Timeline of Basra
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Basra, Iraq.
Prior to 16th century
- 638 CE - Military camp established by Utbah ibn Ghazwan per order of Omar ibn al-Khattab.
- 646 - Abdallah ibn Amer becomes governor.
- 658 - Battle of the Camel.
- 664 - Ziyad ibn Abihi becomes governor.
- 673 - Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad becomes governor.
- 683 - Uprising against Umayyads.
- 684 - The governor Mas'ud ibn Amr is killed by the asāwira under Māh-Afrīdūn
- 691 - Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan in power.
- 701 - Uprising against the Umayyads.
- 772 - Ramparts built.
- 820 - Zott conflict.
- 868 - Zanj Rebellion.
- 871 - City sacked during Zanj Rebellion.
- 923 - Qaramitah conflict.
- 10th century - Public library active.
- 1052 - Traveller Nasir Khusraw visits city.
- 1122 - Imad ad-Din Zengi in power.
- 1123 - City wall rebuilt.
- 1258 - City sacked by Mongols.
- 1327 - Traveller Ibn Battuta visits city.
- 1411 - Kara Koyunlu in power.
16th-19th centuries
- 1546 - Ottomans in power.
- 1547 - Basra Eyalet formed.
- 1556 - Portuguese attempt to take city.
- 1596 - Afrasiyab becomes governor.
- 1604 - Population: 50,000 ; number of houses: 10,000.
- 1645 - English factory in business.
- 1668 - City was conquered by the Turks.
- 1694 - Muntafiq tribes in power.
- 1733 - City becomes part of Baghdad Eyalet.
- 1763 - British East India Company in business.
- 1773 - Epidemic.
- 1777 - City besieged by Persian forces led by Sadiq Khan Zand.
- 1779 - Turks in power.
- 1823 - Population: 55,000.
- 1840 - Turks in power.
- 1865 - Baghdad-Basra telegraph begins operating.
- 1884 - Basra Vilayet formed.
20th century
- 1901 - Consulate of Russia established.
- 1910 - Cholera and bubonic plague outbreak.
- 1911
- * Consulate of Germany established.
- * Cholera epidemic.
- 1913 - Reform Society of Basra founded.
- 1914 - Battle of Basra (1914); British in power.
- 1915 - April: Turkish forces attempt to take city.
- 1919 - Baghdad-Basra Railway in operation.
- 1920
- * Uprising against British occupation.
- * Population: 40,000.
- 1947 - Population: 101,535.
- 1964 - University of Basrah established.
- 1965 - Population: 310,950.
- 1967 - Basrah Medical College established.
- 1982 - July: Iranian forces attempt to take city.
- 1984 - Iranian forces attempt to take city.
- 1987
- * January–February: Iranian forces attempt to take city.
- * Population: 406,296.
- 1991
- * 1 March: Uprising against Saddam Hussein.
- * Marsh Arab population in city expands.
- 1999
- * 25 January: Bombing by United States forces.
- * Uprising.
21st century
- 2003
- * March–April: Battle of Basra (2003); British forces in power.
- * August: Oil strike.
- 2004 - 21 April 2004 Basra bombings.
- 2005 - July: Oil strike.
- 2007
- * June: Al-Ashrah Al-Mubashra mosque bombed.
- * December: British military occupation ends.
- * Population: 1,912,533.
- 2008 - Battle of Basra (2008).
- 2011 - 2011 Basra bombings.
- 2012 - 14 January 2012 Basra bombing.
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