Timeline of Damascus

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Damascus, Syria.

Prior to 20th century

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Map of Damascus in 1855^[1]

View of Damascus, 1898

• 965 BCE – Ezron, King of Aram-Zobah conquers Damascus
• 732 BCE – Neo-Assyrian Empire conquers Damascus
• 572 BCE – Neo-Babylonians conquered Damascus
• 4th century – Temple of Jupiter built by the Romans.
• 634 – Arab conquest of Damascus.
• 715 – Great Mosque built.
• 789 – Qubbat al-Khazna built.
• 1078 – Citadel of Damascus built.
• 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.
• 1234 – Aqsab Mosque built.
• 1254 – Al-Qilijiyah Madrasa established.
• 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.
• 1558 – Tekkiye Mosque built.
• 1566 – Al-Salimiyah Madrasa established.
• 1574 – Khan al-Harir built.
• 1605 - Printing press established.^[2]
• 1736 – Khan Sulayman Pasha built.
• 1750 – Azm Palace built.
• 1752 – Khan As'ad Pasha built.
• 1885 – Bakdash (ice cream parlor) established.

20th century

• 1918 – October: "Arab troops led by Emir Feisal, and supported by British forces, capture Damascus, ending 400 years of Ottoman rule."^[3]
• 1920 – July: "French forces occupy Damascus, forcing Feisal to flee abroad."^[3]
• 1923 – Damascus University founded.
• 1925-6 – "French forces bombard Damascus."^[3]
• 1928 – Al-Wahda Club of Damascus founded.
• 1935 – Population: 193,912.^[4]
• 1939 – Chapel of Saint Paul inaugurated.
• 1946 – Population: 303,952.^[5]
• 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."^[3]
• 1977 – Higher Institute for Dramatic Arts founded.
• 1981 – Bomb explodes near Syrian Air Force headquarters.^[6]
• 1983 – Higher Institute for Applied Science and Technology founded.
• 1984 – Al-Assad National Library established.

21st century

• 2000 – Damascus Spring
• 2004 – Damascus Opera House inaugurated.
• 2006
  • February: "Danish and Norwegian embassies in Damascus are set on fire."^[3]
  • September: "Attack on the US embassy."^[3]
• 2009 – Damascus Securities Exchange founded.
• 2011
  • March: Protest; crackdown.^[7]
  • Syrian civil war begins.
• 2012
  • January 2012 al-Midan bombing^[8]
  • March 2012 Damascus bombings
  • April 2012 Damascus bombings
  • 10 May 2012 Damascus bombings.^[8]
  • Summer 2012 Damascus clashes
  • Battle of Damascus (2012)

See also

• Timeline of Syrian history

Other cities in Syria

• Timeline of Aleppo
• Timeline of Hama

References

Further reading

Published in the 19th century

• H. A. S. Dearborn (1819), "Damascus", A Memoir on the Commerce and Navigation of the Black Sea, Boston: Wells & Lilly 
• Josiah Conder (1824), "Damascus", Syria and Asia Minor, London: James Duncan, OCLC 8888382 
• John Fuller (1830), "Damascus", Narrative of a Tour Through Some Parts of the Turkish Empire, John Murray, OCLC 15470157 
• David Brewster, ed. (1832). "Damascus". Edinburgh Encyclopædia. 7. Philadelphia: Joseph and Edward Parker. 
• Thomas Bartlett (1841). "Damascus". New Tablet of Memory; or, Chronicle of Remarkable Events. London: Thomas Kelly. 
• Charles Knight, ed. (1866). "Damascus". Geography. English Cyclopaedia. 2. London: Bradbury, Evans, & Co. 
• George Henry Townsend (1867), "Damascus", A Manual of Dates (2nd ed.), London: Frederick Warne & Co. 
• "Damascus", Cook's Tourists' Handbook for Palestine and Syria, London: T. Cook & Son, 1876 
• "Damascus", Palestine and Syria, Leipsig: Karl Baedeker, 1876 . 1898 ed.
• Èmile Isambert (1881). "Damas". Itinéraire descriptif, historique et archéologique de l'Orient. Guides Joanne (in French). 3: Syrie, Palestine. 
• Guy Le Strange (1890), "Damascus", Palestine under the Moslems: a description of Syria and the Holy Land from A.D. 650 to 1500, London: A.P. Watt 

Published in the 20th century

• "Damascus", Chambers's Encyclopaedia, London: W. & R. Chambers, 1901 
• D.S. Margoliouth (1907), Cairo, Jerusalem, and Damascus, London: Chatto & Windus 
• "Damascus", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 
• Benjamin Vincent (1910), "Damascus", Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.), London: Ward, Lock & Co. 
• 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 the 21st century

• John Block Friedman; Kristen Mossler Figg (2000). "Damascus". Trade, Travel, and Exploration in the Middle Ages: an Encyclopedia. Routledge. p. 146+. ISBN 978-1-135-59094-9. 
• Josef W. Meri, ed. (2006). "Damascus". Medieval Islamic Civilization. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-96691-7. 
• C. Edmund Bosworth, ed. (2007). "Damascus". Historic Cities of the Islamic World. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill. pp. 107–125. ISBN 9004153888. 
• Michael R.T. Dumper; Bruce E. Stanley, eds. (2008), "Damascus", Cities of the Middle East and North Africa, Santa Barbara, USA: ABC-CLIO, p. 119+, ISBN 9781576079195 
• "Damascus". Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art & Architecture. Oxford University Press. 2009. pp. 513–517. ISBN 9780195309911. 
• Gabor Agoston; Bruce Alan Masters (2009). "Damascus". Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire. Facts on File. ISBN 978-1-4381-1025-7. 

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Damascus.

• ArchNet. "Damascus". Archived from the original on 30 October 2013. 
• Michel Ecochard. "Damascus Albums". Regional Surveys. ArchNet.  circa 1930s

Coordinates: 33°30′47″N 36°17′31″E / 33.513°N 36.292°E / 33.513; 36.292

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