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Bashar al-Asad's family history

Bashar al-Asad's family history

The name of the family becomes al-Asad (the lion)

1927

Birth of Hafiz

1930

Hafiz joins the Baath party

1946

Hafiz enrolls in the military academy

1951

Marriage of Hafiz and Aniseh

1958

Birth of Bushra

1960

Birth of Basil

1962

The Asads purchase a home in Damascus with a military loan

1964

Birth of Bashar

1965

Birth of Majd

1966

Hafiz becomes secretary of defense

1966

Bashar enrolled in "Lay" school

1968 - 1980

Birth of Maher

1968

Hafiz becomes president

1971

Bashar evacuated to Qurdaha during the Arab-Israeli Yom Kippur War

1973

The Asads move to a new home

1973

Bashar attends a new high school

1980 - 1982

Bashar's high school graduation

1982

Hafiz falls ill and Rifat tries to take over

1983 - 1984

Bashar's graduates from medical school

1988

Bashar studies ophtalmology in Damascus

1988 - 1992

Bashar studies ophtalmology in London

1992 - 1994

Bashar back to Syria - new career

1994

Death of Basil

1994

Asma graduates from King's College

1997

Rifat goes into exile

1998

Bashar becomes president

2000

Death of Hafiz

2000

Birth of Bashar's and Asma's three children

2001 - 2004

Marriage of Bashar and Asma

2001

Bashar is reelected president

2007

Death of Majd

2009

Asma is a rose in the desert according to Vogue

March 2011

Bashar pledges that he will live or die in Syria

2012

Syrian and international events

Sykes-Picot agreement

1916

Balfour declaration

1917

End of WWI, end of Ottoman empire

1918

French mandate

1920 - 1946

Founding of the Baath party

1940

End of WWII

1945

Israel is born and defeats the Arab coalition

1948

Nasser's presidency

1956 - 1970

The Baath party comes to power - martial law begins in Syria

1963

PLO founded

1964

Hafiz is secretary of defense

1966

Six-Day War

1967

Black September in Jordan

1970

Hafiz is prime minister and then president

1970 - 1971

Hafiz presidency

1971 - 2000

Yom Kippur War

1973

Muslim Brotherhood uprising and onslaught

1976 - 1982

Camp David peace accords

1978

Iranian revolution

1979

Soviet war in Afghanistan

1979 - 1989

Iran-Iraq war

1981 - 1988

Hafiz-Rifaat feud

1983 - 1984

Fall of Berlin Wall

1989

Gulf War

1991

Madrid-Oslo peace process

1991 - 1993

Bashar presidency

2000 - 2012

Bush 42 and 43

2000 - 2008

Damascus spring

2000 - 2001

9/11

2001

War in Afghanistan

2001 - 2012

Iraq war

2003 - 2010

Syria Accountability Act

2004

Hariri's assassination

2005

Israel-Hezbollah war

2006

Bashar reelected

2007

Bipartisan US congress delegation meets with Bashar

2007

Bashar invited to attend the Euro-Mediterranean summit

2008

Arab spring

2010 - 2012

Libyan civil war

2011

Syria's uprising and civil war

2011 - 2012