ca. 85 B.C.E. Ancient roots: Nabateans and Petra.
1915: Husayn-McMahon Correspondence.
1916: Beginnings of Modern Jordan, Sykes-Picot Agreement.
1918: British assume control over Jordan (known then as "Transjordan").
1919: American King-Crane Commission recommendations.
1921: Cairo Conference, Abdullah designated "Amir" of Transjordan.
1925, May 25: Anglo-Jordanian Treaty separates Transjordan from Palestine Mandate.
1937: Peel Commission recommends partition of British Mandate.
1939-1956: Arab Legion led and trained by British General "Glubb Pasha."
1945: Transjordan participates in formation of Arab League.
1946: "Jordan" becomes an independent kingdom, Abdullah crowns himself king.
1947: Britain divests itself of League of Nations mandate, U.N. Partition Plan for Palestine, and Abdullah's secret talks with the Jewish Agency. Discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls at Qumran.
1948: War with Israel, Jordan gains control of West Bank.
1950: Jordan formally annexes the West Bank.
1951, July 20: Assassination of King Abdullah, accession of King Talal.
1952, August 11: King Talal deposed, accession of King Hussein.
1953: Israeli attack on Qibya. Founding of Hizb al-Tahrir.
1958, May 12: Jordan and Iraq agree to a union (based on that of Egypt and Syria)
1958, July: Attempted coup against King Hussein broken up.
1960 and 1962: Egypt tries and fails to assassinate King Hussein.
1965: Israeli raids on West Bank.
1966: Israeli raids on West Bank.
1967: War with Israel, Jordan loses West Bank.
1968, March 21: Battle of Karameh.
1970, August: Rogers Plan to end War of Attrition.
1970, September: "Black September," PLO flees to Beirut.
1974, November: U.N. rules Jordan has no legal rights to West Bank.
1982: Jordan implicated in Hama Uprising.
1985, February 11: Jordan and PLO sign "Amman Agreement."
1988, July 30: King Hussein disavows all Jordanian claims to sovereignty over the West Bank.
1994: Jordan signs peace treaty with Israel.
1997: Jordan and Israel argue over water.
1999: Death of King Hussein, accession of King Abdullah II.
2002, May: New divorce law permits women to initiate divorce from husbands.
2002, November: Queen Rania provokes row over citizenship for Palestinians.
2004, November 10: King Abdullah issues his "Amman Message."
2005, March: King Abdullah II proposes that Arab governments normalize relations with Israel.
2005, April 8: New reformist government appointed.
2005, August 19: Missile attacks on Aqaba and Eilat.
2005, November 9: Suicide bomb attacks in Amman.
2006, September 4: Attack on tourists in Amman.
2007, November: Islamists sustain big losses in parliamentary elections.