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Beji Caid Essebsi
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Beji Caid Essebsi

1926 – 2019 · aged 93

Tunisian politician

Born
29 Nov 1926 · Sidi Bou Said
Died
25 Jul 2019 · Military hospital of Tunis
Part ofTunisia275 BCE – todayIslam557 CE – todaySunni Islam731 CE – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 107 years
  1. 29 Nov 1926BornBorn in Sidi Bou Said
  2. 1965 – 1969RoleMinister of Interior
  3. 1969AwardGrand Cross of the Order of Civil Merit
  4. 1969 – 1970RoleMinister of Defence
  5. 1970 – 1971RoleAmbassador of Tunisia to France
  6. 1981 – 1986RoleMinister of Foreign Affairs
  7. 1983AwardGrand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic
  8. 2011RolePrime Minister of Tunisia
  9. 2014 – 2019RolePresident of Tunisia
  10. 2015AwardHonorary doctor of the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne
  11. 2015AwardRoyal Order of the Seraphim
  12. 2017AwardKnight Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
  13. 2019AwardNational Maltese Order of Merit
  14. 2019AwardOrder of King Abdulaziz al Saud
  15. 25 Jul 2019DiedDied in Military hospital of Tunis

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1926 – 2019).

  1. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  2. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  3. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  4. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  5. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  6. 1938Munich Agreement
  7. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  8. 1939 – 1945World War II
  9. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  10. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  11. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  12. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  13. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  14. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  15. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  16. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  17. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  18. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  19. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  20. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  21. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  22. 1956Suez Crisis
  23. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  24. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  25. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  26. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  27. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  29. 1968Prague Spring
  30. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  31. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  32. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  33. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  34. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  35. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  36. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  37. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  38. 1985Schengen Agreement
  39. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  40. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall

Biography

Beji Caid Essebsi (or es-Sebsi; Arabic: الباجي قائد السبسي, romanized: al-Bājī Qā’id as-Sibsī, ; 29 November 1926 – 25 July 2019) was a Tunisian politician who served as the fourth president of Tunisia from 2014 until his death in 2019. Previously, he served as minister of foreign affairs from 1981 to 1986 and prime minister from February to December 2011.

Essebsi's political career spanned six decades, culminating in his leadership of Tunisia in its transition to democracy. Essebsi was the founder of the Nidaa Tounes political party, which won a plurality in the 2014 parliamentary election. In December 2014, he won the first regular presidential election following the Tunisian Revolution, becoming Tunisia's first democratically elected president.

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