British Mandate for Mesopotamia
1920–1932 · Event
Britain rules the former Ottoman provinces of Iraq under a League mandate — revolt, RAF policing, an imported king, and oil.
On these timelines: British Empire, Master
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- Cecil Rhodes (1853)
- Morant Bay Rebellion (1865)
- London Declaration creates the modern Commonwealth (1949)
- First Virginia Charter (1606)
- Independence of Ceylon (1948)
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