Timeline of Sarajevo

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

Prior to 15th century

15th-18th centuries

• 1457 - Emperor's Mosque built.
• 1463 - Settlements begin in Sarajevo.
• 1521 - Gazi Husrev-beg becomes sanjak-bey of Ottoman Bosnian Sanjak.[1]
• 1530 - Gazi Husrev-beg Mosque built.[1]
• 1531 - Madrasah of Sarajevo established.
• 1561 - Ali Pasha's Mosque built.
• 1697 - September: City sacked by Austrian forces.[2]
• 1703 - Seat of Ottoman Bosnia Eyalet relocated from Sarajevo to Travnik.
• 1730 - Serbian Orthodox church rebuilt.[2]
• 1739 - Fortress restored.[2]
• 1766 - Magribija rebuilt.[2]
• 1788 - Fire.[2]
• 1791 - November: Flood.
• 1797 - Fire.[2]
• 1798 - Latin Bridge rebuilt.

19th century

• 1813 - Plague.[2]
• 1850 - Seat of Ottoman Bosnia Eyalet relocated to Sarajevo from Travnik.[2]
• 1851 - Population: 21,102.[2]
• 1867 - City becomes capital of the Ottoman Bosnia Vilayet.
• 1868 - Serb Orthodox Cathedral built.
• 1869 - Orphanage founded.[3]
• 1878 - City becomes part the Condominium of Bosnia and Herzegovina of Austria-Hungary.[1]
• 1879 - Fire.[2]
• 1885 - Population: 26,377.[2]
• 1888 - National Museum established.[4]
• 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.[3]
• 1896 - Town Hall[4] and National Library built.[5]

20th century

• 1902 - Sarajevo Synagogue built.
• 1906 - Novibazar-Sarajevo railway begins operating.[3]
• 1910 - Population: 51,919.[2]
• 1912 - Kino Apolo (cinema) opens.[6]
• 1913 - National Museum built.[4]
• 1914
  • 28 June: Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria.[7]
  • 28–29 June: Anti-Serb pogrom in Sarajevo.
• 1915 - Kino Imperijal (cinema) opens.[6]
• 1918 - City becomes part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.[2]
• 1921 - Population: 60,087.[2]
• 1923 - Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra active.
• 1929 - City becomes seat of the Drina Banovina (province) of Yugoslavia.[2]
• 1930 - Art gallery established.[4]
• 1935 - Kino Tesla (cinema) opens.[6]
• 1941 - German occupation begins.[8]
• 1943 - Oslobođenje newspaper begins publication.[9][10]
• 1945
  • April: German occupation ends.[8]
  • State School of Painting, and Association of Artists of Bosnia and Herzegovina established.[4]
• 1949 - University of Sarajevo and Museum of Sarajevo[4] established.
• 1950 - Oriental Institute in Sarajevo established.[11]
• 1953 - Population: 135,657.[12]
• 1961 - Population: 213,092.[2]
• 1969 - Skenderija (event centre) built.
• 1962 - June: Earthquake.[13]
• 1972 - Academy of Arts opens.[4]
• 1977 - Faculty of Islamic Theology established.[2]
• 1981
  • Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo established.
  • Vraca Memorial Park opens.
  • Emerik Blum becomes mayor.
  • Population: 319,017.[14]
• 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.[15]
  • 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.[16]
• 1996 - 29 February: Siege of Sarajevo ends.
• 1997 - Sarajevo Jazz Festival begins.
• 2000 - King Fahd Mosque inaugurated.

21st century

• 2001 - Istiqlal Mosque and Bosniak Institute[11] established.
• 2002 - Population: 401,118.[17]
• 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.[11]
• 2014
  • April 2014: Sarajevo City Center opened early
  • April 2014: Miljacka River almost flooded the city
  • 9 May: Sarajevo National Library reopens.
• 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 - An 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.

See also

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

References

1. Dzirolo 1996.
2. Popovic 2007.
3. Britannica 1910.
4. "Bosnia and Herzegovina". Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art & Architecture. Oxford University Press. 2009. ISBN 9780195309911.
5. ArchNet.org. "Sarajevo". Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA: MIT School of Architecture and Planning. Archived from the original on 6 January 2014. Retrieved 6 January 2014.
6. "Movie Theaters in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved 6 January 2014.
7. Stephen Pope; Elizabeth-Anne Wheal (1995). "Select Chronology". Dictionary of the First World War. Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-85052-979-1.
8. "Sarajevo", Webster's Geographical Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA: G. & C. Merriam Co., 1960, p. 1008, OL 5812502M
9. "Sarajevo (Bosnia and Hercegovina) Newspapers". WorldCat. USA: Online Computer Library Center. Retrieved 6 January 2014.
10. "Bosnia and Herzegovina: Directory". Europa World Year Book. Taylor & Francis. 2004. ISBN 978-1-85743-254-1.
11. Christopher Markiewicz; Nir Shafir (eds.). "Hazine: a Guide to Researching the Middle East and Beyond". Retrieved 30 January 2015.
12. "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1955. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations.
13. "Quake Shakes Sarajevo; 7 in Yugoslav City Hurt", New York Times, 12 June 1962
14. United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1987). "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". 1985 Demographic Yearbook. New York. pp. 247–289.
15. Riedlmayer, András (July 1995). "Erasing the Past: The Destruction of Libraries and Archives in Bosnia - Herzegovina" (PDF). Middle East Studies Association: Bulletin. Middle East Studies Association of North America. 29: 7–11. doi:10.1017/S0026318400030418. Retrieved 6 January 2014.
16. "Members". Global Investigative Journalism Network. Retrieved 6 January 2014.
17. Markowitz 2007.

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

Bibliography

Published in the 19th century

• Charles Knight, ed. (1866). "Bosna-Serai". Geography. English Cyclopaedia. 2. London: Bradbury, Evans, & Co. hdl:2027/nyp.33433000064794.
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• Robert Munro (1900), "To and at Sarajevo", Rambles and studies in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Dalmatia (2nd ed.), Edinburgh: W. Blackwood

Published in the 20th century

• "Bosna-Serai", Chambers's Encyclopaedia, London: W. & R. Chambers, 1901
• F.K. Hutchinson (1909). "(Sarajevo)". Motoring in the Balkans. Chicago: McClurg & Co. OCLC 8647011.
• "Serajevo", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
• "Sarajevo". Austria-Hungary (11th ed.). Leipzig: Karl Baedeker. 1911.
• Vladislav Skaric (1928). Serbian Orthodox Church and the people of Sarajevo in the 17th and 18th century. Sarajevo. (Published in Serbian?)
• "Serajevo". Encyclopaedia of Islam. E.J. Brill. c. 1936.
• Vladislav Skaric (1937). Sarajevo and its surroundings from the earliest times to the Austro-Hungarian occupation. Sarajevo. (Published in Serbian?)
• Mula Mustafa Bašeskija (1987). Ljetopis (1746-1804) (in Croatian). Sarajevo: Veselin Masleša. ISBN 8621000997. (Sarajevo in the 18th century by contemporary Mulla Mustafa Basheski)
• John F. Burns (26 July 1992). "The Dying City of Sarajevo". New York Times. Photographs by Jon Jones.
• Chris Hedges (28 July 1995). "War Turns Sarajevo Away From Europe". New York Times.
• Amira Dzirolo & Paul E. Schellinger (1996). "Sarajevo". In Trudy Ring (ed.). Southern Europe. International Dictionary of Historic Places. 3. Fitzroy Dearborn. OCLC 31045650.
• D. Juzbasic, ed. (1997), Papers on History of Sarajevo, Sarajevo: Institute for History/Institute for Oriental Studies

Published in the 21st century

• Fran Markowitz (2007). "Census and Sensibilities in Sarajevo". Comparative Studies in Society and History. 49 (1): 40–73. doi:10.1017/S0010417507000400. JSTOR 4497682.
• A. Popovic (2007). "Sarajevo". In C. Edmund Bosworth (ed.). Historic Cities of the Islamic World. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill. pp. 164–171. ISBN 978-9004153882.

External links

• Europeana. Items related to Sarajevo, various dates.