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Important people, dates and events in Iraq
Mesopatamia, Baghdad and the Mongol invaders
When Iraq became independent
Saddam Hussein becomes the Iraqi President
The rise and fall of Saddam Hussein

Iraq Timeline

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3500 BC

 

Mesopotamia, known as the world's first civilization, developed in South Eastern Iraq

539 BC

 

Mesopotamia was conquered by the Persians

332 BC

 

Alexander the Great conquers the Persians

226 AD

 

The Persian Sassanid dynasty took control of Mesopotamia

126 BC

 

The Greek rule ended when the Parthians established control of Iraq

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.
The country nationalises the Iraq Petroleum Company (IPC)

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
United Nations Security Council imposes economic sanctions on Iraq
8 August: Iraq announces the merger of Iraq and Kuwait

1991

 

17 January: A coalition of 39 countries begin bombing Iraq starting the Persian Gulf War
The aerial bombing of Iraq is called "Operation Desert Storm"
27 February:  The liberation of Kuwait
3 March - Iraq accepts the terms of a ceasefire

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.
3 September: US extends northern limit of no-fly zone to latitude to the south of Baghdad.

1998

 

31 October - Iraq ends cooperation with UN Special Commission to Oversee the Destruction of Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction (Unscom).
16-19 December: Operation Desert Fox - US and UK forces launch a bombing campaign, to destroy Iraq's nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programmes

2002

 

September: Weapons inspectors return

2003

 

17 March Saddam Hussein given 48 hours to leave Iraq or face war
20 March: American missiles hit targets in Baghdad and US and British ground troops enter Iraq
9 April 2003: Baghdad and the power of Saddam Hussein crumbles and the US lists 55 most-wanted members of former regime which is issued as packs of cards
July: Saddam's sons Uday and Qusay killed in gun battle in Mosul
14 December: Saddam Hussein captured in Tikrit.

2004

 

Fighting continues
US hands sovereignty to interim government headed by Prime Minister Iyad Allawi
Saddam Hussein transferred to Iraqi legal custody

2005

 

Elections: The Shia United Iraqi Alliance win a majority
Parliament appoints the Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani as president and Ibrahim Jaafari, a Shia, is named as prime minister
October: Saddam Hussein goes on trial

2006

 

7 June: The Al-Qaeda leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, is killed

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