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| 1916 April 29 |
| | | The British garrison at Kut, on the Tigris, surrenders to the Turks after a five-month siege | |
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| 1917 March 11 |
| | | The British commander Stanley Maude captures Baghdad from the Turks | |
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| 1920 May |
| | | League of Nations mandates give Britain responsibility for Iraq, Transjordan and Palestine | |
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| 1921 |
| | | Faisal, having lost Syria, is given the throne in the British mandated territory of Iraq | |
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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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| 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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