Irak

Al Jumhuriya Al Iraqiya ad Dimuqratiya ash Aha'abiya




1894 a.C.-1921

YEAR DATE EVENT KING PRIME MINISTER HIGH COMMISIONER
1894 b.C. Babylon Kingdom, dinasty Amorite Sumu-abum
1880 b.C. Sumu-la-El
1844 b.C. Sabium
1830 b.C. Apil-Sin
1812 b.C. Sin-muballit
1792 b.C. Hammurabi
1749 b.C. Samsu-iluna
1711 b.C. Abi-eshuh
1683 b.C. Ammi-ditana
1646 b.C. Ammi-s.aduqa
1625 b.C. Samsu-ditana
1595 b.C. Kassite occupation
1410 b.C. Assur-Babylon Kingdom Assur-nadir-ahe I
1392 b.C. Eriba-Adad I
1365 b.C. Assur uballit I
1330 b.C. Enlil nirari
1319 b.C. Arik den ili
1307 b.C. Adad-nirari I
1274 b.C. Shalmanser I
1244 b.C. Tukulti Nimurta I
1208 b.C. Assur-nasri-pal I
1200 b.C. Assur nirari III
1192 b.C. Ninurta-apal-Ekur
1179 b.C. Assur Dayan I
1133 b.C. Assur res-isi I
1115 b.C. Tiglath Pileser I
1077 b.C. Asharid-apal-Ekur
1074 b.C. Assur Bil Kala I
1057 b.C. Shamshi Adad IV
1050 b.C. Assurnasirpal I
1031 b.C. Shalmaneser II
1020 b.C. Assur nirari IV
1016 b.C. Assur rabi II
973 b.C. Assur res ishi II
967 b.C. Tiglath Pileser II
934 b.C. Assur Dayan II
911 b.C. Adadnirari II
891 b.C. Tukulti Ninurta II
883 b.C. Assur nasir pal II
858 b.C. Shalmaneser III
823 b.C. Shamsi Adad V
810 b.C. Adadnirari III
783 b.C. Shalmaneser IV
772 b.C. Assur Dayan III
754 b.C. Assur nirari V
744 a. C. Tiglath Pileser III
726 b.C. Shalmaneser V
722 b.C. Sargon II
705 b.C. Sennacherib
681 b.C. Esaraddon
669 b.C. Assur Bani Pal
631 b.C. Assur Etid Ilani
629 b.C. Sin-shar-ishkun
612 b.C. Ashur-uballit II
609 b.C. Babylon Kingdom Nabopolassar
605 b.C. Nabucodonoser
562 b.C. Nabu-na-id
545 b.C. Belsazzar
539 b.C. Persian Occupation
632 Arab Occupation
945 Emirate - Buyud dynasty emir Ahmad ibn Buya
967 emir Bakhtiyar
978 emir Fana Khusraw
983 emir Marzuban
987 emir Shirzil I
989 emir Firuz
1012 emir Abu Shuja
1021 emir Hasan
1025 emir Shirzil II
1044 emir Marzuban
1048 emir Khusraw Firuz
1055 Arab Occupation
1118 Sultanate - seljuk dynasty sultan Mahmud II
1131 sultan Dawud
1132 sultan Tughril II
1134 sultan Masud
1152 sultan Malik Shah III
1153 sultan Muhammad II
1160 sultan Sulayman Shah
1161 sultan Arslan Shah
1176 sultan Tughril III
1194 Khwârazm Shahs occupation
1534 18 november Ottoman Occupation
1914 december UK Occupation Sir Arthur Arnold Barret
1915 Sir John Eccles Nixon
1916 august Sir Frederic Stanley Maude
1917 18 november Sir William Raine Marshall
1918 Sir Alexander Stanhope Cobbe
1919 10 january Sir Arnold Talbot Wilson
1919 1 october Sir Percy Zachariah Cox
1920 11 november UK trust administration Sayyid `Abd ar-Rahman al-Haydari al-Kaylani Sir Percy Zachariah Cox

1921-1958


YEAR DATE EVENT HEAD OF STATE PRIME MINISTER HIGH COMMISSIONER
1921 23 august Kingdom under UK protectorate king Faysal I Sayyid `Abd ar-Rahman al-Haydari al-Kaylani Sir Percy Zachariah Cox
1922 20 november `Abd al-Muhsin Bey as-Sa`dun (I)
1923 4 may Sir Henry Robert Conway Dobbs
1923 22 november Jaafar Pasha al-Askari (I)
1924 2 august Yasin Pasha al-Hashimi (I)
1925 26 november Abd al-Muhsin Bey as-Sa`dun (II)
1926 21 november Jaafar Pasha al-Askari (II)
1928 11 january `Abd al-Muhsin Bey as-Sa`dun (III)
1928 october Sir Gilbert Falkingham Clayton
1929 28 april Sulayman Tawfiq Bey as-Suwaydi (I)
1929 19 september Abd al-Muhsin Bey as-Sa`dun (IV)
1929 3 october Sir Francis Humphrys
1929 18 november Ibrahim Naji Bey as-Suwaydi
1930 23 march Nuri Pasha as-Said (I)
1932 3 october Indipendent Kingdom king Faysal I Nuri Pasha as-Said (I)
1932 3 november Naji Shaukat Bey
1933 20 march Rashid Ali al-Kaylani (I)
1933 8 september king Ghazi I Rashid Ali El Kailani
1933 9 november Jamil Bey al-Midfai (I)
1934 27 august Ali Jaudat al-Aiyubi (I)
1935 4 march Jamil Bey al-Midfai (II)
1935 17 march Yasin Pasha al-Hashimi (II)
1936 30 october Hikmat Sulayman
1937 17 august Jamil Bey al-Midfai (III)
1938 25 december Nuri Pasha as-Said (II)
1939 4 april king Faysal II
1940 31 march Rashid Ali al-Kaylani (II)
1941 3 february Taha Pasha al-Hashimi
1941 13 april Rashid Ali al-Kaylani (III)
1941 4 june Jamil Bey al-Midfai (IV)
1941 10 october Nuri Pasha as-Said (III)
1944 4 june Hamdi al-Bajaji
1946 23 february Sulayman Tawfiq Bey as-Suwaydi (II)
1946 1 june Arshad al-Umari (I)
1946 21 november Nuri Pasha as-Said (IV)
1947 29 march Sayyid Salih Jabr
1948 29 january Sayyid Muhammad as-Sadr
1948 26 june Muzahim al-Bajaji
1949 6 january Nuri Pasha as-Said (V)
1949 10 december Ali Jaudat al-Aiyubi (II)
1950 5 february Sulayman Tawfiq Bey as-Suwaydi (III)
1950 15 september Nuri Pasha as-Said (VI)
1952 12 july Mustafa Mahmud al-Umari
1952 23 november Nureddin Mahmud
1953 29 january Jamil Bey al-Midfai (V)
1953 17 september Muhammad Fadhel al-Jamali
1954 29 april Arshad al-Umari (II)
1954 4 august Nuri Pasha as-Said (VII)
1957 20 june Ali Jaudat al-Aiyubi (III)
1957 15 december `Abd al-Wahhab Marjan

1958-1963


YEAR DATE EVENT HEAD OF STATE PRIME MINISTER
1958 14 february Union with Jordan in Arab League king Faysal II `Abd al-Wahhab Marjan
1958 3 march Nuri Pasha as-Said (VIII)
1958 18 may Ahmad Muhtar Baban
1958 14 july Republic gen. Muhammad Najib ar-Ruba`i `Abd al-Karim Qasim

1963-1991


YEAR DATE EVENT HEAD OF STATE PRIME MINISTER
1963 8 february col. `Abd as-Salam `Arif Ahmad Hassan al-Bakr (I)
1963 20 november Tahir Yahya (I)
1965 6 september `Arif `Abd ar-Razzaq
1965 21 november `Abd ar-Rahman al-Bazzaz
1966 13 april `Abd ar-Rahman al-Bazzaz
1966 16 april `Abd ar-Rahman `Arif
1966 9 august Naji Talib
1967 10 may `Abd ar-Rahman `Arif
1967 11 july Tahir Yahya (II)
1968 17 july gen. Ahmad Hassan al-Bakr `Abd ar-Razzaq an-Naif
1968 31 july Ahmad Hassan al-Bakr (II)
1979 16 july Saddam Hussein Saddam Hussein (I)

1991-2004


YEAR DATE EVENT HEAD OF STATE PRIME MINISTER GOVERNOR
1991 23 march Sa`dun Hammadi
1991 13 september Muhammad Hamzah az-Zubaydi
1993 5 september Ahmad Hussein Khudayir as-Samarrai
1994 29 may Saddam Hussein (II)
2003 9 april U.S.-U.K. occupation gen. Tommy Ray Franks
2003 7 july John P. Abizaid

2004-2004


YEAR DATE EVENT HEAD OF STATE PRIME MINISTER GOVERNOR
2004 april

2004-2008


YEAR DATE EVENT HEAD OF STATE PRIME MINISTER
2004 28 june Ghazi al-Yawer Iyad Allawi
2005 7 april Jalal Talabani Ibrahim al-Jaafari
2006 22 april Jawad al-Maliki
2011 11 november Nuri al-Maliki


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