Timeline of Middle Eastern history

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This timeline tries to compile dates of important historical events that happened in or that lead to the rise of the Middle East. The Middle East is the territory that comprises today's Egypt, the Gulf States, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and Yemen. The Middle East with its particular characteristics was not to emerge until late second millennium AD. To refer to a concept similar that of today's Middle East but earlier in time, the term Ancient Near East is used.

This list is intended as a timeline of the history of the Middle East. For more detailed information, see articles on the histories of individual countries. See Ancient Near East for ancient history of the Middle East.

Contents

[edit] Neolithic period

[edit] 8th millennium B.C.

[edit] 7th millennium BC

[edit] 6th millennium BC

[edit] 5th millennium BC

[edit] Ancient Near East


[edit] 4th millennium BC

Overview map of the Ancient Near East
Overview map of the Ancient Near East

(see also Sumer: Ur, Uruk, Kish, Susa)

[edit] 3rd millennium BC

[edit] 2nd millennium BC

[edit] Early Iron Age

The Oriental Empires about 600 BC
The Oriental Empires about 600 BC

[edit] Inventions, Discoveries, Introductions

(see also: Roman Republic, David,Cyrus the Great, Darius the Great,Parthian Empire, Homer, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Lydia, Median Empire, Chaldean Empire)

[edit] See also

[edit] Classical Antiquity

Main article: Classical Antiquity

[edit] Middle Ages

[edit] Rise of Islam
"The Eighth Progressive Map - Arabic Acendency; showing (a,)The Arabic Empire in its greatest extent. (b,) The world at the beginning of the eighth century (Christianity on the point of being crushed by the Moslems.). (c,)The four Christian empires  (Byzantine, Longobardian, Merovingian, and Anglo-Saxon.)."  The map shows the extension of the Caliphate under Al-Walid I, who reigned from 705 - 715
"The Eighth Progressive Map - Arabic Acendency; showing (a,)The Arabic Empire in its greatest extent. (b,) The world at the beginning of the eighth century (Christianity on the point of being crushed by the Moslems.). (c,)The four Christian empires (Byzantine, Longobardian, Merovingian, and Anglo-Saxon.)."
The map shows the extension of the Caliphate under Al-Walid I, who reigned from 705 - 715

[edit] Turks, Crusaders and Mongols

(The dominance of the Arabs came to a sudden end in the mid 11th century with the arrival of the Seljuk Turks)

(see also: Seljuk Turks, Crusades, Mongols)

[edit] The Ottoman era
Ottoman Empire, 1481-1683

(main article: History of the Ottoman Empire)

  • 1869 - Construction of the Suez Canal is completed.

[edit] Modern period

[edit] European domination of the Arabic and Turkish regions (especially since World War I)
  • 1882 - September 13 - British troops occupy Cairo - Egypt becomes British protectorate
  • 1922 - February 28 - Egypt is granted independence from British occupation.

[edit] Contemporary Middle East

(circa since WWII)

[edit] See also