1st recorded inhabitants of the area were the Berbers.

Soon the area was taken over by the Carthaginians.

Romans, Vandals and Ottomans followed.

1912
Italy took control.

W.W. II
Libya's coastal strip becomes a major battlefield between
the British and the Nazis as they fight for control of
the region's oil fields and the Mediterranean Sea.

1/2/52
Libya gets it's 'independence' from British and French.

1969
Muammar al-Qaddafi takes power.

July, 1977
Libyan Air Force fights several battles w/
the Air Force over their mutual border.

1977
Libya occupies the uranium mines of northern Chad.