Some vital dates in Lebanon's historical past:
1516-1918 – Lebanon, a part of the Ottoman Empire.
1920 – The League of Nations offers France the mandate for Lebanon and Syria, which creates the state of Better Lebanon from the provinces of Mount Lebanon, North Lebanon, South Lebanon and Bekaa.
1926 – The Lebanese Council of Representatives adopts a structure and the unified Lebanese Republic underneath a French mandate is proclaimed.
1944 – France agrees handy over energy to the Lebanese authorities.
1958 – As opposition escalates into civil warfare, President Camille Chamoune calls on the US to ship troops to guard Lebanon's independence. The USA is sending marines.
1967 – Lebanon doesn’t play an energetic function within the Arab-Israeli warfare, however will likely be affected by its penalties if Palestinians use Lebanon as a base for assaults on Israel.
1975 – Armed Phalangists ambush a bus in Beirut's Ayn-al-Rummanah district, killing 27 principally Palestinian passengers. They declare that guerrillas had beforehand attacked a close-by church. These clashes triggered the Lebanese Civil Battle from 1975 to 1990.
1976 – Syrian troops are getting into Lebanon to revive peace but additionally to include the Palestinians, 1000’s of whom are being killed in a siege of the Tel al-Zaatar camp by Syria-aligned Christian militias in Beirut.
1978 – In retaliation for a Palestinian assault, Israel launches a serious invasion of southern Lebanon. It’s withdrawing from all however a slim border strip, leaving it to its proxy military in southern Lebanon, primarily Christian militias.
1982 – After an assassination try on Israel's British ambassador by a Palestinian splinter group, Israel launches a full-scale invasion of Lebanon.
1982 – Elected pro-Israel President Bachir Gemayel is assassinated. Israel occupies West Beirut. Phalangist militias kill 1000’s of Palestinians within the Sabra and Shatila camps. Peacekeepers from the US, France and Italy arrive in Beirut.
1983 – A suicide assault on the US embassy in April killed 63 folks, and one other assault on peacekeeping headquarters in October killed 241 US troopers and 58 French troopers. In 1984 the US troops withdrew.
1985 – Most Israeli troops are withdrawing from a “secure zone” within the south.
1988 – Outgoing President Amine Gemayel appoints an interim navy authorities underneath Maronite commander Michel Aoun in East Beirut after inconclusive presidential elections. Prime Minister Selim el-Hoss types a predominantly Muslim counter-government in West Beirut.
1989 – Parliament meets in Taif, Saudi Arabia, to undertake a constitution of nationwide reconciliation that transfers a lot of the president's authority to the Cupboard and will increase the variety of Muslim lawmakers.
1990 – The Syrian Air Pressure assaults the presidential palace in Baabda and Aoun flees. This formally ended the civil warfare.
1991 – The Nationwide Meeting orders the dissolution of all militias, besides the highly effective Shiite group Hezbollah. The Lebanese military defeats the PLO and takes over the southern port of Sidon.
1992 – After the primary elections since 1972, rich businessman Rafik Hariri turns into prime minister.
2000 – Israel withdraws from southern Lebanon
2005 – Former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri is killed by a automotive bomb in Beirut, sparking anti-Syrian rallies and a political disaster.
2006 – Israel assaults after Hezbollah kidnaps two Israeli troopers. The variety of civilian casualties is excessive and the 34-day warfare causes widespread injury. UN peacekeepers will likely be deployed alongside the southern border, adopted by Lebanese military troops for the primary time in a long time.
2008 – Lebanon establishes diplomatic relations with Syria for the primary time since each nations gained independence.
2012 – The Syrian civil warfare, which started in March 2011, is spreading to Lebanon, the place there are clashes between Sunni Muslims and Alawites in Tripoli and Beirut.
2013 – The European Union lists Hezbollah’s navy wing as a terrorist group.
2014 – In response to the United Nations, there are at present greater than 1,000,000 Syrian refugees in Lebanon.
2020 – The federal government resigns after months of protests over the collapse within the worth of the foreign money, the influence of the Covid-19 lockdown and unrest following a large chemical explosion at Beirut's port.
2024 – Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah was killed in Israeli airstrikes as cross-border preventing elevated following the Hamas assault on Israel in October 2023.