Libya - Notable Historical Events
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Libya - Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1740-12-16 |
Prussian Libya falls to Silezie |
1756-08-29 |
Prussian Libya occupies Saxson: beginning 7 years War |
1818-10-09 |
Congress of Aken returns to France from Libya |
1911-11-05 |
Italy attacks Turkish North-Africa (Libya), takes Tripoli & Cyrenaica |
1912-10-19 |
Tripoli (Libya) passes from Turkish to Italian control |
1922-09-13 |
136.4°F (58°C), El Aziziyah, Libya in shade (world record) |
1934-12-03 |
Italian colonial Tripoli & Cyrenaica annexed to Libya |
1940-12-09 |
British assault on Banghazi Libya: 1st major offensive in North Africa |
1940-12-10 |
British anti-offensive in Libya (Sidi Barrani) |
1941-01-21 |
Australian and British troops attack Tobruk, Libya |
1941-01-30 |
Australian troops conquer Derna, Libya |
1941-02-04 |
British tanks occupy Maus, Libya |
1941-02-06 |
British troops conquer Bengazi, Libya |
1941-02-14 |
German Afrika Korps lands in Tripoli, Libya |
1941-02-22 |
German assault on El Agheila Libya |
1941-03-24 |
German troops occupy El Agheila Libya |
1941-05-15 |
British attack Halfaya-pass & Fort Capuzzo in Egypt & Libya |
1941-11-22 |
NZ troops conquer Ft Capuzzo Libya |
1941-12-23 |
British troops overrun Benghazi Libya |
1942-01-28 |
German troops occupy Benghazi Libya |
1942-01-29 |
German & Italian troops occupy Banghazi, Libya |
1942-11-20 |
British 8th Army recaptures Benghazi, Libya |
1949-06-01 |
British government grants Cyrenaica (East-Libya) independence |
1951-12-24 |
United Kingdom of Libya gains independence from Italy via UN |
1962-01-23 |
Libya, Morocco, Algeria & Tunisia plan to form United Arab Maghreb |
1969-09-08 |
Suleiman Maghrabi appointed premier of Libya |
1969-12-11 |
Libya adopts constitution |
1970-01-16 |
Col Kadhaffi becomes premier of Libya |
1970-06-11 |
US leaves Wheelus AFB Libya |
1970-07-21 |
Libya orders confiscation of all Jewish property |
1971-04-02 |
Libya concludes 5 weeks of negotiations with Western oil companies in Tripoli |
1971-04-17 |
Egypt, Libya & Syria form federation (FAR) |
1971-12-05 |
Libya nationalizes British Petroleum concession |
1972-03-04 |
Libya & USSR signs cooperation treaty |
1972-09-01 |
Egypt & Libya form federation |
1972-09-20 |
Libya acquires a 50 percent interest in two ENI oil concessions |
1973-06-11 |
Libya nationalizes Bunker Hunt concession; Nigeria acquires 35 percent participation in Shell-BP concession |
1973-09-01 |
Libya nationalizes 51 percent of nine other oil companies' concessions |
1973-10-19 |
Saudi Arabia, Libya, and other Arab states proclaim an embargo on oil exports to the United States |
1973-12-13 |
MPLA/FNLA accord about combat against Portuguese Libya |
1974-01-12 |
Libya & Tunisia announces they are merging as "Islamic Arab Republic" |
1974-02-11 |
Libya nationalizes three US oil companies that had not agreed to 51 percent nationalization in September |
1977-03-02 |
Libya amends constitution |
1977-11-19 |
Libya drops diplomatic relations with Egypt |
1977-12-05 |
Egypt breaks dipl relations with Syria, Libya, Algeria, Iraq & S Yemen |
1979-06-03 |
Ex-president Idi Amin of Uganda flees to Libya |
1979-12-02 |
Crowds attack US embassy at Tripoli Libya |
1980-07-23 |
Billy Carter admits to being paid by Libya |
1982-03-10 |
President Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against Libya |
1984-08-13 |
Morocco & Libya sign "Arabic-African Union" treaty |
1985-08-20 |
Libya throws out 1000s Tunisian/Egyptian gas workers |
1985-09-26 |
Tunisia drops diplomatic relations with Libya |
1986-01-07 |
US President Reagan announces economic sanctions against Libya |
1986-03-24 |
US & Libya clash in Gulf of Sidra |
1986-04-14 |
US aircraft attacks 5 terrorist locations in Libya |
1986-04-15 |
US air raids Libya, responding to La Belle disco, Berlin bombing |
1986-04-15 |
The United States launches Operation El Dorado Canyon against Libya. |
1986-08-29 |
Morocco king Hassan II signs unity treaty with Libya |
1989-02-17 |
Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia & Libya form common market |
1990-10-11 |
Libya's Qadhafi says Israel must be eliminated |
1992-03-31 |
UN Security Council voted to ban flights & arms sales to Libya |
1992-04-14 |
UN imposes embargo against Libya takes effect |
1996-08-06 |
US President Bill Clinton signs a new bill imposing sanctions on non-US companies which invest over $40 million a year in the energy sectors of Iran or Libya |
1997-07-23 |
The US State Department rules that Turkey's agreement to purchase $23 billion worth of natural gas from Iran does not violate the Iran and Libya Sanctions Act |
2001-08-03 |
US President George Bush signs into law the Iran and Libya Sanctions Act (ILSA) Extension Act of 2001 |
2002-06-06 |
Eastern Mediterranean Event. A near-Earth asteroid estimated at 10 metres diameter explodes over the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Libya. The resulting explosion is estimated to have a force of 26 kilotons, slightly more powerful than the Nagasaki atomic bomb. |
2003-09-12 |
The United Nations lifts sanctions against Libya after that country agreed to accept responsibility and recompense the families of victims in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. |
2004-02-26 |
The United States lifts a ban on travel to Libya, ending travel restrictions to the nation that had lasted for 23 years. |
2004-04-24 |
The United States lifts economic sanctions imposed on Libya 18 years previously, as a reward for its cooperation in eliminating weapons of mass destruction. |
2007-07-24 |
Libya frees all six of the Medics in the HIV trial in Libya. |
2011-10-20 |
The former leader of Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, and his son Moatassem Gaddafi are killed shortly after the battle of Sirte (2011) while in the custody of NTC fighters. |
2012-09-11 |
The US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, is stormed, looted and burned down, killing five people, including the US ambassador |
2012-09-13 |
Dr Mustafa Abushagur is elected as Prime Minister of Libya |
2013-07-27 |
1,000 inmates escape from a prison in Benghazi, Libya |
2015-11-14 |
US airstrike in Libya kills ISIS leader |
2016-02-20 |
2 Serbians believed among 49 killed in US airstrike in Libya |
2016-08-02 |
US launches air strikes on IS in Libya |
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Libya - Notable Birthdays
Libya - Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
146-04-11 |
Lucius Septimius Severus, Leptis Magna Libya, Roman Emperor (193-211) |
1839-09-25 |
Karl A von Zittel, German geologist/paleontologist (Libya) |
1896-06-06 |
Italo Balbo, Italian pilot/gov-gen of Libya (La marcia su Rome) |
1899-01-14 |
Fritz Bayerlein, German lt-general (WW I, Poland, Libya, St-Lo) |
1952-04-01 |
Abdel Basset Ali Al-Megrahi, Tripoli Libya, bomber (Pan Am 103), (d. 2012) |
1956-04-04 |
Lamen Khalifa Fhimah, Suk Giuma Libya, bomber (Pan Am Flight 103) |
1972-05-31 |
Sara Sidner, CNN Breaking News: Libya Revolution - Rebels Enter Tripoli and Gadhafi Compound |
Libya - Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1904-01-05 |
Karl A von Zittel, German geologist/paleontologist (Libya), dies at 64 |
1940-06-28 |
Italo Balbo, Italian pilot/gov-gen of Libya, dies at 44 |
2011-10-20 |
Muammar Gaddafi, Ruler of Libya (b. 1942) |
2011-10-20 |
Moatassem Gaddafi, Son of Moammar Gaddafi and National Security Adviser of Libya (b. 1977) |
