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| Timeline Index | |
| 1798* | Napoleon in Egypt – Battle of Pyramides Lord Nelson – Battle of the Nile |
| 1799* | Napoleon's Siege of Acre |
| 1801* | The Rosetta Stone in Egypt |
| 1805* | Mohommed Ali Pasha – Master of Egypt First Barbary War “To the Shores of Tripoli” |
| 1812* | The Man Who Discovered “Petra” & “Abu Simble” |
| 1842* | Afghanistan: “The Graveyard of Empires” |
| 1853* | The Crimean War Turkey - “The Sick Man of Europe” |
| 1867* | British Expedition to Abyssinia Mark Twain Visits the Holy Land |
| 1869* | Egypt: The Opening of the Suez Canal |
| 1873* | “The Great Game” - Anglo-Russian Rivalry |
| 1875* | A Passage to India |
| 1878* | Cyprus Under British Flag Second Anglo-Afgan War |
| 1882* | Anglo-Egyptian War |
| 1884* | Sudan – The “Mahdi” Revolt |
| 1885* | Sudan – General Gordon's Last Stand |
| 1897* | Theodor Harzl, the Father of Zionism |
| 1898* | The Fashoda Incident Kaiser Wilhem in Palestine |
| 1902* | Man who Coined the Term “Middle East” |
| 1903* | Berlin – Baghdad Railway |
| 1905* | First Moroccan Crisis |
| 1909* | Theodore Roosevelt's African Expedition |
| 1911* | Turkish – Italian War in Libya Second Moroccan – Agadir Crisis |
| 1914* | World War One and the Middle East |
| 1915* | Turkish Arminian Massacres Battle for the Suez Canal Forcing the Dardanelles at Gallipoli |
| 1916* | Sykes – Picot Agreement British Surrender to Turkey at Hut-El-Amara to Turkey |
| 1917* | Battles for Palestine and Mesopotamia The Balfour Declaration General Allenby Takes Jerusalem Lawrence of Arabia and the Arab Revolt |
| 1918* | Allenby Takes Megiddo (Armageddon) Allenby Takes Damascus |
| 1919* | President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points An American President in the M/E??? |
| 1920* | Partition of the Ottoman Empire Mesopotamia Oil Boom |
| 1921* | Churchill and the Cairo Conference |
| 1922* | King Tut was Found in the Valley of the Kings |
| 1923* | Turkish Sovereignty Restored |
| 1924* | Anglo-Egyptian Condominium |
| 1925* | Anglo-Turkish Dispute Over Mosul |
| 1926* | Sir Alfred Mond Visits Palestine |
| 1927* | Big Gusher in Kirkuk, Iraq |
| 1928* | Gulbfenkian's “Red Line Agreement” |
| 1929* | Palestine “Western Wall Uprising” |
| 1930* | Holy Land in Turmoil David Low's First Cartoon of Hitler |
| 1931* | Libya: Omar Mukhtar, Lion of the Desert |
| 1932* | King Iban Saud Founded the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia |
| 1933* | This Rise of Adolf Hitler in Germany |
| 1935* | Mussolini Invades Abyssinia |
| 1936* | The “Great Arab Revolt” in Palestine |
| 1937* | British Partition Plan for Palestine |
| 1938* | “Peace in Our Time” - The Munich Agreement |
| 1939* | Hitler Invades Poland – Start of WW2 |
| 1940* | Battle of the Mediterranean |
| 1941* | Battle for the Middle East |
| 1942* | Battle of Egypt at El-Alamein |
| 1943* | Axis Driven out of North Africa |
| 1944* | Jon's “Two Types” Sweep Across the Desert |
| 1945* | No Promised Land – The Wandering Jew |
| 1946* | Iran-Azerbaijan Crises Palestine in Flames |
| 1947* | U.N. Partition Plan for Palestine |
| 1948* | Arab – Israel War State of Israel is Born |
| 1949* | Israel Armistic Lines The 'Nakba" - Arab Refugees from Palestine |
| 1951* | Mosaddek - Premier of Iran |
| 1952* | Egytion Revolution |
| 1953* | Iran - Overthrow of Massadeq |
| 1954* | Gamel Abdel Nasser - President of Egypt |
| 1955* | Cyprus Conflict - Enosis or Independence Border Clashes Between Israel and Egypt Egypt -Russian Arms Deal |
| 1956* | Suez Canal War British Troops Leave the Suez Canal Zone Nasser's Seizure of the Suez Canal Israel Invades the Sinai Anglo - French Forces Drop on the Canal Zone |
| 1957* | Israel Withdraws from Sinai "The Eisenhower Doctrine" U.S. Marines Land in Lebanon |
| 1958* | "United Arab Republic" Union of Egypt and Syria Labanon Civil War Russian Aid to Egypt to Build the Aswan Dam |
| 1959* | Iraq Army Revolt Cyprus Becomes Independent |
| 1960* | Adolf Eichmann Captured in Argentina The Eichmann Trail in Jerusalem |
| 1961* | Iraq Threat to Annex Kuwait British Troops to Kuwait |
| 1962* | President De Gaule Grants Algeria Independence |
| 1963* | Nuclear Arms Race in the Middle East |
| 1964* | Twilight of the British Empire in the Middle East Cyprus Civil War Between Greeks and Turks First Stage of the Aswan High Dam |
| 1965* | In Memoriam: Sir Winston Churchill |
| 1966* | East of Suez |
| 1967* | The Six-Day War |
| 1968* | Age of Aircraft Hijacking |
| 1969* | Suez Canal: War of Attrition Golda Meir, Israel's New Prime Minister |
| 1970* | 'Black September' Jordan-PLO Civil War In Memoriam: Gamal Abdel Nasser |
| 1971* | Guns Fall Silent Across the Suez Canal |
| 1972* | Massacre at the Munich Olympics Soviet Military Advisers Expelled from Egypt In Memoriam: Olympic Silence Golda's Revenge - Operation Wrath of God |
| 1973* | Henry Kissinger - U.S. Secretary of State Egypt and Syria Launch an Attack on Israel |
| 1974* | Kissinger's 'Shuttle Deplomacy' President Nixon visit to the Middle East Golda and Dayan Resign, Rabin Prime Minister |
| 1975* | Egypt - Israel Disengagement Agreement Lebanon Civil War |
| 1976* | Operation Thunderbolt: Israeli Raid on Entebbe Shah of Iran: "Guardian of the Gulf" |
| 1977* | Menachem Begin - Prime Minister of Israel President Sadat's Visit to Jerusalem |
| 1978* | Camp David Accards - A Framework for Peace Noble Peace Prize Awards Jointly to Sadat and Begin Im Memoriam: Golda Meir |
| 1979* | Iran: Fall of the Shah, Rise of Ayattola Khomeini Iran Hostage Crisis |
| 1980* | Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan Iran - Iraq War Saudi Arabia: "Death of a Princess" |
| 1981* | American Hostages in Iran Freed AWACs Deal WIth Saudi Arabia Iraq Nuclear Reactor Destroyed by Israel In Memoriam: Anwar Sadat Hosni Mubarak: Presidend of Egypt |
| 1982* | Israel Marches on Beirut P.L.O. Forces Leave Beirut Multinational Force Arrives in Lebanon Sabra and Shatila Massacre Assanination of Bashir Gemayel |
| 1983* | Israel Report Into The Sabre Shatila Massacre Berut: Suicide Bomber Kills 241 U.S. Marines The Travils of Yasser Arafat |
| 1984* | U.S. Marines Pullout of Lebanon Iran and Iraq - War of the Tankers in the Persian Gulf |
| 1985* | Israeli Forces Pull Back to a Security Zone in South Lebanon Hijacking of the Achille Lauro |
| 1986* | Iran - Contra Affair |
| 1987* | Irangate |
| 1988* | First Palesinian Intifada Russian Army Withdraws from Afghanistan Iran - Iraq War Ends The Tragedy of Flight 103 |
| 1989* | Salmon Rushdie: THe Satanic Verses |
| 1990* | Iraq Invasion of Kuwait "Project Babylon": The Iraqi Supergun |
| 1991* | Operation Desert Storm, The Liberation of Kuwait Iraq Fires Scud Missiles on Israel Madrid: Mid-East Peace Conference Saddam Attacks His Own People With Chemical Weapons |
| 1992* | Bush's New World Order |
| 1993* | World Trade Center Bombing, New York City The Oslo Accords - Israel and the P.L.O. |
| 1994* | The Hebron Massacre Jordan and Israel Sign a Peace Accord |
| 1995* | In Memoriam: Yitzhak Rabin |
| 1996* | Boutros-Ghali: U.N. Secretary General Saudi Arabia - Khobar Towers Bombing Tunnel Riots in Jerusalem |
| 1997* | Israel and the P.L.O. - The Hebron Deal |
| 1998* | "Wag the Dog" |
| 1999* | Algeria's "Dark Decade" on Civil War In Memoriam: King Hussein of Jordan Ehud Barak: Prime Minister of Israel |