Benghazi

City · c. 1953 CE · in North Africa

Capital of Kingdom of Libya (1953–1968).

Related

• Bonn (c. 1950 CE): Capital of Federal Republic of Germany (1950–1990), Federated Republic of Germany (1991–1999).
• Khartoum (c. 1956 CE): Capital of Republic of Sudan (1956–today).
• East Berlin (1949–1990 CE): Capital of German Democratic Republic (1949–1990).
• Thimphu (c. 1949 CE): Capital of Kingdom of Bhutan (1949–today).
• Accra (c. 1958 CE): Capital of Ghana (1958–today).
• Amman (c. 1947 CE): Capital of Kingdom of Jordan (1947–today).
• Rawalpindi (c. 1959 CE): Capital of Islamic Republic of Pakistan (1959–1967).
• Brasília (1960 CE): Planned capital of Brazil built in the interior, with a plan by Lúcio Costa and modernist buildings by Oscar Niemeyer; inaugurated in 1960.
• Dakar (c. 1960 CE): Capital of Mali Federation (1960–1960), Republic of Senegal (1961–today).
• Lomé (c. 1960 CE): Capital of Togo (1960–today).

Around the same time and place

• Declaration of the State of Israel (1948 CE): David Ben-Gurion proclaimed the State of Israel in Tel Aviv on 14 May 1948 as the British Mandate ended, followed by war with neighbouring Arab states.
• Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881 CE – 1938 CE): Founder and first president of the Republic of Turkey, who led the War of Independence and carried out sweeping secularizing and westernizing reforms.
• Franz Ferdinand assassinated (1914 CE): On 28 June 1914 Bosnian Serb Gavrilo Princip shot the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne and his wife in Sarajevo. The July Crisis that followed led to World War I.
• Discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb (1922 CE): Howard Carter's excavation revealed the nearly intact tomb of Tutankhamun (KV62) in the Valley of the Kings, with its gold burial mask and thousands of objects.
• End of the Ottoman Empire (1922 CE): The Ottoman sultanate was abolished in 1922 and the Republic of Turkey was proclaimed in Ankara in 1923; the caliphate was abolished in 1924.
• Palestinian exodus of 1948 (1947–1949 CE): About 700,000 Palestinian Arabs fled or were expelled from their homes during the 1947–1949 war, an event Palestinians call the Nakba ('catastrophe').
• 1948 Arab–Israeli War (1948–1949 CE): Arab states invaded after Israel's declaration of independence; Israel held and extended its territory, while Jordan and Egypt took the West Bank and Gaza.
• Treaty of Rome (1957 CE): Signed in Rome in March 1957 by Belgium, France, West Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, the treaty created the European Economic Community.

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