IraqandAND⤬THE JUNCTION
4 SHARED EVENTSKuwait

Entangled histories

4 events in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.

ONE SPINE OF YEARS · TWO WALLS OF EVENTS · IRQ LEFT · KWT RIGHT

1. 1913

   Kuwait's separate status confirmed

   Anglo-Ottoman negotiations recognized Kuwait as an autonomous district under British protection, distinguishing it from the Ottoman territories that would later form Iraq.

   Politics & Power · from the Kuwait chronicle · Mubarak the Great and the British Agreement · REFS 2 — Kuwait: History, Persian Gulf States: Country Studies (Kuwait)

2. 2 August 1990

   Iraq invades and annexes Kuwait

   About one hundred thousand Iraqi troops overran Kuwait in hours; Saddam Hussein declared the country annexed, and the ruling family fled to Saudi Arabia.

   War & Rupture · from the Kuwait chronicle · The Iraqi Invasion and the Liberation of 1991 · REFS 2 — The Gulf War, 1991 (Milestones in the History of U.S. Foreign Relations), The First Gulf War (Short History)

3. August-November 1990

   The UN condemns and authorizes force

   The Security Council passed Resolution 660 demanding withdrawal and Resolution 678 authorizing all necessary means to expel Iraq if it did not leave by 15 January 1991.

   Politics & Power · from the Kuwait chronicle · The Iraqi Invasion and the Liberation of 1991 · REFS 1 — The Gulf War, 1991 (Milestones in the History of U.S. Foreign Relations)

4. 1990–1991

   Invasion of Kuwait and the Persian Gulf War

   Iraq invades and annexes Kuwait in August 1990; a United States-led coalition of many nations expels Iraqi forces in early 1991, after which Iraq is placed under severe international sanctions.

   War & Rupture · from the Iraq chronicle · The Republic, Saddam Hussein and the Wars · REFS 1 — Persian Gulf War