Bishara al-Khuri's Presidency

Bishara al-Khuri's Presidency

Bishara al-Khuri

Born in Reshmaya in 1890, Bishara al-Khuri became independent Lebanon's first president. Alongside Riad al-Sulh, he forged the National Pact of 1943, establishing sectarian power-sharing and effectively ending the French mandate.

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Year	Bishara al-Khuri
1890	Birth of Bishara al-Khuri (Period: August 10, 1890, Location: Lebanese Republic, Reshmaya (Aley District). Some sources give Beirut as his birth_place)
1909	Legal Studies in Paris (Age: 18 years old, Period: 1909–1912, Location: Paris, France)
1914	World War I (Age: 23 years old, Period: 1914–1918, Location: Ottoman Empire and surrounding regions (Gallipoli, Caucasus, Mesopotamia, Sinai, Palestine, Arabia, etc.))
1915	Ottoman Authorities' Pursuit over Lebanon Independence Demand Documents (Age: 24 years old, Period: 1915, Location: Ottoman Lebanon, Beirut) Exile to Egypt and Legal Practice (Bishara al-Khuri, Age: 24 years old, Period: 1915–1919, Location: Cairo, Egypt)
1920	Appointment as Secretary-General of the Administrative Council (Bishara al-Khuri, Age: 29 years old, Period: 1920, Location: Lebanon, Beirut)
1927	Assumed Office as Prime Minister (Bishara al-Khuri, Age: 36 years old, Period: May 5, 1927–August 10, 1928, May 9–October 11, 1929, Location: Lebanon, Beirut)
1932	Creation of the Constitutional Bloc (Age: 41 years old, Period: 1932, Location: Lebanon)
1936	Participation in Franco-Lebanese Treaty Negotiations (Age: 45 years old, Period: 1936, Location: Lebanon, France)
1939	World War II (Age: 48 years old, Period: 1939–1945, Location: Europe, North Africa, Asia-Pacific, etc. (no combat occurred within Turkey))
1943	Election as First Post-Independence President (Age: 53 years old, Period: September 21, 1943, Location: Lebanon, Beirut) Realization of Lebanese Independence (Age: 53 years old, Period: November 1943–December 31, 1946, Location: All of Lebanon) 1943 Lebanese Constitutional Amendment and Arrest of the President and Ministers (Age: 53 years old, Period: November 11–22, 1943, Location: Lebanon, Beirut and Rashaya)
1947	Allegations of Fraud Surrounding the 1947 Parliamentary Elections (Age: 56 years old, Period: May 25, 1947, Location: Various locations in Lebanon)
1948	Re-election to the Presidency and Constitutional Amendment (Age: 57 years old, Period: 1948–1949, Location: Lebanon, Beirut)
1952	1952 "Rosewater Revolution" (Age: 61 years old, Period: May–September 1952, Location: Lebanon, Beirut, Deir el Qamar, etc.) 1952 Resignation (Bishara al-Khuri, Age: 62 years old, Period: September 18, 1952, Location: Lebanon, Beirut)
1964	Death of Bishara al-Khuri (Age: 73 years old, Period: January 11, 1964, Location: Beirut, Lebanon)
Unknown	Marriage (Bishara al-Khuri, Laura Chiha, Period: Details unknown, Location: Details unknown. Believed to have married in Lebanon.)

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Ottoman Empire	Mehmed Han bin Abdülmecid Mehmed Vahdeddin Han bin Abdülmecid İsmail Enver Mehmed Talat Ahmet Cemal Mustafa Kemal Mustafa İsmet Mustafa Fevzi
Syrian nationalist movement	Faisal I Sultan al-Atrash Ibrahim Hananu Hashim al-Atassi Shukri al-Quwatli Abd al-Rahman Shahbandar Bishara al-Khuri Emile Eddé Riyad al-Sulh Antoun Saadeh
Palestinian national movement	Amin al-Husayni Musa al-Husayni Raghib al-Nashashibi Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni Chaim Weizmann David Ben-Gurion Zeev Jabotinsky Golda Meir Vladimir Jabotinsky Moshe Sharett

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