Timeline of historical events -- An overview of geography, earliest peoples, states, and societies to the seventh century BCE -- Traders, merchants, and invaders, seventh century BCE-16th century CE -- The Italian colonial conquest, 1911-1912 -- Colonial rule, anticolonial struggles, and World War II, 1912-1950 -- Independence and nation-building, 1951-1968 -- The Gaddafi years, 1969-1977 -- Libya and the wider world, 1969-early 2000s -- The Arab Spring and death of Gaddafi, 2011-2012 -- Libyan civil war, global terrorism, and the rise of the Islamic State -- Libya's past and future -- Notable people in the history of Libya.