Tripoli: Timeline

643   Arab Arab

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 armies win their first North Africa North Africa

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n victory in Tripoli.

1271   Mamluk Mamluk

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 sultan Baibars Baibars

al-Malik al-Zahir Rukn al-Din Baibars al-Bunduqdari ... 

 conducts an unsuccessful siege of the city of Tripoli, and also fails in an attempted naval invasion of Cyprus Cyprus

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.

1551   The Ottomans Ottoman Empire

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 captured Tripoli.

1796   The Treaty of Tripoli (between the United States United States

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 and Tripoli) is signed at Tripoli (see also 1797).

1796   The Treaty of Tripoli (between the United States United States

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 and Tripoli) is signed at Tripoli (see also 1797).

1797   The Treaty of Tripoli (a peace treaty between the United States United States

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 and Tripoli) is signed at Algiers Algiers

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.

1797   In Boston Harbor, the 44-gun United States Navy United States Navy

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 frigate USS Constitution USS Constitution

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 is launched to fight Barbary pirates off the coast of Tripoli.

1800   Pascha Jussuf Karamanli of Tripoli declares war on Sweden Sweden

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 by having the flagpole on the consulate chopped down.

1801   The pascha of Tripoli declares war on United States United States

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 by having the flagpole on the consulate chopped down.

1802   War ends between Sweden Sweden

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 and Tripoli. The United States United States

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 also negotiates peace, but war continues over the size of compensation.

1805   United States Marines and Berbers attack the Tripolitan Tripoli

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 city of Derna (The "Shores of Tripoli").

1912   Italian Italy

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 forces are the first to use airship Airship

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s for a military purpose by using them for reconnaissance west of Tripoli behind Turkish Turkey

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 lines.

1935   Italian colonies of Tripoli and Cyrenaica are joined together as Libya Libya

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1941   World War II: Lieutenant-General Erwin Rommel Erwin Rommel

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 arrives in Tripoli.

1943   World War II World War II

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: British United Kingdom

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 forces capture Tripoli from the Nazis Nazism

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.

1986   At least 15 people die after USA United States

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 planes bomb targets in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, and the Benghazi region as part of Operation El Dorado Canyon.