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  • Cyrenaica, Libya
    Tuesday Feb 6, 1940
    World War II

    Operation Sonnenblaume

    Cyrenaica, Libya
    Tuesday Feb 6, 1940

    Italian defeats prompted Germany to deploy an expeditionary force to North Africa. Operation Sonnenblaume (6 February - 25 May) was the name given to the dispatch of German troops to North Africa in February 1941, The Italian 10th Army had been destroyed by the British and Allied Western Desert Force attacks during Operation Compass (9 December 1940 – 9 February 1941). Sonnenblume succeeded because the ability of the Germans to mount an offensive was underestimated by General Archbald Wavell, the Commander in Chief Middle East, the War Office and by Winston Churchill.




  • Sidi Barrani, Egypt to Eastern Libya
    Monday Dec 9, 1940
    World War II

    Operation Compass

    Sidi Barrani, Egypt to Eastern Libya
    Monday Dec 9, 1940

    In December 1940, British Empire forces began counter-offensives against Italian forces in Egypt and Italian East Africa. The offensives were highly successful. Operation Compass was the first large British military operation of the Western Desert Campaign (1940–1943) during the Second World War, and took place between 9 December 1940 to 9 February 1941.




  • Tobruk, Libya
    Thursday Apr 10, 1941
    World War II

    The Siege of Tobruk

    Tobruk, Libya
    Thursday Apr 10, 1941

    The Siege of Tobruk lasted for 241 days in 1941, after Axis forces advanced through Cyrenaica from El Agheila in Operation Sonnenblume against Allied forces in Libya, during the Western Desert Campaign (1940–1943) of the Second World War. The siege diverted Axis troops from the frontier and the Tobruk garrison repulsed several Axis attacks.




  • Egyptian and Libyan border
    Thursday May 15, 1941
    World War II

    Operation Brevity

    Egyptian and Libyan border
    Thursday May 15, 1941

    Operation Brevity was a limited offensive conducted in mid-May 1941, during the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War. Conceived by the commander-in-chief of the British Middle East Command, General Archibald Wavell, Brevity was intended to be a rapid blow against weak Axis front-line forces in the Sollum–Capuzzo–Bardia area of the border between Egypt and Libya. Although the operation got off to a promising start, throwing the Axis high command into confusion, most of its early gains were lost to local counter-attacks, and with German reinforcements being rushed to the front the operation was called off after one day.




  • Libya
    1941
    The Holocaust

    2,600 Libyan Jews were sent to camps

    Libya
    1941

    Several forced labor camps for Jews were established in Italian-controlled Libya; almost 2,600 Libyan Jews were sent to camps, where 562 died.




  • Egypt and Libya
    Tuesday Nov 18, 1941
    World War II

    Operation Crusader

    Egypt and Libya
    Tuesday Nov 18, 1941

    By November 1941, Commonwealth forces had launched a counter-offensive, Operation Crusader, in North Africa, and reclaimed all the gains the Germans and Italians had made. The Operation lasted from 18 November to 30 December 1941.




  • Gazala, near Tobruk, Libya
    Tuesday May 26, 1942
    World War II

    Battle of Gazala

    Gazala, near Tobruk, Libya
    Tuesday May 26, 1942

    The Battle of Gazala was fought during the Western Desert Campaign, west of the port of Tobruk in Libya, from 26 May to 21 June 1942. As both sides neared exhaustion, the Eighth Army checked the Axis advance at the First Battle of El Alamein. To support the Axis advance into Egypt, the planned attack on Malta (Operation Herkules) was postponed. The British were able to revive Malta as a base for attacks on Axis convoys to Libya, greatly complicating Axis supply difficulties at El Alamein.


  • Middle East
    1970
    1973 oil crisis

    81 oil companies were doing business in the Middle East

    Middle East
    1970

    In 1963, the Seven Sisters controlled 86% of the oil produced by OPEC countries, but by 1970 the rise of "independent oil companies" had decreased their share to 77%. The entry of three new oil producers—Algeria, Libya, and Nigeria—meant that by 1970, 81 oil companies were doing business in the Middle East.


  • Libya
    Friday Oct 9, 1970
    1973 oil crisis

    Libya raises posted prices and increases tax rate from 50 percent to 55 percent

    Libya
    Friday Oct 9, 1970

    Libya raises posted prices and increases tax rate from 50 percent to 55 percent. Iran and Kuwait follow in November.


  • Tripoli, Libya
    Friday Apr 2, 1971
    1973 oil crisis

    The agreement raises posted prices of oil delivered to the Mediterranean from $2.55 to $3.45 per barrel

    Tripoli, Libya
    Friday Apr 2, 1971

    Libya concludes five weeks of negotiations with Western oil companies in Tripoli on behalf of itself, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, and Iraq. The agreement raises posted prices of oil delivered to the Mediterranean from $2.55 to $3.45 per barrel; provides for a 2.5 percent annual price increase plus inflation allowance; raises the tax rate from a range of 50-58 percent to 60 percent of the posted price.


  • Libya
    Tuesday Dec 7, 1971
    1973 oil crisis

    Libya nationalizes British Petroleum concession

    Libya
    Tuesday Dec 7, 1971

    Libya nationalizes British Petroleum concession.


  • Libya
    Saturday Sep 30, 1972
    1973 oil crisis

    Libya acquires a 50 percent interest in two ENI concessions

    Libya
    Saturday Sep 30, 1972

    Libya acquires a 50 percent interest in two ENI concessions.


  • Libya
    Aug, 1973
    1973 oil crisis

    Libya nationalizes 51 percent of Occidental Petroleum concession and of the Oasis consortium

    Libya
    Aug, 1973

    Libya nationalizes 51 percent of Occidental Petroleum concession and of the Oasis consortium.


  • Libya
    Saturday Sep 1, 1973
    1973 oil crisis

    Libya nationalizes 51 percent of nine other companies' concessions

    Libya
    Saturday Sep 1, 1973

    Libya nationalizes 51 percent of nine other companies' concessions: Esso, Libya/Sirte, Mobil, Shell, Gelensberg, Texaco, SoCal, Libyan-American (ARCO), and Grace.


  • Libya
    Monday Mar 16, 1998
    Bin Laden

    First official Interpol arrest warrant

    Libya
    Monday Mar 16, 1998

    On March 16, 1998, Libya issued the first official Interpol arrest warrant against bin Laden and three other people. They were charged for killing Silvan Becker, agent of Germany's domestic intelligence service, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, in the Terrorism Department, and his wife Vera in Libya on March 10, 1994.


  • Libya
    2009
    Plague

    Plague is reported in Libya

    Libya
    2009

    Plague is reported in Libya, after 25 years without a case of the disease.


  • Tripoli, Libya
    Wednesday Feb 24, 2010
    Vodafone

    Vodafone in Libya

    Tripoli, Libya
    Wednesday Feb 24, 2010

    On 24 February 2010, the Vodafone group signed a partner network agreement with the second-largest operator in Libya, al Madar.


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