A simplified Chronology.


15000 BC Middle Paleolithic Hazar - Merd
Hatra
3500 Upper Paleolithic Zarzi
7000 Neolithic Jarmo
4500 Sumer and Akkad Eridu, Warka, Kish, Ur, Lagash, Nippur.
1900 Babylon (1.dynasty) 1800  Hammurabi, the law - giver. Sumerian man
1400 Rice of Assyria 883-859  Ashurnasirpal II; moved capital to Nimrud.
859-824  Shalmaneser III.
722-705  Sargon II.
705-681  Sennacherib; moved capital to Nineveh and rebuilt it.
612  Fall of Nineveh to Medes.
606 - 539 Neo-Babylonians 604-562  Nebuchadnezzar; created new Babylonian Empire and sent jews into captivity.
539-  Belshazzar; the year of conquest of Babylon by Cyrus the great. 		Gudiya the princ of Lagsh
539 - 330 Achaemenian Persians 558-528  Cyrus II; founded Persian Empire.
528-521  Cambyses; extended Empire to Oxus.
521-485  Darius I; fought Spartans at Marathon.
485-465  Xerxes I; Battle of Salamis.
336-331  Darius III; defeated by Alexander the great. 		Human-headed bulls
331 -129 Seleucid Greeks 323  Death of Alexander the great at Babylon.
- 280  Seleucus Nicator I, Alexander's general and founder of Seleucid Dynasty.
223 - 187  Antiochus the great.
145 - 142  Antiochus VI; defeated by Parthian king, Phraates II. 		Hamurabi, the low-giver
130 BC - 226 Parthian Persians 124 - 88  Mithradates II the great; captured Seleucia.
AD 24 - 37  Orodes I; defeated and killed Crassus.
Phraates V made treaty with Rome in year of birth of Christ. 		Mona Lisa of Nimrud
226 - 636 Sassanian Persians 224-241  Ardashir, founder of Sassanian Dynasty.
241-272  Sapor I; defeated Valerian.
310-370  Sapor II; defeated Constantius; Julian's campaign against Iraq.
531-579  Chosroes I, reformer and statesman; built Arch of Ctesiphon. 		Sumerian art
570 Birth of Prophet Mohamed in Mecca The Islamic calender started when the Prophet moved from Macca to Medina (Al-Hejra), 1490 years ago this year.
632 Death of the Prophet in Medina 636  Islam comes to Iraq; Khalid ibn Al-Walid's campaign on the Euphrates.
637  Battle of Qadasiya.
638  Occupation of Ctesiphon. 		Samara
632 - 661 The orthodox caliphs in Medina and Kufa Abu Baker Al-Saadeq, Omar bin Al-Khatab, Othman bin Aafan, Ali bin abi Taleb Islamic stone brigde
661 - 750 The Omayyad caliphs in Damascus 661-680  Muaawea I ; founder of Omayyad dynasty
685-705  Abdul Malik bin Marwan
710-750  Abdul Rahman, occupation of Spain and Portugal		 The Walls of Nineveh
750 - 1258 The Abbasid caliphs in Baghdad 750-775  Jaafar Al-Mansur ; founded Baghdad
786-806  Harun Al-Rashid, thousand and one nights
833-842  AL-Muatasim ; moved the capital to Samarra
892-902 Al-Muatamid ; abandoned Samarra
1055-1156 Seljuks, dominate Caliphs
1180-1225 Al-Nasir ; built Bab el Tilism in Baghdad
1226-1242  Al-Mustansir ; built Al-Mustansirea University in Baghdad
1242-1258 Al-Muatasim ; sack of Baghdad by Hulagu and the Mongols 		Al-Mustansirea university
1258 -1356 Hulagid il khan dynasty Burning and destroying Baghdad by the Mongols and Tatars Wall of Uruk.
1356 - 1410 Jalairid dybasty 1393  Occupation of Baghdad by Tamurlane
1410 - 1509 "Black sheep" and "White sheep" Turcomans tribes Arch of Ctesiphon
1509 - 1533 Safawid Persians Persians tribes
1534 - 1621 Ottoman turks - 1st. period Suleiman Pasha, first Wali of Baghdad Hatra
1621 - 1638 Persians - 2nd. period
1638 - 1916 Ottoman turks - 2nd. period 1638 Sack Baghdad by Sultan Murad IV ;
Hassan Pasha, introduced Mamluk system to Baghdad
1817-1872 Dawood Pasha, last Mamluk Governors
1831 Great plague and flood
1869-1892 Madhat Pasha, reformer 		Babylon, the south palace
1917 British occupation General Maude captures Baghdad with British and Indian force.
1919  British civil administration under Sir Wilson.
1920  Sir Percy Cox becomes High Commissioner with Gertrude as Oriental Secretary.
Starting Iraqi Rebellion.
1921  King Fisal made King of Iraq.
1932  Iraq joins League of Nations as an independent state.
1933  King Gazi killed in car accident ; regency established.
1952-1958  King Fisal II.		 Queen of Hatra
1958 Republic of Iraq Overthrow of monarchy; Iraq becomes a Republic.






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