Era of Ancient Greece. 1  1200 BC Trojan War (believed by many historians to be a mythical event) 2  499 - 479 BC Persian Wars (also called Greco-Persian Wars) 3  431 - 404 BC Peloponnesian War.  334 - 323 BC Wars of Alexander the 1  Great. 300s BC Samnite Wars between Rome and Samnium.
Causes of the conflict. Two Iraqi tanks lie abandoned near Kuwait City on February 26, 1991. Kuwait was a close ally of Iraq during the Iraq-Iran war and functioned as the countryâs major port once Basra was shut down by the fighting.
1 August 2: About 100,000 Iraqi troops invaded Kuwait, initiating the Gulf War. 2  The U.N. Security Council passed Resolution 661 imposing a trade embargo on Iraq in a 13-0 vote, with Cuba and Yemen abstaining.3  August 7: The United States launched Operation Desert Shield. August 8: Saddam Hussein proclaimed the annexation of Kuwait. 2  August 12: Naval blockade of Iraq begins. 3  August 28: Iraq declared Kuwait as its 19th province and renames Kuwait City as al-Kadhima. 4  September 14: United Kingdom and France announce the deployment of troops to Saudi Arabia.