Prior to 20th century
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- 140 BC – City destroyed by Diodotus Tryphon.
- 64 BC – Beirut conquered by Agrippa.
- 14 BC – During the reign of Herod the Great, Berytus became a colonia.
- 551 CE – Earthquake.
- 635 – Beirut passes into Arab control.
- 759 – Prince Arslan bin al-Mundhir founds the Principality of Sin-el-Fil in Beirut.
- 1110 – Baldwin overtakes city, is absorbed into the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
- 1187 – Saladin re-takes city.
- early 17th.C. – Fakhr al-Din II fortifies the town.
- 1763 – Ottomans reclaim the city.
- 1772 – Russian occupations of Beirut.
- 1832 – Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt in power.
- 1840
- October: Battle of Beirut.
- Settlement of the hills surrounding the walled city begins, notably Moussaitbeh and Achrafieh
- 1853 – Grand Serail built.
- 1858 – Hadiqat al-Akhbar newspaper begins publication.
- 1860
- Druze–Maronite conflict.
- Sursock House built.
- 1866 – Syrian Protestant College established.
- 1868 – Archaeological Museum of the American University of Beirut established.
- 1875
- Saint Joseph University founded.
- Thamarāt al Funūn newspaper begins publication.
- 1877 – Lisan al-Hal newspaper begins publication.
- 1883 – Hôtel-Dieu de France founded.
- 1888 – Beirut was made capital of a vilayet (governorate) in Syria,[37] including the sanjaks (prefectures) Latakia, Tripoli, Beirut, Acre and Bekaa.
- 1894
- Saint George Maronite Cathedral constructed.
- Harbour, constructed by a French company.
- 1895 – Railway completed "across the Lebanon to Damascus."
- 1898 – Population: 120,000 (approximate).
