1975 - Lebanon’s civil war
1976 - Origins of Land Day
1977 - When Sadat went to Israel
1978 - The Camp David Accords: A flawed path to peace
1979 - The Iranian Revolution, the siege of Makkah, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
1980 - The Iran-Iraq War’s long aftermath
1981 - The founding of the GCC
1982 - The Sabra and Shatila massacre
1983 - US Marines bombed in Beirut
1984 - Nawal El-Moutawakel’s historic Olympic victory
1985 - Saudi prince’s pioneering journey into space
1986 - The Iran-Contra affair
1987 - Palestine’s First Intifada
1988 - The bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie
1989 - The Taif peace pact for Lebanon
1990 - The invasion of Kuwait
1991 - When Boutros Boutros-Ghali became UN secretary-general
1992 - Iraqi Kurds establish their own regional government
1993 - The Oslo Accords and the broken promises of peace
1994 - Osama bin Laden stripped of Saudi citizenship
1995 - Taliban rise to power
1996 - The bombing of Khobar Towers
1997 - Israel hands over 80% of Hebron to Palestine
1998 - Conflict in Kosovo
1999 - King Abdullah ascends the Jordanian throne
2000 - The Second Intifada
2001 - The 9/11 attacks by Al Qaeda
2002 - The Arab Peace Initiative: A vision whose time has come
2003 - The US war on Iraq
2004 - The Houthi insurgency in Yemen
2005 - The assassination of Hariri
2006 - Hezbollah-Israel war
2007 - Hamas takes over the Gaza Strip
2008 - Saudi Arabia takes its place among the G20
2009 - The Obama Doctrine: Good intentions gone bad
2010 - Burj Khalifa: The world’s tallest tower
2011 - The Arab Spring
2012 - The Syrian civil war
2013 - El-Sisi takes control of Egypt from Morsi
2014 - The rise of Daesh
2015 - The accession of King Salman
2016 - Saudi Vision 2030 unveiled to the world
2017 - The fall of Daesh caliphate
2018 - The day Saudi women could drive
2019 - The downfall of Sudan’s Omar Al-Bashir
2020 - The COVID-19 pandemic
2021 - The fall of Kabul
2022 - FIFA World Cup in Qatar and the Saudi football revolution
2023 - Saudi-Iranian rapprochement and the Oct. 7 attacks
2024 - The fall of Bashar Assad
2025 - The return of Donald Trump
