Libya

67 entries quoted from the Wikipedia articles written per year for Libya, 1951 CE to 2012 CE. Each century below shows a sample spread across it; the year link on a line opens everything held for that year.

20th century

53 entries, 1951 CE to 1999 CE — 25 shown, spread across the century

1951December 24 - Libya becomes independent from Italy. This also comes with the establishment of Libyan Army.Libya source
1962Libyan Eastern Championship 1962–63Libya source
1975Publication of the Green Book, detailing the Third International TheoryLibya source
1977Libyan protesters begin a "March on Cairo" as they heads towards the Egyptian border. The Libyans wanted to demonstrate against the increasing likelihood that Egypt would enter into a peace treaty with Israel.Libya source
19772 december 1977 – a Tupolev Tu-154 runs out of fuel near Benghazi. A total of 59 passengers are killed in the crash.Libya source
1978Libya and India signs a memorandum of understanding to cooperate in peaceful applications of nuclear energy as part of India's Atom of Peace policy.Libya source
1979the General People's Congress declares that the "vesting of power in the masses" and the "separation of the state from the revolution" is complete. The government is divided between the "Jamahiriya sector" and the "revolutionary sector". The "Jamahiriya sector" is composed of the General People's Congress, the General People's Committee, and the local Basic People's Congresses. Muammar Gaddafi relinquishes his position as general secretary of the General People's Congress, as which he was succeeded by Abdul Ati al-Obeidi, but remains supreme commander of the armed forces. The "Jamahiriya sector" is overseen by the "revolutionary sector", headed by Gaddafi as "Leader of the Revolution" .Libya source
19792 December - The U.S. Embassy in Tripoli is burned during protests.Libya source
1980August – A tribal uprising in eastern Libya triggers five days of fighting.Libya source
1981Launch of the second Five-Year Economic and Social Transformation Plan (1982-1987)Libya source
198413 August - The Oujda Treaty is signed, in Oujda, Morocco. It aims to establish the "Arab-African Union of States" between Libya and Morocco. Morocco will end up cancelling the treaty two years later, before any union is actually established.Libya source
19845 June - Al-Sadek Hamed Al-Shuwehdy, a Libyan engineer, is publicly executed in a Benghazi basketball stadium after a show trial. Huda Ben Amer, a Gaddafi loyalist and later mayor of Benghazi, becomes known as "Huda the executioner" after rushing in to aid in the execution.Libya source
1986Gaddafi announces plans for a unified African gold dinar currency, to challenge the dominance of the US Dollar and Euro currencies. The African dinar would have been measured directly in terms of gold.Libya source
1987September 11 - Chad and Libya agree to a ceasefire that ends the Chadian–Libyan War.Libya source
1988October 3 - Chad and Libya reestablish diplomatic relations after the years-long Chadian–Libyan War.Libya source
1989October 17 - Egypt and Libya re-establish diplomatic relations that had been cut off in 1977.Libya source
1989July 27 - Korean Air Flight 803 crashes on approach to Tripoli International Airport, 74 of the 199 people on board the plane were killed, as well as six people on ground.Libya source
1991November 13 - The United Kingdom and the United States charge two Libyan men with the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing.Libya source
1992Charles Wade, an American lobbyist, receives a $575,000 (USD) bribe to lobby the American government to remove sanctions against Libya. Wade would plead guilty to conspiring to violate the sanctions in 1995.Libya source
1993October - The National Front for the Salvation of Libya reported that Gaddafi ordered executions and arrests of his opponents after a failed coup.Libya source
19943 February – The Libya–Chad Territorial Dispute case was decided by the International Court of Justice in favor of ChadLibya source
1995July 28 - The United Nations Security Council extended sanctions on Libya over its role in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 and UTA Flight 772.Libya source
1996August - The United States announced sanctions on companies with greater than $40 million (USD) annual investments in Libya or Iran, despite objections from Germany, France, Canada, and the European Union.Libya source
1997April - A flight delivering 105 Muslim pilgrims from Libya to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia causes diplomatic backlash, as it violates a ban on international Libyan flights in place since 1992.Libya source
1998August 27 - United Nations Security Council Resolution 1192 is issued, stating that the sanctions in place against Libya since 1992 would be lifted if a tentative plan to try the suspects in the bombings of Pan Am Flight 103 and UTA Flight 772 is followed through upon.Libya source

21st century

14 entries, 2000 CE to 2012 CE

2000Six Libyan nationals are sentenced in absentia by the Court of Assizes in Paris to life imprisonment for the 1989 bombing of a French UTA airliner over Niger.Libya source
20002 March - Imbarek Shamekh is appointed Secretary of the General People's Committee.Libya source
2000The UN Security Council suspends the international air embargo and other sanctions against Libya after two suspects for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing trial are handed over.Libya source
2000The government expels hundreds of sub-Saharan workers following mob violence and attacks on their residences and workplaces.Libya source
200015 September - 1 October: 2000 Summer Olympics - Libya competes at the Sydney Olympics with three athletes in judo, taekwondo, and marathon, winning no medals.Libya source
2004January 6 - Pakistan is cited as the source of nuclear weapon technology supplied to Libya, Iran and North Korea. The components intercepted at sea by Italy en route to Libya were fabricated in Malaysia. There is no evidence that the Pakistani government of President Pervez Musharraf knew about the transfer of technology of Libya.Libya source
2004March 7 - The White House reports that all of Libya's remaining nuclear weapons-related equipment has been sent to the United States.Libya source
2004February 25 - Libya's Foreign Minister, Abdulrahman Shalgam, issues a statement reaffirming its acceptance of culpability for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, after the Prime Minister Shukri Ghanem, in an interview for the BBC, claimed Libya had "bought peace" with the $2.7bn compensation payments, but had not accepted guilt.Libya source
2005March 23 - Muammar al-Gaddafi states that he is not going to pardon five Bulgarian nurses that face a death penalty accused of injecting children with the HIV.Libya source
2005January 20 - Italian police have arrested number of people connected to smuggling of illegal immigrants from Libya.Libya source
2008August 30 - Italy signed a $5 billion deal for infrastructure investments in Libya, coupled with an apology for damage done to Libya from Italian colonization of the country.Libya source
2008April - Russia cancels $4.5 billion worth of Libya's foreign debt as part of a larger set of business deals including railways, weaponry, and oil.Libya source
2008November 21 - The U.S. appoints its first ambassador to Libya in 36 years, after Libya paid compensation to Pan Am Flight 103 victims' families.Libya source
2012March 6 - The Cyrenaica region, covering the eastern coast of Libya, announces plans for semi-autonomy.Libya source