Baku: All Data
Baku is a city in Azerbaijan. This page covers its chronology of mentions across 5,500 years of history, including capitals, battles, events and subdivisions. Part of Phersu Atlas.
1. Lists and Timelines
Baku: Chronology of Mentions
Note: For polities of antiquity, the listed capital or subdivision capital may also represent one or several of the most important cities of the region.
1200 AD
Capital of Shirvanshah
1723 AD
Mentioned in Event: Russo-Persian War (1722-23)
1748 AD
Capital of Baku Khanate
1749 AD
Capital of Shirvan Khanate (Persia)
1914 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Governatorate of Baku, part of Russian Empire
1917 AD
Mentioned in Event: Bolsheviks take control of most of European Russia
1917 AD
Mentioned in Event: Russian Civil War
1917 AD
Mentioned in Event: Russian Conquest of Armenia
1918 AD
Mentioned in Event: Mesopotamian campaign
1918 AD
1918 AD
Mentioned in Event: Transcaucasian Front of World War I
1918 AD
Mentioned in Event: Turkish War of Independence
1918 AD
Mentioned in: Battle of Baku, part of Russian Civil War
1918 AD
Capital of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic
1918 AD
Capital of Baku Commune
1918 AD
Capital of Centrocaspian Dictatorship
1920 AD
1920 AD
Capital of Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic
1922 AD
Mentioned in Event: Treaty on the Creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
1945 AD
Capital of Azerbaijan People's Government
1946 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Republic of Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic, part of USSR
1955 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Republic of Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic, part of USSR
1989 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Republic of Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic, part of USSR
1991 AD
Mentioned in Event: Dissolution of the Soviet Union
1991 AD
Capital of Republic of Azerbaijan
2025 AD
Subdivision Capital of the City of Baku, part of Republic of Azerbaijan