Geographical Location - Middle East
- Algeria and Egypt Crack Down on Islamic Militants
- Arab Members of OPEC Institute an Oil Embargo
- Arab Oil Embargo Precipitates Energy Crisis
- Arab Oil Producers Curtail Oil Shipments to Industrial States
- Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Scrolls
- Armenian Genocide
- Armenians Suffer Genocide During World War I
- Avicenna Writes His Canon of Medicine
- Balkan Wars
- Battle of Aboukir Bay
- Battle of Acre
- Battle of El Alamein
- Battle of Golan Heights
- Battle of Hattin
- Battle of Manzikert
- Canaanites Inhabit the Levant
- Carter Discovers the Tomb of Tutankhamen
- The Church of the Holy Sepulchre Is Destroyed
- Cities and Civic Institutions Are Invented in Mesopotamia
- Coalition Defeats Iraq in Gulf War
- The Crimean War
- Early Dynastic Period Flourishes in Southern Mesopotamia
- Egypt and Syria Join to Form United Arab Republic
- Egypt Attempts to Nationalize the Suez Canal
- Egyptian Government Troops Attack Islamists
- Egypt’s Aswan High Dam Is Dedicated
- Egypt’s President Sadat Is Assassinated
- Eichmann Is Tried for War Crimes
- Elamite Empire Rises in Near East
- Explosion Tears Hole in U.S. Destroyer Cole, Killing Seventeen
- Failure of the Seventh Crusade
- Fall of Acre
- The Fifth Crusade
- Founding and Flourishing of the Achaemenian Dynasty
- Frederick II Leads the Sixth Crusade
- The French Expedition at Susa Discovers the Hammurabi Code
- French Revolutionary Wars
- Fungicide-Tainted Grain Poisons Thousands of Iraqis
- Halafian Culture Flourishes in Northern Mesopotamia
- Hostages Are Freed from Confinement in Lebanon
- Iran Announces Nationalization of Foreign Oil Interests
- Iran Bars Non-Muslims from Cabinet Positions
- Iran Calls for Murder of Writer Salman Rushdie
- Iran Uses Executions to Establish New Order
- Iran-Iraq Conflict Escalates into War
- Iran-Iraq War Escalates
- Iranian Revolutionaries Hold Americans Hostage
- Iraq Burns Kuwaiti Oil Wells
- Iraq Invades and Ravages Kuwait
- Iraq Is Warned to Avoid “No Fly” Zone