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Faisal king-elect on behalf of Iraqi Council of State
August
Faisal ibn Hussein ibn Ali crowned Faisal I of lraq
September
King invites the naqib to form a cabinet
November
GLB’s half-brother Hugo marries Frances Morkill
1922 April–May
Iraq’s Constituent Assembly passes electoral law
Sir Hugh joins GLB for break in Jerusalem
July
GLB drafts antiquities law for Iraq
August
Bell finances diminish during international economic recession
October
Aiming to comply with the terms of the mandate, Cox and the naqib as prime minister sign a Treaty of Alliance between Iraq and Great Britain giving 20 years of British occupation in advisory capacity
Faisal proclaims Treaty of Alliance on the 13th
November
Allies and Turkey sign peace treaty officially ending war with Turkey
Macmillan Company donates books to Baghdad Public Library
Lloyd George’s wartime coalition government collapses; Bonar Law’s Conservatives win election; Churchill is replaced by the Duke of Devonshire with responsibility for Middle East
GLB’s brother-in-law Charles Trevelyan elected member of Parliament for Newcastle upon Tyne
Faisal, with Iraq Cabinet approval, appoints GLB honorary director of antiquities for Iraq
Air Marshal Sir John Salmond takes command of British forces in Iraq; RAF tasked with controlling tribal dissension
December
Sir Henry Dobbs arrives as prospective high commissioner, in charge while Cox visits London
GLB asked to continue as Oriental secretary
Cox signs treaties with Ibn Saud
1923 April
Cox signs treaty reducing British advisory occupation of Iraq to four years
Cox retires, leaves Iraq
May
Transjordan declared independent under Faisal’s elder brother Emir Abdullah by treaty with Britain, later to be the Kingdom of Jordan
July
League of Nations ratifies Turkish Peace Treaty at Conference of Lausanne
Constituent Assembly passes the draft constitution of Iraq (signed as the Organic Law by Faisal in March 1925)
July–August
GLB travels to England via Haifa, stays with Sir Herbert Samuel, high commissioner for Palestine
John Singer Sargent draws a portrait of GLB
GLB corresponds with Lawrence on publication of
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
September
GLB amends her will, leaving £6,000 ($478,000 RPI adjusted) to the British Museum for a British School of Archaeology in Iraq
October
GLB founds the Iraq Museum
1924 January
Ramsay MacDonald forms first Labour government in coalition with Liberals; Charles Trevelyan in Cabinet as president of Board of Education
February
First national elections in Iraq
March
King Faisal opens Iraq National Assembly
King Hussein of the Hejaz proclaims himself caliph of Islam following abolition of the title by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, but without pan-Islamic acclamation
Dorman Long wins contract to prepare final design and supply nearly 50,000 tons of steel components for the Sydney Harbour Bridge; Hugh Bell as director
September
Anglo-Iraqi Treaty of Alliance accepted by League of Nations as meeting the League’s covenant
Ibn Saud’s Wahhabis raid the Hashemite summer palace of Taif in the Hejaz; townspeople massacred
October
Mecca falls to Ibn Saud; King Hussein of the Hejaz abdicates in favor of his son Ali
December
Faisal ratifies the Treaty of Alliance following its approval by George V in November
1925 January
GLB prepares briefs and translates for the League of Nations Commission of Inquiry investigating the unresolved Iraq-Turkey frontier
February
Hugh Bell visits Sydney to inspect the construction site of the bridge
July–October
GLB’s last visit to England; returns to Baghdad via Beirut with Sylvia Henley
Autumn
Sir Hugh, Dame Florence, and Maurice move to Mount Grace Priory to economize; Rounton Grange closed
December
Ibn Saud ousts Faisal’s brother Ali as king of the Hejaz; annexes the territory
1926 February
GLB’s half-brother Hugo dies of pneumonia
March
Vita Sackville-West stays with GLB in Iraq
May
British General Strike; seven-month