A Timeline of Kuwait's History Quiz

On July 29, 1913, the Anglo-Ottoman Convention was signed. Section I dealt with Kuwait and contained ten articles. It had a contradiction in it as well, which stated that Britain did not see it as a protectorate under Britain, but the Ottoman Empire did see Kuwait as a protectorate under Britain.

Also, Sheikh Mubarak al-Sabah was recognized as the official ruler of Kuwait.

This treaty, signed on December 2, 1922, designated the borders for Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. It also included a neutral zone. Kuwait was not permitted to be there for the treaty, as Britain decided that, as it was protecting Kuwait, it would take care of it. As a result, Kuwait lost over half of its land.

On February 22, 1938, oil was discovered in the Burgan field of Kuwait. Sheikh Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah became the ruler of Kuwait in 1921 and knew people were looking for oil due to some black patches that were seen in the Bahrain area, especially in 1932. He was resourceful and had hoped oil would be found.

On December 23, 1934, he signed a document to give his country more wealth and more importance globally - the Kuwait Oil Concession Agreement and the Kuwait Oil Company were formed. The drilling continued in the Bahrain area, but after a report by Cox and Rhodes was published, people started to drill in the Burgan field and that was where they struck oil in 1938.

The Public Work Program, which began in 1951, is the program in charge of seeing roads and bridges being built in Kuwait. They also deal with public housing, hospitals, and sewage issues. This event allowed the citizens of Kuwait to live a higher standard of life.

In 1913, Kuwait was seen as separate from Iraq. After WWI, Kuwait was a sheikhdom protectorate of Britain. During the 1930s, many Kuwaiti people wanted to be reunified with Iraq and resented Britain. However, as they prospered from their oil productivity, they enjoyed their independence more and more. Then, in June 1961, Kuwait became an independent country.

In the 1960s and early 1970s, the Kuwait Parliament had been having difficulties with ratifying oil agreements. On January 4, 1976, Emir Sabah al-Sabah declared he had enough because nothing was getting done and he suspended the National Assembly. The suspension ended in 1981 when they tried again, and was resuspended again from 1986-1991.

The Iran-Iraq War started in September of 1980 and lasted until August 1988. Kuwait helped Iraq because they wanted to keep the Iranian government from getting out of control. In 1980, Kuwait, along with Saudi Arabia and others in the Gulf, were financially supporting Iraq or they would have gone bankrupt. They also furnished supplies such as tanks and oil.

On August 2, 1990, Iraq invaded Kuwait because of how rich in oil Kuwait was. They had been threatening Kuwait for months, but Kuwait was still unprepared. While the Kuwait military tried to resist, the Iraqi military greatly outnumbered them.

In June 2005, Massouma al-Mubarak was appointed the first female cabinet member in Kuwait under Prime Minister Sabah Al-Ahmad AlJaber Al-Sabah. She resigned two years later after a fire in a hospital in Jahra killed two patients.

The 2005 election was important for women in Kuwait as it allowed women in the country the right to vote again. They first had this right in 1985, but then it was removed again due to the male-dominated society laws.

On June 26, 2015, a suicide bomber bombed al-Imam as-Sadiq Mosque in Kuwait City, Kuwait. Twenty-seven people were killed and another 227 were injured. One of the men arrested was Adel Eiden, the man who drove the bomber to the mosque. He later admitted that he wanted to see the mosque bombed, but he claimed that he did not want to see the people hurt.

The bomber was identified as Iraqi Abu Suleiman al-Muwahhid, who had posted on social media that he had plans to "target a temple of the rejectionists." This comes from the Arabic word Rafida, that is those who reject the rulership of the first two Rashidun Caliphs: Abubakr, and Umar.