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The San Remo Peace Conference of Allied Powers. Mesopotamia is renamed Iraq.
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The institution of slavery was abolished
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Shaykh Mahmud Barzinji rebels against British rule and declares a Kurdish kingdom in northern Iraq.
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The League of Nations sets the border between Turkey and Iraq which places the Mosul region in Iraq rather than Turkey against the wishes of the Kurdish population
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The Anglo-Iraqi Treaty of 1930 was a treaty of alliance between the UK and Northern Ireland and the British-Mandate-controlled administration of the Hashemite Kingdom of Iraq.
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Iraq become independent.
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A series of Shia tribal uprisings in the mid-Euphrates region against the Sunni dominated authority of the Kingdom of Iraq.
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The first military coup took place in the Hashemite Kingdom of Iraq and among the muslim states was reinstated.
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Saddam Hussein is born and is the future tyrant president of Iraq from 16 July 1979 – 9 April 2003
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King Ghazi ruled as a figurehead after King Faisal's death in 1933, while undermined by attempted military coups, until his death.