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1936 October
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Military coup d´état, backed by General Bakr Sidqi; Hikmat Sulaiman forms a government
| 1937 August
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Bakr Sidqi assassinated; Hikmat Sulaiman over-thrown by army
| 1939 April
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King Ghazi killed in car accident; succeeded by infant son, Faisal II, under regency of Prince `Abd al-Ilah
| 1941 April
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Military coup d´état: `Government of National Defence´ formed by Rashid `Ali al-Kailani; regent flees Baghdad
| 1941 May
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British troops march on Baghdad; collapse and flight of Rashid `Ali al-Kailani´s government
| 1941 June
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Regent returns to Baghdad
| 1948 January
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New Anglo-Iraqi Treaty signed at Portsmouth; mass protests in Baghdad - known as al-Wathba (the leap); treaty abandoned
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Chronology from Dr Charles Tripp, A History of Iraq, Cambridge University Press, 2000 ©
Cambridge University Press 2000. Reproduced with permission of Dr Charles Tripp and Cambridge University Press.
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