Timeline of Sarajevo

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

15th–18th centuries

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

19th century

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

20th century

 * 1902 - Sarajevo Synagogue built.
 * 1906 - Novibazar-Sarajevo railway begins operating.
 * 1910 - Population: 51,919.
 * 1912 - Kino Apolo (cinema) opens.
 * 1913 - National Museum built.
 * 1914
 * 28 June: Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria.
 * 28–29 June: Anti-Serb pogrom in Sarajevo.
 * 1915 - Kino Imperijal (cinema) opens.
 * 1918 - City becomes part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.
 * 1921 - Population: 60,087.
 * 1923 - Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra active.
 * 1929 - City becomes seat of the Drina Banovina (province) of Yugoslavia.
 * 1930 - Art gallery established.
 * 1935 - Kino Tesla (cinema) opens.
 * 1941 - German occupation begins.
 * 1943 - Oslobođenje newspaper begins publication.
 * 1945
 * April: German occupation ends.
 * State School of Painting, and Association of Artists of Bosnia and Herzegovina established.
 * 1949 - University of Sarajevo and Museum of Sarajevo established.
 * 1950 - Oriental Institute in Sarajevo established.
 * 1953 - Population: 135,657.
 * 1961 - Population: 213,092.
 * 1969 - Skenderija (event centre) built.
 * 1962 - June: Earthquake.
 * 1972 - Academy of Arts opens.
 * 1977 - Faculty of Islamic Theology established.
 * 1981
 * Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo established.
 * Vraca Memorial Park opens.
 * Emerik Blum becomes mayor.
 * Population: 319,017.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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 established.
 * 2002 - Population: 401,118.
 * 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 - opens.
 * 2014
 * April 2014: Sarajevo City Center opened early
 * April 2014: Miljacka River almost flooded the city
 * 9 May: Sarajevo National Library reopens.
 * 2017
 * 6 February: Abdulah Skaka becomes mayor.
 * 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 - A 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.
 * 2021
 * 8 April: Benjamina Karić becomes mayor.