Druze

Arab ethnoreligious group of the Levant

9 dated entries naming Druze, drawn from 8 separate years between 985 CE and 2025 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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10th century

985Hamza ibn 'Ali ibn-Ahmad, founding leader of the Druzesource

11th century

1017Summer – Hamza ibn-'Ali ibn-Ahmad publicly declares the founding of the Druze religion, during the reign of the Fatimid Caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah.source
1021Hamza ibn 'Ali ibn-Ahmad, founding leader of the Druzesource

16th century

1523October 27 – Hürrem Pasha, the Ottoman Empire's Governor-General of the Damascus Eyalet (which includes parts of what will become Syria, Israel, Jordan and Palestine) begins a punitive expedition through Lebanon against the Druze of Chouf. During the first campaign, Hürrem's troops burn 43 villages and kill at least 400 Druze.source

17th century

1635April 13 – Druze warlord Fakhr-al-Din II is executed in Constantinople.source

19th century

1860Christians and Druzes clash in Damascus, Syria.source
1860October 5 – Austria, Britain, France, Prussia and the Ottoman Empire form a commission to investigate the causes of the massacres of Maronite Christians, committed by Druzes in Lebanon earlier in the year.source

20th century

1926May 9 – The French navy bombards Damascus, because of Druze riots.source

21st century

2025July 13 – Several clashes erupt in southern Syria between armed Druze and Bedouin groups.source