Timeline of Damascus

Timeline of Damascus
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Damascus, Syria.
Prior to 7th century
965 BCE – Ezron, King of Aram-Zobah conquers Damascus
843 BCE – Hazael assassinated Ben-Hadad I and made himself king of Damascus.
732 BCE – Neo-Assyrian Empire conquers Damascus
572 BCE – Neo-Babylonians conquered Damascus
538 BCE – Achaemenid Empire annexes Damascus
333 BCE – Alexander the Great conquers Damascus
112 BCE – Damascus fell to Antiochus IX Cyzicenus.
150 CE – Damascus became a Roman provincial city under Trajan.
4th century – Temple of Jupiter built by the Romans.
7th–19th centuries
613 – Sasanian captured Damascus during the Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628
634 – Arab conquest of Damascus under Khalid ibn al-Walid.
715 – Great Mosque built by Al-Walid I by converting the church of St John the Baptist constructed by Arcadius.
789 – Qubbat al-Khazna built.
1078 – Citadel of Damascus built.
1126 – Crusaders attacked Damascus.
1129 – Crusaders march on Damascus.
1142 – Al-Mujahidiyah Madrasa established.
1154 – Nur al-Din Bimaristan built.
1196 – Mausoleum of Saladin built.
1215 – Al-Adiliyah Madrasa founded.
1216 – Citadel of Damascus rebuilt.
1224 – Al-Rukniyah Madrasa built.
1229 – Damascus besieged
1234 – Aqsab Mosque built.
1250 – Qaymariyya hand city over to al-Nasir Yusuf in bloodless coup.
1254 – Al-Qilijiyah Madrasa established.
1260 – Kitbuga, a confidant of the Mongol Ilkhan Hulagu, captured Damascus. Then, it was captured five days after the Battle of Ain Jalut by the Mamluk Sultanate.
1277 – Al-Zahiriyah Library established.
1400 – Timur, the Turco-Mongol conqueror, besieges Damascus.
1515 – Al-Sibaiyah Madrasa built.
1516 – Ottomans under Selim I conquered Damascus from the Mamluks.
1518 – Salimiyya Takiyya built.
1558 – Sulaymaniyya Takiyya built.
1566 – Salimiyya Madrasa established.
1574 – Khan al-Harir built.
1605 – Printing press established.
1736 – Khan Sulayman Pasha built.
1750 – Azm Palace built.
1752 – Khan As'ad Pasha built.
1832 – Captured by Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt.
1840 – Return of the city to Turkish domination, when the Egyptians were driven out of Syria.
1860 – Massacre; the Moslem population rose against the Christians.
1885 – Bakdash (ice cream parlor) established.
1900 – Population: 154,000. (approx date)
20th century
1918 – October: Arab troops led by Emir Feisal, and supported by British Armed Forces, capture Damascus, ending 400 years of Ottoman rule.
1920 – July: French Armed Forces occupy Damascus, forcing Feisal to flee abroad.
1923 – University founded.
1925/6 – French forces bombard Damascus.
1928 – Al-Wahda Club of Damascus founded.
1935 – Population: 193,912.
1939 – Chapel of Saint Paul inaugurated.
1946 – Population: 303,952.
1947 – Al-Jaish Sports Club founded.
1960 – Syrian Television begins broadcasting.
1961 – September: Discontent with Egyptian domination of the United Arab Republic prompts a group of Syrian Army officers to seize power in Damascus and dissolve the union.
1964 – Population: 562,907 (estimate).
1970 – Population: 836,668 city; 923,253 urban agglomeration.
1977 – Higher Institute for Dramatic Arts founded.
1981
Bomb explodes near Syrian Air Force headquarters.
Azbakiyah bombing
1983 – Higher Institute for Applied Science and Technology founded.
1984 – Al-Assad National Library established.
1985 – Population: 1,196,710 (estimate).
1986 – Bombings
1994 – Population: 1,549,000 (estimate).
2000 – Spring
21st century
2004 – Damascus Opera House inaugurated.
2006
February: "Danish and Norwegian embassies in Damascus are set on fire."
September: "Attack on the US embassy."
2008 – Population: 1,680,000 (estimate).
2009 – Damascus Securities Exchange founded.
2011
March: Protest; crackdown.
Syrian civil war begins.
2012
January 2012 al-Midan bombing
March 2012 Damascus bombings
April 2012 Damascus bombings
10 May 2012 Damascus bombings.
Summer 2012 Damascus clashes
Battle of Damascus (2012)
2013
Damascus offensive (2013)
2018
May: Syrian Armed Forces recapture the entire city of Damascus.
See also
Timeline of Syrian history
Timelines of other cities in Syria: Aleppo, Hama, Homs, Latakia
References
Bibliography
Published in 19th century
. (+ 1898 ed.)
Published in 20th century
R. Stephen Humphreys. "Urban Topography and Urban Society: Damascus under the Ayyubids and Mamluks." In his, Islamic History: A Framework for Inquiry. Minneapolis, 1988. pp. 209–32.
Michael Chamberlain, Knowledge and Social Practice in Medieval Damascus, 1190–1350. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. pp. 27–68.
Published in 21st century
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