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Timeline of Sarajevo

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

Contents

15th-18th centuries

  • 1457 - Emperor's Mosque built.
  • 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 - September: 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 Yugoslavia.
  • 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.
  • 1961 - Population: 213,092.
  • 1969 - Skenderija (event centre) built.
  • 1962 - June: Earthquake.
  • 1971 - 359,448 metro.
  • 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.
  • 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.

    • 21st century

  • 2000 - King Fahd Mosque inaugurated.
  • 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.
  • 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 opens.

    • References

    Timeline of Sarajevo Wikipedia
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