** John Maron was the legal successor of the Patriarchate, and through him the Maronite Patriarchs ;

** Literature: Charles Frazier, Margaret Maron

** Arabia: Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Syria and Tunisia.

** Vartan ( a holiday for Armenians in Lebanon )

** UNTSO, from 1958 ( Israel, Egypt, Syria and Lebanon ) – 8 out of 142 soldiers from 23 countries

** UNIFIL, from 1978 ( Lebanon ) – 2, 410 out of 12, 800 soldiers from 30 countries

** Mount Lebanon Region.

** Presidents of Lebanon

** Prime Ministers of Lebanon

** 2006 Lebanon War ( summer 2006 ) – took place in southern Lebanon and northern Israel.

** On their way to Lebanon, 2 Israeli troop-transport helicopters collide, killing 73.

** Lebanon gains independence from France.

** Lebanon hostage crisis: Lebanese kidnappers release American educator Robert Polhill, who had been held hostage since January 1987.

** Northern Ireland writer Brian Keenan is released from Lebanon after being held hostage for nearly 5 years.

** The Battle of Aishiya is fought in Lebanon.

** U. S. Lieutenant Colonel William R. Higgins, serving with a United Nations group monitoring a truce in southern Lebanon, is kidnapped ( he is later killed by his captors ).

** Israel releases 51 Arab prisoners and the bodies of 9 guerillas, raising hopes that the last Western hostages in Lebanon will soon be released.

** Kidnappers in Lebanon set Anglican Church envoys Terry Waite and Thomas Sutherland free.

** Journalist Terry A. Anderson is released after 7 years ' captivity as a hostage in Beirut ( the last and longest-held American hostage in Lebanon ).

** In Lebanon, the government of Prime Minister Rashid Karami resigns.

** Saeb Salam forms a government in Lebanon.

** C. Laan brings order to the chaos created by the dockworker riots of Tripoli, Lebanon.

** Bus massacre: The Kataeb militia kills 27 Palestinians during an attack on their bus in Ain El Remmeneh, Lebanon, triggering the Lebanese civil war.

** The 1982 Lebanon War begins: Forces under Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon invade southern Lebanon in their " Operation Peace for the Galilee ," eventually reaching as far north as the capital Beirut.

* The Maronite Church is founded by Saint Maron in Lebanon.

As a result, they appointed their own Patriarch, starting with John Maron, who had been a bishop of Batroun, Mount Lebanon.