Baghdad
City
Capital of Iraq on the Tigris, the former seat of the Abbasid caliphs.
Held by
- 1789 – December 31, 1896 Ottoman Empire
- 1898 – August 9, 1920 Ottoman Empire
- August 10, 1920 – October 2, 1932 United Kingdom Mandate or administration
- since October 3, 1932 Iraq
Capital of
Events here 13
- 1821 Siege of Baghdad (1821)
- April 1 – May 2, 1941 1941 Iraqi coup d'état
- June 1–2, 1941 Farhud
- 1950 – 1952 Operation Ezra and Nehemiah
- July 14, 1958 14 July Revolution
- January 17 – February 23, 1991 Air campaign of the Gulf War
- March 20, 2003 – December 18, 2011 Iraq War
- April 3–12, 2003 Battle of Baghdad (2003)
- July 12, 2007 July 12, 2007, Baghdad airstrike
- September 16, 2007 Nisour Square massacre
- December 31, 2019 – January 1, 2020 Attack on the United States embassy in Baghdad
- January 3, 2020 Assassination of Qasem Soleimani
- January 21, 2021 January 2021 Baghdad bombings