* Mustansiriya School is founded in Baghdad.

The second of six children, Bob Jr. spent his boyhood in Malaysia, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, Baghdad in Iraq, and finally Tehran, Iran, where he graduated from Community High School in 1966.

He had three brothers: Saaib, Sami and Rifat. Concurrent with Naji's conclusion of his school education in Baghdad, his father was elected to the Ottoman parliament of 1909, thereby providing him with the opportunity to join the Ottoman Law School in Istanbul.

He came to Vienna, Austria, with his parents when he was 5, the family returned to Baghdad five years later, and Salam went back to Austria alone at the age of 16 in order to study at the Vienna International School where he became fluent in English in addition to German and his native Arabic.

* Sir Francis Humphrys, ultimately first British Ambassador in Baghdad, born at Beatrice Street when father was master at Oswestry School.

A Shia Muslim and neurologist by training, al-Rabai ' i was born in Kadhimiya in 1947 to a Shia father and a Sunni mother, Al Rubaie graduated top of his class at the Baghdad School of Medicine in 1977 and gained his MRCP ( Membership of the Royal College of Physicians ) whilst at King's College Medical School in London in 1979.

The dig was mainly worked by Edward Chiera, Robert Pfeiffer, and Richard Starr under the auspices of the Iraq Museum and the Baghdad School of the American Schools of Oriental Research and later the Harvard University and Fogg Art Museum.

* History of the Baghdad School of ASOR 1923-1969

The history of Marxist ideology and organization in Iraq can be traced to a single individual, Husain Al-Rahhal, a student at the Baghdad School of Law, who in 1924 formed what is now seen as the first “ Marxist ” study circle in Iraq.

He then enrolled in the School of Oriental and African Studies, reading " modern trends in Islam ", before joining the Baghdad Bulletin in July 2003, a start-up, non-aligned Iraqi paper staffed mainly by Oxbridge graduates, especially those from his school, and offering a variety of widely differing viewpoints on recent events.

The survey was sponsored by the Center for International Emergency Disaster and Refugee Studies, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA ( authors L Roberts PhD, G Burnham MD ) and the Department of Community Medicine, College of Medicine, Al-Mustansiriya University, Baghdad, Iraq.

* The Gifted Students ' School, a co-educational institution based in Baghdad, Iraq

Beginning in 1927, University of Michigan professors Leroy Waterman ( 1927 – 1932 ) and Clark Hopkins ( 1936 – 1937 ) oversaw excavations for the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology on behalf of the American School of Oriental Research of Baghdad with funds supplied by the Toledo Museum of Art and the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Ambassador Ziad studied at Baghdad College and has a BSc in Economics from the London School of Economics.

He was born in Baghdad ; his background was Iraqi Jewish and he grew up in the Jewish quarter, attending the Alliance Française primary school and then the Shammash High School.

Furthermore, Nasir al-Din al-Tusi ( 1201 – 1274 ), an astronomer and mathematician from Baghdad, authored the Treasury of Astronomy, a remarkably accurate table of planetary movements that reformed the existing planetary model of Roman astronomer Ptolemy by describing a uniform circular motion of all planets in their orbits.

Another theory is that the ruins of Akkad are to be found beneath modern Baghdad.

* 2008 – President George W. Bush makes his fourth and final ( planned ) trip to Iraq as president and is almost struck by two shoes thrown at him by Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi during a news conference in Baghdad.

According to a controversial theory, the Parthians may have had knowledge of electroplating, based on the 1936 discovery of the Baghdad Battery, which resembles a galvanic cell, though it is uncertain whether the artifact was electrical in nature.

* 1258 – Baghdad falls to the Mongols, and the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed.

Kaf HaChaim on Orach Chayim and parts of Yoreh De ' ah, by the Sephardi sage Yaakov Chaim Sofer ( Baghdad and Jerusalem, 1870 – 1939 ) is similar in scope, authority and approach to the Mishnah Berurah.

The Ben Ish Chai by Yosef Chaim ( Baghdad, 1832 – 1909 ) is a corresponding Sephardi work.

The most dangerous insurgent area is the Sunni Triangle, a mostly Sunni-Muslim area just north of Baghdad.

The salinity is reflected in the large lake in central Iraq, southwest of Baghdad, known as Bahr al Milh ( Sea of Salt ).

Between Upper and Lower Mesopotamia is the urban area surrounding Baghdad.

The Tigris also rises in Turkey but is significantly augmented by several rivers in Iraq, the most important of which are the Khabur, the Great Zab, the Little Zab, and the Adhaim, all of which join the Tigris above Baghdad, and the Diyala, which joins it about thirty-six kilometers below the city.

Kuwait made several representations to the Iraqis during the war to fix the border once and for all but Baghdad repeatedly demurred, claiming that the issue is a potentially divisive one that could inflame nationalist sentiment inside Iraq.

In 2011 Baghdad probably will increase oil exports above the current level of per day as a result of new contracts with international oil companies, but is likely to fall short of the per day it is forecasting in its budget.

Local government in Baghdad is arranging feasibility studies for the construction of two new underground lines

Sudan has an Embassy in Baghdad and Iraq's Embassy is in Khartoum.

* 2007 – The Al-Khilani Mosque in Baghdad is bombed, killing 78 people and injuring 218 others.

* 762 – Baghdad is founded by caliph Al-Mansur.

* 2007 – U. S. Army Apache helicopters perform airstrikes in Baghdad, Iraq ; footage from the cockpit is later leaked to the Internet.

While he was encamped in Baghdad, Murad IV is known to have met the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan's ambassadors: Mir Zarif and Mir Baraka, who presented 1000 pieces of finely embroidered cloth and even armor.

Militarily, Murad IV's reign is most notable for the war against Persia in which Ottoman forces invaded Azerbaijan, occupied Revan, Tabriz and Hamadan, and recaptured Baghdad in 1638.

Upper Mesopotamia, also known as the Jezirah, is the area between the Euphrates and the Tigris from their sources down to Baghdad.

Lower Mesopotamia is the area from Baghdad to the Persian Gulf.

Sudan has an Embassy in Baghdad and Iraq's Embassy is in Khartoum.

While he was encamped in Baghdad, Sultan Murad IV is known to have met the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan's ambassadors: Mir Zarif and Mir Baraka, who presented 1000 pieces of finely embroidered cloth and even armor.

There is archaeological evidence that Vikings reached the city of Baghdad, the centre of the Islamic Empire.

The new government was led by General Abdul Karim Qasim who withdrew from the Baghdad Pact, opened diplomatic relations with Soviet Union and adopted a non-aligned stance ; Iraq quit the organization shortly thereafter.

The Baghdad Zoo is a zoo originally opened in 1971 and located in Baghdad, Iraq, in the al-Zawraa ' Gardens area along with the Zawraa Amusement Park and Zawraa ' Tower.

The first of these institutions was opened in Baghdad during the time of Harun al-Rashid.

But the Islamic conquest of Central Asia in the late seventh and early eighth centuries opened up this knowledge for the first time to what became the Muslim world, and so by the year 794 AD, paper manufacturing could be found in Baghdad, modern-day Iraq.

The first known drugstore was opened by Arabian pharmacists in Baghdad in 754, and many more soon began operating throughout the medieval Islamic world and eventually medieval Europe.

About south of Baghdad, the attackers caught up with them and opened fire from behind, riddling the journalists ' car with bullets.

Egypt's Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit opened on December 26, 2010, the first Egyptian consulate outside Baghdad in the northern city of Irbil in a one-day visit to Iraq, where he also held talks with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani.

A part of the fund has been transferred to Baghdad and Iraq, and the DFI-Baghdad account was opened at the Central Bank of Iraq " for cash payment requirements ".

A new standard gauge railway opened between Baghdad and Basra for freight traffic in 1964 and for freight in 1968.

The war opened with a Persian invasion of Turkey in the Lake Van region, and a counter-invasion by the Ottoman Pasha of Baghdad ( Iraq belonged to the Ottoman Empire ), who invaded western Persia.

On September 1, the chief military spokesman in Baghdad, Major General Rick Lynch, claimed soldiers had followed " established rules of engagement ", going on to further claim they had acted in an " appropriate " manner when they opened fire.