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Tuesday, July 27, 2021

Basic timeline of Qatar

This post is a basic timeline of Qatar. There are 26 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

• First humans (50,000 years ago)
• Dilmun civilization (4th millennium - 538 BC)
• Seleucid Empire (312 - 63 BC)
• Parthian Empire (247 BC - 224 AD)
• Sasanian Empire (224 - 651 AD)
• Umayyad Caliphate (661 - 750 AD)
• Abbasid Caliphate (750 - 1517 AD)
• Usfurid dynasty gains control (1253)
• Ormus dynasty gains control (1320)
• Portugal occupies Qatar (1521-1602)
• Ottoman Empire gains control (1550)
• Bani Khalid confederation occupies Qatar (1670-1783)
• British Persian Gulf Residency (1763-1947)
• Al Khalifa dynasty gains control (1783)
• Diriyah Emirate (1744-1818)
• Nejd Emirate (1824-1891)
• Qatari-Bahraini War (1867-1868)
• Ottoman Najd Sanjak (1871-1915)
• Battle of Al Wajbah (1893)
• Britain occupies Qatar (1916-1971)
• Oil drilling begins in Qatar (1938)
• Qatar gains independence (1971)
• Gulf War (1991)
• Attempted coup d'état (1996)
• First Libyan Civil War (2011)
• Qatar diplomatic crisis (2017-2021)

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