Timeline of Baghdad

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

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  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 – 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. 1157 - Siege of Baghdad, Abbasid–Seljuq Wars
  24. 1060 – Dar al-Kutub (library) founded.[14]
  25. 1066 – Abu Hanifa Mosque restored.
  26. 1067 – Al-Nizamiyya of Baghdad (college) established.[9][15]
  27. 1095 – City wall rebuilt.[12]
  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 – 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]
  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]
  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
  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 – Jami' Murad Basha built.[4]
  6. 1601 – Coffeehouse built.[18]
  7. 1602 – City taken by forces of Abbas I of Persia.[8]
  8. 1623 – 23 January: Capture of Baghdad by Safavids.[9]
  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 – Jami al-Maydan 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 – Jami' Haydar Khanah built.[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
  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
  7. 1917
  8. 1919 – Guardians of Independence organized.
  9. 1920
    • City becomes capital of the British Mandate of Iraq.
    • Iraqi revolt against the British.
    • Maktabat al-Salam (library) established.
  10. 1926 – Baghdad Antiquities Museum founded.
  11. 1927 – British Imperial Airways begins operating Cairo-Baghdad-Basrah flights.[9]
  12. 1929 – Al-Maktabatil Aammah (public library) active.
  13. 1931 – Strike.[29]
  14. 1936 – Military coup.[9]
  15. 1940 – Iraqi Music Institute inaugurated.[30]
  16. 1941 - Iraqi coup d'état in Baghdad, World War II
  17. 1941
  18. 1944 – Baghdad Symphony Orchestra founded.
  19. 1946 – Al-Sarafiya bridge built.
  20. 1947 - Population: 352,137.[32]
  21. 1948
    • Uprising.[9]
    • Popular Theatre Company[30] and filmmaking Studio of Baghdad formed.[25]

1950s–1990s
  1. 1952
    • Uprising.[9]
    • Modern Theatre Company formed.[30]
  2. 1953 – Baghdad Central Station built.
  3. 1956
    • Samarra Barrage constructed on the Tigris River near the city.[33]
    • May: Government television begins broadcasting.[34]
    • Uprising.[35]
    • Iraqi Artists Society formed.[36]
  4. 1957
  5. 1958
    • 14 July: Iraqi coup d'état against king Faisal II at Royal Palace.[35]
    • City becomes capital of the Republic of Iraq.
  6. 1959
  7. 1960 – September: OPEC founded at Baghdad Conference (Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela).
  8. 1961 – Iraq National Library and Archive established.
  9. 1963
  10. 1964 – Al-Yarmouk Teaching Hospital established.
  11. 1965 - Population: 1,490,759 city; 1,657,424 urban agglomeration.[37]
  12. 1966
  13. 1967 – Firqat Ittahaad al-Fannaaneed theatre group formed.[30]
  14. 1968 – National Theatre Company established.[30]
  15. 1970 - Population: 1,984,142 (estimate).[39]
  16. 1971 – Baghdad Zoo opens.
  17. 1975 – Central Post Office built.[4]
  18. 1978 – November: Arab League summit.
  19. 1980
  20. 1981 – National Film Center and Saddam Hussein Gymnasium (now Baghdad Gymnasium) built.[4]
  21. 1982
  22. 1983 – Al-Shaheed Monument built.[4]
  23. 1985
    • Baghdad Festival of Arab theatre begins.[30]
    • Amanat Al Assima Housing complex and Central Bank of Iraq building constructed.[4]
  24. 1987 - Population: 3,841,268.[40]
  25. 1988 – Saddam University established.
  26. 1989 – Victory Arch erected.[33]
  27. 1991
  28. 1993 – 26 June: Missile strikes by United States.
  29. 1994 – Baghdad Tower constructed.

21st century

2000s
  1. 2002 – April: Statue of Saddam Hussein erected in Firdos Square.
  2. 2003
  3. 2004
  4. 2005
    • 8 August: Municipal coup d'état.[41]
    • 31 August: 2005 Baghdad bridge stampede.
    • Baghdad International Film Festival begins.[42]
  5. 2006
  6. 2007
  7. 2008
  8. 2009
    • 1 January: Control of Green Zone transferred from US to Iraq.
    • Dismantling of war-time blast walls begins.[45]
    • 19 August: Bombings.

2010s
  1. 2010
    • 17 August: Bombings.
    • Baghdad FC Stadium opens.
  2. 2012
  3. 2015 - Air pollution in Baghdad reaches annual mean of 88 PM2.5 and 208 PM10, much higher than recommended.[47]
  4. 2016 - 3 July: Bombing in Karrada.
  5. 2018 - 10 June: Election ballot warehouse catches fire.[48]

See also

References
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  2. Charles Wendell (1971). "Baghdad: Imago Mundi, and Other Foundation-Lore". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 2 (2): 99–128. doi:10.1017/S0020743800000994. JSTOR 162258.
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