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Timeline of Baghdad

The following is a of the history of the city of Baghdad, Iraq.

  1. 2000 BCE – Babylonian city of Baghdadu in existence (approximate date).
  2. 762 CE
  3. *Round City construction begins per Abbasid Caliph al-Mansur.
  4. * Al-Khassakiyya mosque built.
  5. 767 – Al-Mansur Mosque built.
  6. 775 – Bab al-Taq (gate) built.
  7. 786 – Harun al-Rashid in power.
  8. 794 – Paper mill in operation.
  9. 799 – Mashhad al-Kazimiyya built.
  10. 812-813 Siege of Baghdad, Fourth Fitna (Islamic Civil War)
  11. 814 – City captured by al-Ma'mun.
  12. 827 – Tomb of Zobeide built.
  13. 836 – Abbasid Caliphate of Al-Mu'tasim relocated from Baghdad to Samarra.
  14. 850 – Book of Ingenious Devices published.
  15. 855 – Funeral of Ahmad ibn Hanbal.
  16. 861 – 11 December: Caliph Al-Mutawakkil assassinated.
  17. 865 – City wall built.
  18. 865-866 Caliphal Civil War, was an armed conflict during the "Anarchy at Samarra" between the rival caliphs al-Musta'in and al-Mu'tazz.
  19. 892 – Abbasid Caliphate of Al-Mu'tamid relocated to Baghdad from Samarra.
  20. 901 – Jami al-Qasr (mosque) built.
  21. 908 – Al-Khulafa Mosque built.
  22. 946 – Battle of Baghdad; Shia Buyids in power.
  23. 993 – Dar al-'Ilm (educational institution) founded.
  24. 1055 – Seljuq Nizam al-Mulk in power.
  25. 1060 – Dar al-Kutub (library) founded.
  26. 1066 – Abu Hanifa Mosque restored.
  27. 1067 – Nizamiyya of Baghdad (college) established.
  28. 1095 – City wall rebuilt.
  29. 1157 - Siege of Baghdad, Abbasid–Seljuq Wars
  30. 1180 – Caliph al-Nasir in power.
  31. 1193 – Jami' Zumurrud Khatun (mosque) and Turbat Zumurrud Khatun (tomb) built.
  32. 1202 – Minaret of Jami' al-Khaffafin built (approximate date).
  33. 1215 – Tomb of Maruf el-Kerkhi built.
  34. 1221 – Bab al-Talsim (Talisman gate) built.
  35. 1226 - al-Baghdadi compiles (cookbook).
  36. 1228 – Jami' al-Qumriyya Mosque built.
  37. 1230 – Al-Qasr al-Abbasi fi al-Qal'a built (approximate date).
  38. 1232 – Al-Mustansiriya Madrasah established.
  39. 1252 – Shrine of Abdul-Kadir built.
  40. 1258 – January–February: City destroyed by forces of Mongol Hulagu Khan during the Siege of Baghdad; most of population killed.
  41. 1272 – Marco Polo visits city (approximate date).
  42. 1326 – Ibn Battuta visits city.
  43. 1357 – Al-Madrasah al-Mirjaniyya built.
  44. 1358 – Khan al-Mirjan built.
  45. 1393 – City captured by Timur.
  46. 1401 – City captured by Timur again.
  47. 1405 – Sultan Ahmed Jalayir in power.
  48. 1417 – City taken by Qara Yusuf.
  49. 1468 – Aq Qoyunlu in power.

16th–19th centuries

  1. 1508 - City taken by Persian Ismail I.
  2. 1534
  3. *Capture of Baghdad by Ottomans.
  4. * Mausoleum of Abdul-Qadir al-Gilani built.
  5. 1535 – City becomes capital of the Baghdad Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire.
  6. 1544 – City taken by forces of Suleiman I.
  7. 1578 – Al-Muradiyya Mosque built.
  8. 1601 – Coffeehouse built.
  9. 1602 – City taken by forces of Abbas I of Persia.
  10. 1623 – 23 January: Capture of Baghdad by Safavids.
  11. 1625 - Siege of Baghdad, Unsuccessful siege of Baghdad by Ottomans
  12. 1630 - Siege of Baghdad, Second Unsuccessful siege of Baghdad by Ottomans
  13. 1638 – Capture of Baghdad by forces of Ottoman Murad IV.
  14. 1682 – Khaseki mosque built.
  15. 1683 – City besieged.
  16. 1780 – Mamluk Sulayman Pasha the Great in power.
  17. 1795 – Mosque-Madrasa of al-Ahmadiyya built.
  18. 1799 – City besieged by Wahhabi-Saudi forces.
  19. 1816 – Mamluk Dawud Pasha in power.
  20. 1823 – Population: 80,000 (estimate).
  21. 1826 – Haydar-Khana Mosque constructed in its current form.
  22. 1830
  23. *British East Indian Company in residence (approximate date).
  24. * Plague.
  25. 1831 – Flood, then famine.
  26. 1841 – Lynch Brothers in business.
  27. 1848 – Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baghdad established.
  28. 1849 – Remnants discovered of quay of Nebuchadrezzar, from Babylonian city of Baghdadu.
  29. 1861 – Istanbul-Baghdad telegraph line installed.
  30. 1865
  31. * Basrah-Baghdad telegraph line installed.
  32. *Alliance Israélite boys' school established.
  33. 1869 – Midhat Pasha in power.
  34. 1870
  35. * Municipal council established.
  36. * City walls demolished.
  37. 1871 – Population: 65,000.
  38. 1880 – Turkish camel post begins operating (approximate date).
  39. 1895 – Population: 100,000 (estimate).
  40. 1899 – Alliance Israélite girls' school established.

20th century

1900s–1940s

  1. 1908 – Population: 140,000 (estimate).
  2. 1909 – Cinema built.
  3. 1911 – Ottoman XIII Corps headquartered in Baghdad.
  4. 1912 – Population: 200,000 (estimate).
  5. 1914 – October: Samarra-Baghdad railway begins operating.
  6. 1915
  7. * Istanbul-Baghdad railway begins operating.
  8. *Al-Rasheed Street laid out.
  9. * Cholera epidemic.
  10. 1917
  11. * March: Fall of Baghdad (1917); British in power.
  12. * Cinema opens.
  13. * Rasheed Street becomes the first to be electrically illuminated in Iraq
  1. 1919 – Guardians of Independence organized.
  2. 1920
  3. * City becomes capital of the British Mandate of Iraq.
  4. *Iraqi revolt against the British.
  5. * Maktabat al-Salam (library) established.
  6. 1926 – Baghdad Antiquities Museum founded.
  7. 1927 – British Imperial Airways begins operating Cairo-Baghdad-Basra flights.
  8. 1929 – Al-Maktabatil Aammah (public library) active.
  9. 1931 – Strike.
  10. 1932 – Third Eastern Women's Congress is held.
  11. 1936 – Military coup.
  12. 1940 – Iraqi Music Institute inaugurated.
  13. 1941 - Iraqi coup d'état in Baghdad, World War II
  14. 1941
  15. * May: Anglo-Iraqi War.
  16. * June: Farhud (pogrom against Jews).
  17. 1944 – Baghdad Symphony Orchestra founded.
  18. 1946 – Al-Sarafiya bridge built.
  19. 1947 - Population: 352,137.
  20. 1948
  21. * Uprising.
  22. * Popular Theatre Company and filmmaking Studio of Baghdad formed.

22. 1948 - Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countries

1950s–1990s

  1. 1952
  2. * Uprising.
  3. * Modern Theatre Company formed.
  4. 1953 – Baghdad Central Station built.
  5. 1956
  6. *Samarra Barrage constructed on the Tigris River near the city.
  7. * May: Government television begins broadcasting.
  8. * Uprising.
  9. * Iraqi Artists Society formed.
  10. 1957
  11. *University of Baghdad established.
  12. * Demonstration.
  13. 1958
  14. * 14 July: Iraqi coup d'état against king Faisal II at Royal Palace.
  15. * City becomes capital of the Republic of Iraq.
  16. 1959
  17. *Revolution City built.
  18. *Al-Mabda' newspaper begins publication.
  19. * Unknown Soldier monument erected on Firdos Square.
  20. 1960 – September: OPEC founded at Baghdad Conference (Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela).
  21. 1961 – Iraq National Library and Archive established.
  22. 1963
  23. * 8–10 February: Iraqi coup d'état.
  24. * Khulafa Central Mosque built.
  25. *Al-Mustansiriya University and Al-Rasheed Sport Club established.
  26. 1964 – Al-Yarmouk Teaching Hospital established.
  27. 1965 - Population: 1,490,759 city; 1,657,424 urban agglomeration.
  28. 1966
  29. * Film festival held at Al-Rashid Cinema.
  30. *Al-Shaab Stadium and Martyrs' Mosque built.
  31. 1967 – Firqat Ittahaad al-Fannaaneed theatre group formed.
  32. 1968 – National Theatre Company established.
  33. 1970 - Population: 1,984,142 (estimate).
  34. 1971 – Baghdad Zoo opens.
  35. 1975 – Central Post Office built.
  36. 1978 – November: Arab League summit.
  37. 1980
  38. *Iran–Iraq War begins.
  39. * Film school of the Institute of Fine Arts established.
  40. 1981 – National Film Center and Saddam Hussein Gymnasium (now Baghdad Gymnasium) built.
  41. 1982
  42. *Saddam International Airport, Al Rasheed Hotel, Palestine Meridien Hotel, and Baghdad Conference Palace built.
  43. *Ishtar Sheraton Hotel opens.
  44. *The Monument to the Unknown Soldier inaugurated.
  45. 1983 – Al-Shaheed Monument built.
  46. 1985
  47. * Baghdad Festival of Arab theatre begins.
  48. * Amanat Al Assima Housing complex and Central Bank of Iraq building constructed.
  49. 1987 - Population: 3,841,268.
  50. 1988 – Saddam University established.
  51. 1989 – Victory Arch erected.
  52. 1991
  53. *Gulf War.
  54. * 13 February: Amiriyah shelter bombing.
  55. 1993 – 26 June: Missile strikes by United States.
  56. 1994 – Baghdad Tower constructed.

21st century

2000s

2010s

2020s

See also

References

Bibliography

Published in 17th–18th centuries

Published in 19th century

Published in 20th century

  • Jacob Lassner. The Topography of Baghdad in the Early Middle Ages. Detroit: Wayne University Press, 1970.
  • Hanne, Eric J.  "The Caliphate revisited: The Abbasids of eleventh and twelfth century Baghdad" (PhD dissertation, University of Michigan; ProQuest Dissertations Publishing,  1998. 9909898).

Published in 21st century

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