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| 1831 |
| | | Mameluke power ends with their suppression in Baghdad, following a massacre in Cairo twenty years earlier | |
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| 1845 |
| | | British archaeologist Henry Layard, in his first month of digging in Iraq, discovers the Assyrian city of Nimrud | |
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| 1853 |
| | | Hormuzd Rassam discovers the magnficent lion-hunt reliefs in the palace of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh | |
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| 1914 November 23 |
| | | A British force seizes the Turkish port of Basra, to safeguard the supply of Persian oil | |
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| 1915 November 22 |
| | | A British and Indian force is defeated by the Turks at Ctesiphon, on the bank of the Tigris | |
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| 1916 |
| | | Britain and France sign the secret Sykes-Picot Agreement, dividing up spheres of influence in the Middle East | |
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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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