Timeline: Lebanon from 1920 to 2005 | Wide Angle

July 19th, 2005

Future for Lebanon

Timeline: Lebanon from 1920 to 2005


April 1920	With the end of World War I and the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the Allies give France a mandate over Greater Syria
Sept. 1, 1920	France divides Greater Syria into Syria and Lebanon
1926	Lebanon draws up its constitution, dividing power between major religious groups
1943	Lebanon gains independence from France, whose troops withdraw completely in 1946
1958	Civil war; U.S. sends troops
1967	Arab-Israeli War; Lebanon does not participate
1968	Israel raids Beirut International Airport
1975	Onset of Lebanon’s civil war
1976	Syrian forces enter Lebanon
1978	Israel invades Lebanon, withdrawing later that year
1982	Creation of Hezbollah
June 6, 1982	Israel invades Lebanon again
April 18, 1983	Truck bomb destroys U.S. Embassy in Beirut (63 dead)
Oct. 23, 1983	Truck bombs explode in U.S. Marine and French Paratrooper barracks (298 dead).
1989	Arab League-sponsored Taif Agreement, brokered in Saudi Arabia, leads to end of civil war and reinforces Syria’s direct role in Lebanese affairs
1990	After more than 100,000 deaths, civil war finally ends
2000	Israel withdraws troops from southern Lebanon
2004	U.N. Security Council passes Resolution 1559, calling for the withdrawal of all remaining foreign forces from Lebanon and the disarmament of the Hezbollah militia
Feb. 14, 2005	Anti-Syrian prime minister, Rafik Hariri, is assassinated by a car bomb
Feb. 21, 2005	Tens of thousands rally at the site of Hariri’s assassination, calling for an end to the Syrian occupation
March 8, 2005	Half a million demonstrate in Beirut in favor of Syria
March 14, 2005	Approximately one million demonstrate in Beirut in favor of Lebanese independence
April 2005	Syrian troops withdraw from Lebanon

Tags: Israel, Lebanon, Syria

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