Timeline of Baghdad

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

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

16th–19th centuries

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

20th century

1900s–1940s

  1. 1908 – Population: 140,000 (estimate).[24]
  2. 1909 – Cinema built.[25]
  3. 1911 – Ottoman XIII Corps headquartered in Baghdad.
  4. 1912 – Population: 200,000 (estimate).[26]
  5. 1914 – October: Samarra-Baghdad railway begins operating.[9]
  6. 1915
    • Istanbul-Baghdad railway begins operating.[6]
    • Al-Rasheed Street laid out.[6]
    • Cholera epidemic.[9]
  7. 1917
    • March: Fall of Baghdad (1917); British in power.[27][28]
    • Cinema opens.[9]
    • Rasheed Street becomes the first to be electrically illuminated in Iraq[29]
  1. 1919 – Guardians of Independence organized.
  2. 1920
    • City becomes capital of the British Mandate of Iraq.
    • Iraqi revolt against the British.
    • Maktabat al-Salam (library) established.
  3. 1926 – Baghdad Antiquities Museum founded.
  4. 1927 – British Imperial Airways begins operating Cairo-Baghdad-Basra flights.[9]
  5. 1929 – Al-Maktabatil Aammah (public library) active.
  6. 1931 – Strike.[30]
  7. 1932 – Third Eastern Women's Congress is held.
  8. 1936 – Military coup.[9]
  9. 1940 – Iraqi Music Institute inaugurated.[31]
  10. 1941 - Iraqi coup d'état in Baghdad, World War II
  11. 1941
    • May: Anglo-Iraqi War.[32]
    • June: Farhud (pogrom against Jews).
  12. 1944 – Baghdad Symphony Orchestra founded.
  13. 1946 – Al-Sarafiya bridge built.
  14. 1947 - Population: 352,137.[33]
  15. 1948
    • Uprising.[9]
    • Popular Theatre Company[31] and filmmaking Studio of Baghdad formed.[25]

22. 1948 - Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countries

1950s–1990s

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

21st century

2000s

  • 2002 – April: Statue of Saddam Hussein erected in Firdos Square.
  • 2003
    • 3–12 April: Battle of Baghdad (2003); United States in power; Green Zone established.
    • 9 April: Firdos Square statue destruction.
    • 7 August: Jordanian embassy bombing.
    • 19 August: Canal Hotel bombing.
    • 27 October: Bombings.
  • 2004
    • 2 March: Ashura bombings.
    • 29 May: Alaa al-Tamimi becomes mayor.[42]
    • 25 August: Baghdad International Airport reverts to civilian control.
    • 12 September: Haifa Street helicopter incident.
    • 14 September: Bombing.
  • 2005
    • 8 August: Municipal coup d'état.[42]
    • 31 August: 2005 Baghdad bridge stampede.
    • Baghdad International Film Festival begins.[43]
  • 2006
    • 22 February: Battle of Baghdad (2006–2008)
    • 7 April: Buratha Mosque bombing.
    • 1 July: Sadr City bombing.
    • 9 July: Hay al Jihad massacre.
    • 23 November: Sadr City bombings.
  • 2007
    • 16 January: Mustansiriya University bombings.
    • 22 January: Bombings.
    • 3 February: Market bombing.
    • 14 February: Baghdad Security Plan effected.
    • 18 February: Bombings.
    • 5 March: Mutanabbi Street bombed.[44]
    • 29 March: Bombings.
    • April: Adhamiyah neighborhood Wall construction begins.[45]
    • 26 July: Market bombing.
    • 1 August: Bombings.
  • 2008
    • Baghdad Metro resumes operation.
    • 6 March: Bombing.
    • 17 June: Bombing.
  • 2009
    • 1 January: Control of Green Zone transferred from US to Iraq.
    • Dismantling of war-time blast walls begins.[46]
    • 19 August: Bombings.

2010s

  • 2010
    • 17 August: Bombings.
    • Baghdad FC Stadium opens.
  • 2012
    • 5 January: Bombings.
    • 27 January: Bombing.[47]
    • 23 February: 23 February 2012 Iraq attacks.[47]
    • 4 June: Bombing of Shia office.[47]
  • 2015 - Air pollution in Baghdad reaches annual mean of 88 PM2.5 and 208 PM10, much higher than recommended.[48]
  • 2016 - 3 July: Bombing in Karrada.
  • 2018 - 10 June: Election ballot warehouse catches fire.[49]
  • 2019
    • 1 October: Protests erupted in Baghdad in Liberation Square[50]
    • 7 October: Dozens of protesters were killed and hundreds were injured in Sadr City.[51]
    • 28 October: Safaa Al Sarai killed [52]
    • 14 November: Four people were killed and 62 injured in Baghdad in clashes between security forces and protesters.[53]

2020s

  • 2020
    • 3 January: Qasem Soleimani was assassinated by a U.S. drone strike near Baghdad International Airport.[54][55]
  • 2021
    • 21 January: Bombings.[56]
    • 24 April: Hospital fire.
    • 25 May: anti-government protests.[57]
    • 19 July: Bombing.[58]

See also

  • History of Baghdad
  • List of Abbasid Caliphs
  • Neighbourhoods of Baghdad
  • List of mosques in Baghdad
  • Administrative districts in Baghdad (formed in 2003)
  • List of hospitals in Baghdad Governorate
  • Timelines of other cities in Iraq: Basra, Mosul, Zakho, Samarra

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Published in 17th–18th centuries

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Published in 19th century

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