Timeline of Baghdad
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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Baghdad, Iraq.
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.
- 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]