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Historical Timeline for Qatar - A chronology of key events
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Interesting Facts about Qatar[edit | edit source]

  • Country : QATAR๐Ÿ‡ถ๐Ÿ‡ฆ
  • Capital: Doha
  • Continent: Asia
  • Currency: Qatari Riyal
  • Official Language: Arabic

1. Qatar is considered the richest country in the World.

2. It is the safest & second flattest country in the World.

3. Qatar has the third-largest oil reserve in the world.

4. Qatar is home to the longest drilled oil well in the world, at 40,320 ft.

5. There is no income tax in Qatar for employees.

6. Hamad International Airport, Qatar, is the World's Best Airport.

7. Qatar Airways claim the title of the best carrier at the annual World Airline Awards.

8. Qatar has the highest male-to-female ratio in the world.

9. Khor Al Adaid in Qatar is where the sea meets the dunes.

10. Qatar is the first smallest country to host the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022

11. Souq Waqif is a great place to experience the culture and traditions of Qatar.

12. Robots are used for camel racing in Qatar.

13. The National Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) is the largest of its kind in the world.

14. Machboos is the national dish of Qatar.

13. There is no income tax in Qatar for employees.

14. Only 12% of people in Qatar are Qataris. 60% are from South Asia.

15. The Doha Metro is one of the fastest driverless trains in the world.

16. The Pearl, an artificial island in Qatar, is home to 30,000 residents.

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Qatar Timeline[edit | edit source]

Date Event
50,000 years first traces of human occupation.
5,000 BC J.-C contacts with the Mesopotamian culture of Obeรฏd.
9th century Abbasid period attested to Murwab by French archaeologists.
16th century frequentation of Portuguese ships and soon Ottoman forces.
1732 the Bani Utbah (Al Khalifa) leave Kuwait and settle near the pearl bank of Zubarah.
18th century development of pearl villages on the north coast.
1782 Battle of Zubarah between the Al Khalifa and the Persians.
1783 the Al Khalifa take control of the island of Bahrain.
1820 the English sign an agreement with the sheikhs of the Gulf to stop acts of piracy.
1821 the English bombard the site of Doha as a sign of discontent with the pirates.
1867 Bahrainis attack and loot Al Wakrah.
1868 the English put order and announce that they recognize Sheikh Mohammed as the representative of the tribes of the peninsula.
1872 Jassim, son of Mohammed, accepts a form of security guardianship from the Ottomans, in the hope of consolidating his own power against the pro-Bahraini "rebels" of the Naim tribe of Zubarah.
1878 Sheikh Jassim (or Qassim) and his brother Ahmed destroy Zuburah to put an end to the irredent power of the Naim. The English designate the Al Thani as their interlocutors for the territory. December 18 (1878) is the national holiday today.
1893 the climate deteriorates with the Turkish godfather who wants to have Jassim arrested. The latter, although in his eighties, rises his people and crushes the Ottomans in Wajbah near present-day Doha. He becomes the father of a nation in the making.
1916 Abdullah, son of Jassim, places himself under British protection. By this treaty, the English demand the end of slavery and pirate practices. The weakly armed sheikh remains under threat from the Saud and decides to embrace Wahhabism.
1935 Abdullah grants the British a 75-year concession to search for oil on the west coast.
1936 Bahrain claims sovereignty over the Hawar Islands, which will be definitively confirmed by the International Court of Justice in 2001.
1937 the pro-Bahraini Naim demand control of Zubarah; the Sheikh crushes them.
1938 the first drops of black gold come out of the Dukhan well.
1949 first oil exports from the deep water port of Messaieed. Abdullah cedes power to his son Ali.
1954 the British administer the territory's finances and choose the first 42 Qatari civil servants.
1956 distant breath of pan-Arabism, some 2,000 Qatari demonstrators demonstrate against the power of Albion, demanding their share of development.
1960 Ali abdicates and cedes power to his son Ahmad, who, like his father, spends a lot of time in his Swiss villa or on vacation.
September 3, 1971 independence of Qatar.
1972 Prime Minister Khalifa, cousin of Cheikh Ahmad, deposes him and begins a reign devoted to social and economic development.
1995 Hamad, Minister of Defense, deposes his own father Khalifa.
1996 birth and tremendous growth of the Al-Jazeera television channel (in Arabic).
2001 The International Court of Justice settles the old territorial dispute, granting the Hawars to Bahrain and confirming that Zubarah does indeed belong to Qatar.
2003 a woman enters the government, in the portfolio of Education.
2005 entry into force of a new constitution, adopted by referendum in 2003.
2005-2007 Seat on the United Nations Security Council.
2006 Doha organizes the Asian Games.
2011 the Qatari air force participates in NATO operations in Libya. This Middle Eastern dwarf is pulling the strings and leading the way in "democratic transmission" in the Arab world while promoting Sunni Islamist movements.
2011 Qatar buys PSG and acquires a large part of the Champions League broadcasting rights until 2015.
2012 a fire at the Villaggio mall kills twenty, highlighting failures in the security system.
2013 on June 25, 2013, Emir Hamad ben Khalifa al-Thani abdicates in favor of his son, Tamim ben Hamad al-Thani, 33, second son of the emir and Sheikha Moza, his second wife.
2014 inauguration of the new Doha international airport.
2017 economic and diplomatic embargo of Qatar's neighbors
2018 - 2019 inauguration of the National Museum of Qatar
2019 partial commissioning of the Doha metro lines (completion of works scheduled for 2026).
2022 Qatar is scheduled to host the FIFA World Cup.

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