* 1921 – The British install the son of Sharif Hussein bin Ali ( leader of the Arab Revolt of 1916 against the Ottoman Empire ) as King Faisal I of Iraq.

* 1952 – Hussein bin Talal is proclaimed King of Jordan.

* 1987 – The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan.

On Jordanian side, three international franchises have opened seaside resort hotels near the King Hussein Bin Talal Convention Center along the eastern coast of the Dead Sea.

* 1999 – Crown Prince Abdullah becomes the King of Jordan on the death of his father, King Hussein.

King Abdullah of Jordan has become the first Arab leader to visit Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, a landmark step towards reducing Baghdad's isolation among its Sunni Arab neighbours.

Between 1950 and the Six Day War in 1967, although not widely recognized, Jordan claimed and administered an additional 5, 880 square kilometers encompassing the West Bank ; in 1988 and with continuing Israeli occupation, King Hussein relinquished Jordan's claim to the West Bank in favor of the Palestinians.

Shitrit had announced his intentions to propose a new standard gauge railway to connect Haifa, Israel, to Irbid, Jordan, passing through King Hussein Bridge and Jenin, a project that could cost as much as $ 300 million ( for the Jordanian portion of the line ).

* 1978 – King Hussein of Jordan marries American Lisa Halaby, who takes the name Queen Noor.

" King Hussein of Jordan — the only leader of an Arab country to publicly denounce the Olympic attack — called it a " savage crime against civilization ... perpetrated by sick minds.

Ultimately, Hussein only became King of Hijaz in the then less strategically valuable south, but lost his Caliphate throne when the kingdom was sacked by the Najdi Ikhwan forces of the Saudites and forcefully incorporated into the newly-created Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ).

* 1970 – Attempted assassination of King Hussein of Jordan by Palestinian guerrillas, who attacked his motorcade.

* 1970 – King Hussein of Jordan declares military rule following the hijacking of four civilian airliners by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP ).

* Video Clip: Sandhurst military historian analysing how King Hussein became involved in the Six Day War.

King Hussein considered this a growing threat to his kingdom's sovereignty and security, and attempted to disarm the militias.

) The Jordanian government moved to regain control over its territory, and the next day, King Hussein declared martial law.

Other heads of state took sides against Hussein, among them Muammar Gaddafi, who mocked him and his schizophrenic father King Talal.

After repeated violations of the ceasefire from both the PLO and the Jordanian Army, Arafat called for King Hussein to be toppled.

* February 7 – King Hussein of Jordan dies from cancer, and his son Abdullah II inherits the throne.

* February 7 – King Hussein of Jordan ( b. 1935 )

* September 1 – An assassination attempt against King Hussein of Jordan precipitates the Black September crisis.

* September 15 – King Hussein of Jordan forms a military government with Muhammad Daoud as the prime minister.

* June 15 – King Hussein of Jordan marries 26-year-old Lisa Halaby, who takes the name Queen Noor.

* May 2 – Hussein is crowned King of Jordan.

King Björn met Ansgar in Birka when he arrived there in 829 ( Chapter XI ).

Further to the west, Daedalus arrived safely in Sicily, in the care of King Cocalus of Kamikos on the island's south coast ; there he built a temple to Apollo, and hung up his wings, an offering to the god.

When most of the land army arrived, the King and Queen had a profound dispute.

According to these sources Hengist and Horsa arrived in Britain as mercenaries serving Vortigern, King of the Britons.

Before Raymond and Bohemond arrived, Agnes and King Baldwin arranged for Sibylla to be married to a Poitevin newcomer, Guy of Lusignan, whose older brother Amalric of Lusignan was already an established figure at court.

However, other European nobles took up the cause, including Theobald IV, Count of Champagne and King of Navarre, Peter of Dreux, and Amaury VI of Montfort, who arrived in Acre in September 1239.

On the basis of a land grant made to him by the Anglophile native King of the Mosquito people in what is present-day Honduras, MacGregor wove one of history's most elaborate hoaxes, managing to charm the highest levels of London's political and financial establishment with tales of the bucolic, resource-rich country he claimed to rule as a benevolent sovereign prince, or " Cazique ", when he arrived in the UK in 1822.

If Orderic Vitalis is to be relied upon, one of Malcolm's earliest actions as King may have been to travel south to the court of Edward the Confessor in 1059 to arrange a marriage with Edward's kinswoman Margaret, who had arrived in England two years before from Hungary.

When the First Fleet arrived at Port Jackson in January 1788, Phillip ordered Lieutenant Philip Gidley King to lead a party of 15 convicts and seven free men, including surgeon Thomas Jamison ( the future Principal Surgeon of New South Wales ), to take control of the island and prepare for its commercial development.

The King of Palau allowed Captain Wilson to take his son, Prince Lee Boo, to England, where he arrived in 1784.

In 1171 King Henry II arrived in England from France, on his way to Ireland.

Isabella MacDuff, Countess of Buchan and wife of John Comyn, 3rd Earl of Buchan ( a cousin of the murdered John Comyn ), who claimed the right of her family, the MacDuff Earl of Fife, to crown the Scottish king for her brother, Donnchadh IV, Earl of Fife – who was not yet of age, and in English hands – arrived the next day, too late for the coronation, so a second coronation was held and once more the crown was placed on the brow of Robert Bruce, Earl of Carrick, Lord of Annandale, King of the Scots.

A century later, on August 15, 1612, The Globe, an East India Company merchantman bearing a letter from King James I, arrived in " the Road of Syam "

However, Lackey has displayed occasional resentment about his position ; in one strip, when he informs the king that a vendor has arrived selling slaves, the indignant King orders Lackey to tell the visitor that the King doesn't believe in slavery.

In the reign of King Thothori Nyantsen ( 5th century CE ), a basket of Buddhist scriptures arrived in Tibet from India.

A crisis erupted over the writs of assistance on December 27, 1760 when the news of King George II's October 23 death arrived in Boston.

In 1263, King Haakon IV of Norway, in retaliation for a Scots expedition to Skye, arrived on the west coast with a fleet from Norway and Orkney.

He arrived in Hollywood to choreograph the dance sequences for The King and I, and he and Laurents began developing the musical while working on their respective projects, keeping in touch with Bernstein, who had returned to New York.

Casimir arrived to the fortress of Nitra, and then to Perény and Rozgony, but in December he had to flee from Hungary, as the King recovered full control and arrested the traitors.

Mardi Gras arrived in North America as a French Catholic tradition with the Le Moyne brothers, Pierre Le Moyne d ' Iberville and Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, in the late 17th century, when King Louis XIV sent the pair to defend France's claim on the territory of Louisiane, which included what are now the U. S. states of Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.

King Charles arrived in Gaeta on 6 June and learned of the disaster.

Molde was in effect the capital of Norway for a week after King Haakon, Crown Prince Olav, and members of the government and parliament arrived at Molde on April 23, after a dramatic flight from Oslo.

Henry arrived in the bedroom with King Francis, who is said to have stayed until the marriage was consummated.

Before Raymond and Bohemond arrived, however, Agnes and King Baldwin arranged for Sibylla to be married to a Poitevin newcomer, Guy of Lusignan, whose older brother Amalric of Lusignan was already an established figure at court.