State, elections & cabinets
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- 1 January 1932The 1932 census, the last official countIn 1932 the Mandate authorities conducted the only population census in Lebanon's history; it showed a slight Christian…
- 13 November 1936The Franco-Lebanese Treaty of 1936
- 8 June 1941Allied invasion of Syria and Lebanon and the independence pledgeOn 8 June 1941 British and Free French forces entered Lebanon and Syria to expel the Vichy government, and General…
- 29 August 19431943 parliamentary elections
- 21 September 1943Bechara El Khoury elected the first president of independent LebanonOn 21 September 1943 the parliament that emerged from the summer 1943 elections elected Bechara el-Khoury president of…
- 25 September 1943First post-independence governmentOn 25 September 1943 Riad al-Solh formed the first government after the election of Bechara el-Khoury, and in its…
- 11 November 1943Arrest of the independence leaders at RashayaAt dawn on 11 November 1943, after parliament had amended the constitution and deleted the Mandate articles, the French…
- 22 November 194322 November 1943: Independence Day, the leaders releasedOn 22 November 1943 France released the detainees under British and popular pressure, and Khoury and Solh returned to…
- 22 March 1945Lebanon a founding member of the Arab League
- 31 December 1946Withdrawal of the last French troops
- 25 May 19471947 parliamentary elections
- 9 June 1949The SSNP coup attempt
- 14 March 1950End of the Lebanese–Syrian customs union
- 15 April 19511951 parliamentary elections
- 16 July 1951Assassination of Riad al-SolhOn his way to Marka airport north-east of Amman, returning to Beirut after visiting King Abdullah, Riad al-Solh was…
- 18 September 1952Resignation of Bechara el-KhouryOn 18 September 1952 President Bechara el-Khoury resigned under the pressure of a general strike led by the "Socialist…
- 12 July 19531953 parliamentary elections
- 16 March 1957Lebanon accepts the Eisenhower DoctrineIn March 1957 Sami al-Solh's government, under Chamoun's presidency, announced its acceptance of the Eisenhower…
- 9 June 19571957 parliamentary elections
- 8 May 1958Uprisings across Lebanon
- 31 July 1958Election of Fouad ChehabOn 31 July 1958 parliament elected the army commander Fouad Chehab president, in an American–Egyptian settlement that…
- 12 June 19601960 parliamentary elections
- 20 July 1960Chehab resigns, then withdraws his resignation
- 31 December 1961The SSNP coup attempt against ChehabOn the night of 31 December 1961 officers of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party attempted a coup against President…
- 1 April 1964Banque du Liban begins operationsOn 1 April 1964 the Banque du Liban began operations under the Code of Money and Credit (1963), taking over the issue…
- 5 April 19641964 parliamentary elections
- 14 October 1966Collapse of Intra BankOn 14 October 1966 Intra Bank, the largest bank in Lebanon and the institution of Yousef Beidas, which owned Middle…
- 24 March 19681968 parliamentary elections
- 23 April 1969The 23 April 1969 clashes and the seven-month cabinet crisisOn 23 April 1969 the army clashed with demonstrators supporting the fedayeen in Beirut, Sidon and Tripoli, leaving…
- 4 August 1970Chehab declines to run againOn 4 August 1970 former president Fouad Chehab issued a statement declining to run for the presidency despite his…
- 17 August 1970Election of Suleiman FrangiehOn 17 August 1970 parliament elected Suleiman Frangieh president by a single vote over Elias Sarkis, the Chehabists'…
- 25 July 1971Army commander Jean Njeim killed in a helicopter crash
- 16 April 19721972 parliamentary elections
- 3 November 1972Ghandour factory protestsSome 1,500 workers, men and women, at the Ghandour sweets and biscuit factories (the Chiyah and Choueifat branches)…
- 11 November 1972The 11 November massacreThe security forces (the gendarmerie) surrounded the Chiyah factory to disperse the sit-in and break the strike by…
- 13 November 1972Kamal Jumblatt's demonstrationA mass demonstration of thousands of workers and students set off in protest at the repression, with Kamal Jumblatt…
- 8 May 1973Arab boycott of Lebanon
- 17 May 1973The Melkart Agreement
- 14 April 1975Government demands the dissolution of the Kataeb
- 15 April 1975Resignation of Prime Minister Rashid al-SolhPrime minister Rashid al-Solh gave a speech in parliament accusing the Kataeb Party of the massacre, and noted that the…
- 20 April 1975First official ceasefireThe truce was announced after intense political pressure led by the prime minister of the time and President Suleiman…
- 23 May 1975A military government appointedOn 23 May 1975 Frangieh appointed a military government headed by retired Brigadier Noureddine al-Rifai to restore…
- 18 August 1975LNM announces its reform programme
- 11 March 1976Aziz al-Ahdab's coup attempt
- 13 March 1976The "Army of Legality" (Free Lebanon Army) breaks away
- 25 March 1976Baabda palace shelled; Frangieh moves to Kfour
- 10 April 1976First extension of the 1972 parliament
- 8 May 1976Election of Elias SarkisOn 8 May 1976 parliament, meeting at the Villa Mansour, elected Elias Sarkis president with Syrian support and with the…
- 15 October 1978Beiteddine conferenceFrom 15 to 17 October 1978 the foreign ministers of the states taking part in the Arab Deterrent Force met at…
- 1 January 1979The Arab force withdraws from LebanonAfter the Arab League extended the Arab Deterrent Force's mandate at the Beiteddine conference (October 1978), Sudan,…
- 14 June 1982The National Salvation Committee
- 23 August 1982Election of Bachir GemayelThe election of Bachir Gemayel as president under Israeli pressure, with Israeli tanks outside the parliament…
- 17 May 1983Bir al-Abed mosque demonstration
- 31 October 1983The Geneva national dialogue conference
- 12 March 1984The Lausanne conference
- 28 December 1985The Tripartite AgreementThe appointment of Elie Hobeika (accused of the Sabra and Shatila massacre) as head of the Lebanese Forces, his signing…
- 4 May 1988Last French hostages releasedOn 4 May 1988 Jean-Paul Kauffmann, Marcel Carton and Marcel Fontaine were released after three years in captivity, in a…
- 22 September 1988End of Amine Gemayel's term
- 22 September 1988Two governmentsThe nationalist forces refused the dismissal of Salim al-Hoss's government, so the country ended up with two…
- 22 October 1989The Taif AgreementThe signing of the Taif Agreement to end the civil war and strip the presidency of its powers.
Note: Taif ended the…
- 4 November 1989Aoun rejects Taif
- 5 November 1989Election of René MoawadOn 5 November 1989, 58 deputies met at the Qoleiat air base in Akkar, away from Aoun's control, approved the Taif…
- 24 November 1989Election of Elias HrawiOn 24 November 1989 the deputies, meeting in Chtaura, elected Elias Hrawi president in succession to Moawad within two…
- 28 November 1989Emile Lahoud appointed army commander
- 28 November 1989Resignation of Sami al-Khatib
- 28 March 1991Decision to disarm the militiasThe Lebanese Forces, the Amal Movement, the Progressive Socialist Party, with Hezbollah excepted, and Lahd's army…
- 22 May 1991The Treaty of Brotherhood, Cooperation and Coordination with SyriaOn 22 May 1991 Hrawi and Assad signed in Damascus the Treaty of Brotherhood, Cooperation and Coordination, which…
- 7 June 1991Appointment of forty MPs
- 26 August 1991The general amnesty lawOn 26 August 1991 parliament passed the general amnesty law for crimes committed before 28 March 1991, excepting the…
- 29 August 1991Aoun leaves for exile in FranceOn 29 August 1991 Michel Aoun left the French embassy, where he had taken refuge since the fall of Baabda, for exile in…
- 30 December 1991The Basta bombing
- 6 May 1992The "hunger uprising"On 6 May 1992, with the dollar at about 3,000 lira, demonstrators burned tyres, blocked roads in Beirut and the regions…
- 16 May 1992Resignation of Omar Karami's governmentThe resignation was preceded by sit-ins and strikes throughout 1991–1992 over the collapse of the lira (from 880 to the…
- 23 August 1992Hezbollah enters political life
- 23 August 19921992 parliamentary elections
- 25 August 1992An-Nahar interview: "victory at the polls"
- 13 September 1993The September massacre (airport road)The Lebanese army opened fire on a Hezbollah demonstration against the Oslo Accords on the airport road; nine were…
- 1 January 1994Lebanon's trains stop
- 27 February 1994Our Lady of Deliverance church bombingOn 27 February 1994 a bomb exploded in the Sayidat al-Najat church in Zouk Mikael during mass, killing ten worshippers;…
- 23 March 1994Lebanese Forces dissolvedOn 23 March 1994 the cabinet decided to dissolve the Lebanese Forces party and close its offices after the bombing of…
- 21 April 1994Samir Geagea arrestedOn 21 April 1994 Samir Geagea was arrested and charged with the bombing of the Sayidat al-Najat church and the…
- 24 June 1995Samir Geagea sentenced
- 19 October 1995Elias Hrawi's term extendedOn 19 October 1995 parliament amended the constitution to extend Elias Hrawi's term by three years, by Syrian decision,…
- 18 August 19961996 parliamentary elections
- 4 July 1997The hunger revoltSheikh Sobhi Tufayli's declaration of civil disobedience and the launch of the "revolt of the hungry", and the decision…
- December 1997Lira pegged at 1,507.5 to the dollar
- 30 January 1998Clashes with TufayliClashes between Hezbollah and Sheikh Sobhi Tufayli at the Ain Bourday seminary in the Bekaa, and the sheikh's retreat…
- 15 October 1998Election of Emile LahoudOn 15 October 1998 parliament elected the army commander Emile Lahoud president after amending the constitution, with…
- 1 January 1999Support Committee iftar: 1,352 operations in 1998 and an outstretched hand to the Lahoud era
- 8 June 1999Four judges assassinatedOn 8 June 1999 gunmen stormed a courtroom in the Sidon courthouse and killed four judges during a trial session; the…
- 25 May 2000The Hoss cabinet declares 25 May "Resistance and Liberation Day" a public holidayAs soon as Israel withdrew from the South in May 2000, Salim al-Hoss's government declared 25 May "Resistance and…
- 10 June 2000Death of Hafez al-Assad
- 27 August 20002000 parliamentary elections
- 7 August 2001The 7 August 2001 crackdown on Free Patriotic Movement and Lebanese Forces activistsBetween 5 and 8 August 2001 Lebanese army intelligence carried out a wave of arrests of between 150 and 250 activists…
- 9 August 2001Justice Palace clashesOn 9 August 2001 the army and security forces broke up a demonstration of the detainees' families and students outside…
- 28 March 2002The Arab summit in BeirutThe "Arab Peace Initiative" for normalisation with Israel in exchange for its withdrawal from the occupied Arab…
- 23 November 2002The Paris II conferenceOn 23 November 2002 Chirac and Hariri gathered the donor states and financing funds in Paris, which pledged some 4.4…
- 1 September 2003The Kennedy-Lugar YES exchange programme for school students
- 27 May 2004The Hay al-Sellom events
- 28 June 2004Transfer of power in IraqOn 28 June 2004 the American civil administrator Paul Bremer handed sovereignty to Iyad Allawi's interim government two…
- 3 September 2004Emile Lahoud's term extendedOn 3 September 2004, the day after Resolution 1559, parliament amended the constitution to extend Emile Lahoud's term…
- 27 September 2004Ismail al-Khatib dies in custody; Majdal Anjar protestsOn 27 September 2004 Ismail al-Khatib, detained a week earlier on the charge of plotting to bomb the Italian embassy,…
- 28 February 2005Resignation of Omar Karami's governmentOn 28 February 2005 Omar Karami announced his government's resignation before parliament under the pressure of the…
- 8 March 2005The "thank you Syria" speechOn 8 March 2005 Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah addressed hundreds of thousands in Riad al-Solh Square, thanking Syria for its…
- 7 May 2005Michel Aoun returns from exileOn 7 May 2005 Michel Aoun returned to Beirut after 15 years in France and was received in Martyrs' Square by huge…
- May 2005The quadripartite electoral alliance of 2005
- 29 May 20052005 parliamentary elections begin (four rounds)The first elections after the Syrian withdrawal were held in four rounds: Beirut on 29 May, the South on 5 June, the…
- 18 July 2005The general amnesty
- 19 July 2005Fouad Siniora's governmentOn 19 July 2005 Fouad Siniora formed the first government after the Syrian withdrawal on the basis of the electoral…
- 26 July 2005Samir Geagea releasedOn 26 July 2005 Samir Geagea left his prison in the defence ministry after 11 years, under the amnesty law parliament…
- 25 November 2005Ghajar martyrs speech: "Who are you?"On 25 November 2005, at the Sayyed al-Shuhada complex in Rweiss during the honouring of the three martyrs of the Ghajar…
- 5 February 2006Burning of the Danish consulate in Ashrafieh
- 6 February 2006The Mar Mikhael understandingOn 6 February 2006 Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and General Michel Aoun signed in the Mar Mikhael church in Chiyah the…
- 23 February 2006The "shrouds" demonstrations in DahiyehOn 23 February 2006, the day after the bombing of the shrine of the two Askari Imams in Samarra, Hezbollah held a mass…
- 2 March 2006The national dialogue table
- 1 June 2006Dahieh protests over the "Basmat Watan" sketch
- 5 June 2006Nasrallah's press conference after the "Basmat Watan" protests
- 18 July 2006Jumblatt and Hariri: "the adventurers" and "monopolising the decision of war"On 17 and 18 July 2006, with the war in its first week, Saad Hariri told "Okaz" that "the adventurers have put us in an…
- 24 July 2006Rice's surprise visit to Beirut and the "Siniora kiss"On 24 July 2006, the thirteenth day of the war, the American secretary of state Condoleezza Rice arrived by helicopter…
- 26 July 2006The Rome conference and Siniora's seven pointsOn 26 July 2006 the international Rome conference on Lebanon met, and Fouad Siniora presented a seven-point plan: a…
- 7 August 2006Siniora's tears before the Arab foreign ministers in Beirut
- 10 August 2006Israeli troops take the Marjayoun barracks and the "tea" scandalOn 10 August 2006 some two hundred Israeli soldiers with two tanks entered the Internal Security Forces and army…
- 31 August 2006The Stockholm reconstruction conference
- 1 October 2006US security assistance to the army and ISF: over $2.5 billion since 2006After the July 2006 war Washington launched an arming and training programme for the Lebanese army and the Internal…
- 1 December 2006The downtown sit-inThe 8 March forces came down to the city centre in an open-ended sit-in to bring down the government after Siniora's…
- 7 December 2006Nasrallah: "the Feltman government"On 7 December 2006, the seventh day of the central Beirut sit-in, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah called Siniora's government…
- 23 January 20078 March–14 March confrontations
- 25 January 2007Shooting at the Arab UniversityOn 25 January 2007 clashes broke out at the Arab University in Tariq al-Jdideh between students from Hezbollah and Amal…
- 25 January 2007The Paris III conferenceOn 25 January 2007, at the height of the central Beirut sit-in and two days after the strike of 23 January, Chirac…
- 13 February 2007Two buses bombed in Ain AlaqOn 13 February 2007, on the eve of the anniversary of Hariri's assassination, two bombs exploded in two buses in Ain…
- 14 February 2007Jumblatt's 14 February 2007 speech: "tyrant of Damascus, an ape nature never knew"On 14 February 2007, on the second anniversary of Hariri's assassination, before a crowd in Martyrs' Square beside the…
- 20 May 2007The Battle of Nahr al-BaredFrom 20 May to 2 September 2007 the army fought the "Fatah al-Islam" organisation, led by Shaker al-Absi, in the Nahr…
- 23 November 2007End of Emile Lahoud's termAnd his declaration of a state of emergency hours before leaving, to put pressure on the government.
- 27 January 2008The Mar Mikhael events: "Black Sunday" in ChiyahOn the evening of 27 January 2008 young men blocked the road at the Mar Mikhael church in Chiyah in protest at the…
- 14 February 2008Jumblatt's 14 February speech: "you want an open war"
- 5 May 2008The government's two decisionsWalid Jumblatt pushed the government into two decisions: dismantling the resistance's telecommunications network and…
- 7 May 20087 May: the labour strike turns into roadblocks and gunfireOn 7 May 2008 the General Labour Confederation's strike over wages and prices turned into a confrontation over the…
- 8 May 2008Nasrallah's press conference: "I declare no war, but a decision of self-defence"On the afternoon of 8 May 2008, the day after the strike on which demonstrators were shot at, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah…
- 8 May 2008Hezbollah and its allies take West BeirutOn the evening of 8 May 2008, minutes after Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's press conference, street fighting broke out on…
- 9 May 2008Future TV shut and Hariri orders his men to stand downAt dawn on 9 May 2008 the fighting resumed and the loyalist (14 March) militias lost what remained to them in West…
- 9 May 2008The Mountain fighting begins: Aytat, Aley, Baysour, ChoueifatOn 9 May 2008 the fighting spread to the Mountain, between fighters of the Progressive Socialist Party and Hezbollah in…
- 10 May 2008Halba killings
- 10 May 2008Mountain fighting: Barouk and Shahhar; villages handed to the armyOn 11 May 2008 the 7 May confrontations spread to the Mountain: Hezbollah and its allies attacked the PSP's positions…
- 10 May 2008The army freezes the two decisions, Hezbollah announces its withdrawal from BeirutOn 10 May 2008 the army command announced the freezing of the government's two decisions on the telecommunications…
- 11 May 2008Positions handed to the army, an Arab committee led by QatarOn 11 May 2008 Beirut calmed and the army took over the areas the opposition had controlled, with the airport road…
- 12 May 2008Gunfire in Hamra and the Aley hostage swap
- 15 May 2008The Arab committee announces a halt and the Doha invitationOn 15 May 2008, after meetings with the Lebanese leaders, the Arab ministerial committee announced a preliminary…
- 21 May 2008The Doha AgreementOn 21 May 2008 the Lebanese parties signed an agreement in Doha under Qatari–Arab sponsorship: the election of Michel…
- 25 May 2008Election of Michel SleimanOn 25 May 2008 parliament elected the army commander Michel Sleiman president of the republic in application of the…
- 13 August 2008Sleiman in Damascus: embassies exchanged with SyriaOn 13 August 2008 President Michel Sleiman visited Damascus and agreed with Assad on establishing diplomatic relations…
- 28 August 2008Army helicopter brought down at Sujud, pilot Samer Hanna killedOn 28 August 2008 a Lebanese army helicopter approached a Hezbollah training camp over the Sujud hills in Iqlim…
- September 2008MEPI "Tomorrow's Leaders" scholarships
- 11 April 2009The wave of Israeli spy-ring arrestsThe Information Branch of the Internal Security Forces arrested the retired brigadier Adib al-Alam in the Dekwaneh…
- 7 June 20092009 parliamentary elections
- 2 August 2009Jumblatt leaves 14 March
- 9 November 2009Saad Hariri's governmentOn 9 November 2009 Saad Hariri formed a national unity government five months after his designation, following 14…
- 25 January 2010Ethiopian Airlines flight 409 crashes off Beirut
- 30 July 2010The Baabda tripartite summit: Abdullah, Assad and Sleiman
- 3 August 2010The Adaisseh clash between the Lebanese and Israeli armiesOn 3 August 2010 the Lebanese army clashed with an Israeli force that tried to uproot a tree on the border at Adaisseh;…
- 1 September 2010USAID University Scholarship Program for public-school students
- 13 October 2010Ahmadinejad's visit to Beirut and Bint Jbeil
- 12 January 2011Hariri's government brought downThe withdrawal of the Shia ministers from the government and its fall during Saad Hariri's visit to the White House;…
- 21 January 2011Nasrallah meets Jumblatt: the PSP tips the balance to MikatiOn 21 January 2011, nine days after the fall of Hariri's government, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah met Walid Jumblatt in the…
- 25 January 2011Najib Mikati designatedOn 25 January 2011 President Sleiman designated Najib Mikati to form the government with the votes of 8 March and…
- 11 February 2011Fall of Hosni MubarakOn 11 February 2011 Hosni Mubarak stepped down after 18 days of protests in Tahrir Square and handed power to the…
- 26 May 2011Adlieh telecom building standoff; Baroud steps asideThe telecommunications minister Charbel Nahas wanted to inspect the equipment of the third mobile network (a Chinese…
- 17 June 2011Tripoli clashesOn 17 June 2011 clashes broke out between Jabal Mohsen (the Alawites, the Arab Democratic Party) and Bab al-Tabbaneh…
- 1 September 2011USAID programmes in public schools: D-RASATI, then QITABI
- 12 November 2011The Arab League suspends Syria, Lebanon "dissociates"
- 30 November 2011Mikati funds the tribunal outside the budgetOn 30 November 2011 Najib Mikati transferred Lebanon's share of the funding of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (about…
- 11 May 2012Completion of the "Waad" reconstruction of Dahieh
- 20 May 2012Sheikh Ahmad Abdel Wahed shot at an army checkpointOn 20 May 2012 Sheikh Ahmad Abdel Wahed and his companion Mohammed Merheb were shot dead by army soldiers at the…
- 21 May 2012The Shaker Berjawi clashesOn 21 May 2012, the day after the killing of Sheikh Ahmad Abdel Wahed, clashes broke out in Tariq al-Jdideh between…
- 11 June 2012The Baabda DeclarationOn 11 June 2012 the national dialogue committee, chaired by Michel Sleiman, adopted the Baabda Declaration: keeping…
- 27 November 2012The Okab Sakr scandal
- 31 May 2013Parliament's term extendedOn 31 May 2013 parliament extended its own term by 17 months on the pretext of the security situation and the lack of…
- 23 August 2013Al-Salam and al-Taqwa mosques bombedOn 23 August 2013 two car bombs exploded outside the al-Taqwa and al-Salam mosques in Tripoli during Friday prayers,…
- 29 December 2013The Saudi $3bn grant to the army via France
- 1 April 2014The Tripoli security plan
- 25 May 2014End of Michel Sleiman's term
- 5 November 2014Second extension of parliament
- 18 January 2016The Maarab agreementOn 18 January 2016 Samir Geagea announced from Maarab his support for Michel Aoun's candidacy for the presidency, in a…
- 19 February 2016Saudi Arabia halts the $3 billion grant to the armyOn 19 February 2016 Saudi Arabia halted the three-billion-dollar grant to arm the Lebanese army with French weapons and…
- 31 October 2016Election of Michel AounOn 31 October 2016 parliament elected Michel Aoun president after a vacancy of two and a half years, in a settlement…
- 18 December 2016Saad Hariri's governmentOn 18 December 2016 Saad Hariri formed a 30-minister national unity government after Aoun's election under the…
- 20 April 2017Groundbreaking for the new US embassy compound in Awkar: $1 billion on 43 acres
- 16 June 2017Third extension and the proportional law
- 17 August 2017The salary scale and its tax package passed
- 4 November 2017Saad Hariri held in Saudi ArabiaOn 4 November 2017 Saad Hariri announced his resignation from Riyadh on a Saudi channel in a speech attacking Iran and…
- 5 November 2017Nasrallah: Hariri's resignation is a Saudi decision and he is being heldOn 5 November 2017, the day after Hariri announced his resignation from Riyadh, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said the…
- 5 December 2017Hariri withdraws his resignationOn 5 December 2017, after returning from Saudi Arabia via Paris on 21 November and President Aoun's request that he…
- 6 April 2018The CEDRE conference in ParisOn 6 April 2018 the CEDRE conference in Paris pledged some 11 billion dollars in loans and grants for an infrastructure…
- 6 May 2018First elections under proportional representationOn 6 May 2018 the first parliamentary elections since 2009 were held under a proportional law with a preferential vote…
- 24 May 2018Saad Hariri designated againOn 24 May 2018 Saad Hariri was designated to form the government after the elections, but the dispute over the…
- November 2018The Sunni independents' seat blocks the cabinet
- 31 January 2019Hariri's third cabinet formed after nine months
- 17 March 2019Battle over BdL vice-governors: Washington backs keeping Baasiri
- 30 June 2019The Qabrshmoun incident
- 18 October 2019Hariri's 72-hour speechOn 18 October 2019, the second day of the uprising, Saad Hariri gave his partners in the government 72 hours to accept…
- 25 October 2019Nasrallah: we will not allow the presidency to fallOn 25 October 2019, in his second speech during the uprising, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah declared that Hezbollah would not…
- 29 October 2019Resignation of Saad Hariri's governmentOn 29 October 2019 Saad Hariri announced his government's resignation under pressure from the street after 13 days of…
- 29 October 2019Attack on the protesters' tents in central BeirutAt noon on 29 October 2019 supporters of Hezbollah and the Amal Movement attacked the sit-in in Martyrs' Square and…
- 21 February 2020Covid-19
- 7 March 2020Lebanon defaults on its EurobondsOn 7 March 2020 Hassan Diab announced the suspension of payment on 1.2 billion dollars of Eurobonds due on 9 March, the…
- 19 March 2020Collaborator Amer Fakhoury freed and flown out by US helicopter
- 29 April 2020Diab publicly attacks the central bank governor
- 10 June 2020New BdL vice-governors appointed; Baasiri out
- 27 June 2020Judge Mohammad Mazeh bans interviews with Ambassador Shea, is referred to inspection, resigns
- 6 August 2020Macron's post-explosion visit and the French initiativeOn 6 August 2020, two days after the port explosion, Emmanuel Macron visited Beirut and walked through Gemmayzeh amid…
- 7 August 2020Nasrallah after the port explosion: "no arms, no missiles at the port"On 7 August 2020, three days after the port explosion, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah denied any presence of the party's…
- 26 September 2020Mustapha Adib steps down; the French initiative stallsOn 26 September 2020 Mustapha Adib stepped down from forming the government after a dispute over the finance portfolio,…
- 23 April 2021Saudi Arabia bans Lebanese produce over Captagon smuggling
- 1 August 2021The Khalde clashes: a Hezbollah funeral attackedOn 1 August 2021 gunmen from Arab clans in Khalde opened fire on the funeral procession of a Hezbollah member killed in…
- 10 September 2021Mikati's governmentOn 10 September 2021 Najib Mikati formed a 24-minister government after 13 months of vacuum since Diab's resignation…
- 11 October 2021Nasrallah attacks the judge Tarek BitarOn 11 October 2021 Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah accused the judicial investigator into the port explosion, Tarek Bitar, of…
- 12 October 2021The Tarek Bitar crisisOn 12 October 2021 the dispute in the cabinet over the judicial investigator Tarek Bitar erupted after he summoned…
- 14 October 2021The Tayouneh eventsOn 14 October 2021 shots were fired at a demonstration by Hezbollah and Amal outside the courthouse demanding Judge…
- 29 October 2021The Kordahi affair: Saudi Arabia expels Lebanon's ambassador and halts importsOn 29 October 2021, after the broadcast of an interview recorded before his appointment in which the information…
- 3 December 2021George Kordahi resigns
- 15 May 2022Parliamentary electionsOn 15 May 2022 the parliamentary elections were held in the shadow of the collapse: Hezbollah and its allies lost the…
- 30 October 2022End of Michel Aoun's term
- 6 February 2023The earthquake
- 16 May 2023French arrest warrant for Riad SalamehOn 16 May 2023 the French judiciary issued an international arrest warrant for the Banque du Liban governor Riad…
- 29 July 2023Ain al-Hilweh camp clashesOn 29 July 2023 clashes broke out in the Ain el-Hilweh camp between Fatah and Islamist groups after the assassination…
- 31 July 2023Salameh's term ends; Mansouri takes over as acting governorOn 31 July 2023 Riad Salameh left the Banque du Liban after thirty years without a successor being appointed, and the…
- 9 August 2023The Kahaleh incident