Timeline of Kurdish history

The following is a timeline of Kurdish history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Kurdistan and its predecessor states and entities. To read about the background to these events, see History of the Kurds.

## 20th century

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1880  | Unknown  | Sheikh Ubeydullah demanded independence for Kurdish people
1927  | October 28  | Republic of Ararat declared. See also the Ararat rebellion.
1945  | August 16  | Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan is founded.
1946  | August 16  | Kurdistan Democratic Party (Iraq) is founded.
1975  | June 1  | Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (Iraq) is founded.
1976  |  | Kurdistan Socialist Democratic Party (Iraq) is founded.
1978  | November 25  | Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) is founded.[1]
1985  |  | Kurdistan Toilers' Party (Iraq) is splintered off from the Kurdistan Socialist Democratic Party.
1988  |  | Anfal genocide begins. Between 50,000[2] and 182,000[3] Kurds are killed by Ba'athist Iraq.
1994  | February 6  | Kurdistan Islamic Union (Iraq) is founded.

## 21st century

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2004  | July 29  | Kurdistan Freedom Hawks (Turkey) is founded.
2005  | January 30  | Iraqi Kurdistan independence referendum, 2005
2012  | October 15  | Peoples' Democratic Party (Turkey) is founded.
2014  | June 17–18  | Battle of Kirkuk (2014)
2015  | January 30 - February 1  | Battle of Kirkuk (2015)
2016  | October 21–24  | Battle of Kirkuk (2016)
2017  | September 25  | Iraqi Kurdistan independence referendum, 2017
2017  | October 15  | 2017 Iraqi–Kurdish conflict begins, including the Battle of Kirkuk (2017).
2017  | October 27  | 2017 Iraqi–Kurdish conflict ends. Massoud Barzani resigns from post of President of Iraqi Kurdistan; Kurdistan Regional Government accepts the Federal Supreme Court of Iraq's opposition towards independence; Kurdish authorities agree to hand over control of Erbil and Sulaymaniyah airports to the federal government. Iraqi Kurds lose the Kirkuk oilfields as their main source of revenue.

## References

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1. ^ Letsch, Constanze (10 January 2013). "Sakine Cansiz: 'a legend among PKK members'". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 January 2013.
2. ^ GENOCIDE IN IRAQ Human Rights Watch, 1993
3. ^ The Crimes of Saddam Hussein – 1988 The Anfal Campaign PBS Frontline