Time Table to Part I

AD Year of the Hejra (Lunar)
622 (16th of July) The flight of Muhammed the Prophet from Mecca to Medina
1831 Ibrahìm Pasha, adopted son of the Khedive Mehemed Ali, conquers Syria. Battle of Konia 1256⁠–⁠7
1831⁠–⁠1840 A time of great prosperity for all classes, Christians and Muslims alike, under an enlightened government
1840 Syria signed back to the Sultàn at Conference of London
1858 Bombardment of Jedda by the French as a punishment for the massacre there 1275
1860 (March⁠–⁠April) Saïd leaves his native town, his house and his fig-tree by the seashore
1860 (June) The Maronites attack the Drûz and are slaughtered all over Lebanon 1277
1860 (June⁠–⁠July) Great massacre of Damascus 1277
1860 (September) Execution of Ahmed Pasha, Wâly of Damascus, for culpable incompetence shown during the massacre 1278