Timeline of Baghdad

Coordinates: 33°19′30″N 44°25′19″E / 33.325°N 44.422°E

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

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

16th–19th centuries

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

20th century

1900s–1940s

1908 – Population: 140,000 (estimate).^[24]
1909 – Cinema built.^[25]
1911 – Ottoman XIII Corps headquartered in Baghdad.
1912 – Population: 200,000 (estimate).^[26]
1914 – October: Samarra-Baghdad railway begins operating.^[9]
1915
- Istanbul-Baghdad railway begins operating.^[6]
- Al-Rasheed Street laid out.^[6]
- Cholera epidemic.^[9]
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]

1919 – Guardians of Independence organized.
1920
- City becomes capital of the British Mandate of Iraq.
- Iraqi revolt against the British.
- Maktabat al-Salam (library) established.
1926 – Baghdad Antiquities Museum founded.
1927 – British Imperial Airways begins operating Cairo-Baghdad-Basra flights.^[9]
1929 – Al-Maktabatil Aammah (public library) active.
1931 – Strike.^[30]
1936 – Military coup.^[9]
1940 – Iraqi Music Institute inaugurated.^[31]
1941 - Iraqi coup d'état in Baghdad, World War II
1941
- May: Anglo-Iraqi War.^[32]
- June: Farhud (pogrom against Jews).
1944 – Baghdad Symphony Orchestra founded.
1946 – Al-Sarafiya bridge built.
1947 - Population: 352,137.^[33]
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

1952
- Uprising.^[9]
- Modern Theatre Company formed.^[31]
1953 – Baghdad Central Station built.
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]
1957
- University of Baghdad established.
- Demonstration.^[36]
1958
- 14 July: Iraqi coup d'état against king Faisal II at Royal Palace.^[36]
- City becomes capital of the Republic of Iraq.
1959
- Revolution City built.
- Al-Mabda' newspaper begins publication.
- Unknown Soldier monument erected on Firdos Square.^[34]
1960 – September: OPEC founded at Baghdad Conference (Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela).
1961 – Iraq National Library and Archive established.
1963
- 8–10 February: Iraqi coup d'état.
- Khulafa Central Mosque built.
- Al-Mustansiriya University and Al-Rasheed Sport Club established.
1964 – Al-Yarmouk Teaching Hospital established.
1965 - Population: 1,490,759 city; 1,657,424 urban agglomeration.^[38]
1966
- Film festival held at Al-Rashid Cinema.^[39]
- Al-Shaab Stadium and Martyrs' Mosque built.^[4]
1967 – Firqat Ittahaad al-Fannaaneed theatre group formed.^[31]
1968 – National Theatre Company established.^[31]
1970 - Population: 1,984,142 (estimate).^[40]
1971 – Baghdad Zoo opens.
1975 – Central Post Office built.^[4]
1978 – November: Arab League summit.
1980
- Iran–Iraq War begins.
- Film school of the Institute of Fine Arts established.^[39]
1981 – National Film Center and Saddam Hussein Gymnasium (now Baghdad Gymnasium) built.^[4]
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]
1983 – Al-Shaheed Monument built.^[4]
1985
- Baghdad Festival of Arab theatre begins.^[31]
- Amanat Al Assima Housing complex and Central Bank of Iraq building constructed.^[4]
1987 - Population: 3,841,268.^[41]
1988 – Saddam University established.
1989 – Victory Arch erected.^[34]
1991
- Gulf War.
- 13 February: Amiriyah shelter bombing.
1993 – 26 June: Missile strikes by United States.
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]

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Published in 17th–18th centuries

Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1676). "(Bagdat)". Les Six Voyages (in French). Paris.
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Published in 19th century

J.B.L.J. Rousseau (1809). Description du pachalik de Bagdad (in French).
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Guy Le Strange (1900), Baghdad during the Abbasid Caliphate, Oxford: Clarendon Press (Bibliography + Index).

Published in 20th century

"Bagdad", Chambers's Encyclopaedia, London: W. & R. Chambers, 1901
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Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi (1904), L' introduction topographique â l'histoire de Bagdâdh d'Aboû Bakr Aḥmad ibn Thâbit al-Khatîb al-Bagdâdhî (in French), translated by George Salmon, Paris: É. Bouillon, OCLC 23419471, OL 6942714M
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Published in 21st century

Hoshiar Nooradin (2004). "Globalization and the search for modern local architecture: learning from Baghdad". In Yasser Elsheshtawy (ed.). Planning Middle Eastern Cities: An Urban Kaleidoscope. Routledge. p. 59. ISBN 978-1-134-41010-1.
Ibn Sayyar al-Warraq (2007). Annals of the Caliphs' Kitchens: Ibn Sayyar al-Warraq's Tenth-Century Baghdadi Cookbook. Translated by Nawal Nasrallah. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-15867-2.
Dina Rizk Khoury (2008). "Violence and spatial politics between the local and imperial: Baghdad 1778-1810". In Gyan Prakash; Kevin Michael Kruse (eds.). Spaces of the Modern City: Imaginaries, Politics, and Everyday Life. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-13343-0.
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Yezin Al-Qays (ed.). "Heart of Baghdad".
"Movie Theaters in Baghdad, Iraq". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC.
Harold W. Morgan (1917–1919). "Photograph album of Capt. W. Harold Morgan: Mesopotamia". (includes photos of Baghdad)
Europeana. Items related to Baghdad, various dates.

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v t e The Tigris
Countries	Turkey (523 km) Syria (40 km) Iraq (1,377 km)
Cities	Diyarbakır Bismil Hasankeyf Cizre Mosul Tikrit Samarra Kadhimiya Baghdad Amarah Al-Kūt Kemune
Tributaries	Ambar Kuru Pamuk Hazro Batman Garzan Göksu Savur Botan Little Khabur Great Zab Little Zab 'Adhaim Diyala
Dams	Dicle Ilısu Cizre Mosul Badush Samarra Kut

v t e Districts and neighborhoods of Baghdad
Main districts	Adhamiyah Kadhimiya Karkh Karrada Mansour New Baghdad Al-Rashid Rusafa Sadr City Al-Za'franiya	Baghdad above
Neighborhoods	Hayy Al-A'amel Al-A'amiriya Abu Disher Al-Adel Al-Amin al-Thaniyah Arab Jibor Bab Al-Moatham Bab Al-Sharqi Baiyaa Dora Al-Fathel Ghazaliya Haifa Street Al-Hebnaa Al-Hurriya, Baghdad Al-Jadriya Haydar-Khana Hayy Al-Jami'a Jisr Diyala Al-Jihad Al Khadhraa Al-Maidan Mansour Raghiba Khatoun Al-Sa'adoon Saba Abkar Al-Saydiya Sha'ab Al-Shu'ala Hayy Al-Shurtta Al-Ubedy Hayy Ur Utafiyah Al-Washash Al-Wazireya Yarmouk Al-Za'franiya Zayouna Bataween	Baghdad above

v t e Districts of Iraq and their capitals
Anbar Governorate	Anah District (Anah) Fallujah District (Fallujah) Haditha District (Haditha) Hit District (Hit) al-Qa'im District (Al-Qa'im) Ramadi District (Ramadi) Rawah District (Rawah) ar-Rutba District (Ar-Rutbah)	Flag of Iraq
Babil Governorate	Hashimiya District (Al Hashimiyah) Al-Hilla District (Hillah) al-Mahawil District (Al-Mahawil) al-Musayab District (Musayyib)
Baghdad Governorate	Abu Ghraib District al-Istiqlal District al-Mada'in District Mahmudiya District (Mahmudiya) Taji District al-Tarmia District Baghdad: New Baghdad Adhamiyah Kadhimiya Karrada Karkh Mansour Al Rashid Rusafa Sadr City
Basra Governorate	Abu Al-Khaseeb District (Abu Al-Khaseeb) Basrah District (Basra) al-Faw District (al-Faw) al-Midaina District (Al-Midaina) al-Qurna District (Al-Qurnah) Shatt Al-Arab District (Shatt al-Arab) al-Zubair District (Al-Zubair)
Dhi Qar Governorate	al-Chibayish District (Al-Chibayish) Nasiriyah District (Nasiriyah) al-Rifa'i District (Al-Rifa'i) al-Shatrah District (Al-Shatrah) Suq al-Shuyukh District (Suq Al-Shoyokh)
Diyala Governorate	Balad Ruz District (Balad Ruz) Ba'quba District (Baqubah) al Khalis District (Al Khalis) Khanaqin District (Khanaqin) Kifri District (Kifri) al-Miqdadiya District (Al-Miqdadiya)
Duhok Governorate	Akre District (Akre) Amadiya District (Amadiya) Duhok District (Duhok) Simele District (Simele) Zakho District (Zakho)
Erbil Governorate	Choman District (Choman) Erbil District (Erbil) Koy Sinjaq District (Koy Sanjaq) Makhmur District (Makhmur) Mergasor District (Mergasor) Shaqlawa District (Shaqlawa) Soran District (Soran)
Halabja Governorate	Byara District (Byara) Halabja District (Halabja) Khurmal District (Khurmal) Sirwan District (Sirwan)
Karbala Governorate	al-Hindiya District (Al-Hindiya) Kerbala District (Karbala) Ain Al-Tamur District (Ayn al-Tamr)
Kirkuk Governorate	Daquq District (Daquq) Dibis District (Dibis) Hawija District (Hawija) Kirkuk District (Kirkuk)
Maysan Governorate	Ali Al-Gharbi District (Ali Al-Gharbi) Amara District (Amarah) al-Kahla District (Al-Kahla) al-Maimouna District (Al-Maimouna) al-Mejar Al-Kabi District (Al-Mejar Al-Kabi) Qal'at Saleh District (Qal'at Saleh)
Muthanna Governorate	al-Khidhir District (Al-Khidhir) al-Rumaitha District (Al-Rumaitha) al-Salman District (Al-Salman) al-Samawa District (Samawah)
Najaf Governorate	Kufa District (Kufa) al-Manathera District (Al-Manathera) al-Meshkhab District (Al-Meshkhab) Najaf District (Najaf)
Nineveh Governorate	al-Ba'aj District (Al-Ba'aj) al-Hamdaniya District (Qaraqosh) Hatra District (Al-Hadar) Mosul District (Mosul) Shekhan District (Ain Sifni) Sinjar District (Sinjar) Tel Afar District (Tal Afar) Tel Kaif District (Tel Keppe)
al-Qādisiyyah Governorate	Afak District (Afak) Diwaniya District (Al Diwaniyah) Hamza District (Hamza) al-Shamiya District (Al-Shamiya )
Saladin Governorate	Baiji District (Baiji) Balad District (Balad) al-Daur District (Ad-Dawr) Dujail District (Dujail) Samarra District (Samarra) al-Shirqat District (Al-Shirqat) Tikrit District (Tikrit) Tooz District (Tuz Khurmatu)
Sulaymaniyah Governorate	Chamchamal District (Chamchamal) Darbandikhan District (Darbandikhan) Dokan District (Dokan) Kalar District (Kalar) Kifri District (Kifri) Mawat District (Mawat) Penjwen District (Penjwen) Pshdar District (Qaladiza) Qaradagh District (Qaradagh) Ranya District (Ranya) Saidsadiq District (Said Sadiq) Sharazoor District (Zarayan) Sharbazher District (Sharbazher) Sulaymaniyah District (Sulaymaniyah)
Wasit Governorate	Al-Aziziyah District (Al-Aziziyah) Badra District (Badra) al-Hai District (Al-Hay) Kut District (Kut) al-Nu'maniya District (Al-Nu'maniya) al-Suwaira District (Al-Suwaira)

v t e Years in Iraq (1958–present)
20th century	... 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000
21st century	2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025
Category:Years of the 20th century in Iraq Category:Years of the 21st century in Iraq

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