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| 1954, Aug |
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| A series of decrees issued by the cabinet under NURI AL-SA`ID effectively outlawed all organized opposition, which was driven underground until the revolution of 1958. | 1 |
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| 1956, May 2 |
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| The first Middle Eastern television station began broadcasting to the Baghdad area. | 2 |
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| 1958, May 12 |
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| Ratification of a union between Jordan and Iraq, modeled on the United Arab Republic, comprising Egypt and Syria. | 3 |
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| July 14 |
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| THE IRAQI REVOLUTION. An army coup brought GEN. ABD AL-KARIM QASIM to power. The revolutionaries dissolved the monarchy and executed the royal family, including the king, Faysal II. Other notables, such as Nuri al-Sa`id, were rounded up and put to death. | 4 |
| Qasim's government was confined to a tight circle of military officers. Outside the army, his only reliable ally was the Iraqi Communist Party, which never received any appreciable power. His enemies generally came from the ranks of Arab nationalists, Nasserite groups, and the Ba‘th Party. | 5 |
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