World War I in the Middle East

World War I

World War I in the Ottoman Empire reshaped the Middle East through intense conflict across Gallipoli, the Caucasus, Mesopotamia, and Sinai-Palestine. Allied forces faced fierce Ottoman resistance, notably at Gallipoli, while British operations in Arabia and Mesopotamia sought to dismantle Ottoman control. The war brought catastrophic casualties, political disruption, and the empire's ultimate collapse, laying the groundwork for the modern Middle East through post-war Allied partition plans and treaties.

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1844	Birth of Mehmed Han bin Abdülmecid (Period: November 2, 1844)
1853	Birth of Musa al-Husayni (Period: 1853 (exact date unknown))
1861	Birth of Mehmed Vahdeddin Han bin Abdülmecid (Period: January 14, 1861 (according to the English Wikipedia). The Turkish "TDV Encyclopedia of Islam" lists it as January 4, 1861, showing discrepancies among sources.)
1872	Birth of Ahmet Cemal (Period: May 6, 1872.)
1874	Birth of Mehmed Talat (Period: September 1, 1874.) Birth of Chaim Weizmann (Period: November 27, 1874)
1875	Birth of Hashim al-Atassi (Period: January 11, 1875 (some sources state 1873))
1876	Birth of Mustafa Fevzi (Period: January 12, 1876.)
1877	Birth of Kichisaburo Nomura (Period: December 16, 1877)
1879	Birth of Chen Duxiu (Period: October 9, 1879 (Some sources state October 8))
1880	Birth of Zeev Jabotinsky (Period: October 17, 1880 (some sources state October 18)) Birth of Vladimir Jabotinsky (Period: October 18, 1880 (some sources state October 17))
1881	Birth of Mustafa Kemal (Period: Said to be May 19, 1881. However, no accurate birth record has been confirmed, and May 19 was later adopted by him as a symbolic birthday.)
1882	Birth of Raghib al-Nashashibi (Period: 1881 (some sources state 1882)) Birth of İsmail Enver (Period: Some sources state November 23, 1881. On the other hand, his autobiography records December 6, 1882, showing discrepancies among sources. Some sources also list November 22, 1881.) Birth of Shigenori Togo (Period: December 10, 1882)
1883	Birth of Izz ad-Din al-Qassam (Period: December 19, 1882 (alternate theories suggest 1881 or 1883))
1884	Birth of Mustafa İsmet (Period: September 24, 1884.)
1886	Birth of Saburo Kurusu (Period: March 6, 1886) Birth of Emile Eddé (Period: May 5, 1886 (some sources state 1883 or 1884)) Birth of David Ben-Gurion (Period: October 16, 1886)
1889	Birth of Li Dazhao (Period: October 29, 1889)
1890	Birth of Bishara al-Khuri (Period: August 10, 1890)
1891	Birth of Fumimaro Konoe (Period: October 12, 1891) Birth of Shukri al-Quwatli (Period: May 6, 1891 (October 21, 1891 according to some sources))
1893	Birth of Mao Zedong (Period: December 26, 1893)
1894	Birth of Riyad al-Sulh (Period: August 17, 1894) Birth of Moshe Sharett (Period: October 15, 1894 (some sources state October 16))
1895	Birth of Amin al-Husayni (Period: 1895 (with alternate theories dating around 1893–1897))
1898	Birth of Zhou Enlai (Period: March 5, 1898) Birth of Golda Meir (Period: May 3, 1898)
1901	Birth of Hirohito (Period: April 29, 1901)
1904	Birth of Antoun Saadeh (Period: March 1, 1904)
1914	World War I (Period: 1914–1918)
1918	Death of Mehmed Han bin Abdülmecid
1922	Death of Ahmet Cemal Death of İsmail Enver
1926	Death of Mehmed Vahdeddin Han bin Abdülmecid
1927	Death of Li Dazhao
1934	Death of Musa al-Husayni
1935	Death of Izz ad-Din al-Qassam
1940	Death of Zeev Jabotinsky Death of Vladimir Jabotinsky
1942	Death of Chen Duxiu
1943	Death of Mehmed Talat
1945	Death of Fumimaro Konoe
1949	Death of Antoun Saadeh Death of Emile Eddé
1950	Death of Mustafa Fevzi Death of Shigenori Togo
1951	Death of Raghib al-Nashashibi Death of Riyad al-Sulh
1952	Death of Chaim Weizmann
1953	Death of Mustafa Kemal
1954	Death of Saburo Kurusu
1960	Death of Hashim al-Atassi
1964	Death of Bishara al-Khuri Death of Kichisaburo Nomura
1965	Death of Moshe Sharett
1967	Death of Shukri al-Quwatli
1973	Death of David Ben-Gurion Death of Mustafa İsmet
1974	Death of Amin al-Husayni
1976	Death of Zhou Enlai Death of Mao Zedong
1978	Death of Golda Meir
1989	Death of Hirohito

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