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Wednesday, July 21, 2021

Basic timeline of Lebanon

This post is a basic timeline of Lebanon. There are 38 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

• First humans (45,000 years ago)
• Qaraoun culture (20,000 - 5,000 years ago)
• Phoenicia (2500 - 64 BC)
• Neo-Assyrian Empire (911 - 609 BC)
• Achaemenid Empire invasion (539 BC)
• Alexander the Great and Macedonia invade Lebanon (332 BC)
• Seleucid Empire (312 - 63 BC)
• Roman Syria (64 BC - 198 AD)
• Roman Coele Syria (198 - 4th century AD)
• Roman Phoenice (194 - 7th century AD)
• Byzantine Empire annexes Lebanon (4th century AD)
• Sassanid Empire occupies Lebanon (619 - 627 AD)
• Muslim conquest of the Levant (634 - 638 AD)
• Kingdom of Jerusalem (1099-1291)
• Crusader County of Tripoli (1102-1289)
• Ma'n dynasty (1120-1697)
• Mamluk Sultanate (1250-1517)
• Ottoman Syria (1516-1831, 1841-1918)
• Shihab dynasty (1697-1842)
• Mount Lebanon and Damascus civil conflict (1860)
• World War I (1914-1918)
• Great Famine of Mount Lebanon (1915-1918)
• Occupied Enemy Territory Administration (1917-1920)
• French Greater Lebanon (1920-1946)
• World War II (1939-1945)
• Lebanon gains independence (1943)
• Lebanon crisis (1958)
• Six-Day War (1967)
• Jordanian Civil War (1970-1971)
• Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990)
• Syria occupies Lebanon (1976-2005)
• Lebanon War (1982)
• Israel occupies Southern Lebanon (1985-2000)
• Cedar Revolution (2005)
• Second Lebanon War (2006)
• Syrian Civil War (2011 - now)
• Lebanese protests (2019-2020)
• Beirut explosion (2020)

(This post includes any nation or civilization that occupied at least a portion of Lebanon at some point. Unless specified otherwise, the dates correspond to when a nation or civilization existed, but do not necessarily correspond to occupation of Lebanon.)