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]

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.^{[lower-alpha 1]}
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]

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• History of Baghdad
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