Party foundings
29 events
- 16 November 1932SSNP founded (16 Nov 1932)
- 21 November 1936Kataeb Party founded (21 Nov 1936)On 21 November 1936 Pierre Gemayel and four companions founded the Kataeb Party as a Lebanese nationalist youth…
- 1 August 1945Lebanese Army established (1 Aug 1945)On 1 August 1945 Lebanon took over command of its army from France, and 1 August became Army Day; its first commander…
- 1 May 1949Progressive Socialist Party foundedOn 1 May 1949 Kamal Jumblatt founded the Progressive Socialist Party with intellectuals from different sects on a…
- 24 February 1955The Baghdad PactAgainst the Soviet Union (Iran, America, Britain, Iraq, Pakistan, Arab states…).
- 1 February 1958Founding of the United Arab RepublicOn 1 February 1958 Nasser and Shukri al-Quwatli proclaimed the United Arab Republic, the union of Egypt and Syria; the…
- 10 September 1958National Liberal Party founded (Chamoun)
- 31 March 1959Security clampdown on the Palestinian camps
- 10 October 1959Founding of FatahOn 10 October 1959 the founding of the Palestinian National Liberation Movement (Fatah) was announced in Kuwait by…
- 28 May 1964Founding of the PLOOn 28 May 1964 the first Palestinian National Congress met in Jerusalem, by decision of the Arab summit, and proclaimed…
- 1967Marada Brigade founded
- 11 December 1967PFLP-GC founded (George Habash)
- 24 April 1968PFLP-GC founded (Jibril)
- 6 January 1970The Communist Party announces the "Popular Guard" to defend southern villages
- 17 March 1974Founding of the Movement of the DeprivedMusa al-Sadr, together with Hussein al-Husseini, announced the founding of the Movement of the Deprived at a rally in…
- 1975Guardians of the Cedars founded
- 30 August 1976Founding of the Lebanese ForcesOn 30 August 1976 the "Lebanese Forces" were announced as a unified military command for the militias of the Lebanese…
- 2 October 1976The Maani Vanguards break away (Druze Jihad Organisation)
- 21 June 1982Hussein al-Musawi breaks from Amal and founds Islamic AmalIn June 1982, in protest at Nabih Berri's joining the National Salvation Committee alongside Bachir Gemayel and his…
- 16 February 1985Hezbollah's open letterOn 16 February 1985, on the anniversary of the assassination of Sheikh Ragheb Harb, Sayyed Ibrahim Amin al-Sayyed read…
- 14 December 1987Founding of HamasOn 14 December 1987, with the outbreak of the first intifada, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin issued the first statement in the…
- 11 August 1988Founding of al-QaedaOn 11 August 1988 Osama bin Laden, Abdullah Azzam and their companions founded the "al-Qaeda" organisation in Peshawar…
- 3 November 1997The Lebanese Brigades founded
- 18 July 2003Mahdi Army founded
- 18 September 2005Free Patriotic Movement registered as a party
- July 2006Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq founded
- 1 April 2007Kata'ib Hezbollah (Iraq) founded
- August 2007Future Movement constituted as a party
- 30 November 2009Hezbollah's new political documentOn 30 November 2009 Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah read out the party's second political document after the Open Letter…