Hjr. 906-1111
1520-66 Hjr. 926-74 Reign of Suleyman the Magnificent.
1529 Hjr. 935 First Ottoman siege of Vienna
1534 Hjr. 940 The Ottoman conquest of Baghdad
1571 Hjr. 979 Ottoman defeat at the Battle of Lepanto
1683 Hjr. 1094 Second Ottoman siege of Vienna
1550-57 Hjr. 958-64 Suleymaniye Mosque in Istanbul by Sinan
1569-75 Hjr. 976-82 Selimiye Mosque in Edirne by Sinan
1586-87 Hjr. 955 Mustafa Ali writes Menakib-i Hunerveran on the lives of Ottoman caligraphers
1600 Hjr. 1008 Death of the Ottoman poet Baki
1609-16 Hjr. 1018-25 Mosque of Sultan Ahmed in Istanbul
1657 Hjr. 1067 Death of the Ottoman writer Katib Chelebi
1663 Hjr. 1073 Completion of the Yeni Mosque in Istanbul
early 17th c. Hjr. early 11th c. Risale-i Mimariyye written, an Ottoman treatise on architecture
1525 Hjr. 931 Mīrīm Ēelebi astronomer and mathematician of contributed to the establishment of the scientific traditions of mathematics and astronomy and was renowned for the commentary he wrote on the Zij of Uluğ Bey.
1554 Hjr. 961 Musa Hamun appointed as Sultan Süleymān's physician and wrote the first Turkish and one of the earliest independent works on dentistry.
1562 Hjr. 969 Ali Reis wrote al-Muhit (The Ocean), on maritime geography. This work contains astronomical and geographical information necessary for long sea voyages and his own observations about the Indian Ocean.
1564 Hjr. 971 Jamal al-Kuttab wa Kamal al-Hussah (Beauty of Scribes and Perfection of Accountants) and 'Umdat al-Hisah (Treatise on arithmetic) by Nasuh al-Silahi al-Matraki
1583 Hjr. 991 Tārih-i Hind-i Garbī (History of Western India). This work, whose author is unknown, was presented to Sultan Murād III as a work which evaluated both the New World and Indian Ocean geographically.
1585 Hjr. 993 Taki al-Din al-Rasid combined the Egyptian-Damascus and Samarkand traditions of astronomy and mathematics in his studies and wrote more than thirty books in Arabic on the subjects of mathematics, astronomy, mechanics, and medicine.
Hjr. 1112- 1214
1748-55 Hjr. 1161-69 Nuruosmaniye Mosque in Istanbul
1759-63 Hjr. 1172-76
1704-17 Hjr. 1116-29 The Thousand and One Nights translated into French by Antoine Galland
1795 Hjr. 1209 Foundation of the Ecole des langues orientales vivantes, Paris
Hjr. 1215- 1367
1860 Hjr. 1276 French Intervention in Lebanon
1860- 1948 Hjr. 1276- 1367 Jewish diasporic community begins to move to Palestine.
1916 Hjr. 1334 Sykes-Picot Agreement between France and Britain to share Syria, Jordan, Iraq, and more of the Arabian peninsula.
1917 Hjr. 1335 Balfour Declaration giving British support for "establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people"
1917 Hjr. 1335 Sir Edmund Allenby enters Jerusalem, routing Ottoman Turkish forces
1918 Hjr. 1336 Damascus falls to the Allies; King Faisal in Damascus
November 11, 1918 Hjr. Monday 7 Safar 1337 Armistice ends the First World War
1919 Hjr. 1338 Treaty of Versailles; Britain awarded Mandates for Palestine and Iraq; France awarded Syria (Lebanon)
March 15, 1920 Hjr. Monday 24 Jumaada al-Thaany 1338 British take-over of Ottoman empire, Ottoman Parliament meets for the last time; Ottoman Empire collapses
1936 Arab revolt in Palestine
1942 Hjr.1361 Arabs and Jews fight together in Palestine Brigade at el-Alamein
1948 Hjr. 1367 British Withdrawal from Palestine
December 1947- November 1950 Hjr. 1366-1370 Al Nakba (the catastrophe): the transfer of 750,000 Palestinians from their villages and land during the establishment of the State of Israel
May 15, 1948 Hjr. Saturday 6 Rajab 1367 The Establishment of the State of Israel
Hjr. 1368- 1400
1956 Hjr. 1376 Suez Crisis; Britain, France, and Israel invade Egypt after Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal
1967 Hjr. 1387 Six Day War; Israel occupies Gaza, West Bank, Golan Heights, and Sinai
1968 Hjr. 1388 UN Security Council Resolution 242 demands withdrawal of Israeli forces from occupied territory in return for security of all states in the region
1973 Hjr.1393 Yom Kippur War; Israel defeats Egyptian-Syrian forces
1975 Hjr. 1395 Start of the Lebanese Civil War
1977 Hjr. 1397 President Sadat makes peace with Israel
1978 Hjr. 1398 First Israeli invasion of Lebanon
1979 Hjr. 1399 Assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat
Hjr. 1401- 1420
1982 Hjr.1402 Second Israeli invasion of Lebanon
September 16-18, 1982 Hjr. 28-30 Thw al-Qi`dah 1402 massacre of up to 1,700 Palestinian civilians after Israeli defence minister Ariel Sharon sends Israel's Lebanese militia allies into the refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila to destroy "terrorists"
1983 Hjr. 1403 suicide bombing of U.S. Marine Headquarters in Beirut, killing 241 U.S. personnel
1986 Hjr.1407 Beginning of the First Palestinian intifada against the Israeli occupation
1993 Hjr. 1414 Oslo Agreement between Israel and the PLO
1995 Hjr. 1416 Yasser Arafat enters Gaza
2000 Hjr. 1421 Israeli forces retreat from southern Lebanon after a 22-year occupation
2000 Hjr. 1421 beginning of the second Palestinian intifada against the Israeli occupation
Hjr. 1421- 1428
2003-2007 Hjr. 1424- 1428 Construction of the Apartheid Wall inside the 1967 Green Line with the West Bank
2005 Hjr. 1426 Yasser Arafat dies; Mahmoud Abbas appointed president in Palestinian elections; Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon announces an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza but Jewish colonies on the occupied Palestinian West Bank continue to expand
2005 Hjr. 1426 Lebanon's former prime minister Rafiq Hariri is murdered in Beirut
2005 Hjr. 1426 Syria withdraws the last of its troops from Lebanon under UN Security Council Resolution 1559: UN Security Council Resolution 242 of 1968- calling for Israeli withdrawal from occupied land-- remains unfulfilled (Shaaba Farms)
2006 Hjr. 1427 Israel invades southern Lebanon; bombs Beirut and other Hezbollah 'strongholds' dropping clusterbombs in civilian areas, of which 100,000 remain unexploded and effectively devastating southern Lebanon.
2006 Hjr.1427 Hamas wins the Palestinian general election and the international community blocks economic aid to the Palestinian authority
2007 Hjr. 1428 Hamas takes over power in Gaza creating a stalemate between Fatah and Hamas' power sharing in the Palestinian Authority
