Time Table to Part I
ADYear of the Hejra (Lunar)
622 (16th of July)
The flight of Muhammed the Prophet from Mecca to Medina
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1831
Ibrahìm Pasha, adopted son of the Khedive Mehemed Ali, conquers Syria. Battle of Konia
1256–7
1831–1840
A time of great prosperity for all classes, Christians and Muslims alike, under an enlightened government
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1840
Syria signed back to the Sultàn at Conference of London
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1858
Bombardment of Jedda by the French as a punishment for the massacre there
1275
1860 (March–April)
Saïd leaves his native town, his house and his fig-tree by the seashore
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1860 (June)
The Maronites attack the Drûz and are slaughtered all over Lebanon
1277
1860 (June–July)
Great massacre of Damascus
1277
1860 (September)
Execution of Ahmed Pasha, Wâly of Damascus, for culpable incompetence shown during the massacre
1278