Chronology

I compile here a chronology of dates that I feel important to know to understand modern history. I might update this post and I might write some posts specific to those dates.

October 7th, 3761 BC - First day of the Hebraic calendar, the creation of the world.

3150 BC - 2850 BC - First Egyptian dynasty

2540 BC - Construction of the Cheops pyramid

2104 BC - Noe Arch

1395 BC - Birth of Aaron

1392 BC - Birth of Moise

1312 BC - Israeli people exit of Egypt

1272 BC - Death of Moise

1200 BC - Birth of Israel

560 BC - Birth of Buddha

550 - 486 BC - Darius of Persia

356 - 323 BC - Alexander the Great

27 BC - Beginning of the Roman empire

000 - Birth of Jesus

476 - End of the Roman empire

570 - Birth of Mahomet

636 - 638 - Israel is taken by Omeyyades then Abbassides

1090 - First use of the marine compass

1096 - 1099 - First crusade decided by Urbain II, in France, Clermont Ferrand

1099 - 1260 - Crusaders, mostly "francs" govern Israel

1260 - Israel taken by Mamelouks

1453 - Fall of Constantinople to the Turkish Ottoman Empire

1492 - Christopher Colombus discover America

1776 - Independance of the United-States

October 27th, 1790 - France adopts a decimal system

March 19th, 1791 - The Meter is created

1793 - The National Convention adopted the proposal of the meter

1798 - 1801 - French campaign in Egypt and Syria to undermine Britain's access to India

1798 - Mamelouks soldiers enter the French Army

March 21th, 1804 - Creation of the French civil code, also called the "Napoleonic Code"

1855 - 1901 - Development of the oil industry

1875 - Signing of the international Metre Convention

July 2nd, 1890 - Sherman Anti-trust Act

September 27th, 1908 - First Ford T made in Detroit

October 15th, 1914 - Clayton Anti-trust Act

1914 - 1918 - First World War

1927 - Balfour Declaration

1939 - 1945 - World War II

October 24th, 1945 - Creation of the United Nations

November 29th, 1947 - Plan of partition of Palestine

May 14th, 1948 - Independance declaration os Israel

May 15th, 1948 - Arab countries declare the war to Israel

September 14th, 1960 - Creation of OPEC

1967 - De Gaulle supports Arab countries against Israel

1967 - Creation of ASFA in France (Association de Solidarité Franco-Arabe)

1971 - Nationalization of oil production from Algeria and Saudi Arabia

1974 - Jacques Chirac calls Saddam Hussein "un ami personnel"

1976 - France sells Osirak to Iraq, a civil nuclear experimental program

September 1980 - Beginning of Iran - Iraq war

1985 - Creation of association des Amitiés Franco-Irakiennes (AFI)

March 16th, 1988 - Halabja chemical attack

August 1988 - End of the Iran - Iraq war

1990 - Iraq invades Koweit

September 11th, 1990 - U.S. President George H. W. Bush sums up the reasons to go on war against Saddam Hussein

1991 - First war in Iraq, also called the "Gulf War"

May 7 th, 1995 - Jacques Chirac becomes the President of France

July 11th 1995 - Terrorist attack in Paris

September 11th, 2001 - World Trade Center attacked by terrorists

September 21th, 2001 - Terrorist attack in Toulouse, France

May 2002 - Presidential elections, Jacques Chirac becomes President with the votes from the left

March 19th, 2003 - Second War in Iraq

2004 - Creation of Al Jazeera, France restores its relationship with Iraq

2007 - Nicolas Sarkozy becomes the president of France

December 17th, 2010 - The Jasmin revolution

March 19th, 2011 - Harmattan operation

May 6th, 2012 - François Holland becomes president

April, 2013 - ISIL starts conflics in Iraq

January 7th, 2015 - Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack

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