Saddam Hussein rebuilds Babylon
1983 · Event
Saddam has the ruins of Nebuchadnezzar's palace reconstructed with new bricks stamped with his own name, presenting himself as Nebuchadnezzar's heir.
On these timelines: Mesopotamia & the Ancient Near East, Master
More from Mesopotamia & the Ancient Near East
- Invention of writing (Sumer) (3200 BCE)
- Sumerian civilisation (4500 BCE)
- Akkadian Empire (2334 BCE)
- Code of Hammurabi (1754 BCE)
- Uruk period in Mesopotamia (4000 BCE)
- Neo-Assyrian Empire (911 BCE)
- Cyrus conquers Babylon (539 BCE)
- Neo-Babylonian Empire (626 BCE)
Around 1983
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- Dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991)
- Iranian Revolution (1978)
- Gulf War (1990)
- Yom Kippur War (1973)
- Invention of the World Wide Web (1989)
- Yugoslav Wars (1991)
- Birth of hip-hop (1973)
- Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody (1975)
- (Everything I Do) I Do It for You (Bryan Adams) (1991)