Timeline of Damascus

Prior to 7th century

• 965 BCE – Rezon, leader of a marauding band, conquers Damascus and becomes King of the Arameans.
• 843 BCE – Hazael assassinated Ben-Hadad I and made himself king of Aram-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 – 21 August to 19 September: 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.

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.
• 1933 – Arab Women's Union in 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.
• 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.
• 1986 – Bombings
• 1994 – Population: 1,549,000.
• 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.
• 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
• 2018
• * May: Syrian Armed Forces recapture the entire city of Damascus.
• 2024
• * December: Syrian opposition forces captured the city.

Published in 19th century

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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