Timeline of Sarajevo explained

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

Prior to 15th century

See also: Sarajevo in ancient times and Sarajevo during the Middle Ages.

15th–18th centuries

See also: Early Ottoman Sarajevo and Late Ottoman Sarajevo.

• 1457 - Emperor's Mosque built.
• 1463 - Settlements begin in Sarajevo.
• 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 - 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

See also: Late Ottoman Sarajevo.

• 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^[1] and National Library built.^[2]

20th century

See also: History of modern Sarajevo.

• 1902 - Sarajevo Synagogue built.
• 1906 - Novibazar-Sarajevo railway begins operating.
• 1910 - Population: 51,919.
• 1912 - Kino Apolo (cinema) opens.^[3]
• 1913 - National Museum built.
• 1914
  • 28 June: Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria.^[4]
  • 28–29 June: Anti-Serb pogrom in Sarajevo.
• 1915 - Kino Imperijal (cinema) opens.
• 1918 - City becomes part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.
• 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.^{[5] [6]}
• 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.^[7]
• 1953 - Population: 135,657.^[8]
• 1961 - Population: 213,092.
• 1969 - Skenderija (event centre) built.
• 1962 - June: Earthquake.
• 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.
  • Population: 319,017.^[9]
• 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.^[10]
  • 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.^[11]
• 1996 - 29 February: Siege of Sarajevo ends.
• 1997 - Sarajevo Jazz Festival begins.
• 2000 - King Fahd Mosque inaugurated.

21st century

See also: History of modern Sarajevo.

• 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 (first female 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 - opens.
• 2014
  • April 2014: Sarajevo City Center opened early
    • • April 2014: Miljacka River almost flooded the city 9 May: Sarajevo National Library reopens.
• 2017
  • 6 February: Abdulah Skaka becomes mayor.
• 2019
  • Summer 2019 - Sarajevo flooded by high amount of rain due to overwhelming humidity climate.
  • November 2019 - Sarajevo faced 3 aftershocks of an Earthquake with its epicenter in Nevesinje, it is referred to as the Durrës Earthquake.
• 2020
  • January 2020 - Sarajevo faces a dangerous air pollution similar to most Chinese urban cities
  • March 2020 - COVID-19 impacts the education and movement in Sarajevo.
  • 22 March 2020 - A weak aftershock occurred exactly at 6:25 AM (CET) from an earthquake in Zagreb.
  • 29 December 2020 - Another weak aftershock occurred at 12:20 PM (CET) from an earthquake in Petrinja.
• 2021
  • 8 April: Benjamina Karić becomes mayor.
• 2024
  • 29 November: Predrag Puharić becomes mayor.

See also

• List of mayors of Sarajevo since 1878
• Other names of Sarajevo

References

This article incorporates information from the German Wikipedia and Serbian Wikipedia.

Bibliography

Published in the 19th century

• Book: Geography . 2 . . Charles Knight . London . 1866 . Bradbury, Evans, & Co. . Bosna-Serai . 2027/nyp.33433000064794 .

Published in the 20th century

• • Book: McClurg & Co. . F.K. Hutchinson . Chicago . Motoring in the Balkans . https://archive.org/stream/motoringinbalkan00hutc#page/n309/mode/2up. 1909. 8647011 . (Sarajevo).
• Serajevo . 24 . 660 . 1910 . . 1.
• Book: Austria-Hungary. 1911. 11th . Karl Baedeker . Leipzig . Sarajevo . https://books.google.com/books?id=Tb04AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA419 .
• Book: Serbian Orthodox Church and the people of Sarajevo in the 17th and 18th century . Sarajevo . 1928 . Vladislav Skaric .

  sr:Владислав Скарић

  . (Published in Serbian?)
• Book: Serajevo . E.J. Brill . Encyclopaedia of Islam . c. 1936 . Encyclopaedia of Islam .
• Book: Sarajevo and its surroundings from the earliest times to the Austro-Hungarian occupation . Sarajevo . 1937 . Vladislav Skaric .

  sr:Владислав Скарић

  . (Published in Serbian?)
• Book: Ljetopis (1746-1804) . Mula Mustafa Bašeskija . Sarajevo . Veselin Masleša . 1987 . hr . 8621000997 . Mula Mustafa Bašeskija . (Sarajevo in the 18th century by contemporary)
• Web site: The Dying City of Sarajevo . John F. Burns . 26 July 1992 . New York Times . Photographs by Jon Jones . John F. Burns .
• Web site: War Turns Sarajevo Away From Europe . Chris Hedges. 28 July 1995. New York Times. Chris Hedges .
• Book: Trudy Ring . Southern Europe . International Dictionary of Historic Places . 3. 1996. Fitzroy Dearborn . 31045650 . Sarajevo . Amira Dzirolo . Paul E. Schellinger . amp . .

Published in the 21st century

• Census and Sensibilities in Sarajevo . Fran Markowitz . Comparative Studies in Society and History . 49. 1 . 40–73 . 2007. 4497682. . 10.1017/S0010417507000400 . 143939745 .
• Book: Historic Cities of the Islamic World . C. Edmund Bosworth. 2007. . Leiden . 978-9004153882 . Sarajevo . A. Popovic . 164–171 . https://books.google.com/books?id=UB4uSVt3ulUC&pg=PA164. .

External links

• Europeana. Items related to Sarajevo, various dates.

Notes and References

1. Book: Bosnia and Herzegovina . Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art & Architecture . 2009 . Oxford University Press . 9780195309911 .
2. Web site: Sarajevo . ArchNet.org . MIT School of Architecture and Planning . Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA . 6 January 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140106195821/http://archnet.org/library/places/one-place.jsp?place_id=2083 . 6 January 2014 . dmy-all .
3. Web site: Movie Theaters in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina . CinemaTreasures.org . Cinema Treasures LLC . Los Angeles . 6 January 2014 .
4. Book: Stephen Pope . Elizabeth-Anne Wheal. Dictionary of the First World War. 1995 . Macmillan . 978-0-85052-979-1 . Select Chronology . https://books.google.com/books?id=fOrNAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA523 .
5. Web site: Sarajevo (Bosnia and Hercegovina) Newspapers . WorldCat . . USA . 6 January 2014 .
6. Book: Europa World Year Book . 2004. Taylor & Francis. 978-1-85743-254-1 . Bosnia and Herzegovina: Directory . https://books.google.com/books?id=wGA4o-UhAfgC&pg=PA844 .
7. Web site: Hazine: a Guide to Researching the Middle East and Beyond . Christopher Markiewicz . Nir Shafir . 30 January 2015.
8. Web site: Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants . Demographic Yearbook 1955 . . New York .
9. Book: https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/1980_round.htm . 1985 Demographic Yearbook . 1987 . United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office . New York . Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants . 247–289 .
10. Riedlmayer. András. Erasing the Past: The Destruction of Libraries and Archives in Bosnia - Herzegovina . Middle East Studies Association Bulletin . 29. 7–11. . July 1995. 6 January 2014 . 10.1017/S0026318400030418. 164940150 .
11. Web site: Members . Global Investigative Journalism Network . 6 January 2014 .