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633AD |
Arab Muslims conquer the Sassanids and Iraq |
750 |
The Abbasids conquer the Islamic world. Baghdad was founded as the capital |
1258 |
Mesopatamia and its capital Baghdad falls to Mongol invaders led by the grandson of Genghis Khan. The Arab Empire was destroyed |
1500s |
The Ottoman Empire conquers the region |
1700s |
The Ottoman power in Mesopotamia begins to decline |
1800s |
Great Britain becomes involved with Mesapotamia needing to protect their trade routes with India and the East |
1914 |
1914-1918 World War I |
1917 |
British troops occupy Baghdad |
1920 |
The League of Nations give Great Britain a mandate to rule over Mesopotamia |
1920 |
The San Remo Peace Conference of Allied Powers. Mesopotamia is renamed Iraq |
1921 |
The British set up King Faisal I as the monarch and control the government |
1925 |
The League of Nations sets the border between Turkey and Iraq which places the Mosul region in Iraq rather than Turkey against the wishes of the Kurdish population |
1932 |
Iraq become independent |
1937 |
April 28 - Saddam Hussein was born |
1939 |
1939-1945 World War 2breaks out |
1940 |
1940-1941 The Iraqi government allies with Germany, Italy and Japan seeking to rid Iraq of British power and influence |
1941 |
Great Britain defeat Iraq |
1945 |
End of 1939-1945 World War 2and Iraq helps to form the Arab League |
1948 |
The Arab League declares war against the newly formed Israel |
1950 |
1950-1952 Iraq signs agreements with foreign oil companies and receives 50% of the oil profits |
1953 |
Faisal II became king of Iraq |
1950s |
Many Iraqis began to oppose the monarchy. They wanted a say in the government |
1955 |
Iraq signed the Baghdad Pact with Iran, Pakistan, and Turkey |
1958 |
Iraq becomes a republic during a military coup and the monarchy is killed |
1972 |
Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation signed between Iraq and the Soviet Union. |
1975 |
Iraq and Iran sign a treaty ending border disputes |
1979 |
Saddam Hussein succeeds Al-Bakr as Iraqi President |
1980 |
4 September: Iraq invades Iran starting the Iran-Iraq war |
1981 |
7 June: Israel attacks an Iraqi nuclear research centre at Tuwaythah near Baghdad. |
1988 |
16 March: Chemical attack on Kurds Iraq believed to have used chemical weapons against the Kurdish town of Halabjah |
1990 |
2 August: Iraq invades Kuwait |
1991 |
17 January: A coalition of 39 countries begin bombing Iraq starting the Persian Gulf War |
1992 |
26 August: A no-fly zone banning Iraqi planes set up in southern Iraq |
1993 |
27 June - US launch cruise missile attack on Iraqi intelligence headquarters in Baghdad |
1994 |
29 May - Saddam Hussein becomes prime minister of Iraq |
1995 |
14 April - UNSC agree to allow the partial resumption of oil exports to buy food and medicine called the "oil-for-food programme" - implemented December 1996 |
1995 |
15 October - Referendum allows Saddam Hussein to remain president for another seven years. |
1996 |
31 August: Iraqi forces launch offensive into northern no-fly zone and capture Irbil. |
1998 |
31 October - Iraq ends cooperation with UN Special Commission to Oversee the Destruction of Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction (Unscom). |
2002 |
September: Weapons inspectors return |
2003 |
17 March Saddam Hussein given 48 hours to leave Iraq or face war |
2004 |
Fighting continues |
2005 |
Elections: The Shia United Iraqi Alliance win a majority |
2006 |
7 June: The Al-Qaeda leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, is killed |
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