Iraq
98 entries quoted from the Wikipedia articles written per year for Iraq, 1932 CE to 2016 CE. Each century below shows a sample spread across it; the year link on a line opens everything held for that year.
20th century
61 entries, 1932 CE to 1999 CE — 25 shown, spread across the century
- 1932Iraq received its independence on 3 October, ending the British Mandate which began in 1920Iraqsource
- 1932Iraqi Red Crescent Society was founded in BaghdadIraqsource
- 1932Al Shorta SC, multi-sport club based in Rusafa District, was established on 14 NovemberIraqsource
- 1959August 19 – The Baghdad Pact, which had been kicked out of Baghdad after Iraq withdrew from the alliance, changed its name to the CENTO, the Central Treaty Organization, with the United Kingdom, Turkey, Pakistan and Iran.Iraqsource
- 1959October 7 – On Baghdad's al-Rashid Street, President Abd al-Karim Qasim was ambushed on his way to the East German embassy. The five man team, led by future Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, killed Qasim's driver and wounded Qasim. One assassin died and Saddam himself was injured, but escaped to farm.Iraqsource
- 19721 June – The Iraq Petroleum Company was completely nationalized by the government of Iraq, through its Public Law 69, making the company part of the state-owned Iraq National Oil Company.Iraqsource
- 1975March 6 - Iran and Iraq announced a settlement in their border dispute, at a meeting of the OPEC nations in Algiers. The Shah of Iran signed on behalf of his nation, while Iraq was represented by Saddam Hussein, an aide to President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr and future President of Iraq. The meeting was overseen by Algerian President Houari Boumediene. Iraq agreed to drop claims to half of the Shatt al-Arab, while Iran agreed not to supply weapons to Kurdish separatists in northern Iraq.Iraqsource
- 19817 June – Israel bombs the nearly completed but not operational Iraqi nuclear reactor 18 miles south of Baghdad in an operation known as Operation Opera. It was the world's first attack on a nuclear plant.Iraqsource
- 198224 May – Battle of Khorramshahr ends with Iranian forces retaking the city of Khorramshahr which had been captured by Iraqi forces earlier in the Iran-Iraq war.Iraqsource
- 19824 October – Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, politician.(b.1914)Iraqsource
- 198531 May – Suhair al-Qaisi, Iraqi news anchor and media personality.Iraqsource
- 198820 January – Ghazwan Jassem, Iraqi television presenter.Iraqsource
- 1989The Iraqi University is established.Iraqsource
- 19894 May – Adnan Khayr Allah, Iraqi military officer and politician. (b.1940)Iraqsource
- 199029 August – Shahab ud-Din Mar'ashi Najafi, Iraqi Shia cleric. (b.1897)Iraqsource
- 1991The University of Babylon is established.Iraqsource
- 199326 June – Cruise missile airstrikes on Iraq is ordered by U.S. President Bill Clinton as retaliation for Iraq alleged involvement in an assassination attempt on former President George H. W. Bush.Iraqsource
- 1994May – The Kurdish Civil War breaks out between the two leading Kurdish parties, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan and the Kurdistan Democratic Party over power sharing in the Iraqi Kurdistan government.Iraqsource
- 199412 December – Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, Palestinian-Iraqi writer and translator. (b.1920)Iraqsource
- 19958 September – Safa Khulusi, Iraqi writer and historian (b.1917)Iraqsource
- 199610 December – The Oil-for-Food Programme implementation begins with the first Iraqi oil export.Iraqsource
- 199715 January – The proceeds of the first Iraqi sale of oil are deposited at a special UN account as part of the Oil-for-Food Programme.Iraqsource
- 199727 July – Alaa Abbas Abdulnabi, Iraqi footballerIraqsource
- 1998The University of Diyala is established.Iraqsource
- 19998 January – United States officials admit to using UNSCOM to collect intelligence against the Iraqi government.Iraqsource
21st century
37 entries, 2000 CE to 2017 CE — 25 shown, spread across the century
- 2000Last case of Polio recorded in Iraq.Iraqsource
- 2001August 27 – A U.S. Military RQ-1B Predator unmanned aerial vehicle failed to return from a routine reconnaissance mission, Iraq claims to have shot it down.Iraqsource
- 200128 April – Construction of the Umm al-Qura Mosque, one of the largest mosques in Iraq, is completed.Iraqsource
- 200212 October – Heshu Yones, murder victim. (b.1986)Iraqsource
- 2002October 14 – Youssif, burn victim.Iraqsource
- 2003November 26 – UK foreign minister Jack Straw pays a brief, surprise visit to Iraq.Iraqsource
- 2003Tariq Aziz of Iraq met with Pope John Paul II.Iraqsource
- 2003It is reported that, citing "national interest" as a reason, the British government under Margaret Thatcher contributed approximately £1bn of taxpayer money to Iraq under Saddam Hussein in the 1980s. Most of this money went into military infrastructure built by British companies such as GEC-Marconi.Iraqsource
- 2003A United Nations panel reports that Iraq's al-Samoud 2 missiles have a range of 180 km (above the 150 km limit allowed by the UN), splitting opinion over whether they breach UNSCR 1441.Iraqsource
- 2003November 26 – Abed Hamed Mowhoush, Iraqi General, tortured to death by the USA Army personnel while in prison.Iraqsource
- 2003August 19 – A truck bomb attack on the UN kills Sérgio Vieira de Mello and 21 others. This leads to the UN leaving Iraq due to security concerns.Iraqsource
- 2004October 12 – Germany's defense minister, Peter Struck, indicated that Germany might deploy troops in Iraq if conditions there change. This gesture appears to provide backing for John Kerry, the US Democratic presidential challenger.Iraqsource
- 2004January 24 – Abdul Rahman Munif, authorIraqsource
- 2004May 7 – Waldemar Milewicz, 48, Polish journalist, and Mounyra Beouamrane, killed in IraqIraqsource
- 2004January 15 – The United Nations call direct elections in advance of July impractical, due to continuing disorder and other factors.Iraqsource
- 2005November 28 – Iraqi President Jalal Talabani called the former prime minister Iyad Allawi's comments "nonsense". Allawi claimed that the human rights abuses in Iraq were as bad now as they were under Saddam Hussein. Talabani stated that the government was against any form of torture or harming of prisoners.Iraqsource
- 2005January 27 – Iraq's expatriates start voting for the Iraqi National Assembly election, 2005Iraqsource
- 2007December 18 – US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice makes an unscheduled visit to Kirkuk before proceeding to Baghdad, where she calls on Iraqi leaders to urgently implement a national reconciliation roadmap.Iraqsource
- 2007March 20 – Taha Yassin Ramadan (born 1938), Iraqi vice president of Saddam Hussein, executed by hangingIraqsource
- 20088 April – Senator George Voinovich, a Republican, broke with his party line, saying the country is, "kind of bankrupted ... in a recession."Iraqsource
- 200820 March – In a videotape, broadcast by Al Jazeera, the voice identified as Osama bin Laden declares "Iraq is the perfect base to set up the jihad to liberate Palestine."Iraqsource
- 200815 February – Naziha Salim, 81, Iraqi painter, complications from a stroke.Iraqsource
- 200811 April – Suicide bombings killed at least four people—three of them police. The first bombing was in Ramadi, the provincial capital of the predominantly Sunni Anbar province. At least three national police officers were killed. The second attack took place at a checkpoint about 20 km north of Baiji, the bomber and one other person a local Awakening Council were killed. Also, at least three people were killed in a mortar attack on Baghdad's Palestine Hotel.Iraqsource
- 201031 October – A number of terrorists storm the Sayidat al-Nejat Cathedral and hold worshippers as hostages. The Siege lasted few hours until security forces broke into the church, the confrontation led to at least 58 dead and around 100 injured.Iraqsource
- 201627 April – Iraq closes Al Jazeera offices in Iraq and revokes the news network's broadcasting license after accusing it of violating broadcasting regulations.Iraqsource