Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
b. 1935
King of Saudi Arabia since 2015
- Born
- 31 Dec 1935 · Riyadh
Life timeline
Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.
- 31 Dec 1935BornBorn in Riyadh
- 1963 – 2011RoleGovernor of Riyadh Region
- 1974AwardGrand Cross of the Order of Civil Merit
- 1998AwardOrder of Jerusalem
- 2005RoleHouse of Saud Council
- 2011 – 2015RoleMinister of Defence
- 2012 – 2015RoleCrown Prince of Saudi Arabia
- 2015RoleKing of Saudi Arabia
- 2015 – 2022RolePrime Minister of Saudi Arabia
- 2015AwardGrand Cross of the National Order of the Lion
- 2015AwardNational Order of Niger
- 2015AwardKnight Grand Cordon with Collar of the Order of Palestine
- 2016AwardGrand Cross with Collar of the Order of the Aztec Eagle
- 2016AwardGrand Cross of the National Order of Merit (Guinea)
- 2016AwardOrder of Good Hope
- 2016AwardOrder of the Nile
- 2016AwardOrder of State of Republic of Turkey
- 2016AwardOrder of Zayed
- 2016AwardOrder of Mubarak the Great
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Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1935 – today).
- 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
- 19901990 FIFA World Cup
- 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
Biography
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (Arabic: سلمان بن عبد العزيز آل سعود, romanized: Salmān ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz Āl Saʻūd; born 31 December 1935) is King of Saudi Arabia, having reigned since 2015. He is a son of King Abdulaziz, the founder of Saudi Arabia, and a member of the House of Saud.
Salman is the third-oldest living head of state and the oldest living monarch. He is the first Saudi head of state born after the unification of Saudi Arabia.
Salman is a son of King Abdulaziz and Hassa bint Ahmed Al Sudairi, making him one of the Sudairi Seven. He was the deputy governor of Riyadh and later the governor of Riyadh for 48 years from 1963 to 2011. He was then appointed Minister of Defense and was named crown prince in 2012. Salman became king in 2015 upon the death of his half-brother, King Abdullah.
He has a reported personal wealth of at least US$18 billion, which makes him the third wealthiest royal in the world.
Salman's major initiatives as king include the Saudi intervention in the Yemeni Civil War, Saudi Vision 2030, and a 2017 decree allowing Saudi women to drive. His seventh son, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, is considered the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia due to the King's poor health and Mohammed's own political maneuvering. Mohammed replaced his father as prime minister in 2022, making Salman the first king since Saud in 1964 not to serve as head of government.
Text from the Wikipedia article Salman of Saudi Arabia, CC BY-SA 4.0
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