Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
1921 – 2005 · aged 84
King of Saudi Arabia from 1982 to 2005
- Born
- 1921 · Riyadh
- Died
- 1 Aug 2005 · King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre
Life timeline
Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.
- 1921BornBorn in Riyadh
- 1953 – 1962RoleMinister of Education
- 1962 – 1975RoleInterior minister
- 1975 – 1982RoleCrown prince
- 1975 – 1982RoleDeputy prime minister
- 1975 – 1982RoleCrown Prince of Saudi Arabia
- 1977AwardCollar of the Spanish Order of the Civil Merit
- 1982 – 2005RoleKing of Saudi Arabia
- 1982 – 2005RolePrime Minister of Saudi Arabia
- 1984AwardKing Faisal Prize in Service to Islam
- 1984AwardKnight of the Order of the Elephant
- 1987AwardRoyal Victorian Chain
- 1989AwardOrder of the Nile
- 1989Took partTaif Agreement
- 1990 – 1991WarGulf War
- 1 Aug 2005DiedDied in King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre
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Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1921 – 2005).
- 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
- 19341934 FIFA World Cup
- 19361936 Summer Olympics
- 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
- 19381938 FIFA World Cup
- 1938Munich Agreement
- 1939 – 1940Winter War
- 1939 – 1945World War II
- 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
- 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
- 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
- 1941Operation Barbarossa
- 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
- 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
- 19501950 FIFA World Cup
- 1950 – 1953Korean War
- 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
- 19541954 FIFA World Cup
- 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
- 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
- 1956Suez Crisis
- 19581958 FIFA World Cup
- 1959Antarctic Treaty System
- 19621962 FIFA World Cup
- 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
- 19661966 FIFA World Cup
- 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
- 1968Prague Spring
- 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
- 19721972 Summer Olympics
- 19741974 FIFA World Cup
- 19781978 FIFA World Cup
- 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
- 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
- 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
- 19841984 Summer Olympics
- 1985Schengen Agreement
- 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
- 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
Biography
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (1920, 1921 or 1923 – 1 August 2005) was King and Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia from 13 June 1982 until his death in 2005. Prior to his ascension, he was Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia from 1975 to 1982.
Fahd was the eldest of the Sudairi Seven, the sons of King Abdulaziz by Hassa bint Ahmed Al Sudairi. He served as Minister of Education from 1953 to 1962 during the reign of King Saud. Afterwards he was Interior Minister from 1962 to 1975, at the end of King Saud's reign and throughout King Faisal's reign. He was appointed crown prince when his half-brother Khalid became king following the assassination of King Faisal in 1975. Fahd was viewed as the de facto leader of the country during King Khalid's reign in part due to the latter's ill health.
Upon the death of King Khalid in 1982, Fahd ascended to the throne. He is credited for having introduced the Basic Law of Saudi Arabia in 1992. He suffered a debilitating stroke in 1995, after which he was unable to continue performing his full official duties. His half-brother Crown Prince Abdullah served as de facto regent of the kingdom and succeeded Fahd as king upon his death in 2005. With a reign of 23 years, Fahd remains the longest-reigning Saudi king.
Text from the Wikipedia article Fahd of Saudi Arabia, CC BY-SA 4.0
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