# Timeline of Sarajevo

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

## 15th–18th centuries

* 1457 - Emperor's Mosque built.
* 1463 - Settlements begin in Sarajevo.
* 1521 - Gazi Husrev-beg becomes sanjak-bey of Ottoman Bosnian Sanjak.
* 1530 - Gazi Husrev-beg Mosque built.
* 1531 - Madrasah of Sarajevo established.
* 1561 - Ali Pasha's Mosque built.
* 1697 - City sacked by Austrian forces.
* 1703 - Seat of Ottoman Bosnia Eyalet relocated from Sarajevo to Travnik.
* 1730 - Serbian Orthodox church rebuilt.
* 1739 - Fortress restored.
* 1766 - Magribija rebuilt.
* 1788 - Fire.
* 1791 - November: Flood.
* 1797 - Fire.
* 1798 - Latin Bridge rebuilt.

## 19th century

* 1813 - Plague.
* 1850 - Seat of Ottoman Bosnia Eyalet relocated to Sarajevo from Travnik.
* 1851 - Population: 21,102.
* 1867 - City becomes capital of the Ottoman Bosnia Vilayet.
* 1868 - Serb Orthodox Cathedral built.
* 1869 - Orphanage founded.
* 1878 - City becomes part the Condominium of Bosnia and Herzegovina of Austria-Hungary.
* 1879 - Fire.
* 1885 - Population: 26,377.
* 1888 - National Museum established.
* 1889 - Sacred Heart Cathedral built.
* 1893 - Mehmed-beg Kapetanović Ljubušak becomes mayor.
* 1894 - National Museum buys Sephardic Haggadah for its collection.
* 1895 - Population: 37,713.
* 1896 - Town Hall and National Library built.

## 20th century

* 1902 - Sarajevo Synagogue built.
* 1906 - Novibazar-Sarajevo railway begins operating.
* 1910 - Population: 51,919.
* 1912 - Kino Apolo (cinema) opens.
* 1913 - National Museum built.
* 1914
** 28 June: Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria.
** 28–29 June: Anti-Serb pogrom in Sarajevo.
* 1915 - Kino Imperijal (cinema) opens.
* 1918 - City becomes part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.
* 1921 - Population: 60,087.
* 1923 - Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra active.
* 1929 - City becomes seat of the Drina Banovina (province) of Yugoslavia.
* 1930 - Art gallery established.
* 1935 - Kino Tesla (cinema) opens.
* 1941 - German occupation begins.
* 1943 - Oslobođenje newspaper begins publication.
* 1945
** April: German occupation ends.
** State School of Painting, and Association of Artists of Bosnia and Herzegovina established.
* 1949 - University of Sarajevo and Museum of Sarajevo established.
* 1950 - Oriental Institute in Sarajevo established.
* 1953 - Population: 135,657.
* 1961 - Population: 213,092.
* 1969 - Skenderija (event centre) built.
* 1962 - June: Earthquake.
* 1972 - Academy of Arts opens.
* 1977 - Faculty of Islamic Theology established.
* 1981
** Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo established.
** Vraca Memorial Park opens.
** Emerik Blum becomes mayor.
** Population: 319,017.
* 1984
** February: 1984 Winter Olympics.
** Sarajevo Winter Festival begins.
* 1991 - Population: 361,735; canton 527,049.
* 1992
** 5 April: Siege of Sarajevo begins.
** 2–3 May: 1992 Yugoslav People's Army column incident in Sarajevo.
** 17 May: Oriental Institute in Sarajevo destroyed.
** Sarajevo War Theatre opens.
* BH Dani magazine begins publication.
* 1995
** Canton of Sarajevo established per Dayton Agreement.
** Dnevni avaz newspaper in publication.
** Sarajevo Film Festival begins.
** Mediacentar Sarajevo founded.
* 1996 - 29 February: Siege of Sarajevo ends.
* 1997 - Sarajevo Jazz Festival begins.
* 2000 - King Fahd Mosque inaugurated.

## 21st century

* 2001 - Istiqlal Mosque and Bosniak Institute established.
* 2002 - Population: 401,118.
* 2004
** Center for Investigative Reporting headquartered in city.
** Baitus Salam (mosque) built.
* 2005
** Semiha Borovac becomes mayor (first female mayor).
** East West Theatre Company founded.
* 2008
** Avaz Twist Tower built.
** Sarajevo City Center (commercial space) construction begins.
* 2009
** Alija Behmen becomes mayor.
** BBI Centar shopping mall in business.
* 2013
** Ivo Komšić becomes mayor.
** Population: 369,534; metro 515,012.
* 2014 - Gazi Husrev-Begova Library [bs] opens.
* 2014
** April 2014: Sarajevo City Center opened early
** April 2014: Miljacka River almost flooded the city
** 9 May: Sarajevo National Library reopens.
* 2017
** 6 February: Abdulah Skaka becomes mayor.
* 2019
** Summer 2019 - Sarajevo flooded by high amount of rain due to overwhelming humidity climate.
** November 2019 - Sarajevo faced 3 aftershocks of an Earthquake with its epicenter in Nevesinje, it is referred to as the Durrës Earthquake.
* 2020
** January 2020 - Sarajevo faces a dangerous air pollution similar to most Chinese urban cities
** March 2020 - COVID-19 impacts the education and movement in Sarajevo.
** 22 March 2020 - A weak aftershock occurred exactly at 6:25 AM (CET) from an earthquake in Zagreb.
** 29 December 2020 - Another weak aftershock occurred at 12:20 PM (CET) from an earthquake in Petrinja.
* 2021
** 8 April: Benjamina Karić becomes mayor.
* 2024
** 29 November: Predrag Puharić becomes mayor.