Libya's+History


 * Event 1 300 BCE**

The area known as Libya was home of the oldest Jewish communities the world dating back to at least 300 BCE, about 38,000 Jews lived there
Event 2 Italian invading October 1 1911 Italians attacked Tripoli, clamming some what disingenuously to be liberating Libya the ottoman sultan ceded Libya to the Italians by signing the 1912 treaty of Lausanne 150,000 Italians settled in Libya

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**Event 3 Italo-Turkish War September 29,1911-October 18,1912 Italy seized the ottoman provinces of Tripolitania and Cyrenaica, together forming what became known as Libya...An Italian Pilot flew over Turkish lines on a reconnaissance mission and on November 1st the 1st ever aerial bomb was dropped on Turkish troops in Libya** ======  **Between the establishment of the state of Israel in 1949, Libyan independence in December 1951 over 30,000 Libyan Jews immigrated to Israel**
 * Event 4 Immigration **
 * 1949-1951 **

Event 5 December 24, 1951 It was the first country to achieve independence throughout the United Nations and one the first and one of the first farmer European possessions in Africa to gain independence


 * Event 6 discovering oil **
 * 1959 **
 * oil drastically improved Libya’s finances, popular resentment grew as wealth was increasingly concentrated in the hand of the elite… the subsequent income from petroleum sales enabled what had been one of the world’s poorest countries to become extremely wealthy. **