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Saturday, July 10, 2021

Basic timeline of Yemen

This post is a basic timeline of Yemen. There are 30 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

• Sabaean kingdom (1200 BC - 275 AD)
• Ma'in kingdom (10th century BC - 150 BC)
• Himyarite kingdom (110 BC - 525 AD)
• Umayyad Caliphate (661 750 AD)
• Abbasid Caliphate (750 - 1517 AD)
• Ziyadid dynasty (819 - 1018 AD)
• Yu'firid dynasty (847 - 997 AD)
• Imams of Yemen (897 - 1970 AD)
• Najahid dynasty (1022-1158)
• Sulayhid dynasty (1047-1138)
• Zurayid dynasty (1083-1174)
• Ayyubid invasion (12th century - 13th century)
• Rasulid dynasty (1229-1454)
• Tahirid dynasty (1454-1517)
• Ottoman Empire occupation (1517-1636)
• Zaidi Imamate (1597-1849)
• Lahej Sultanate (1728-1967)
• Ottoman Empire second occupation (1849-1872)
• British Aden Protectorate (1872-1963)
• Mutawakkilite kingdom (1918-1970)
• Yemen Arab Republic (1962-1990)
• South Yemen (1967-1990)
• Yemen is unified (1990)
• Houthi insurgency (2004-2014)
• Yemeni Revolution (2011-2012)
• Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (2011 - now)
• Yemeni Civil War (2014 - now)
• Saudi Arabian intervention (2015 - now)
• Famine in Yemen (2016 - now)
• Cholera outbreak in Yemen (2016-2021)

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