* 2005 – President of Mauritania Maaouya Ould Sid ' Ahmed Taya is overthrown in a military coup while attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi Arabia.

* King Fahd Academy, a private school in Mehlem, Bad Godesberg, which also includes a mosque

Saudi interests also funded for the construction of the King Fahd Mosque, which is currently the largest mosque in Sarajevo.

* 1982 – Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia upon the death of his brother, Khalid.

On August 3, 2005 the Mauritanian military, including members of the presidential guard, seized control of key points in the capital of Nouakchott, performing a coup against the government of President Maaouya Ould Sid ' Ahmed Taya who was out of the country, attending the funeral of Saudi King Fahd.

They took advantage of President Taya's attendance at the funeral of Saudi King Fahd to organize the coup, which took place without loss of life.

Furthermore, the Jewish Defense League was suspected of plotting to bomb the King Fahd Mosque in Culver City, California.

Moqed was a law student from the small town of Al-Nakhil, Saudi Arabia ( west of Medina ), studying at King Fahd University's Faculty of Administration and Economics.

For example, when the house of Ali-Oraid, the grandson of Muhammed was discovered and excavated, King Fahd himself ordered that it be bulldozed in case it should become a pilgrimage site.

* 1986 – The King Fahd Causeway is officially opened in the Persian Gulf.

Musharraf's first foreign visit was to Saudi Arabia on October 26 where he met with King Fahd.

King Khalid ( 1975 – 1982 ) left government largely to his Crown Prince, Fahd, who succeeded him as King ( 1982 – 2005 ).

The most powerful clan faction is known as the ' Sudairi Seven ', comprising the late King Fahd and his full brothers and their descendants.

In March 1992, King Fahd issued several decrees outlining the basic statutes of government and codifying royal succession for the first time.

In September 1993, King Fahd issued additional reform decrees, appointing the members of the national Consultative Council and spelling out procedures for the new council's operations.

Saudi Arabia has long been seen as the most pro-Western of the Arab States and a close ally of the US, particularly under King Fahd.

A marked change in U. S .- Saudi relations occurred, as Abdullah sought to put distance between his policies and the unpopular pro-Western policies of King Fahd.

* King Fahd ( Saudi Arabia )

* January 1 – King Fahd of Saudi Arabia temporarily gives power to Crown Prince Abdullah, his legal successor, due to illness.

* February 21 – King Fahd of Saudi Arabia announces his medical recovery in the national press and assumes power again from his brother, Crown Prince Abdullah.

* September 23 – King Fahd University for Petroleum and Minerals is established by a Saudi Royal Decree as the College of Petroleum and Minerals.

** Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia upon the death of his brother, Khalid.

King Baldwin agreed to the request, and granted space for a headquarters in a wing of the royal palace on the Temple Mount, in the captured Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Funded by King Faisal of Saudi Arabia, the Faisal Mosque in Islamabad is the largest mosque in Pakistan.

On July 20, 1951, King Abdullah I was shot dead in Jerusalem while visiting the Al Aqsa Mosque.

On 20 July 1951, Prince Hussein traveled to Jerusalem to perform Friday prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque with his grandfather, King Abdullah I, where an assassin opened fire on Abdullah and his grandson.

The two allegedly were caught in the act of planning bomb attacks against the King Fahd Mosque in Culver City, California and on the office of U. S. Representative Darrell Issa, who is Arab-American.

* Sahib al-Fadhilah ( صاحب الفضيلة ) ( His Eminence )-The State Deputy Muftis, Qadhis, Grand Imam of the State Mosque and Islamic Affairs Officer to the Supreme King.

King Baldwin allowed Hugues de Payens to set up quarters in a wing of the royal palace, the captured Al Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount.

* King Faisal Mosque, Pakistan

* King Faisal Mosque King Faisal Mosque

* King Abdullah I Mosque, Amman, Jordan

After funeral prayers at the Grand Mosque in Mecca, King Khalid was buried in Al Oud cemetery in Riyadh.

The Faisal Mosque is conceived as the National Mosque of Pakistan and named after the late King Faisal bin Abdul-Aziz of Saudi Arabia, who supported and financed the project.

On 20 July 1951, Prince Hussein traveled to Jerusalem to perform Friday prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque with his grandfather, King Abdullah I.

* King Faisal Mosque.

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A mosque ( Broadmeadows Mosque ) is located in Dallas, on King Street.

Among those who contributed to the project of the Mosque and Islamic Centre was the late King Faisal of Saudi Arabia.

Abdullah I of Jordan, who had become Emir of Transjordan in 1921 and King in 1923, was assassinated in 1951 during a visit to the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in East Jerusalem by a Palestinian gunman following rumours that he was discussing a peace treaty with Israel.

That night the King lodged at Culver Hall ( now Vernon House ) in West Street before the party continued to London for Charles's trial and execution in January 1649.

The King gave his night cap to Henry Vernon, owner of Culver Hall, " as a token of Royal favour ".