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Jordan /
History
13th century BCE: Emergence of the kingdom of Edom, covering southwestern Jordan.
9th century: Emergence of the kingdom of Moab in western Jordan.
582: Moab conquered by the Babylonians.
6th-4th century: Edom is taken or replaced by the Nabateans.
Early 2nd century CE: Comes under the Roman Empire.
7th century: Falls to the Muslim Empire.
16th century: Passes to the Ottoman administrative district of Damascus.
1917 July: Aqaba is captured by Faisal, son of King Hussein of Hijaz.
1918 September: Faisal conquers Amman and Der'a.
— November: Faisal establishes his administration in Damascus.
1920 March: Faisal is forced by the British away from both the lands of Jordan and Syria.
— December: Jordan is established under the name of Transjordania, as a British mandate. The land has between 300,000 and 400,000 inhabitants, divided between several tribes.
1921 January Abdullah, one of the fighters of power in the later Saudi Arabia, takes control of Amman.
— July: Abdullah is effectively made ruler of Transjordania.
1923 May 15: Transjordania is recognized an interdependent state under British tutelage.
1925 June: Abdullah takes control of the region of Ma'an and Aqaba.
1946 May 22: The British mandate ends.
— May25: Transjordania becomes independent and Abdullah declared king.
1948 Transjordania participates in the First Palestinian War against the establishment of the state of Israel.
— April 3: End of fighting, and Jordan is left with the control over the West Bank.
1950: Transjordania annexes the West Bank, and changes the name to Jordan.
1951: King Abdullah is murdered.
1952: Abdullah's grand son Hussein becomes new king.
1960's: Strife with the Palestinians (PLO) over power of Jordan.
1967: Six-Day War, where Jordan loses the West Bank. Many Palestinian refugees come into Jordan.
1970-71: The final battle with PLO ends with the expulsion of PLO from Jordan.
1974: Jordan recognizes PLO as the sole representative for the Palestinians.
1988: Jordan gives up all claims on the West Bank, considering it as Palestinian territory.
1991: The ban against certain political parties is abolished.
1993: The first parliamentary elections since 1956.
1994 July 25: State of war with Israel is ended with a joint declaration.
— October 26: Peace treaty with Israel is concluded.
1999 February: King Hussein dies, and is succeeded by his son, Abdullah.
2002: Riots and clashes in Ma'an. Government troops move in, and disarms the many inhabitants carrying weapons.
2003 June 17: Parliamentary elections, in which more than two-thirds to the 110 sears are won by representatives loyal to the king. The main opposition party, IAF, wins 17 seats. The elections were critcized.
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By: Tore Kjeilen
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