Timeline of Mosul

{{See also|Mosul#Ancient era and early Middle Ages|Mosul#9th century to 1535}}

{{History of Iraq}}

• 570 CE - Mar Ishaya (monastery) founded across river from Ninevah; surrounding settlement later develops.{{sfn|Bosworth|2007}}
• 641 CE - Arab forces of Utba bin Farqad take fortress in settlement.{{sfn|Bosworth|2007}}
• 847 CE - 24 November: Earthquake.
• 874/875 CE - Taghlibi Khidr bin Ahmad becomes governor.{{sfn|Bosworth|2007}}
• 880 CE - Ishaq ibn Kundaj becomes governor.{{sfn|Bosworth|2007}}
• 892 - Mosul besieged by forces of Harun bin Sulayman and Banu Shayban.{{sfn|Bosworth|2007}}
• 907 - Hamdanids in power.{{sfn|Bosworth|2007}}
• 990s - Syrian Uqaylids in power.{{sfn|Griffin|1996}}
• 1095/1096 - Seljuqs in power.{{sfn|Bosworth|2007}}
• 1127/1128 - Seljuqs ousted by Imad ad-Din Zengi.{{sfn|Bosworth|2007}}
• 1146 - Saif ad-Din Ghazi I in power.
• 1170 - Great Mosque of al-Nuri construction begins.
• 1182 - Mosul besieged by forces of Saladin during rule of Izz ad-Din Mas'ud.{{sfn|Bosworth|2007}}
• 1185 - Mosul again besieged by forces of Saladin.{{sfn|Bosworth|2007}}
• 1224 - Mosul taken by forces of Badr al-Din Lu'lu'.{{cite web |url=https://archnet.org/authorities/3843 |title=Mosul |publisher= ArchNet |access-date= 23 June 2017}}
• 1239 - Mashhad Imam Yahya ibn al-Qasim (mausoleum) built near city.
• 1248 - Imam Awn al-Din shrine built.{{cite web |work=Oxford Art Online |title= Mosul |author=Saeed Al-Dewachi}} Retrieved 23 June 2017
• 1258 - Mosul sacked by forces of Hulagu Khan.{{sfn|Dougherty|2013}}
• 1262 - July: Mosul taken by Mongol forces.{{sfn|Shields|2000}}

{{See also|Mosul#Ottomans: 1517 to 1918}}

• 1516 - Ottomans in power.{{sfn|Shields|2000}}
• 1535 - Ottoman administrative Mosul Eyalet created.
• 1623 - Mosul taken by Persian forces (approximate date).{{sfn|Agoston|2009}}
• 1625 - Persians ousted; Ottomans in power again.{{sfn|Agoston|2009}}
• 1719 - Sari Mustafa becomes governor.{{sfn|Khoury|1997}}
• 1730 - Hussein Jalili appointed governor.
• 1733 - Mosul besieged by forces of Nadir Khan.{{sfn|Agoston|2009}}
• 1743 - Siege of Mosul (1743) by Persian forces.{{sfn|Agoston|2009}}
• 1745 - Battle of Mosul (1745) fought in vicinity of city.
• 1826 - Unrest; governor Yahya al-Jalili ousted.{{sfn|Agoston|2009}}
• 1839 - Ottoman administrative reform begins per Edict of Gülhane.{{sfn|Shields|2000}}
• 1854 - "Rebellion" against administrative reform.{{sfn|Shields|2000}}

{{See also|Mosul#1918 to 2003}}

• 1920 - Population: 703,378 in vilayet (province).{{cite book |title= Statesman's Year-Book |title-link=Statesman's Year-Book |year=1921 |location=London |publisher= Macmillan and Co.|chapter= Mesopotamia |hdl=2027/njp.32101072368440?urlappend=%3Bseq=1404 |chapter-url= https://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101072368440?urlappend=%3Bseq=1404 |via=HathiTrust}}
• 1926 - Mosul becomes part of the Kingdom of Iraq per League of Nations ruling.
• 1947 - Population: 133,625 in city; 595,190 in province.{{cite web |url= https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/1950_round.htm |work=Demographic Yearbook 1955 |publisher=Statistical Office of the United Nations |location=New York |title=Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants}}
• 1957 - Mosul football club formed.
• 1960 - Ash-Shabibah newspaper published.
• 1965 - Population: 264,146.{{cite book |url= https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/1970_round.htm |title=Demographic Yearbook 1975 |year=1976 |author=United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office |location=New York |chapter=Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants |pages=253–279}}
• 1967 - University of Mosul founded.
• 1969
• {{illm|Mosul Spring Festival|ar|مهرجان الربيع في الموصل}} begins.
• National Insurance Company built.
• 1970 - Population: 310,313 (estimate).{{cite book |url= https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/1980_round.htm |title=1985 Demographic Yearbook |year=1987 |author=United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office |location=New York |chapter=Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants |pages=247–289}}
• 1986 - Mosul Dam begins operating near city.
• 1987 - Population: 664,221.{{cite web |url= https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/dyb2001.htm |work=Demographic Yearbook 2001 |publisher=United Nations Statistics Division |title=Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants}}

• 2003 - March–May: 2003 invasion of Iraq by U.S.-led forces; Mosul International Airport occupied.
• Other U.S. Army units to have occupied the city include the 4th Brigade Combat Team of the 1st Cavalry Division, the 172nd Stryker Brigade, the 3rd Brigade-2nd Infantry Division, 18th Engineer Brigade (Combat), Alpha Company 14th Engineer Battalion-555th Combat Engineer Brigade, 1st Brigade-25th Infantry Division, the 511th Military Police Company, the 812th Military Police Company and company-size units from Reserve components, an element of the 364th Civil Affairs Brigade, and the 404th Civil Affairs Battalion, which covered the areas north of the Green Line.{{clarify|date=October 2014}} The 67th Combat Support Hospital (CSH) deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) from January 2004 to January 2005, running split based operations in Mosul and Tikrit. The Task Force (TF) 67 Headquarters and Company B operated out of Forward Operating Base (FOB) Diamondback (Mosul), and Company A operating out of FOB Speicher (Tikrit).{{cite web |title=Würzburg hospital team is home from Iraq – News – Stripes |url=https://www.stripes.com/news/w%C3%BCrzburg-hospital-team-is-home-from-iraq-1.28212 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201019221649/https://www.stripes.com/news/w%C3%BCrzburg-hospital-team-is-home-from-iraq-1.28212 |archive-date=2020-10-19 |website=stripes.com}}
• 2004
• 24 June: 2004 Mosul bombings.
• November: Battle of Mosul (2004).
• 2007 - 23 April: April 2007 Mosul massacre.
• 2008 - Ninawa campaign.
• 2013 - April: Anti-government protest.{{citation |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-22292220 |publisher=BBC News |date=25 April 2013 |title=Iraq police and gunmen die in Mosul clashes}}
• 2014
• 4–10 June: Mosul taken by forces of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.{{cite news |url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-14546763 |title=Iraq Profile: Timeline |date=16 August 2011 |publisher=BBC News |access-date= 23 June 2017}}
• June: Mass executions in ISIL occupied Mosul begin.
• 16–19 August: Battle for Mosul Dam fought near city.
• 2015 - January: Mosul offensive (2015).
• 2016 - October: Battle of Mosul (2016–17) begins.
• 2017
• 21 June: Great Mosque of al-Nuri destroyed.{{citation |title= Mosul's landmark Great Mosque of al-Nuri to be rebuilt |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-43878017|work=BBC News |date= 24 April 2018}}
• July: Iraqi army takes city.

File:Floats in The Spring Festival 01.jpg|Spring Festival, est. 1969

• {{illm|History of Mosul|ar|تاريخ الموصل}}
• List of rulers of Mosul
• Nineveh, ancient Assyrian city located across river from present-day Mosul
• Timelines of other cities in Iraq: Baghdad, Basra

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Published in 19th century

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• {{cite book |title=Edinburgh Gazetteer |location=Edinburgh |publisher=Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green |edition=2nd |year=1829

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• {{cite book |publisher=T. Tegg |location=London |author=Josiah Conder |author-link=Josiah Conder (editor and author) |title=Dictionary of Geography, Ancient and Modern |date= 1834

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• {{cite book|title=Travels and Researches in Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, Chaldea, and Armenia |author= William Francis Ainsworth |location=London |publisher= John W. Parker |year= 1842

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• {{cite book|title= Personal Narrative of the Euphrates Expedition |author= William Francis Ainsworth |location=London |year= 1888

|chapter=First Visit to Mosul and Ninevah

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• {{cite book |publisher=John Murray |location=London |title=Handbook for Travellers in Asia Minor, Transcaucasia, Persia, etc. |editor=Charles Wilson |editor-link=Charles William Wilson |oclc=8979039 |date= 1895

|chapter=Mosul |isbn=9780524062142 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=icy5QKym2BoC&pg=PA294

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Published in 20th century

• {{cite book |author1=Friedrich Sarre |author2= Ernst Herzfeld |title= Archäologische Reise im Euphrat- und Tigris-Gebiet |location=Berlin |volume=2 |pages=203–305 |language=de |oclc=491984252}} 1911–1920
• {{cite book |publisher=Karl Baedeker |location=Leipzig |title=Palestine and Syria |edition=5th |date=1912

|chapter=Mosul |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BykoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA426

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• {{cite book |orig-year=1927 |year=1993 |location=Leiden |publisher=Brill |title=Encyclopedia of Islam |chapter= Mosul |pages=609–611 |author= E. Honigmann

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• {{cite journal |title= Le Vilayet de Mossoul |author= Th. Lefebvre |journal= Annales de Géographie |language=fr |volume= 36 |url=http://www.persee.fr/doc/geo_0003-4010_1927_num_36_199_8610 |via= Persée |year= 1927

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• {{cite journal |author=Percy Kemp |title=Power and Knowledge in Jalili Mosul |journal=Middle Eastern Studies |issn=0026-3206 |volume=19 |issue=2 |pages=201–212 |doi=10.1080/00263208308700543 |year=1983

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• {{cite journal |author=Percy Kemp |title=History and Historiography in Jalili Mosul |journal=Middle Eastern Studies |volume=19 |issue=3 |pages=345–376 |year=1983

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• {{citation |publisher = Lonely Planet |location=Australia |title = Middle East |year= 1994 |ol=16516298W |chapter=Iraq: Mosul |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/middleeastonshoe00bros#page/308/mode/2up |page=309+

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• {{cite book |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9781884964039 |title=Middle East and Africa |series=International Dictionary of Historic Places |editor=Trudy Ring |date=1996 |author= Jacqueline Griffin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6XMBAwAAQBAJ

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• {{cite book |author=Dina Rizk Khoury |title=State and Provincial Society in the Ottoman Empire: Mosul, 1540-1834 |location=Cambridge |series=Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization |publisher=Cambridge University Press |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XUBTxmEmsxAC |isbn=0521894301 |year=1997

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• {{cite book|author= Sarah D. Shields |title=Mosul before Iraq: Like Bees Making Five-Sided Cells|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kUE8Fz-Cy-8C|year= 2000|publisher=State University of New York Press |isbn=978-0-7914-4487-0

|ref= {{harvid|Shields|2000}}

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Published in 21st century

• {{citation |author=Peter Sluglett |title=Mosul |encyclopedia= Encyclopedia of Modern Asia |editor= David Levinson and Karen Christensen |location= NY |publisher= Charles Scribner's Sons |isbn=0684806177 |year= 2002

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• {{citation |title=Mosul |author=Reeva S. Simon |encyclopedia= Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa |editor=Philip Mattar |isbn=0028657691 |location= NY |publisher= Macmillan Reference USA |year= 2004

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• {{cite book |title=Historic Cities of the Islamic World |editor=C. Edmund Bosworth |year=2007 |publisher=Koninklijke Brill |location=Leiden |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=UB4uSVt3ulUC

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• {{cite book |publisher=ABC-CLIO |location=Santa Barbara, US |editor1=Michael R.T. Dumper |editor2=Bruce E. Stanley |chapter=Mosul |title=Cities of the Middle East and North Africa |date=2008 |isbn=978-1576079195

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• {{cite book |editor1=Gabor Agoston |editor2= Bruce Alan Masters |title=Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire |publisher=Facts on File |isbn=978-1-4381-1025-7 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=QjzYdCxumFcC |year= 2009

|chapter= Mosul |pages=394–395

|ref= {{harvid|Agoston|2009}}

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• {{cite book |chapter=Mosul |title=Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art & Architecture |year=2009 |publisher=Oxford University Press

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• {{cite book|author1=Beth K. Dougherty|author2=Edmund A. Ghareeb|title=Historical Dictionary of Iraq |year=2013 |edition=2nd |publisher=Scarecrow Press |location= Maryland, US |isbn=978-0-8108-7942-3 |chapter=Mawsil |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=ZmQYAgAAQBAJ |page=422

|ref= {{harvid|Dougherty|2013}}

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{{Refend}}

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