1800 BC Location of Phoenician cities; subsequently ruleded by Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Crusaders,

         and Arabs to 332 BC.
1287 Part of Mameluke Sultanate of Egypt.
1516 Part of the Ottoman Empire.
1698 Banu Shihab replace Banu Ma`n.
1585 Direct Ottoman rule to 1590.
1832 Annexed by Egypt ( both nominally Ottoman ).
1840 Ottoman rule restored.
1842 Mount Lebanon emirate ended.
1860 Occupation by France to 1861.
1861 Special status of Mount Lebanon within Ottoman Empire.
1918 Annexed by Syria.
1918 Occupied by France and Britain.
1920 State of Great Lebanon ( part of French Syrian mandate ).
1926 Lebanese Republic ( under separated from Syrian state, remains part of French Syria mandate ).
1940 Administration loyal to Vichy France to 1941.
1941 Anglo-French occupation to 1946.
1941 Independence from France declared, Lebanese Republic, recognized by France 1943.
1976 Syrian troops garrison Lebanon.
1982 Southern Lebanon occupied by Israel to 2000.

1943 1995 Now