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| c. 1927 |
| | British archaeologist Leonard Woolley discovers the treasures of the royal cemetery at Ur | |
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| 1958 |
| | The king of Iraq, Faisal II, is murdered in Baghdad in a coup led by Abdul Karim Qassim | |
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| 1958 |
| | Nationalist Kurds in the north of Iraq launch a guerrilla war against the new government in Baghdad | |
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| 1964 |
| | Ayatollah Khomeini, exiled by the shah from Iran, moves first to Turkey and then makes his base in Iraq | |
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| 1968 |
| | A military coup in Iraq brings to power a government composed mainly of Ba'thists | |
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| 1979 |
| | Saddam Hussein begins a reign of terror in Iraq, reading out at a meeting the names of fellow Ba'thists who are to be taken out and shot | |
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| 1980 |
| | Saddam Hussein invades Iran, beginning an 8-year war that will bring massive human cost | |
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| 1985 |
| | President Reagan's administration breaks a US embargo with secret arms sales to Iran in return for assistance in the release of US hostages in Lebanon | |
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| 1988 |
| | The Iran-Iraq war ends with the border between the countries unchanged and more than a million dead | |
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| 1988 |
| | Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein uses chemical weapons against the Kurds of northern Iraq | |
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