History Jordan

 Historical dates

8 BC- 40 AD: apogee of Nabatene, under the reign of Aretas IV.
106: Nabatene became the roman province of Arabia, under Trajan.
629: first battle between Muslims and Christians in Mauta, south of Kerak.
661-750: reign of Omeyyade dynasty
750: Abbasside dynasty took over.
1100-1118: Baudouin I, King of Jerusalem, founded the seigniory across the Jordan.
1250-1516: Mameluke dynasty.
1291: the Franks were chased away from the East by the Mamelukes.
1516: Ottoman conquest. For four centuries, Great Syria was a province of the Ottoman empire.
1811: Mehmet Ali, Egyptian pasha, occupied Arabia.
1831-1832: his son, Ibrahim Pasha, conquered Syria and Palestine.
1841: Ottomans reconquered the region with the British assistance.
June 1916: start of the Arab revolt against the Ottomans, led by Emir Fayçal and Thomas Edward Lawrence.
November 1916: Sheriff Hussein, proclaimed king of Hedjaz, was recognised by France, England and Russia.
July 1917: Arabs occupied Aqaba.
October 1918: the British general Allenby Emir Fayçal entered Damas.
October 1924: Sheriff Hussein abdicated and his son Ali took over.
March 1946: end of British mandate in Jordan. The state of Trans-Jordan became a kingdom and Abdallah was made king.
January 1949: the West Bank was annexed by the hachemite kingdom.
April 1949: armistice between Israel and Jordan.
July 1950: assassination of king Abdallah of Jordan in Jerusalem.
May 1953: King Hussein accedes to the throne, after his father Talal.
September 1970: general attack of the Jordanian army against Palestinian resistance movements in Amman and north of the country (?Black September').
October 1974: King Hussein finally recognised the PLO.
July 1988: King Hussein officially announced that eastern Jordan is breaking off administrative relations with the West Bank.
July 1994: Israeli-Jordanian declaration putting an end to 46 years of hostilities between both countries.
October 1994: peace treaty between Israel and Jordan in Wadi Araba.
February 1995: Israeli troops withdrew from Jordanian territories occupied between 1948 and 1968.
August 1996: ?food riot' in the south of the country.
November 1997: boycott of Parliamentary elections by the Muslim Brothers.
7 February 1999: death of King Hussein of Jordan. His brother, King Hassan, was sidelined in favour of Hussein's eldest son, Abdallah.
21 June 1999: Abdallah II becomes king.