Twentieth Century Lebanon

Main

Turkish Control of Lebanon

1900 - 1917

Rampant Starvation and Plagues

1910 - 1916

British Control

1918 - 1920

French Occupation

1920 - 1943

Independence Day

11/22/1943

UN Partition Plan for Palestine

1947

Palestinian Refugees Arrive

1948 - 2005

First Civil War

1958 - 1960

Second Civil War

1975 - 1990

Syrian Occupation

1990 - 2005