History of Baghdad (1831–1917)

History of Baghdad from 1831 until 1917

Souk in Baghdad, 1876 CE. Governor Al-Shakir Effendi's family in Baghdad, 1901

In the history of Baghdad, the period from 1831 to 1917 began with the fall of the Mamluk state of Iraq in 1831 after the Ottoman Empire occupied the city.[1] It ended with the Fall of Baghdad on 11 March 1917 after the British Empire occupied the city during the First World War. Ali Rıza Pasha was a first Ottoman Governor of Baghdad, and Khalil Pasha was the last.[2]

## Timeline

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1. 1832 – The uprising of Abdul Ghani Al-Jameel against Ottoman Governor Ali Reza Pasha failed.[3]
2. 1845 – A plague was spreading in Baghdad .[4]
3. 1853 – Baháʼu'lláh and his family arrived in Baghdad coming from Iran on 8 April, where he stayed for 10 years.[5]
4. 1854 – The Islamic scholar Mahmud al-Alusi dies.[6]
5. 1864 – An earthquake happened in Baghdad on 7 December.[4]
6. 1869 – Midhat Pasha is now in power .[7]
7. 1870
* Municipal council established.[7]
* City walls demolished.
8. 1871 – Population: 65,000.[8]
9. 1879 – Many Kurds come to Baghdad after a major famine had spread in the Kurdistan region, and this year people from Baghdad knew it would be Bersima year for the city.[a]
10. 1895
* Population: 100,000 (estimate) .[9]
* Two Earthquakes happened in Baghdad on 25 November .[10]
11. 1897 – The Governor of Baghdad Atteallah Pasha Kawakeby opened the Al-Khar Bridge (Al-Hamidiyah)[10]
12. 1908 – Population: 140,000 (estimate).[11]
13. 1909 – Cinema built.[12]
14. 1911 – Ottoman XIII Corps headquartered in Baghdad.
15. 1912 – Population: 200,000 (estimate).[13]
16. 1914 – October: Samarra-Baghdad railway begins operating.[7]
17. 1915
* Istanbul-Baghdad railway begins operating.
* Al Rasheed Street laid out.
* Cholera epidemic.[7]
18. 1917
* March: Fall of Baghdad (1917); British in power.[14][15]
* Cinema opens.[7]

## Ottoman walis (1831–1917)

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Midhat Pasha Djemal Pasha with Anazzah tribal leaders, celebrating the completion of the al-Hindya dam on the Euphrates river near al-Hilla, south of Baghdad. Süleyman Nazif Person[16] | Time as governor

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Ali Reza Pasha  | 1831–1842
Najeb Pasha  | 1842–1849
Abdul-Karim Pasha  | 1849–1850
Mohamed Wajeh Pasha  | 1850–1851
Mehmed Namık Pasha[17] | 1851–1852
Rashid Pasha  | 1852–1857
Omar Pasha | 1858–1859
Mustafa Nuri Pasha  | 1859–1861
Ahmed Tawfiq Pasha  | 1861
Mehmed Namık Pasha  | 1862–1867
Taqialden Pasha  | 1867–1869
Midhat Pasha[18] | 1869–1872
Mehmed Rauf Pasha bin Abdi Pasha | 1872–1873
Radif Pasha  | 1873–1875
Abdel Rahman Pasha  | 1875–1877
Akif Pasha  | 1877–1878
Qadri Pasha  | 1878
AbdelRahman Pasha | 1879–1880
Taqialden Pasha  | 1880–1887
Mustafa Asim Pasha  | 1887–1889
Sırrı Pasha | 1890–1891
Hassan Pasha  | 1891–1896
Atteallah Pasha Kawakeby  | 1896–1899
Namık Pasha  | 1899–1902
Ahmed Fayzi Pasha | 1902–1904
Abdulwahab Pasha  | 1904–1905
Abdulmajeed Pasha  | 1905–1906
Abu Bakir Hazem Pasha  | 1907–1908
Nadim I Pasha  | 1908
Najemaldeen Beg  | 1908–1909
Mohamed Fadil Pasha  | 1909
Shawket Pasha  | 1909–1910
Hussain Nadim Pasha  | 1910–1911
Youssef Agah Pasha  | 1911
Djemal Pasha | 1911–1912
Ali Redha Pasha  | 1912
Mohamed Zaki Pasha  | 1912–1913
Mohamed Fadil Pasha  | 1913–1914
Süleyman Nazif Pasha  | 1914–1915
Nurialdeen Pasha  | 1915
Khalil Pasha | 1916–1917

## See also

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* History of Baghdad 1638 -1704
* History of Baghdad
* Baghdad

## Notes

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1. ^ Bersima is the Kurdish word for famine.

## References

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11. ^ Lorimer (1908). "City of Baghdad". Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Calcutta.`{{cite book}}`: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
12. ^ Oliver Leaman, ed. (2001), Companion Encyclopedia of Middle Eastern and North African Film, Routledge, ISBN 9780415187039
13. ^ "Baghdad", Palestine and Syria (5th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1912
14. ^ "Iraq Profile: Timeline". BBC News. Retrieved 11 April 2013.
15. ^ Stephen Pope; Elizabeth-Anne Wheal (1995). "Select Chronology". Dictionary of the First World War. Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-85052-979-1.
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18. ^ Ágoston, Gábor; Masters, Bruce A. (2009). Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire. Infobase. ISBN 9781438110257.