Ottoman power.
1413–1420 Popular revolts based in Manisa and Karaburun against the newly re-established Ottoman rule.
1425 Ottoman sultan Murad II has İzmiroğlu Cüneyd Bey executed, puts an end to the Beylik of Ayidin, and re-establishes Ottoman authority over İzmir, this time definite. For their aid in Cüneyd Bey's demise, the Knights Templar press the sultan for renewed authority over the port castle (Okkale), but the sultan refuses, giving them the permission to build another castle in Petronium (Bodrum) instead.
1437 In a practice started by Murad II and which will last until 1595 in seventeen near-consecutive periods, many of the shahzades (crown princes) of the Ottoman dynasty -fifteen in all- start receiving their education in government matters in neighboring Manisa, including two among the most notable, Mehmed II and Süleyman I.
1472 On 13 September, a Venetian fleet under Pietro Mocenigo, one of the greatest Venetian admirals, captures and destroys İzmir in a surprise attack, along with Foça and Çeşme. The Ottoman investment into İzmir will remain hesitant for more than a century, until the 17th-century building of Sancakkale castle at a key location commanding access to the city and assuring its security.
1566 Ottoman capture of the Genoese island of Scio (Sakız, Chios), arguably to compensate for the loss of face suffered after the siege of Malta, puts an end to three centuries of entente between the Republic and the Turkish powers based along the Anatolian coast. At the same time, the European merchants which used the island and Çeşme across its shores as bases are tempted to seek a new port of trade and they are increasingly attracted to the small town of İzmir, administered at the level of a qadi instead of the stricter and more centralized authority of a pasha.
1592 Aydınoğlu Yakub Bey, a descendant of the formerly ruling dynasty, builds the oldest major Ottoman landmark in İzmir, the Hisar Mosque in Kemeraltı, adjacent to the decaying port castle of Okkale.
1595 The practice of assigning Ottoman dynasty members for administration of neighboring Manisa and its dependencies is abandoned, largely due to the growing insecurity in the countryside, precursor of Jelali Revolts, and a violent earthquake in the valley of Gediz deals a severe blow to the region's prosperity the same year.
1605 The first attested presence in community of Sephardi Jews, descendants of those evicted from Spain in 1492, in İzmir.
1605–1606 İzmir is menaced by the Jelali Revolts of Kalenderoğlu, Arap Said and Canbolat.
 
Audience by the Qadi of the French Consul of İzmir in a 17th-century engraving by Jean du Mont
Date Occurrence
1619 The French consulate in İzmir opens, moving in from Sakız (Chios).
1621 The English consulate in İzmir opens, moving in from Sakız (Chios).
1624–1626 İzmir is menaced by corsairs in three consecutive years, who leave each time after having levied a ransom, aggravating considerations for the city's safety.
1630s Local warlord Cennetoğlu, a brigand (sometimes cited as one of the first in line in western Anatolia's long tradition of efes to come) who in the 1620s had assembled a vast company of disbanded Ottoman soldiers and renegades, establish control over much of the fertile land around Manisa and, often in pact with the influent western merchant Orlando, trigger a movement of more commercially sensitive Greek and Jewish populations towards İzmir[9]
1650–1665 The construction by the Ottoman Empire of Sancakkale castle at a key location commanding access to the furthermost waters of the Gulf of İzmir, thus assuring İzmir's security and greatly improving its fortunes.
1657 Jean-Baptiste Tavernier visits İzmir for the second time and for a longer period. According to the detailed account he gave, İzmir then had a population of 90,000 of which 60,000 were Turks, and 15,000 Greeks[10]
1671 Evliya Çelebi visits İzmir.
1676–1677 A great plague epidemic, the first known pandemic on record for Ottoman İzmir claims 30,000 lives in İzmir and Manisa.
1678 Antoine Galland visits İzmir during a second Oriental tour, following an equally fruitful first visit across the eastern Mediterranean in 1673–1674 in the company of France's ambassador at the Sublime Porte, Marquis de Nointel. This time he writes the very detailed manuscript "Voyage á Smyrne" which will remain unedited until the year 2000.
1678 Exception made of probable presence in the region during Byzantine times, a community of Armenians is attested for the first time in Ottoman İzmir, refugees who had sought asylum from the rule of Safavid Shah Abbas I of Persia and were generously welcomed by the Ottoman Empire. On the eve of the Great Earthquake, estimates made for İzmir's population in sources like Paul Rycaut, Galland and others reached upwards of 80,000 in the ratio of seven Turks, two Greeks, one Jew and one Armenian, with other nationalities, many of whom played a pivotal role in shaping the city's fortunes, totalling barely a thousand.[11]
1688 Two successive earthquakes of great magnitude on 10 July and 31 July and a tsunami that ensued after the second causes great damage and shakes İzmir to its cores. The casualties number in the tens of thousands, the commercial activity in the city stops for years, and Sancakkale will have to be rebuilt. The earthquake will also trigger a movement among foreign merchants to move their residences to the İzmir suburb of Buca, and later on, also to Bornova.
 
İzmir 1714 in an engraving by Henri Abraham Chatelain
Date Occurrence
1707 Established in the city only since decades, foreign merchants organize a riot centered in Buca. The riot leads in 1716 to the assignment in İzmir of Köprülü Abdullah Pasha, the first Ottoman administrator of the city who bore the title of pasha.
1712 and 1717 Two successive plague epidemics. The one in 1712 is particularly deadly and claims 10,000 lives.
1739 English traveller and anthropologist Richard Pococke visits İzmir.
1744 The completion of the building of the still-standing caravanserai of Kızlarağası Han in Kemeraltı.
1763 A fire destroys 2,600 houses, with a loss of $1,000,000.
1766 English traveller Richard Chandler visits İzmir and its surrounding region in search of antiquities on behalf of London Society of Dilettanti.
1772 A fire carries off 3,000 dwellings and 3,000 to 4,000 shops, entailing a loss of $20,000,000.
1778 A violent earthquake on 3 July and an ensuing fire that lasts until 8 July destroys the city.
İzmir in 19th century European art
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    View of the site of Agora of Smyrna in an 1843 engraving
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    Bornova (Bournabat) as imagined by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot in 1873
1803–1816 Katipzade family, controlling İzmir since the 1750s, reach the summit of their power with Katipzade Mehmed Pasha who rule the city and its vicinity under the official title of ayan accorded by the Sultan. They are the builders of the first governor's mansion in the city and the adjacent Yalı Mosque of very small dimensions in Konak Square, a symbol of İzmir to this day. Katipzade Mehmed Pasha is executed by the Sultan in 1816.
1804 The completion of the building of the still-standing caravanserai of Çakaloğlu Han in Kemeraltı.
1806–1808 Chateaubriand (1806) and Lord Byron (1808) briefly visit İzmir.
1812–1816 A four-year plague epidemic claims 45,000 lives in İzmir region.
1823–1827 İzmir's first newspaper, named "Smyrnéen" at first and "Spectateur orientale" later is published in French for four years.
1831 A cholera epidemic claims 3,000 lives in İzmir region, particularly among the Jewish community. Two still-standing landmarks of the city owe their existence to the epidemic: The Jewish Hospital, which becomes a pole of attraction that paves the way for the concentration of the city's Jewish population in Karataş, and St. Roch Hospital and Monastery, the present-day premises of İzmir Ethnography Museum, affectionately called Piçhane for having served as an orphanage for a period.[12]
1836 Charles Texier visits İzmir and conducts surface research on the remains of classical Smyrna and on those found on or near Mount Yamanlar.
1837 İzmir's last great plague epidemic claims 5,000 lives, especially among the Turkish population. A quarantine administration for incoming ships will be put in place as a consequence of the epidemic, in a quarter of the city that will be named Karantina.
1840 Exports from the port of Trabzon exceed those from İzmir for the first time and İzmir thus loses its virtual monopoly on exports among Ottoman ports for the first time as far back as the records are kept.
3 July 1845 A great fire ravages the central quarters of İzmir. Personal interventions from the sultan Abdülmecid I will play a fundamental during the reconstruction effort.
1850 İzmir becomes the vilayet center for the first time and for a brief period. The vilayet is still called under the name of its former center, Aydın.
1850 Gustave Flaubert visits İzmir, noting, after having watched the sunset from Kadifekale, "qu'il n'en avait jamais vu de si belle".
Images of cosmopolitan 19th century İzmir
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    A Turkish quarter in 19th century İzmir: Kadifekale
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    A Greek quarter in 19th century İzmir: Göztepe (Enopi), with Susuzdede (Agios Agapis) hill in the background
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    A Jewish quarter in 19th century İzmir: Karataş
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    A European quarter in 19th century İzmir: Bornova
Date Occurrence
1850–1851 Alphonse de Lamartine visits İzmir for a second time (the first in 1833) and having fallen under the spell of the city and the country, buys a farm in Tire that he manages for a time before returning to France where he writes important works related to Turkey.
1851–1854 The first cadastral plan of İzmir is made by the engineer Luigi Storari, a Republican in exile from Padua, who also draws the plans for the Istanbul quarter of Aksaray after a fire in 1854 and publishes a guide on İzmir in Torino in 1857.
1856 George Rolleston holds a post in the British Civil Hospital during the Crimean War and presents a detailed report on İzmir to the Secretary of State for War. According to Rolleston, İzmir's population could be estimated as amounting to 150,000 people, in accordance with the 1849 census, two-thirds being either Turks or Greeks, whose numbers were until lately equal, but came to be proportioned as 45,000 Turks against 55,000 Greeks, poverty and conscription lately acting as a check against the increase of the former.[13]
The first horse races in the modern sense start to be organized in Buca.
1860 In response to a questionnaire by the British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire Sir Henry Bulwer, the experienced consul Charles Blunt responds by stating that in 1830 the city contained 80,000 Turkish inhabitants and 20,000 Christians, whereas in 1860, the Turks numbered 41,000 and the Christians 75,000. According to Blunt, the general condition of the province of İzmir was constantly improving due to increasing cultivation and agricultural production. However, because of the Turkish lack of manpower, this improvement was "...more generally to the advantage of the Christian races.
1856–1867 The construction of the first railroad connection in the Ottoman Empire, between İzmir (in partance from the simultaneously built Alsancak train station) and Aydın (130 km), is contracted out to a British company who will finish it in eleven years.
1863–1866 The construction of the second railroad connection in the Ottoman Empire, between İzmir (in partance from the simultaneously built Basmane train station) and Turgutlu (93 km), contracted out at first to a British, then to a French company, who manages to finish it in three years, a few months before İzmir-Aydın line.
1865 The quarter of Karataş is opened for residential use and becomes, almost immediately and practically exclusively, İzmir's Jewish quarter. İzmir-Menemen railroad enters into service the same year, leading to urban growth in Karşıyaka (Kordelio) on the northern shore of the gulf.
1867 İzmir becomes the vilayet center for the second time and definitely. The vilayet will continue to be under the name of its former center, Aydın, until the demise of the Ottoman Empire. Instability will characterize the first decades of the governorship in İzmir, with, for example, five consecutive governors only for the year 1875.
1867–1876 Upon the destruction by a seismic wave of the previous quays built in wood, start of the construction of new port installations. With the project, completed in ten years by a French company and by British engineering, the wharf (Pasaport Wharf), as well as a 3250 m long combination of a landing stage, of a street served by a tram line and of an esplanade (Kordon) comes into existence, all built on land gained from the sea, and profoundly changing the city's look. The final remains of the old port castle (Okkale) and former yalı type residences along Kordon are demolished to provide space for the wharf and the street, along which new buildings of western tastes and styles will be rapidly built. The French customs house built within the project, reportedly designed by Gustave Eiffel, is today's Konak Pier upmarket shopping center.
1868–1895 A municipal administration is constituted in İzmir, in line with the Ottoman reforms in the matter. İzmir municipality will only mature in time, becoming active as of 1874, being scinded in two in 1880 to administer the more westernized city core and the more traditional suburbs separately, being reunited in 1889, and possessing its own building only in 1891. A stable municipal administration in İzmir is generally admitted to start a generation after its founding under Eşref Pasha (1895–1907).[14]
1874 Start of urban ferry services between İzmir proper and Karşıyaka by a British company under an Ottoman imperial lease accorded by Abdülhamid II and named "Hamidiye" for this reason. A second shipping company puts two other ferries in service starting 1880, followed in 1884 by a third company. Very rapidly, it becomes fashionable for İzmir's European, Levantine, Ottoman minority and later Turkish rich to build or purchase houses in Karşıyaka.
1886 In a work of engineering of considerable scale for its time, the course of the Gediz River in its alluvial delta is diverted northwards, thus preventing it from joining the sea inside the Gulf of İzmir, where the shallows caused by the silt the river brought had seriously started to render navigation difficult and jeopardize İzmir's portuary future.[15]
1886–1897 A Belgian company builds İzmir's first running water system, today still based on the same location of Halkapınar quarter.
1890 The first recorded football match in Turkey is played in Bornova, İzmir, between local youths and British sailors on shore leave.
1892–1895 A railway connection for a steam-powered tram was considered to be built between İzmir and Çeşme, itself internationally famous for its grapes and on deemed as being on its way to become a second large port for the region. The line, based on the model of a line built in the Peloponnese presenting similar characteristics, was projected to serve a population of around 350,000 (250,000 for İzmir and the rest along the line in Karaburun Peninsula) and which would have halved the duration of a journey between Sakız (Chios), was submitted by the Ottoman Bank to French (1892) and then to German (1895) entrepreneurs but, despite being potentially promising, was not concretized and its initial works ended up by tracing a phantom track. In the meantime, especially with the flow of immigrants from Thessaly and Crete, the population trends in Karaburun Peninsula started to bend in favor of the Turks.
1901 Izmir Clock Tower, designed by the Levantine French architect Raymond Charles Père, with the clock itself a gift of German Emperor Wilhelm II is built to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Abdul Hamid II's accession to the throne, and becomes a symbol for the city
1907 Asansör building in Karataş, one of İzmir's landmarks, is erected as a public service by the wealthy Jewish banker Nesim Levi Bayraklıoğlu.
1915 In a naval campaign that involved İzmir directly during the World War I, a British fleet commanded by the Vice-Admiral Peirse arrives off the deep end of the Gulf with armoured cruiser HMS Euryalus, pre-dreadnoughts HMS Triumph and HMS Swiftsure, a seaplane carrier, and minesweepers and bombs defence positions between 5 – 9 March causing six casualties among Turkish soldiers. The fleet's tasks are to destroy the protecting forts and clear the approach minefields, neither of which are accomplished. Allied demands transmitted through the U.S. consul in İzmir George Horton for surrender of the city are rebuffed by the governor Evrenoszade Rahmi Bey and on 15th, the force withdraws.[16]
1919–1922 Occupation of İzmir as of 15 May 1919, Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922).
1922 Re-capture of İzmir by the Turkish army on 9 September 1922. Great Fire of Smyrna between 13 September and 17 September. Appointment of the first governor of Ankara Turkish Grand National Assembly government and by extension of Republican Turkey on 20 September.
September–October 1922 A short stay in Istanbul that was to acquire importance for American literature, from end-September to mid-October as Toronto Daily Star reporter, leads Ernest Hemingway to write his first short story to appear in his first collection of stories, In Our Time, published 1925. This story, titled "On the Quai at Smyrna", probably based on original material derived from a British officer who was present in İzmir early in the period, was written in a deliberately disorientating style with a sarcastic tone and observations directed at all sides to the conflict.[17]
1923 Signature between Greek and Turkish delegations of the agreement for a Population exchange between Greece and Turkey in the frame of Lausanne Conference on 30 January.
Date Occurrence
1923 İzmir Economic Congress is held under the chairmanship of Mustafa Kemal Pasha between 17 February – 3 March and it lays the foundations of the economic policy for the early years of the Republic of Turkey, founded the same year.
1929 İzmir Alsancak Stadium is built over part of former Darağacı (Gallows) quarter.[18]
1932 After preliminary explorations made in 1927, the first organized excavations at the site of Classical Period Smyrna, centered around the Agora of the ancient city, are carried out jointly by the German archaeologist Rudolf Naumann [de] and Selâhattin Kantar, the director of İzmir and Ephesus museums. Between 1932 and 1941, they uncover a large part of the agora and publish the results of their works with contributions made also by the Austrian archaeologist Franz Miltner [de], first the first time in 1934, to be compiled more comprehensively in 1950.[19]
1936 The fifth İzmir International Fair is the first that is held at its present location of Kültürpark where it acquires the proportions of an ongoing important annual commercial and cultural event of international scale.
1948 The first organized excavations at the site of Archaic Period Smyrna are started by an Anglo-Turkish team under Professors John M. Cook and Ekrem Akurgal, to be pursued by Akurgal on a continuous basis as of 1966 and to be managed after 1993 by Akurgal's wife Meral Akurgal.
1954 Start of the construction of the Port of Alsancak, still used and extended, and privatized in 2007. Kuşadası district transferred to Aydın Province
1955 Ege University, İzmir's first university to start courses, is founded with present-day campus in Bornova.
1964 The multi-use stadium İzmir Atatürk Stadyumu, Turkey's largest at the time (today the second largest) is built in view of the Mediterranean Games.
1971 İzmir hosts the Mediterranean Games.
1982 Dokuz Eylül University, İzmir's second largest, is founded with present-day campus in Buca.
1984 İzmir Archaeology Museum, first set up in Ayavukla Church (Gözlü Church) in Basmane popular quarter, with a second museum in Kültürpark added in 1951, moves to its premises covering 5.000 sqm in Bahribaba Park.
1987 İzmir's new airport, Adnan Menderes Airport, enters into service. A new international terminal was added in 2006.
1990 Aegean Free Zone, the first production-based free zone in Turkey and the leader among the country's 19 others, opens as a Turkish-U.S. joint-venture in İzmir's Gaziemir district, to reach a total portfolio of 302 notable companies by 2006, generating more than $4 billion annually in international trade. It also houses the world's fifth Space Camp.
1992 İzmir's third university and first institute of technology, İzmir Institute of Technology is founded, with present-day campus in Urla.
1995–2000 The first line of İzmir Metro, extending from Üçyol station in Hatay to Bornova along a length of 11.6 km (7.2 mi) is built and enters into service.
1998 İzotaş, the new bus terminal in İzmir's Altındağ suburb, a city within the city in practical terms, enters into service.
2002 İzmir's fourth and fifth universities, İzmir University of Economics, with campus in Balçova, and Yaşar University, are founded. Both are private sector initiatives.
2004 In keeping with a move for decentralization of administrative services in the rapidly growing city, İzmir Hall of Justice moves from Konak Square to its new premises, the largest and the most modern in Turkey, in Bornova district.
İzmir hosts 2004 World University Sailing Championship.
2005 İzmir hosts the Summer World University Games (Universiade).
2006 İzmir hosts 2006 European Seniors Fencing Championship.
2008 An open air zoo called İzmir Wildlife Park, 425,000 square meters in area, is opened in Sasalı, a depending municipality of İzmir metropolitan district of Çiğli on the delta of the Gediz River.
2008 Ahmet Adnan Saygun Art Center, built by İzmir Metropolitan Municipality by involving world-famous companies in music and construction, is opened over an area of 21.000 m2 in Güzelyalı neighborhood to honor a famous native of the city.

See also edit

Sources edit

  • M. Çınar Atay (1978). Tarih içinde İzmir [İzmir throughout history] (in Turkish). Yaşar Education and Culture Foundation.
  • Ekrem Akurgal (2002). Ancient Civilizations and Ruins of Turkey: From Prehistoric Times Until the End of the Roman Empire. Kegan Paul. ISBN 0-7103-0776-4.
  • George E. Bean (1967). Aegean Turkey: An archaeological guide. Ernest Benn, London. ISBN 978-0-510-03200-5.
  • Cecil John Cadoux (1938). Ancient Smyrna: A History of the City from the Earliest Times to 324 A.D. Blackwell Publishing.
  • Daniel Goffman (2000). İzmir and the Levantine world (1550–1650). University of Washington. ISBN 0-295-96932-6.
  • . Archived from the original on 23 October 2010.

Footnotes edit

  1. ^ David Hawkins (1998). Tarkasnawa, King of Mira. Anatolian Studies, Vol. 48. See also; Bilgin, Tayfun. "Karabel". Hittite Monuments.
  2. ^ George E. Bean (1967). Aegean Turkey: An archaeological guide. Ernest Benn, London. ISBN 978-0-510-03200-5.
  3. ^ M. G. Lay; James E. Vance (1992). Ways of the World. Rutgers University Press. p. 254. ISBN 978-0-8135-2691-1.
  4. ^ Ronald Syme (1998). "Journeys of Hadrian" (PDF). Dr. Rudolf Hbelt GmbH, Bonn – University of Cologne.
  5. ^ Gibb, H.A.R. trans. and ed. (1962). The Travels of Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, A.D. 1325–1354 (Volume 2). London: Hakluyt Society. pp. 445–447. {{cite book}}: |first= has generic name (help)
  6. ^ Hans Theunissen. (PDF). Leiden University, The Netherlands, 1998. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 April 2005. Retrieved 21 February 2007.
  7. ^ Ring, Trudy, ed. (1995). International dictionary of historic places (1. publ. in the USA and UK. ed.). Chicago [u.a.]: Fitzroy Dearborn. p. 351. ISBN 9781884964022. Timur... sacked Smyrna and massacred nearly all of its inhabitants
  8. ^ Foss, Clive (1976). Byzantine and Turkish Sardis. Harvard University Press. p. 93. ISBN 9780674089693. Tamerlane determined to conquer Smyrna... In December 1402, Smyrna was taken and destroyed, its Christian population massacred.
  9. ^ Edhem Eldem; Daniel Goffman; Bruce Alan Masters (1999). "İzmir: From village to colonial port city". The Ottoman City Between East and West: Aleppo, Izmir, and Istanbul. Cambridge University Press. p. 91. ISBN 0-521-64304-X.
  10. ^ limited preview Charles Joret (2005). Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, cuyer, baron d'Aubonne, chambellan du Grand lecteur (in French). Adamant Media Corporation. ISBN 1-4212-4722-4.
  11. ^ Sonia P. Anderson (1989). An English Consul in Turkey: Paul Rycaut at Smyrna, 1667–1678. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-820132-X.
  12. ^ Zeynep Mercangöz, eds. M. Kiel, N. Landmann, H. Theunissen (23 August 1999). (PDF). Utrecht University, Proceedings of the 11th International Congress of Turkish Art. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 July 2003.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  13. ^ George Rolleston. Report on Smyrna. year=1856.
  14. ^ Erkan Serçe (1998). İzmir'de Belediye (1868–1945) Tanzimat'tan Cumhuriyet'e (Municipal administration in İzmir (1895–1945): From Tanzimat to the Republic) (in Turkish). Dokuz Eylül University, İzmir. ISBN 975-6981-06-7.
  15. ^ It is possible that the present channel is closer to the mouth of the river as it used to flow in ancient times, since Herodotus says that it was close to Phocaea, as it is now, although when it changed to the south is not known. With the rapid silting process, the depending town of Menemen, which was almost on the shore in the beginning of the 18th century, had its harbor structures hours from the town towards the end of the same century and is an entirely inland center today.
  16. ^ . Archived from the original on 28 November 2006. Retrieved 21 February 2007. (in Turkish). Turkish Historical Society (TTK). Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 21 February 2007.
  17. ^ Himmet Umunç. (PDF). Boğaziçi University. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 June 2010.
  18. ^ (in Turkish). Radikal. Archived from the original on 4 January 2005. Retrieved 31 December 2004.
  19. ^ Rudolf Naumann – Selahattin Kantar (1950). "Literatur zu Smyrna: Die Agora von Smyrna. Bericht Äuber die in den Jahren 1932–1941 auf dem Friedhof Namazgah zu Izmir von der Museumsleitung in Verbindung mit der Tuerkischen Geschichtskommission durchgefuehrten Ausgrabungen" (PDF) (in German). Istanbuler Forschungen 17, s. 69 – 114, Berlin.

Further reading edit

 
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  • William Hunter (1803), "Letter XI", Travels through France, Turkey, and Hungary, to Vienna, in 1792, London: Printed for J. White ... by T. Bensley ..., OCLC 10321359, OL 14046026M
  • Josiah Conder (1824), "Smyrna (Izmir)", Syria and Asia Minor, London: James Duncan, OCLC 8888382
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  • Wratislaw (1922). "Smyrna in the 17th Century". Blackwood's Magazine.

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This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources Below is a sequence of some of the events that affected the history of the city of Izmir historically also Smyrna Contents 1 Timeline 2 See also 3 Sources 4 Footnotes 5 Further readingTimeline editDate Occurrence c 6000 4000 BC Izmir region s first Neolithic and mid Chalcolithic settlements in Yesilova Hoyuk and the adjacent Yassitepe Hoyuk within the boundaries of the present day Bornova metropolitan district located in the middle of the plain that extends starting from the tip of the Gulf of Izmir last for at least two millennia starting c 3000 BC First traces of settlement attested in the mound hoyuk called either as Tepekule or under the same name as its neighborhood Bayrakli along a small peninsula in the northeastern corner of Gulf of Izmir s end which will later become the location of Old Smyrna nbsp A port city unravels since millennia in the outlying waters of the Gulf of Izmir as narrow as a strait in its end as seen here from Mount Yamanlar Mount Yamanlar is also where a crater lake named Karagol meaning Black Lake in Turkish and also called as Lake Tantalus is found nbsp Mount Sipylus is famous for its Weeping Rock associated with Niobe daughter of the semi legendary local ruler Tantalus the first recorded sovereign to have controlled the area of the Gulf of Izmir nbsp The Throne conjecturally associated with Pelops in Yarikkaya locality in Mount Sipylus is an isolated stone bench or altar possibly carved to accommodate a stone or wooden statue nbsp Karabel Luvian warrior monument carved in rock dated to the 13th century BC and at a distance of 30 km from Izmir near Kemalpasa deciphered as having been dedicated to Tarkasnawa a King of Mira within Arzawa complex attests to the westernmost reaches of the late Hittites and their dependent principalities Date Occurrence est mid to end of third millennium BC Luvians arrive and settle in initially western and gradually across southern Anatolia est c 1440 BC The first recorded urban settlement which controlled the Gulf of Izmir associated with the semi legendary local ruler Tantalus called the Phrygian and also associable with the Luvians and the Lydians and deriving its wealth from the region s mineral reserves is founded on or near Mount Yamanlar A Tomb of Tantalus near this mountain as well as an alternative tomb some sources associate with the same Tantalus on Mount Sipylus reached our day scholars differing on associations that could be based on the one or the other est c 1370 BC Part of the Lydian population led by Tyrrhenus according to the accounts obliged to leave their land due to famine build themselves ships in the present day harbor of Izmir and sail away in search of new homes and better sustenance to finally arrive to Umbria where according to one account Herodotus they lay the foundations of the future Etruscan civilization est c 1360 BC Pelops the son of Tantalus abandons the city founded by his father and founds a kingdom in the Peloponnese named after him His sister Niobe remains associated with the Weeping Rock on Mount Sipylus c 1200 BC Late Hittites advance in western Anatolia called at first as Luwiya and then as Arzawa in Hittite sources is attested by a monument carved in rock in Karabel mountain pass near the modern city of Kemalpasa at about 30 km from Izmir It is dated to the second half of the 13th century BCE during the reign of Tudhaliya IV and the male figure is identified as Tarkasnawa King of Mira matched with a name mentioned in Hattusa Hittite annals 1 est c 1200 BC First Hellenic colonists begin to appear along the western coasts of Anatolia est c 1194 BC 1184 BC Trojan War some of whose wounds are healed in the thermal springs in the present day Balcova district of Izmir Greeks under Agamemnon having been advised the baths by an oracle The still highly popular Agamemnon Baths is also the place where reportedly Asclepius first began to prophesy 2 850 BC Caravan Bridge sometimes said to be the oldest extant bridge a 13 m stone slab over the River Meles is built 3 716 BC or 680 BC Gyges of Lydia the founder of Mermnad dynasty seizes the throne of Lydia which will be held by his descendants until 546 BC and the dynasty will acquire a large part of Anatolia including Smyrna nbsp Homer was also called Melesigenes son of Meles by the name of the River Meles which flows through Izmir and still carries the same name est early 7th century BC Refugees from the Ionian city of Colophon admitted inside Smyrna by the city s Aeolian inhabitants chase the natives by deceit according to Herodotus and Smyrna becomes the thirteenth city state of the Ionian union slightly before 668 BC The first failed Lydian attempt to capture Smyrna despite their seizure of the town and their advance within the walls of the fortress c 600 BC Lydian king Alyattes captures Smyrna along with several other Ionian cities and the city is sacked and destroyed its inhabitants forced to move to the countryside to live for a time in village like fashion according to contemporary sources More recent research and restoration works in Old Smyrna by Ekrem Akurgal indicate that the city temple dedicated to Athena built a few decades before saw only slight damage in the Lydian capture was repaired swiftly and continued to be used c 540 BC The Median general Harpagus serving the Persian Emperor Cyrus the Great captures Symrna along with other regions under Lydian rule in Anatolia and destroys the city 333 BC Alexander the Great conquers Smyrna moves the city from its rather isolated location at the end of the gulf to the southern shore from where the future city will expand Legends attribute the move for relocation to a dream of Alexander 323 280 BC In the division of the provinces after Alexander s death Antigonus I Monophthalmus receives Smyrna along with Phrygia Pamphylia and Lycia It is his defeater Lysimachus King of Asia Minor between 301 and 281 BC who displays a genuine interest to the city initiating widescale public works in the intention of transforming it into an international portuary and cultural center on a par with Alexandria and Ephesus Lysimachus even names the city for a time under his daughter s name Euredikeia 280 BC In the climate of uncertainty reigning between Lysimachus s death and the Seleucid Emperor Antiochus I Soter s takeover Smyrniots declare their independence for a brief period 278 BC Galatians arriving from Thrace capture Smyrna and ransack the city 275 BC Antiochus II defeats the Galatians and the city returns to Seleucid control 241 BC Smyrna adheres to Attalus I King of Pergamon 190 BC Smyrna is transferred under Roman authority along with Pergamon Eager to cultivate Roman connections Smyrna becomes the first city in Asia to build a temple to the honor of the goddess Roma 130 BC With the death of last King of the Attalid dynasty of Pergamon Smyrna is taken under direct Roman administration 78 BC Cicero visits Roman Smyrna The Roman province of Asia will be administered by his younger brother the propraetor Quintus Tullius Cicero between 61 and 59 BC 43 BC The first settling of scores after the Assassination of Julius Caesar takes place in Smyrna when Publius Cornelius Dolabella Julius Caesar s former favourite assigned to Syria by the Roman Senate forces his way into the city where Trebonius an accomplice of the assassins held the office of proconsul and kills him Before Dolabella s own death the year after his assault and particularly some damage he had inflicted on the city was condemned at the time in Rome including by Dolabella s father in law Cicero who referred to the people of Smyrna as among Rome s most trusted and oldest allies Common Era 124 Emperor Hadrian visits Smyrna as part of his journeys across the Empire 4 155 or 156 AD Polycarp Saint Polycarp of Smyrna is martyrized by stabbing in the amphitheater of the city after attempts to burn him at the stake fails and the account The Martyrdom of Polycarp or the Letter to the Smyrneans becomes one of the fundamental sources among early Christian writings 178 A violent earthquake shakes Smyrna to its cores causing immense damage and casualties The city was rebuilt in a single year with the help of the emperor Marcus Aurelius according to the orator Aelius Aristides 214 BC Emperor Caracalla visits Smyrna along with other cities in Anatolia and later Egypt and a cult of Caracalla starts in the city 250 Pionius is martyrized in Smyrna by burning on the gibbet 395 Following the death of Theodosius I when the political division between Eastern and Western Roman Empires acquires a permanent nature Smyrna becomes part of the Eastern Roman Empire 1079 First Seljuk Turkish horsemen begin to appear along the western regions of Anatolia a few years after the Seljuk sultan Alp Arslan s 1071 victory over the Byzantine Empire in the Battle of Malazgirt and following his designation of Anatolia for seizure by Suleyman I of Rum son of a former contender to his throne Kutalmis 1081 Turkish forces loyal to Suleyman Bey and under the command of Tzachas Smyrna and immediately build a navy the first ever recorded naval force in Turkish history to harry the Aegean Sea and its coasts 1097 The First Crusade siege of Nicaea Iznik and the subsequent crusader victory in the First Battle of Dorylaeum allow the Byzantine forces under Alexios I Komnenos s brother in law John Doukas to recover much of western Anatolia re capturing Smyrna Izmir Chios Rhodes Mytilene Samos Ephesus Philadelphia and Sardis 1231 1235 Emperor of Nicaea John III Doukas Vatatzes builds a new castle Neon Kastron later to be named Saint Peter by the Genoese and Okkale by the Turks that commands the now silted up inner bay of the city present day Kemeralti bazaar zone The Emperor spends much time in the summer palace he had had built in nearby Nymphaion later Nif and present day Kemalpasa and dies there in 1254 1261 In the same year as his expulsion of the Latin Empire and re capture of Constantinople the Byzantine Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos seeking an ally against the danger posed by the Venetians and the papacy signs the Treaty of Nymphaion with the Genoese and accords them considerable privileges within the empire s realm commercial or otherwise including that of setting up their own districts in the capital and in Smyrna Galata quarter across the Golden Horn to extend later on to the whole of Pera present day Beyoglu and Smyrna s core area along the inner bay with its castle become virtually independent Genoese possessions 1308 Turkish ascendancy in Western Anatolia re surges after two centuries and the Beylik of Aydin is founded with its capital in Birgi 1317 Aydinoglu Mehmed Bey captures Izmir s upper castle of Kadifekale from Byzantine forces 1329 The Genoese merchants hand over the keys of the port castle Okkale Saint Peter to Umur Beg 1333 Ibn Battuta visits Izmir He reports that most of the city is in ruins 5 1334 1345 Umur Bey transforms the Beylik of Aydin into a serious naval power with base in Izmir and poses a threat particularly for Venetian possessions in the Aegean Sea Venetians organize an alliance uniting several European parties Sancta Unio composed notably of the Knights Templar which organizes five consecutive attacks on Izmir and the Western Anatolian coastline controlled by Turkish states In between it is the Turks who organize maritime raids directed at Aegean islands 6 1348 Umur Bey dies and his brother and successor Hizir Bey concludes on 18 August an agreement with the Sancta Unio which following its approval by the Pope gives the Knights Templar the right to control and use the port castle Saint Peter Okkale 1390 Ottoman sultan Bayezid I the Thunderbolt comes to Izmir shortly after he ascends the throne and smoothly captures the upper castle of Kadifekale Izmir becomes Ottoman partially with the exception of the port castle and for the time temporarily for a decade 1402 Three months after his victory over the Ottomans in the Battle of Ankara Tamerlane comes to Izmir lays a six week siege on the port castle Okkale Saint Peter in the unique battle of his career against a Christian power captures the castle and destroys it He massacred most of the Christian population which constituted the vast majority in Smyrna 7 8 He handed the city over to its former rulers the Aydinids as he had done for other Anatolian lands taken over by the Ottomans 1416 Aydinids cited more often citation needed as Izmiroglu Cuneyd Bey re builds Okkale in the intention of turning it into his power base at the same time as he uses every occasion to hamper the resurgence of Ottoman power 1413 1420 Popular revolts based in Manisa and Karaburun against the newly re established Ottoman rule 1425 Ottoman sultan Murad II has Izmiroglu Cuneyd Bey executed puts an end to the Beylik of Ayidin and re establishes Ottoman authority over Izmir this time definite For their aid in Cuneyd Bey s demise the Knights Templar press the sultan for renewed authority over the port castle Okkale but the sultan refuses giving them the permission to build another castle in Petronium Bodrum instead 1437 In a practice started by Murad II and which will last until 1595 in seventeen near consecutive periods many of the shahzades crown princes of the Ottoman dynasty fifteen in all start receiving their education in government matters in neighboring Manisa including two among the most notable Mehmed II and Suleyman I 1472 On 13 September a Venetian fleet under Pietro Mocenigo one of the greatest Venetian admirals captures and destroys Izmir in a surprise attack along with Foca and Cesme The Ottoman investment into Izmir will remain hesitant for more than a century until the 17th century building of Sancakkale castle at a key location commanding access to the city and assuring its security 1566 Ottoman capture of the Genoese island of Scio Sakiz Chios arguably to compensate for the loss of face suffered after the siege of Malta puts an end to three centuries of entente between the Republic and the Turkish powers based along the Anatolian coast At the same time the European merchants which used the island and Cesme across its shores as bases are tempted to seek a new port of trade and they are increasingly attracted to the small town of Izmir administered at the level of a qadi instead of the stricter and more centralized authority of a pasha 1592 Aydinoglu Yakub Bey a descendant of the formerly ruling dynasty builds the oldest major Ottoman landmark in Izmir the Hisar Mosque in Kemeralti adjacent to the decaying port castle of Okkale 1595 The practice of assigning Ottoman dynasty members for administration of neighboring Manisa and its dependencies is abandoned largely due to the growing insecurity in the countryside precursor of Jelali Revolts and a violent earthquake in the valley of Gediz deals a severe blow to the region s prosperity the same year 1605 The first attested presence in community of Sephardi Jews descendants of those evicted from Spain in 1492 in Izmir 1605 1606 Izmir is menaced by the Jelali Revolts of Kalenderoglu Arap Said and Canbolat nbsp Audience by the Qadi of the French Consul of Izmir in a 17th century engraving by Jean du Mont Date Occurrence 1619 The French consulate in Izmir opens moving in from Sakiz Chios 1621 The English consulate in Izmir opens moving in from Sakiz Chios 1624 1626 Izmir is menaced by corsairs in three consecutive years who leave each time after having levied a ransom aggravating considerations for the city s safety 1630s Local warlord Cennetoglu a brigand sometimes cited as one of the first in line in western Anatolia s long tradition of efes to come who in the 1620s had assembled a vast company of disbanded Ottoman soldiers and renegades establish control over much of the fertile land around Manisa and often in pact with the influent western merchant Orlando trigger a movement of more commercially sensitive Greek and Jewish populations towards Izmir 9 1650 1665 The construction by the Ottoman Empire of Sancakkale castle at a key location commanding access to the furthermost waters of the Gulf of Izmir thus assuring Izmir s security and greatly improving its fortunes 1657 Jean Baptiste Tavernier visits Izmir for the second time and for a longer period According to the detailed account he gave Izmir then had a population of 90 000 of which 60 000 were Turks and 15 000 Greeks 10 1671 Evliya Celebi visits Izmir 1676 1677 A great plague epidemic the first known pandemic on record for Ottoman Izmir claims 30 000 lives in Izmir and Manisa 1678 Antoine Galland visits Izmir during a second Oriental tour following an equally fruitful first visit across the eastern Mediterranean in 1673 1674 in the company of France s ambassador at the Sublime Porte Marquis de Nointel This time he writes the very detailed manuscript Voyage a Smyrne which will remain unedited until the year 2000 1678 Exception made of probable presence in the region during Byzantine times a community of Armenians is attested for the first time in Ottoman Izmir refugees who had sought asylum from the rule of Safavid Shah Abbas I of Persia and were generously welcomed by the Ottoman Empire On the eve of the Great Earthquake estimates made for Izmir s population in sources like Paul Rycaut Galland and others reached upwards of 80 000 in the ratio of seven Turks two Greeks one Jew and one Armenian with other nationalities many of whom played a pivotal role in shaping the city s fortunes totalling barely a thousand 11 1688 Two successive earthquakes of great magnitude on 10 July and 31 July and a tsunami that ensued after the second causes great damage and shakes Izmir to its cores The casualties number in the tens of thousands the commercial activity in the city stops for years and Sancakkale will have to be rebuilt The earthquake will also trigger a movement among foreign merchants to move their residences to the Izmir suburb of Buca and later on also to Bornova nbsp Izmir 1714 in an engraving by Henri Abraham Chatelain Date Occurrence 1707 Established in the city only since decades foreign merchants organize a riot centered in Buca The riot leads in 1716 to the assignment in Izmir of Koprulu Abdullah Pasha the first Ottoman administrator of the city who bore the title of pasha 1712 and 1717 Two successive plague epidemics The one in 1712 is particularly deadly and claims 10 000 lives 1739 English traveller and anthropologist Richard Pococke visits Izmir 1744 The completion of the building of the still standing caravanserai of Kizlaragasi Han in Kemeralti 1763 A fire destroys 2 600 houses with a loss of 1 000 000 1766 English traveller Richard Chandler visits Izmir and its surrounding region in search of antiquities on behalf of London Society of Dilettanti 1772 A fire carries off 3 000 dwellings and 3 000 to 4 000 shops entailing a loss of 20 000 000 1778 A violent earthquake on 3 July and an ensuing fire that lasts until 8 July destroys the city Izmir in 19th century European art nbsp View of the site of Agora of Smyrna in an 1843 engraving nbsp Bornova Bournabat as imagined by Jean Baptiste Camille Corot in 1873 1803 1816 Katipzade family controlling Izmir since the 1750s reach the summit of their power with Katipzade Mehmed Pasha who rule the city and its vicinity under the official title of ayan accorded by the Sultan They are the builders of the first governor s mansion in the city and the adjacent Yali Mosque of very small dimensions in Konak Square a symbol of Izmir to this day Katipzade Mehmed Pasha is executed by the Sultan in 1816 1804 The completion of the building of the still standing caravanserai of Cakaloglu Han in Kemeralti 1806 1808 Chateaubriand 1806 and Lord Byron 1808 briefly visit Izmir 1812 1816 A four year plague epidemic claims 45 000 lives in Izmir region 1823 1827 Izmir s first newspaper named Smyrneen at first and Spectateur orientale later is published in French for four years 1831 A cholera epidemic claims 3 000 lives in Izmir region particularly among the Jewish community Two still standing landmarks of the city owe their existence to the epidemic The Jewish Hospital which becomes a pole of attraction that paves the way for the concentration of the city s Jewish population in Karatas and St Roch Hospital and Monastery the present day premises of Izmir Ethnography Museum affectionately called Pichane for having served as an orphanage for a period 12 1836 Charles Texier visits Izmir and conducts surface research on the remains of classical Smyrna and on those found on or near Mount Yamanlar 1837 Izmir s last great plague epidemic claims 5 000 lives especially among the Turkish population A quarantine administration for incoming ships will be put in place as a consequence of the epidemic in a quarter of the city that will be named Karantina 1840 Exports from the port of Trabzon exceed those from Izmir for the first time and Izmir thus loses its virtual monopoly on exports among Ottoman ports for the first time as far back as the records are kept 3 July 1845 A great fire ravages the central quarters of Izmir Personal interventions from the sultan Abdulmecid I will play a fundamental during the reconstruction effort 1850 Izmir becomes the vilayet center for the first time and for a brief period The vilayet is still called under the name of its former center Aydin 1850 Gustave Flaubert visits Izmir noting after having watched the sunset from Kadifekale qu il n en avait jamais vu de si belle Images of cosmopolitan 19th century Izmir nbsp A Turkish quarter in 19th century Izmir Kadifekale nbsp A Greek quarter in 19th century Izmir Goztepe Enopi with Susuzdede Agios Agapis hill in the background nbsp A Jewish quarter in 19th century Izmir Karatas nbsp A European quarter in 19th century Izmir Bornova Date Occurrence 1850 1851 Alphonse de Lamartine visits Izmir for a second time the first in 1833 and having fallen under the spell of the city and the country buys a farm in Tire that he manages for a time before returning to France where he writes important works related to Turkey 1851 1854 The first cadastral plan of Izmir is made by the engineer Luigi Storari a Republican in exile from Padua who also draws the plans for the Istanbul quarter of Aksaray after a fire in 1854 and publishes a guide on Izmir in Torino in 1857 1856 George Rolleston holds a post in the British Civil Hospital during the Crimean War and presents a detailed report on Izmir to the Secretary of State for War According to Rolleston Izmir s population could be estimated as amounting to 150 000 people in accordance with the 1849 census two thirds being either Turks or Greeks whose numbers were until lately equal but came to be proportioned as 45 000 Turks against 55 000 Greeks poverty and conscription lately acting as a check against the increase of the former 13 The first horse races in the modern sense start to be organized in Buca 1860 In response to a questionnaire by the British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire Sir Henry Bulwer the experienced consul Charles Blunt responds by stating that in 1830 the city contained 80 000 Turkish inhabitants and 20 000 Christians whereas in 1860 the Turks numbered 41 000 and the Christians 75 000 According to Blunt the general condition of the province of Izmir was constantly improving due to increasing cultivation and agricultural production However because of the Turkish lack of manpower this improvement was more generally to the advantage of the Christian races 1856 1867 The construction of the first railroad connection in the Ottoman Empire between Izmir in partance from the simultaneously built Alsancak train station and Aydin 130 km is contracted out to a British company who will finish it in eleven years 1863 1866 The construction of the second railroad connection in the Ottoman Empire between Izmir in partance from the simultaneously built Basmane train station and Turgutlu 93 km contracted out at first to a British then to a French company who manages to finish it in three years a few months before Izmir Aydin line 1865 The quarter of Karatas is opened for residential use and becomes almost immediately and practically exclusively Izmir s Jewish quarter Izmir Menemen railroad enters into service the same year leading to urban growth in Karsiyaka Kordelio on the northern shore of the gulf 1867 Izmir becomes the vilayet center for the second time and definitely The vilayet will continue to be under the name of its former center Aydin until the demise of the Ottoman Empire Instability will characterize the first decades of the governorship in Izmir with for example five consecutive governors only for the year 1875 1867 1876 Upon the destruction by a seismic wave of the previous quays built in wood start of the construction of new port installations With the project completed in ten years by a French company and by British engineering the wharf Pasaport Wharf as well as a 3250 m long combination of a landing stage of a street served by a tram line and of an esplanade Kordon comes into existence all built on land gained from the sea and profoundly changing the city s look The final remains of the old port castle Okkale and former yali type residences along Kordon are demolished to provide space for the wharf and the street along which new buildings of western tastes and styles will be rapidly built The French customs house built within the project reportedly designed by Gustave Eiffel is today s Konak Pier upmarket shopping center 1868 1895 A municipal administration is constituted in Izmir in line with the Ottoman reforms in the matter Izmir municipality will only mature in time becoming active as of 1874 being scinded in two in 1880 to administer the more westernized city core and the more traditional suburbs separately being reunited in 1889 and possessing its own building only in 1891 A stable municipal administration in Izmir is generally admitted to start a generation after its founding under Esref Pasha 1895 1907 14 1874 Start of urban ferry services between Izmir proper and Karsiyaka by a British company under an Ottoman imperial lease accorded by Abdulhamid II and named Hamidiye for this reason A second shipping company puts two other ferries in service starting 1880 followed in 1884 by a third company Very rapidly it becomes fashionable for Izmir s European Levantine Ottoman minority and later Turkish rich to build or purchase houses in Karsiyaka 1886 In a work of engineering of considerable scale for its time the course of the Gediz River in its alluvial delta is diverted northwards thus preventing it from joining the sea inside the Gulf of Izmir where the shallows caused by the silt the river brought had seriously started to render navigation difficult and jeopardize Izmir s portuary future 15 1886 1897 A Belgian company builds Izmir s first running water system today still based on the same location of Halkapinar quarter 1890 The first recorded football match in Turkey is played in Bornova Izmir between local youths and British sailors on shore leave 1892 1895 A railway connection for a steam powered tram was considered to be built between Izmir and Cesme itself internationally famous for its grapes and on deemed as being on its way to become a second large port for the region The line based on the model of a line built in the Peloponnese presenting similar characteristics was projected to serve a population of around 350 000 250 000 for Izmir and the rest along the line in Karaburun Peninsula and which would have halved the duration of a journey between Sakiz Chios was submitted by the Ottoman Bank to French 1892 and then to German 1895 entrepreneurs but despite being potentially promising was not concretized and its initial works ended up by tracing a phantom track In the meantime especially with the flow of immigrants from Thessaly and Crete the population trends in Karaburun Peninsula started to bend in favor of the Turks 1901 Izmir Clock Tower designed by the Levantine French architect Raymond Charles Pere with the clock itself a gift of German Emperor Wilhelm II is built to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Abdul Hamid II s accession to the throne and becomes a symbol for the city 1907 Asansor building in Karatas one of Izmir s landmarks is erected as a public service by the wealthy Jewish banker Nesim Levi Bayraklioglu 1915 In a naval campaign that involved Izmir directly during the World War I a British fleet commanded by the Vice Admiral Peirse arrives off the deep end of the Gulf with armoured cruiser HMS Euryalus pre dreadnoughts HMS Triumph and HMS Swiftsure a seaplane carrier and minesweepers and bombs defence positions between 5 9 March causing six casualties among Turkish soldiers The fleet s tasks are to destroy the protecting forts and clear the approach minefields neither of which are accomplished Allied demands transmitted through the U S consul in Izmir George Horton for surrender of the city are rebuffed by the governor Evrenoszade Rahmi Bey and on 15th the force withdraws 16 1919 1922 Occupation of Izmir as of 15 May 1919 Greco Turkish War 1919 1922 1922 Re capture of Izmir by the Turkish army on 9 September 1922 Great Fire of Smyrna between 13 September and 17 September Appointment of the first governor of Ankara Turkish Grand National Assembly government and by extension of Republican Turkey on 20 September September October 1922 A short stay in Istanbul that was to acquire importance for American literature from end September to mid October as Toronto Daily Star reporter leads Ernest Hemingway to write his first short story to appear in his first collection of stories In Our Time published 1925 This story titled On the Quai at Smyrna probably based on original material derived from a British officer who was present in Izmir early in the period was written in a deliberately disorientating style with a sarcastic tone and observations directed at all sides to the conflict 17 1923 Signature between Greek and Turkish delegations of the agreement for a Population exchange between Greece and Turkey in the frame of Lausanne Conference on 30 January Date Occurrence 1923 Izmir Economic Congress is held under the chairmanship of Mustafa Kemal Pasha between 17 February 3 March and it lays the foundations of the economic policy for the early years of the Republic of Turkey founded the same year 1929 Izmir Alsancak Stadium is built over part of former Daragaci Gallows quarter 18 1932 After preliminary explorations made in 1927 the first organized excavations at the site of Classical Period Smyrna centered around the Agora of the ancient city are carried out jointly by the German archaeologist Rudolf Naumann de and Selahattin Kantar the director of Izmir and Ephesus museums Between 1932 and 1941 they uncover a large part of the agora and publish the results of their works with contributions made also by the Austrian archaeologist Franz Miltner de first the first time in 1934 to be compiled more comprehensively in 1950 19 1936 The fifth Izmir International Fair is the first that is held at its present location of Kulturpark where it acquires the proportions of an ongoing important annual commercial and cultural event of international scale 1948 The first organized excavations at the site of Archaic Period Smyrna are started by an Anglo Turkish team under Professors John M Cook and Ekrem Akurgal to be pursued by Akurgal on a continuous basis as of 1966 and to be managed after 1993 by Akurgal s wife Meral Akurgal 1954 Start of the construction of the Port of Alsancak still used and extended and privatized in 2007 Kusadasi district transferred to Aydin Province 1955 Ege University Izmir s first university to start courses is founded with present day campus in Bornova 1964 The multi use stadium Izmir Ataturk Stadyumu Turkey s largest at the time today the second largest is built in view of the Mediterranean Games 1971 Izmir hosts the Mediterranean Games 1982 Dokuz Eylul University Izmir s second largest is founded with present day campus in Buca 1984 Izmir Archaeology Museum first set up in Ayavukla Church Gozlu Church in Basmane popular quarter with a second museum in Kulturpark added in 1951 moves to its premises covering 5 000 sqm in Bahribaba Park 1987 Izmir s new airport Adnan Menderes Airport enters into service A new international terminal was added in 2006 1990 Aegean Free Zone the first production based free zone in Turkey and the leader among the country s 19 others opens as a Turkish U S joint venture in Izmir s Gaziemir district to reach a total portfolio of 302 notable companies by 2006 generating more than 4 billion annually in international trade It also houses the world s fifth Space Camp 1992 Izmir s third university and first institute of technology Izmir Institute of Technology is founded with present day campus in Urla 1995 2000 The first line of Izmir Metro extending from Ucyol station in Hatay to Bornova along a length of 11 6 km 7 2 mi is built and enters into service 1998 Izotas the new bus terminal in Izmir s Altindag suburb a city within the city in practical terms enters into service 2002 Izmir s fourth and fifth universities Izmir University of Economics with campus in Balcova and Yasar University are founded Both are private sector initiatives 2004 In keeping with a move for decentralization of administrative services in the rapidly growing city Izmir Hall of Justice moves from Konak Square to its new premises the largest and the most modern in Turkey in Bornova district Izmir hosts 2004 World University Sailing Championship 2005 Izmir hosts the Summer World University Games Universiade 2006 Izmir hosts 2006 European Seniors Fencing Championship 2008 An open air zoo called Izmir Wildlife Park 425 000 square meters in area is opened in Sasali a depending municipality of Izmir metropolitan district of Cigli on the delta of the Gediz River 2008 Ahmet Adnan Saygun Art Center built by Izmir Metropolitan Municipality by involving world famous companies in music and construction is opened over an area of 21 000 m2 in Guzelyali neighborhood to honor a famous native of the city See also editTimelines of other cities in Turkey Ankara Bursa IstanbulSources editM Cinar Atay 1978 Tarih icinde Izmir Izmir throughout history in Turkish Yasar Education and Culture Foundation Ekrem Akurgal 2002 Ancient Civilizations and Ruins of Turkey From Prehistoric Times Until the End of the Roman Empire Kegan Paul ISBN 0 7103 0776 4 George E Bean 1967 Aegean Turkey An archaeological guide Ernest Benn London ISBN 978 0 510 03200 5 Cecil John Cadoux 1938 Ancient Smyrna A History of the City from the Earliest Times to 324 A D Blackwell Publishing Daniel Goffman 2000 Izmir and the Levantine world 1550 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architectural details Byzantine elements in the decoration of a building in Izmir PDF Utrecht University Proceedings of the 11th International Congress of Turkish Art Archived from the original PDF on 4 July 2003 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint multiple names authors list link George Rolleston Report on Smyrna year 1856 Erkan Serce 1998 Izmir de Belediye 1868 1945 Tanzimat tan Cumhuriyet e Municipal administration in Izmir 1895 1945 From Tanzimat to the Republic in Turkish Dokuz Eylul University Izmir ISBN 975 6981 06 7 It is possible that the present channel is closer to the mouth of the river as it used to flow in ancient times since Herodotus says that it was close to Phocaea as it is now although when it changed to the south is not known With the rapid silting process the depending town of Menemen which was almost on the shore in the beginning of the 18th century had its harbor structures hours from the town towards the end of the same century and is an entirely inland center today War in the Mediterranean 1915 Archived from the original on 28 November 2006 Retrieved 21 February 2007 Izmir Bombardimani in Turkish Turkish Historical Society TTK Archived from the original on 27 September 2007 Retrieved 21 February 2007 Himmet Umunc Hemingway in Turkey Historical contexts and cultural intertexts PDF Bogazici University Archived from the original PDF on 13 June 2010 Ustu stad alti mezar Stadium on the surface cemetery below in Turkish Radikal Archived from the original on 4 January 2005 Retrieved 31 December 2004 Rudolf Naumann Selahattin Kantar 1950 Literatur zu Smyrna Die Agora von Smyrna Bericht Auber die in den Jahren 1932 1941 auf dem Friedhof Namazgah zu Izmir von der Museumsleitung in Verbindung mit der Tuerkischen Geschichtskommission durchgefuehrten Ausgrabungen PDF in German Istanbuler Forschungen 17 s 69 114 Berlin Further reading edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to History of Izmir Published in the 19th century William Hunter 1803 Letter XI Travels through France Turkey and Hungary to Vienna in 1792 London Printed for J White by T Bensley OCLC 10321359 OL 14046026M Josiah Conder 1824 Smyrna Izmir Syria and Asia Minor London James Duncan OCLC 8888382 Published in the 20th century Wratislaw 1922 Smyrna in the 17th Century Blackwood s Magazine Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Timeline of Izmir amp oldid 1201409185, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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