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]
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]
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^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. S2CID 163049281.
^Clifford Edmund Bosworth, ed. (2007). "Baghdad". Historic Cities of the Islamic World. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-15388-2.
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^Jacob Lassner (1966). "Massignon and Baghdad: The Complexities of Growth in an Imperial City". Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient. 9 (1/2): 1–27. doi:10.2307/3596170. JSTOR 3596170.
^ abcdefJacqueline Griffin (1996), "Baghdad", in Trudy Ring (ed.), Middle East and Africa, International Dictionary of Historic Places, Routledge, ISBN 978-1-884964-03-9
^History of Printing Timeline, American Printing History Association, retrieved 6 May 2016
^ abcdCharles Wilson, ed. (1895), "Baghdad", Handbook for Travellers in Asia Minor, Transcaucasia, Persia, etc., London: John Murray, ISBN 978-0-524-06214-2, OCLC 8979039
^ abcdefghiMichael R.T. Dumper; Bruce E. Stanley, eds. (2008), "Baghdad", Cities of the Middle East and North Africa, Santa Barbara, USA: ABC-CLIO
^Jim Al-Khalili (2010), Pathfinders: the golden age of Arabic science, London: Allen Lane, ISBN 978-1-84614-161-4
^Felix Jones (1856). "Brief Observations, Forming an Appendix to the Map of Baghdad". Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. 12. Bombay.
^ abGeorge Makdisi (1959). "Topography of Eleventh Century Baġdād: Materials and Notes". Arabica. 6 (2): 178–197. doi:10.1163/157005859X00334. JSTOR 4055493.
^ abFrancoise Micheau (2008). "Baghdad in the Abbasid Era". The City in the Islamic World. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-16240-2.
^ abGeorge Makdisi (1961). "Muslim Institutions of Learning in Eleventh-Century Baghdad". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. 24 (1): 1–56. doi:10.1017/s0041977x0014039x. JSTOR 610293. S2CID 154869619.
^"West Asia: Iraq, 1000–1400 A.D.: Key Events". Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 3 October 2014.
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