Significant Dates Leading to the Sanusi Succession
 

1911 September 29              Italy invades Libya. Start of the Italo-Turkish War
 

1912 September                  Ahmad al-Sharif al-Sanusi declares the establishment of ‘al-hokouma al-Sanusiya
                                            (the Sanusiya government)
 

1912 October 17                 Treaty of Lausanne (Ouchy); Turkey to withdraw its army from Libya
 

1913 May 16                       Italian forces defeated in the battle of Sidi al-Qarba
 

1915 February                    Muhammad Idris al-Sanusi meets with Lord Kitchener, British Governor of Egypt, in Cairo
 

1915 May                            Italy enters World War I on the side of the Allies
 

1915 November                   Sanusi forces attack British garrisons in western Egypt
 

1916 March                         British forces recapture Marsa Matruh, Salloum, and other territories in Libyan Desert
 

1916 March                 Ahmad al-Sharif al-Sanusi hands over the Sanusiya leadership to his cousin Muhammad Idris al-Sanusi
 

1917 April                         Accord of Akrama (Acroma) between Italy and the Sanusi
 

1919 October               Cyrenaica and Tripolitania establish Parliament, government council, and local councils
 

1920 October                 Accord of Al-Rajma Italy recognises al-Sanusi as ‘Amir’ (prince) of Cyreniaca
 

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